I would assume that the lowest tiers were not even able to read, so the soldiers you mention might have been the equivalent of upper middle class nowadays. See Literacy in North America: "In 1870, 20 percent of the entire adult population was illiterate, and 80 percent of the black population was illiterate".
It was probably the chain of command: nobody decides anything at the lower level especially if it means to do some work, so someone has to decide to do something high up, and then lunch time takes most of the day to get the memo all the way down. The decision to investigate probably came from Thales, not the army or police. I'm from France btw. Last year my brother had rare industrial equipment stollen, we found the guy on local craigslist style ad (picture of said equipment in a kid room), gave the police name, and address of the thief. They did not lift a finger while acknowledging he was indeed the culprit.
I'm out 95+% of the time and been so for years. I actually never had a Windows machine as my main machine. My computers are a MacBookPro and a datacenter of a few hundred Linux machines. Unfortunately there is always that service here and there that is from Microsoft such as Exchange and Sharepoint. I'm not going to quit my job just because this. Actually my keyboard is the only thing from Microsoft that I like and voluntarily use.
I hear you, my cars are korean and I never have to do anything to them besides regular maintenance. My Taurus had to get fixed every 3 months (I gave up after replacing the transmission).
I've got first hand experience: I have been the involuntary user user of Microsoft products over the past 20+ years. Right now Exchange and Sharepoint.
That's the point, there will not be billions and billions of files if implemented right. Google does it with Gmail.
Storage is cheap... to an extent. This is true for small scale systems, for large scale things such as these, hardware costs become higher than the development cost. The id3 tags is a non issue, that's just metadata. They will not treat the music files as dumb binaries but probably as objects an audio stream and the metada specific tot he user. Even without using md5, services like Shazam have proven that it is cheap to compare songs. I would not be surprised that they end up aggregating audio streams that are 99% similar to save on storage.
Production is production. If you do development directly on the production files... you are doing it wrong. The way I work personally is I have the MacBook mount my Dev/Test box drive and make changes there. When I'm happy with the changes and the unittests I submit after a formal code review. Depending on the system (internal or customer facing) I either wait for the scheduled deployment cycle or push to the production server. The code rarely runs on the Mac itself, it is not the target platform, the unittests however run fine.
Shooting webs is not one of Spiderman powers in the comics, that's an invention for the movies.
In the comics, spiderman is brilliant teenager who invents the compound and bracelets that do shoot the thing. The reason Spiderman push his middle and ring fingers to his palm is because the buttons are there, in the middle of his palms.
You know that you have other options than to watch american media news on the Internet, right ? My recommendation is to get your news from two countries with somewhat opposing political agendas... it's amazing how the same events have completely different interpretation from one side of the border to the other. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
I hate the red nipple, I first thought I was neat when it came out but found it to be only usable for short periods. When working for hours with lots of clicking I had to switch fingers because of numbness/pain, not to mention it has always been less accurate than a mouse. Maybe I'm using it wrong, and it is indeed better than the in screen trackballs of the time or the puny trackpads of PCs... it is just not great for me. The large trackpad on the MacBook Pros is actually very good, especially with the multitouch gestures on the recent models. I even bought a Magic Trackpad for my wife desktop and she prefers it over the mouse for most desktop activities.
My understanding is that the technical cost of supporting blue ray DRMs is not worth it.
Personally I watch my blue rays through my PS3 as the player and either the 55" TV or the 120" projector display. For everything else I either stream or watch a DVD with the PS3 or the Mac Book. So no big loss.
Except for the time spent in the dark, driving to get the bulb (you've seen the price of oil lately ?) and the number of slashdot readers required to change said light bulb.
So did you, honestly the correct spelling of Muammar al-Gaddafi cannot be submitted on slashdot due to the lack of UTF-8 support (which is disabled out of security concerns as I understand).
Slashdot Mirror
I would assume that the lowest tiers were not even able to read, so the soldiers you mention might have been the equivalent of upper middle class nowadays. See Literacy in North America: "In 1870, 20 percent of the entire adult population was illiterate, and 80 percent of the black population was illiterate".
"Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles."
Call me a french grammar nazi.
Like the Chernobyl cloud stopped at the french borders at the time, as if the country had magical anti radioactive particle barrier ?
Like BP only had a minor leak in the gulf ?
Like Fukushima had perfect safety records ?
Why use cat ? Grep can read the file and it is shorter to type.
yes
I only drink diet, so how is it worse than Cofee with splenda (I use stevia whenever I have some).
It was probably the chain of command: nobody decides anything at the lower level especially if it means to do some work, so someone has to decide to do something high up, and then lunch time takes most of the day to get the memo all the way down. The decision to investigate probably came from Thales, not the army or police. I'm from France btw. Last year my brother had rare industrial equipment stollen, we found the guy on local craigslist style ad (picture of said equipment in a kid room), gave the police name, and address of the thief. They did not lift a finger while acknowledging he was indeed the culprit.
I'm out 95+% of the time and been so for years. I actually never had a Windows machine as my main machine. My computers are a MacBookPro and a datacenter of a few hundred Linux machines.
Unfortunately there is always that service here and there that is from Microsoft such as Exchange and Sharepoint. I'm not going to quit my job just because this.
Actually my keyboard is the only thing from Microsoft that I like and voluntarily use.
I hear you, my cars are korean and I never have to do anything to them besides regular maintenance. My Taurus had to get fixed every 3 months (I gave up after replacing the transmission).
I've got first hand experience: I have been the involuntary user user of Microsoft products over the past 20+ years. Right now Exchange and Sharepoint.
That's the point, there will not be billions and billions of files if implemented right. Google does it with Gmail.
Storage is cheap ... to an extent. This is true for small scale systems, for large scale things such as these, hardware costs become higher than the development cost. The id3 tags is a non issue, that's just metadata. They will not treat the music files as dumb binaries but probably as objects an audio stream and the metada specific tot he user. Even without using md5, services like Shazam have proven that it is cheap to compare songs. I would not be surprised that they end up aggregating audio streams that are 99% similar to save on storage.
Production is production. If you do development directly on the production files ... you are doing it wrong.
The way I work personally is I have the MacBook mount my Dev/Test box drive and make changes there. When I'm happy with the changes and the unittests I submit after a formal code review. Depending on the system (internal or customer facing) I either wait for the scheduled deployment cycle or push to the production server. The code rarely runs on the Mac itself, it is not the target platform, the unittests however run fine.
Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive. ... sometimes I understand why some residents want the state to split.
I live in Northern California
Everybody else has to use unrestricted formats.
That's good then.
Shooting webs is not one of Spiderman powers in the comics, that's an invention for the movies.
In the comics, spiderman is brilliant teenager who invents the compound and bracelets that do shoot the thing. The reason Spiderman push his middle and ring fingers to his palm is because the buttons are there, in the middle of his palms.
You can always get the Apple BT devices right ?
You know that you have other options than to watch american media news on the Internet, right ? My recommendation is to get your news from two countries with somewhat opposing political agendas ... it's amazing how the same events have completely different interpretation from one side of the border to the other. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.
del *.*
That really sound alien, what planet is this command from ?
I spend less than $10 a year on music and I do not 'download' it illegally either, why should I pay monthly fine ?
I hate the red nipple, I first thought I was neat when it came out but found it to be only usable for short periods. When working for hours with lots of clicking I had to switch fingers because of numbness/pain, not to mention it has always been less accurate than a mouse. Maybe I'm using it wrong, and it is indeed better than the in screen trackballs of the time or the puny trackpads of PCs ... it is just not great for me.
The large trackpad on the MacBook Pros is actually very good, especially with the multitouch gestures on the recent models. I even bought a Magic Trackpad for my wife desktop and she prefers it over the mouse for most desktop activities.
My understanding is that the technical cost of supporting blue ray DRMs is not worth it.
Personally I watch my blue rays through my PS3 as the player and either the 55" TV or the 120" projector display. For everything else I either stream or watch a DVD with the PS3 or the Mac Book. So no big loss.
Except for the time spent in the dark, driving to get the bulb (you've seen the price of oil lately ?) and the number of slashdot readers required to change said light bulb.
Whoohoo I spent 20 minutes saving 90c.
You guys spelled "Khaddafi" wrong.
So did you, honestly the correct spelling of Muammar al-Gaddafi cannot be submitted on slashdot due to the lack of UTF-8 support (which is disabled out of security concerns as I understand).
allow editing for 15 minutes, and in those 15 minutes, no moderation is allowed.
And we should call it 'Preview', what a great concept ... oh wait
Yes, I know, most restaurants will pay 5% fee to Amex and that's why a lot of small businesses will refuse them.