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Most large companies have their code in escrow. In the event they go under, terrorists take over, the pink unicorn rampages through their offices etc.
Hopefully this is something like what Valve means.
On a personal note I'm more a fan of ImpluseDriven from stardock. They have actually given me a refund on a game that crashed on startup, this is a first for me from any game company.
OMG you just asked someone to tear out their eyes and cry into their hands...
John David Jackson's _Classical Electrodynamics_
I still have nightmares about some of the problems in that book.
Maths gives you tools in abstraction. When you apply maths to physical problems you learn how to abstract the problem out, generalise it.
Using calculus and driving is a poor example. What maths provides you is an understanding and perspective of why music travels in the air, water flows etc. Eventually your understanding makes you see patterns in the abstractions, which can be applied to many fields, ranging from creating music instruments, coding, baking a better pie.
I can't wait until someone's daughter tries to make an account on Barbie's Horse Talk website and is presented with the following CAPTCHA:
Prove that a 3-manifold space has the additional property that each loop in the space can be continuously tightened to a point then it is just a three-dimensional sphere.
I feel your pain. I'm in a similar position and it hurts. I've spent days trying to get eclipse to work so I didn't have to use Visual Studio but to no sucess.
What amazes me is I hear a lot of ppl say how great the IDE is. For me I just can't handle when sometimes if I update header files I have missing symbols which just go away if I clean the solution then rebuild.
Scientists question nature's fundamental laws! What the hell are they thinking? Who do they think they are to question nature's fundemental laws? Its not like they came up with it!
You had a character-set? Damn you were lucky! Back in MY day all we had was a bunch of rocks, and we communicated by banging the rocks together. And what is this "programming" you talk about? All we could do wast to make a big pile of rocks, and smash it with even bigger rocks, hoping that something useful came from it. And we LIKED it that way!
Thanks for clarifying your point. You are right the research of science does carry an implicit risk, but this does not relate to a second ammendment issue. The progress of science has grown regardless of whether the citizenry has had the right to bear arms or not. Either way our lives have been enriched through scientific progress.
As you pointed out the govt. is bent on eliminating percieved threats, I'm not sure if its doing it for the citizenry or for itself.
Science cannot truly exist in a society that does not respect the Right to bear arms. Science is a weapon.
I read this comment and was about to move on thinking, meh slashdot. But really this is insulting to scientists and ppl who love science, I seperate the two cause some scientists don't actually love science.
I'd like to believe Science exists b/c a society is curious about the unknown, not cause they want a bigger bang. I think our society has become more cautious and lost that pioneering edge. The rewards of researching are not as clear cut as certain short sighted money grabbing incentives, ok thats a bit prejudice. When I was a kid there was a feeling of longevity, I went into grad school and met ppl who worked on things that would take decades to come to fruition. It seems that sense of longevity is gone now.
Nevertheless I'd like to think our advances in fields such as medicine are to uncover knowledge that will benefit all of us.
So if I wanted to make the voyager mission look sexy, I'd need a lady with sufficently large cleavage to have voyager sticking out of it. Then it would be sold to congress and voila we have a voyager mission....
They'll pretty much say or do whatever people pay them to say or do.
Wear the nun outfit and spank them with a floppy? Sure, they'll do that.
Call you "Mommy" while wearing a swimsuit? For the right price, they're yours!
And to say that Linux is good one day, and insecure the next, well, that's just another whore transaction. All in a day's work for EDS, I guess.
Wow, I don't know what to write. Somehow a story about EDS and their opinions on Linux has brought up:
nun's in outfits spanking floppies (disk drives right?)
Something about someone's mother wearing a swimming costume
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Not true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Coast_Massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathfield_massacre
And there are more, true none of them racked up 35.
But after Port Arthur the severity is much less.
And we never want Curiosity to be const
Maybe Huxley was closer to the mark.
+1 Insightful and funny?
Most large companies have their code in escrow. In the event they go under, terrorists take over, the pink unicorn rampages through their offices etc.
Hopefully this is something like what Valve means.
On a personal note I'm more a fan of ImpluseDriven from stardock. They have actually given me a refund on a game that crashed on startup, this is a first for me from any game company.
OMG you just asked someone to tear out their eyes and cry into their hands... John David Jackson's _Classical Electrodynamics_ I still have nightmares about some of the problems in that book.
I mean seriously, what could sailors be downloading that could be dangerous to windows machines?
Maths gives you tools in abstraction. When you apply maths to physical problems you learn how to abstract the problem out, generalise it.
Using calculus and driving is a poor example. What maths provides you is an understanding and perspective of why music travels in the air, water flows etc. Eventually your understanding makes you see patterns in the abstractions, which can be applied to many fields, ranging from creating music instruments, coding, baking a better pie.
Ryanair, ryAnAIR, RIAnAyr, RIAA.
Who the hell is "Nyr"?
Say it isn't so!!! NYR . I knew something was not right with them.
I can't wait until someone's daughter tries to make an account on Barbie's Horse Talk website and is presented with the following CAPTCHA:
Prove that a 3-manifold space has the additional property that each loop in the space can be continuously tightened to a point then it is just a three-dimensional sphere.
So thats why Grigori Perelman decided to solve that CAPTCHA.
Oh god. I keep reading that like as...
the worst Vista marketing campaign.
And it still makes sense.
... not only are they trying to develop nuclear weapons and "wipe Israel off the map," but they're capping bandwidth at 128kbps!
I didn't know comcast was in charge of Iran
A: Jack Thompson, the only man who can simultaneously put his feet in his mouth when he's already got his head up his ass.
Isn't this a Klein bottle
I feel your pain. I'm in a similar position and it hurts. I've spent days trying to get eclipse to work so I didn't have to use Visual Studio but to no sucess.
What amazes me is I hear a lot of ppl say how great the IDE is. For me I just can't handle when sometimes if I update header files I have missing symbols which just go away if I clean the solution then rebuild.
I'm definately feeling that breeze:
Hungaria
Scientists question nature's fundamental laws! What the hell are they thinking? Who do they think they are to question nature's fundemental laws? Its not like they came up with it!
You had a character-set? Damn you were lucky!
Back in MY day all we had was a bunch of rocks, and we communicated by banging the rocks together.
And what is this "programming" you talk about? All we could do wast to make a big pile of rocks,
and smash it with even bigger rocks, hoping that something useful came from it.
And we LIKED it that way!
You work for Oracle don't you?
Much as I'd hate putting my wife through the physical pain associated with what the British climate
;)
Move to Australia, like Sydney, similar climate though it may head down the same track. Mind you we don't like the english
Thanks for clarifying your point. You are right the research of science does carry an implicit risk, but this does not relate to a second ammendment issue. The progress of science has grown regardless of whether the citizenry has had the right to bear arms or not. Either way our lives have been enriched through scientific progress.
As you pointed out the govt. is bent on eliminating percieved threats, I'm not sure if its doing it for the citizenry or for itself.
Science cannot truly exist in a society that does not respect the Right to bear arms. Science is a weapon.
I read this comment and was about to move on thinking, meh slashdot. But really this is insulting to scientists and ppl who love science, I seperate the two cause some scientists don't actually love science.
I'd like to believe Science exists b/c a society is curious about the unknown, not cause they want a bigger bang. I think our society has become more cautious and lost that pioneering edge. The rewards of researching are not as clear cut as certain short sighted money grabbing incentives, ok thats a bit prejudice.
When I was a kid there was a feeling of longevity, I went into grad school and met ppl who worked on things that would take decades to come to fruition. It seems that sense of longevity is gone now.
Nevertheless I'd like to think our advances in fields such as medicine are to uncover knowledge that will benefit all of us.
YTMND
So if I wanted to make the voyager mission look sexy, I'd need a lady with sufficently large cleavage to have voyager sticking out of it. Then it would be sold to congress and voila we have a voyager mission....
And they are not using a Linksys router. Because if you expect 6 seconds of connectivity from that...forget it!
Yes but it's a nice shiny sexy nuclear button
Wear the nun outfit and spank them with a floppy? Sure, they'll do that.
Call you "Mommy" while wearing a swimsuit? For the right price, they're yours!
And to say that Linux is good one day, and insecure the next, well, that's just another whore transaction. All in a day's work for EDS, I guess.
Wow, I don't know what to write. Somehow a story about EDS and their opinions on Linux has brought up:
nun's in outfits spanking floppies (disk drives right?)
Something about someone's mother wearing a swimming costume
only on slashdot....