A friend of mine, developer of the spreadsheet SW back in the days of DOS a Norton Commander, had one customer who would keep complaining about the SW crashing from time to time. These kind of crashes would only happen to this customer and no other.
He installed a debug build on the customer's site and and waited... and fair enough, the SW would crash, and crash again and again... at completely random places in the code. In some cases there was literally no way those lines of code could make the program crash under any circumstances.
Well, he spent days trying to debug it and came up empty handed. Until it struck him to look at the time when the SW is crashing. And fair enough, it was crashing on one particular day in a week usually in the time-span of few hours during that day. Now comes the interesting part -- the customer's site was actually a railway station on the Slovakia-Ukraine border (in town called Uzghorod). So he called the customer to ask if there was a train in the station regularly on that day and hour every week and voila, there was one train coming from Ukraine to Slovakia with some goods. So he asked the customer to take Geiger counter and see if there was anything going on in the air.
They found out one of the train cars was radiating like hell. It was used for transferring spent nuclear fuel before. And Ukrainians thought they would save some money by using it for regular cargo after EOL. I wouldn't like to be a person living near those railway tracks...
tl;dr
Spreadsheet SW was crashing on the computers in the train station and thanks to customer complaints they found out the crashes were caused by radioactive train coming regularly to the station.
here is a memo that circulated in SGI in 1993, about how IRIX got bloated and unusable because of exact same reasons as mentioned in the original post:
Even though I'm a huge fan of space and astronomy, I must say TFA certainly doesn't reach qualities to be posted on slashdot. The approver must have been drunk or what
I suggest they fix crashes first (happens regularly to me on iOS, Android and OS X), and just then they start adding features. I can't help it, but before microsoft bought the Skype, I barely seen it crash in years. But now, a longer call hardly goes by without crashing either on my or the other end. As much as I hate sharing my camera and microphone with google, I slowly migrate to hangouts -- not because I like, but because it doesn't crash.
As a member of management you must have come across many programming languages used in different missions. Which language was the most easily maneagable within larger groups of programmers?
This is most likely a promo for galaxy. Aperture and focus were intentionally set wrong so that 5D mkIII looks just a bit worse. marketing at its best.
If that is true, I guess the mother nature is far more advanced than I could even imagine. Sonar, ok, infrared sensors, ok, antibiotics, ok, aero/hydro dynamics, ok, but electric field communication, wtf? I thought this domain solely belonged to human race.
That's right. However, according to Adium developers' statistics [1], only 13% of OS X users run 10.5 and 3.33% run 10.4. If you do the math and calculate probability with which someone can get infected, you will reach, I believe, very low numbers. 10.5 being apple's equivalent of vista, is dying every day and will be lost in the dust soon.
I just sacrificed bunch of moderator points to share this with you:
Bohm remained in Berkeley, teaching physics, until he completed his Ph.D. in 1943, by an unusually ironic circumstance. According to Peat (see reference below, p. 64), "the scattering calculations (of collisions of protons and deuterons) that he had completed proved useful to the Manhattan Project and were immediately classified. Without security clearance, Bohm was denied access to his own work; not only would he be barred from defending his thesis, he was not even allowed to write his own thesis in the first place!" To satisfy the university, Oppenheimer certified that Bohm had successfully completed the research. He later performed theoretical calculations for the Calutrons at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, used to electromagnetically enrich uranium for use in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
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A friend of mine, developer of the spreadsheet SW back in the days of DOS a Norton Commander, had one customer who would keep complaining about the SW crashing from time to time. These kind of crashes would only happen to this customer and no other.
He installed a debug build on the customer's site and and waited... and fair enough, the SW would crash, and crash again and again... at completely random places in the code. In some cases there was literally no way those lines of code could make the program crash under any circumstances.
Well, he spent days trying to debug it and came up empty handed. Until it struck him to look at the time when the SW is crashing. And fair enough, it was crashing on one particular day in a week usually in the time-span of few hours during that day. Now comes the interesting part -- the customer's site was actually a railway station on the Slovakia-Ukraine border (in town called Uzghorod). So he called the customer to ask if there was a train in the station regularly on that day and hour every week and voila, there was one train coming from Ukraine to Slovakia with some goods. So he asked the customer to take Geiger counter and see if there was anything going on in the air.
They found out one of the train cars was radiating like hell. It was used for transferring spent nuclear fuel before. And Ukrainians thought they would save some money by using it for regular cargo after EOL. I wouldn't like to be a person living near those railway tracks...
tl;dr
Spreadsheet SW was crashing on the computers in the train station and thanks to customer complaints they found out the crashes were caused by radioactive train coming regularly to the station.
here is a memo that circulated in SGI in 1993, about how IRIX got bloated and unusable because of exact same reasons as mentioned in the original post:
http://seriss.com/people/erco/...
This is mandatory reading for every new IT employee in my company.
Even though I'm a huge fan of space and astronomy, I must say TFA certainly doesn't reach qualities to be posted on slashdot. The approver must have been drunk or what
The same thing happened to SGI back in the days of their glory. http://seriss.com/people/erco/...
I suggest they fix crashes first (happens regularly to me on iOS, Android and OS X), and just then they start adding features. I can't help it, but before microsoft bought the Skype, I barely seen it crash in years. But now, a longer call hardly goes by without crashing either on my or the other end. As much as I hate sharing my camera and microphone with google, I slowly migrate to hangouts -- not because I like, but because it doesn't crash.
From all the hardware that was sent to space, on which you participated, which one is personally the most valuable to you?
In few words, could you sum up what is the biggest difference between space engineering in 1970s and now?
What was the most nerve-wrecking experience during your whole career at NASA?
If you could add one more scientific experiment hardware to Voyager, in retrospective, what would it be?
As a member of management you must have come across many programming languages used in different missions. Which language was the most easily maneagable within larger groups of programmers?
This is most likely a promo for galaxy. Aperture and focus were intentionally set wrong so that 5D mkIII looks just a bit worse. marketing at its best.
Is it just me or is there no reference to launch date whatsoever?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTVkkDv30k&feature=player_embedded
If that is true, I guess the mother nature is far more advanced than I could even imagine. Sonar, ok, infrared sensors, ok, antibiotics, ok, aero/hydro dynamics, ok, but electric field communication, wtf? I thought this domain solely belonged to human race.
This might shine a lot of light into the topic: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
that it was Java update... what to say...
http://www.questionablecontent.net/
the most impressive 1) character development 2) character psychic over time.
and over 2 thousands strips...
thoughts of PWRficient only to me or to others also? Blending the best of ARM and Power architectures would be pretty cool. Yak, makes my mind dance!
honestly, please read TFA
Really, are we talking scientific mouse deaths on slashdot?
how did the presentation go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zxDa3t0fg
I believe there is much more logic in following article by Philip Greenspun from 2006 than in TFA.
this is easily the most truthful post in the whole discussion!
That's right. However, according to Adium developers' statistics [1], only 13% of OS X users run 10.5 and 3.33% run 10.4. If you do the math and calculate probability with which someone can get infected, you will reach, I believe, very low numbers. 10.5 being apple's equivalent of vista, is dying every day and will be lost in the dust soon.
[1] http://www.adium.im/sparkle/#osVersion
Bohm remained in Berkeley, teaching physics, until he completed his Ph.D. in 1943, by an unusually ironic circumstance. According to Peat (see reference below, p. 64), "the scattering calculations (of collisions of protons and deuterons) that he had completed proved useful to the Manhattan Project and were immediately classified. Without security clearance, Bohm was denied access to his own work; not only would he be barred from defending his thesis, he was not even allowed to write his own thesis in the first place!" To satisfy the university, Oppenheimer certified that Bohm had successfully completed the research. He later performed theoretical calculations for the Calutrons at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, used to electromagnetically enrich uranium for use in the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm
paragraph Manhattan Project contributions