Is code always measured in terms of number of lines rather than number of characters?
I guess the only meaningful way to measure the amount of code would be to use some kind of counter that would count characters, and produce a separate count for comments.
Well, as we all know, the plural of 'anecdote' is 'data'... so I guess XP was about the same as 2000.;)
I remember reading an article when 2000 was released, claiming that it was "the world's largest commercial software program" in terms of the amount of code. I wonder how Vista compares in that respect...
This was a while ago. These eight year old computers (at the time) had 32 MB when they were new, which I upgraded to 128. Running Windows 2000 on them with anything more than Office installed was a stretch. When I installed XP on one of them, I swear it cried before going into Blue Convulsions of Death.
I remember how bloated 2000 was compared to NT 4.0 (and XP was somewhat more bloated than that). But compared to Vista, 2000 is positively minimalist.
It's an insightful commentary on the vast bloatiness of Vista that XP can be considered not to be bloatware in comparison.
I can remember testing computers that were marginal on 2000, which became unusable with XP, even after cutting out all the unnecessary crap I could. And these computers ran quite well on NT 4.0. (The testing was part of an attempt to convince management that no, we couldn't continue to use our 8 year old computers.)
I think it is a waste of taxes to have people writting post in twitter.
Considering the cost of having a couple of interns posting social updates when they're not getting coffee for Michelle and helping Joe match his socks, this is probably one of the less worrisome taxpayer burdens in recent memory.
Who will be America's next ally? Find out this summer, only on Fox.
If it's on Fox, they'll rig it so his BFF is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hilarity will ensue when Barak loses his half of their BFF bracelet and Mahmoud introduces Barak to his 'civilian nuclear program'.
In the old days, Presidents had to rely on weekly radio addresses that no one listened to, daily press briefings that no one listened to...
Now, with these services, the administration has the opportunity to campaign continuously in a low-key and less intrusive way that no one will listen to.
True, but a lot of the Berman Trek episodes seemed to have so much character development and political analysis, the only way you knew you were in space was the starfield shown through the windows. They needed more action; more rogue Klingons, more Borg, and just shoot the bloody Romulans instead of sitting around all day talking to them!
On the other hand, with budgets being what they were, the more battle-intensive episodes they made, the more Data's Humanity episodes they needed to compensate.
I'd rather see some more space battles and less extended 'character development'. One thing that made the Berman Trek series kind of dull was the never-ending discussions about various characters' personal development, and the brain-wracking about how not to break the Prime Directive.
Gimme a break! Kirk broke that directive damn near every week! And he didn't go into a Shakespearean monologue about the ramifications of his monumental transgression when he did.
If I want to watch a bunch of people sitting around discussing politics, I'll turn on C-Span - great ratings there. And if I want to hear characters blathering on about their emotional development, I'll turn on a soap opera - and then turn it off and wonder what the hell I was thinking.
Star Trek = space adventure. Bring on the 'violence' - as long as it's well written, like the battle scenes in Wrath of Khan. And if Kirk wants to get it on with some green slave chick, hell, he's earned the diversion. At least he won't talk her ear off trying to convince her to take control of her life, get an education, and get an office job like some Enterprise captains might...
...the RIAA have a nearly unlimited amount of money to throw at this issue.
I wonder about that. The RIAA certainly has a big war chest, but isn't the whole reason for these lawsuits that their members are hemorrhaging money because of the people they're suing?
Actually, shouldn't the fact that they spend truckloads of money suing their customers serve as proof that 'pirates' are not causing them as much financial hardship as they claim?
Keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool... don't tell me McDonalds had the secret to providing a minuscule increase in energy efficiency and only used it to make a crappy burger!
If you only knew how the Catholic Church has advanced scientific understandings.
I really hope there's an obscure reference that's setting me up for a 'whoosh' here, because if you're serious, you should look into a few names:
Aristarchus and his work with Eratosthenes
Ptolemy
DaVinci
Copernicus
Galileo
Darwin
...to name just a few. The first pair and their connection to the second name were probably the longest knowledge setback in scientific history. The Catholic church has always opposed any knowledge that would allow common people to think freely and question its dogma.
Anyone in a position to become suspicious at said checkpoint probably won't wait to examine the plumbing before deciding the disembodied human hand is...suspicious...a bit.
...or notice that one of the guy's arms is substantially longer than the other.
I think that this is where a lot of the potential exploits fall down. Spy movies always show someone using a severed finger or plucked eyeball getting into a secure area that is never manned by an actual guard.
At the port where I work, the perimeter gates are manned 24/7, and any high-security areas that are not manned by security are in high-traffic areas and monitored by 24-hour video surveillance.
Could an unauthorized person get onto the terminal? Possibly. Could they do it undetected? Not very likely.
A common theme in this discussion is that biometrics shouldn't be used for authorization. If the intent is to use them alone, I agree. But there's nothing wrong with using them as part of a multi-level security plan.
But then, doesn't this just encourage me to cut off my adversary's head?
That's the reason some companies are looking at vascular scans as the biometric of choice. No blood flow = no valid reading. Then again, you could rig up a box that would pump warm blood through the severed hand, but a system like that would look kind of suspicious when you took it out of your backpack at the checkpoint.
This is the e-mail
that caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That cause the mess that Jack made.
This is the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the tin of processed ham
That named the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
And after the fine imposed by the court
The only meal that Jack can afford
Comes from the tin of processed ham
That named the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
It's time to create a new term for the reasoning used by lawyers: lawgic. It's just like logic, except that... well, actually it's nothing like logic; that's why we need a special term.
The problem with "zero divided by zero equals zero" is that it is equally true that "zero divided by zero equals twelve".
Good point. So the correct answer to "zero divided by zero" would be {R}, the set of real numbers... or possibly the set that includes both real and imaginary numbers; not sure how they behave in regular arithmetic.
Slashdot Mirror
So... you purchased an HD version of a series shot on 1960s-quality TV equipment? You're a trekkie alright!
I think you're confusing that with the plural of 'mouse', which everyone of a certain age knows is 'meeses'.
Wouldn't this restriction prohibit IE8?
Is code always measured in terms of number of lines rather than number of characters?
I guess the only meaningful way to measure the amount of code would be to use some kind of counter that would count characters, and produce a separate count for comments.
Well, as we all know, the plural of 'anecdote' is 'data'... so I guess XP was about the same as 2000. ;)
I remember reading an article when 2000 was released, claiming that it was "the world's largest commercial software program" in terms of the amount of code. I wonder how Vista compares in that respect...
This was a while ago. These eight year old computers (at the time) had 32 MB when they were new, which I upgraded to 128. Running Windows 2000 on them with anything more than Office installed was a stretch. When I installed XP on one of them, I swear it cried before going into Blue Convulsions of Death.
I remember how bloated 2000 was compared to NT 4.0 (and XP was somewhat more bloated than that). But compared to Vista, 2000 is positively minimalist.
It's an insightful commentary on the vast bloatiness of Vista that XP can be considered not to be bloatware in comparison.
I can remember testing computers that were marginal on 2000, which became unusable with XP, even after cutting out all the unnecessary crap I could. And these computers ran quite well on NT 4.0. (The testing was part of an attempt to convince management that no, we couldn't continue to use our 8 year old computers.)
Considering the cost of having a couple of interns posting social updates when they're not getting coffee for Michelle and helping Joe match his socks, this is probably one of the less worrisome taxpayer burdens in recent memory.
If it's on Fox, they'll rig it so his BFF is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hilarity will ensue when Barak loses his half of their BFF bracelet and Mahmoud introduces Barak to his 'civilian nuclear program'.
There; fixed that for ya. ;)
True, but a lot of the Berman Trek episodes seemed to have so much character development and political analysis, the only way you knew you were in space was the starfield shown through the windows. They needed more action; more rogue Klingons, more Borg, and just shoot the bloody Romulans instead of sitting around all day talking to them!
On the other hand, with budgets being what they were, the more battle-intensive episodes they made, the more Data's Humanity episodes they needed to compensate.
I'd rather see some more space battles and less extended 'character development'. One thing that made the Berman Trek series kind of dull was the never-ending discussions about various characters' personal development, and the brain-wracking about how not to break the Prime Directive.
Gimme a break! Kirk broke that directive damn near every week! And he didn't go into a Shakespearean monologue about the ramifications of his monumental transgression when he did.
If I want to watch a bunch of people sitting around discussing politics, I'll turn on C-Span - great ratings there. And if I want to hear characters blathering on about their emotional development, I'll turn on a soap opera - and then turn it off and wonder what the hell I was thinking.
Star Trek = space adventure. Bring on the 'violence' - as long as it's well written, like the battle scenes in Wrath of Khan. And if Kirk wants to get it on with some green slave chick, hell, he's earned the diversion. At least he won't talk her ear off trying to convince her to take control of her life, get an education, and get an office job like some Enterprise captains might...
Sadly, many people would.
If their primary purpose is "to frighten large numbers of ordinary citizens", maybe Homeland Security should have jurisdiction here...
I wonder about that. The RIAA certainly has a big war chest, but isn't the whole reason for these lawsuits that their members are hemorrhaging money because of the people they're suing?
Actually, shouldn't the fact that they spend truckloads of money suing their customers serve as proof that 'pirates' are not causing them as much financial hardship as they claim?
Keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool... don't tell me McDonalds had the secret to providing a minuscule increase in energy efficiency and only used it to make a crappy burger!
And who double-taps the wiretap-tapper's double-tapper?
(Oblig) You must be new here.
I don't know what you're talking aboot.
I really hope there's an obscure reference that's setting me up for a 'whoosh' here, because if you're serious, you should look into a few names:
...to name just a few. The first pair and their connection to the second name were probably the longest knowledge setback in scientific history. The Catholic church has always opposed any knowledge that would allow common people to think freely and question its dogma.
...or notice that one of the guy's arms is substantially longer than the other.
I think that this is where a lot of the potential exploits fall down. Spy movies always show someone using a severed finger or plucked eyeball getting into a secure area that is never manned by an actual guard.
At the port where I work, the perimeter gates are manned 24/7, and any high-security areas that are not manned by security are in high-traffic areas and monitored by 24-hour video surveillance.
Could an unauthorized person get onto the terminal? Possibly. Could they do it undetected? Not very likely.
A common theme in this discussion is that biometrics shouldn't be used for authorization. If the intent is to use them alone, I agree. But there's nothing wrong with using them as part of a multi-level security plan.
That's the reason some companies are looking at vascular scans as the biometric of choice. No blood flow = no valid reading. Then again, you could rig up a box that would pump warm blood through the severed hand, but a system like that would look kind of suspicious when you took it out of your backpack at the checkpoint.
This is the mess that Jack made.
This is the e-mail
that caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That cause the mess that Jack made.
This is the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
This is the tin of processed ham
That named the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
And after the fine imposed by the court
The only meal that Jack can afford
Comes from the tin of processed ham
That named the Act for reducing spam
That was used by the senator
Who filed the lawsuit
That came from the e-mail
That caused the mess that Jack made.
Poor Jack.
It's time to create a new term for the reasoning used by lawyers: lawgic. It's just like logic, except that... well, actually it's nothing like logic; that's why we need a special term.
Good point. So the correct answer to "zero divided by zero" would be {R}, the set of real numbers... or possibly the set that includes both real and imaginary numbers; not sure how they behave in regular arithmetic.