No. Despite the apparent similarities (ball, bat, runs, etc.) cricket and baseball are very different games.
In baseball, there will be (at least) nine innings, each of which last until 3 outs. It's a competition between pitcher and batter that little can interrupt. I don't think many baseball fans realise that cricket is much more to about about managing resources than a gladiatorial contest.
So, for example, in a 5-day match every ball you decide to face is one less opportunity for you to dismiss the opposition, and if you don't do that (twice) you can't win the game, this is why a draw is a valid result. And why, if you think cricket works like baseball, it can't make sense.
Some parts of the Arab world, notably the Assad regime in Syria, favour Russia largely as a reaction to the American support of Israel. Surely it's not that hard to work out.
See how ghost of Henry Kissinger haunts the threads of./
No. The article makes the mistake in thinking the the Radio part of the GSM bandwidth is the same as the Network bandwidth. It's not.
To continue the FedEx example, an SMS is like a post-it was was stuck onto your package. Trouble is the post-it might be going to a entirely different recipient to the parcel. So it's only piggy-backing until it reaches the sorting office.
Some networks work by store and forward of SMS much like email, others attempt direct delivery first. The point being that, if the recipient's phone is turned off, unlike a voice line you can't just give a busy signal (or charge extra for voice mail).
Where the article falls down is it's ignoring that the network understructure needs to handle and route SMS not just carry then from the handset to the mast.
There lot of suggestions but they all, so far, fall into a) steping through the code (either with pen or debugger) or b) giving you something in the in the absence of comments (doxygen etc). All very sensible.
I'd add into the mix, profiling the running code. See where it spends most of it's time, what you can ignore for later, and what you need to understand first.
This used to be a nice little short cut from Bristol to the airport. Now everyone uses it. Damn them all!
Seriously though I witness trucks getting stuck at the entrance to my office car park on a weekly basis, all directed there by GPS. They really want the parallel lane 50 yards further on. I've similar tales from rural Wales and Devon where all but a small section of mountain/coastal road was suitable for HGV, but the GPS maps say it good all the way.
It's not possible to place signs on the Barrow Gurney road, as the road is fine for good traffic up until in enters the village, then there nowhere else to direct it, and fining truck is not the point either, by then it's too late and they're stuck.
The only real solution is a by-pass, but then this means somebody coughing up the cash, maybe the GPS manufactures?
But code can only tell you the how it can never tell you the why. That's usually more important
I once came across a ~1400 line function of complex maths transformations with one comment
Maybe he's not a coder. This is a fatuous thing to say.
This is functionality that was available in Gnome 1.4 days, it's functionality that Sun have complained about its absence, as is was available under there old standard desktop CDE. It's functionality that I've complained about using no longer being present.
The point is that someone saw fit to have this functionality REMOVED. I'm not going to put it back into the GNOME code base, only to have somebody delete it bacause, despite it being in every other desktop worth talking about, they don't see the value.
There is a school of thought that the market of a
diamond as an engagement gift is one that was
artificially created by the powers behind the global diamond cartel.
Just a couple of links to flesh out this point of view are here and here
For example I've just been on the phone to Sun's support site because of a problem with a legacy application written in Xview. It's now somebody else's problem. By the end of the week I'll have a solution. I can get on to what I should have been doing today: porting our code to gcc 3, and the need to recompile all the libraries.
Compare that to trying to run linux apps which require different versions of glibc. RPMs that require Red Hat 7+. While the I can't run anything older that 6.2 on my laptop because it hangs went I close the screen.
Sun go out of there way to make the transition as painless as possible, because the alternative costs much more.
Speaking as a non-emacs user: not long I hope. If there is a KEmacs and a KVim, then hopefully plugging-in on your favourite editor to applications like Kdevelop is only just round the corner. My main objection to using IDEs is that you are restricted to build-in editor, this kind of co-operation should lead to the best of both worlds.
Slashdot Mirror
Several Millions.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3299241/Another-slump-ratings-X-Factor-loses-4-million-viewers-Strictly-Come-Dancing-hits-new-series-low-live-show.html
... is getting back from the pub after I've had a skinful.
No. Despite the apparent similarities (ball, bat, runs, etc.) cricket and baseball are very different games.
In baseball, there will be (at least) nine innings, each of which last until 3 outs. It's a competition between pitcher and batter that little can interrupt. I don't think many baseball fans realise that cricket is much more to about about managing resources than a gladiatorial contest.
So, for example, in a 5-day match every ball you decide to face is one less opportunity for you to dismiss the opposition, and if you don't do that (twice) you can't win the game, this is why a draw is a valid result. And why, if you think cricket works like baseball, it can't make sense.
Funny like the World Cup includes more than two countries?
China is Second World.
Some parts of the Arab world, notably the Assad regime in Syria, favour Russia largely as a reaction to the American support of Israel.
Surely it's not that hard to work out.
See how ghost of Henry Kissinger haunts the threads of ./
Our?
Since when did ./ become the preserve of non-Russians and non-Europeans?
I didn't vote for him you insensitive clod!
- Prince Vultan
There are 6 feet in a fathom.
All your BTS are belong to us
"... perpetual and infinite lifetime to creative works that seems to be prevalent in western Europe"
In UK depending on ownership and/or type of material the copyright lasts for between 25 and 125 years. Hardly perpetual and infinite.
No. The article makes the mistake in thinking the the Radio part of the GSM bandwidth is the same as the Network bandwidth. It's not.
To continue the FedEx example, an SMS is like a post-it was was stuck onto your package. Trouble is the post-it might be going to a entirely different recipient to the parcel. So it's only piggy-backing until it reaches the sorting office.
Some networks work by store and forward of SMS much like email, others attempt direct delivery first. The point being that, if the recipient's phone is turned off, unlike a voice line you can't just give a busy signal (or charge extra for voice mail).
Where the article falls down is it's ignoring that the network understructure needs to handle and route SMS not just carry then from the handset to the mast.
There lot of suggestions but they all, so far, fall into
a) steping through the code (either with pen or debugger) or
b) giving you something in the in the absence of comments (doxygen etc).
All very sensible.
I'd add into the mix, profiling the running code.
See where it spends most of it's time, what you can ignore for later, and what you need to understand first.
This used to be a nice little short cut from Bristol to the airport.
Now everyone uses it. Damn them all!
Seriously though I witness trucks getting stuck at the entrance to my office car park on a weekly basis, all directed there by GPS. They really want the parallel lane 50 yards further on. I've similar tales from rural Wales and Devon where all but a small section of mountain/coastal road was suitable for HGV, but the GPS maps say it good all the way.
It's not possible to place signs on the Barrow Gurney road, as the road is fine for good traffic up until in enters the village, then there nowhere else to direct it, and fining truck is not the point either, by then it's too late and they're stuck.
The only real solution is a by-pass, but then this means somebody coughing up the cash, maybe the GPS manufactures?
I've always perferred the take from Captive Universe on the same idea.
I once came across a ~1400 line function of complex maths transformations with one comment
i++ /* increment i */
What's i? and more importantly why increment it?
Mornington Cresent, cabbie.
Maybe he's not a coder. This is a fatuous thing to say.
This is functionality that was available in Gnome 1.4 days, it's functionality that Sun have complained about its absence, as is was available under there old standard desktop CDE. It's functionality that I've complained about using no longer being present.
The point is that someone saw fit to have this functionality REMOVED. I'm not going to put it back into the GNOME code base, only to have somebody delete it bacause, despite it being in every other desktop worth talking about, they don't see the value.
Request failed: printer on fire.
He's back working!
Does this mean he's being spending the last year dead for tax reasons?
There is a school of thought that the market of a diamond as an engagement gift is one that was artificially created by the powers behind the global diamond cartel.
Just a couple of links to flesh out this point of view are here and here
The BBC has this story which says the planet's also getting fatter.
Are these two stories connected?
Yes there is: Backward Compatiblity and Support.
For example I've just been on the phone to Sun's support site because of a problem with a legacy application written in Xview. It's now somebody else's problem. By the end of the week I'll have a solution. I can get on to what I should have been doing today: porting our code to gcc 3, and the need to recompile all the libraries.
Compare that to trying to run linux apps which require different versions of glibc. RPMs that require Red Hat 7+. While the I can't run anything older that 6.2 on my laptop because it hangs went I close the screen.
Sun go out of there way to make the transition as painless as possible, because the alternative costs much more.
The best comments tell the reader why the code behaves as it does. This is something the bare code can never tell you.
Code will tell me that i is incremented.
It will not tell me what i represents, why it's done here or what will happen if i were not incremented.
Speaking as a non-emacs user: not long I hope.
If there is a KEmacs and a KVim, then hopefully plugging-in on your favourite editor to applications like Kdevelop is only just round the corner.
My main objection to using IDEs is that you are restricted to build-in editor, this kind of co-operation should lead to the best of both worlds.