Indian brain drain is something of the past. It remains true that computer scientists are paid in India a fraction of what they would earn in our countries. But with a quarter of an occidental salary, they can have a far better quality of life.
The first insightful comment of the page. Of course, if he has not paid the $75 tax, he should be offered to pay the full expense of the firemen intervention (with surtaxes). This is a bit like insurance. Either everybody pay regularly a little to be cured for free, of you pay the full amount when you get cured, or you die.
Long links with loads of parameters are a bad practice that should be avoided by good site coding conventions.
shorteners are a bad practice and can not be justified by an other bad practice.
If you do not like Long links with loads of parameters, you will avoid them and use cleaner sites. This is natural selection. If you use shorteners, the natural selection does not work anymore.
Are you crazy ?
What has been debunked is the theory that the area would remain lifeless for generations.
The fact is that ecosystem is more developed now than it was before 1986 (in average). There are a lot more big mammals and even plants are thriving.
Plants and wild animals are a lot healthier than expected. Of course, they are not as healthy as in clean areas, they have shorter lifespans, they suffer from the radioactivity. That is not the point. The point is that they are healthier THAN EXPECTED. Nobody, even the more optimist did anticipate that.
In fact the 90% accuracy is maybe linked to the fact that 10% of the child diagnosed as autistic do not have autism.
What let you assume the currently used tests are more accurate than 90% ?
Even if the old test was perfectly reliable, having a new test does not mean that it will be the only test, replacing the old one.
False positive are a problem, but the proportion of false positive and false negative is not given. Maybe the test gives only false negative.
I have reported a bug to google chrome (issue 45970) more than one month ago. They are not responsive at all. This bug is a regressions that completely prevents usage of local copy of java api documentation.
Recently, I have found another bug in google "Documents": the AltGr key does not work in new documents. On a french keyboard, I can not type any more the characters {, [, |, \, ^, @,...
The workaround is to duplicate an old document.
I think they are drowning in an avalanche of bugs. Correcting security holes is probably important, but fixing major regressions on basic functionalities should not be neglected.
What! 94! I was using slackware in 92 (Linux 0.97, 0.99pl10, 0.99pl12, 0.99pl14,...).
The minimum to be hardcore is not configuring and recompiling kernel, the minimum is correcting a bug in a driver (not applying a patch already made) before recompiling.
Producing your own device driver for a hardware is clearly above minimum.
Writing your own driver for something else than a hardware is most often below minimum: student housework.
DRM relies on one principle: Security through obscurity.
You have the data, you have the key, but the software (and hardware) to decode is closed source.
DRM works fine until the decoder is reversed engineered or hacked. It is just a question of time and willing.
How on earth could you have open source DRM ?
Knuth has already expressed interest in unicode. I think he will announce that Tex/Latex will fully rely on unicode and will completely leave out all the old mess of \alpha and so on that used to make tex code difficult to read. Some tool will help translating from old tex to new tex.
I think the point is not only to satisfy the 3D hype of the moment. For sure, 3D will become mainstream in the future. The question is not if, but when. Nintendo is doing some steps in 3D in order to increase experience in this area and be ready for a future that may be near or far.
The only information in this post is that the site www.gamasutra.com publishes very stupid articles. They should try to read before what they intend to publish and think a bit by themselves to understand how crappy this is.
Accepting to publish such bullshit is complicity in disinformation. This is bad.
I fully agree with Tcl/Tk.
Using a batch file for your very simple tasks (running sequences of commands, with simple user interactions) is a very interesting idea. If you were using smarter language like VB, Java, Perl (I love Perl), Python, Ruby, PHP or similar, there is a big risk that the program evolves to include more and more language specific tricks. By using a very limited language, as long as you don't need to use tricks to circumvent these limitations, you limit the possibility of nasty evolutions.
There are two problems with this approach:
- you may encounter new needs for which the limitations of DOS will be a real pain (in fact, it is already the case with ansi.sys)
- this is not the kind of application that can be cleanly wrapped to be delivered to a customer. A customer deserves something polished.
Tcl/Tk is the good choice for your purpose: a simple, stupid, limited language, but providing all the features needed for clean simple user interfaces and smart installations wrappers that make it look like windows native applications.
You are falling in the semantic trap. If I buy a DVD, I want to be able to use it the way I want, in all the fair use authorized ways, not limited to the crappy EULA that may be written on the DVD. This license bullshit is generally outlaw. If I just wanted permission to watch the movie, I would use VOD.
I switch to Linux exactly because windows vista64 and windows 7 do not provide drivers for my old printer and my old scanner. No driver problem with Linux, because Linux supports legacy hardware.
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I was not able to download bugat from this link. Do you have another one ?
LuciadMap is closed source (and a bit bloated). If you know about an open source concurrent of LuciadMap, I am very interested.
Indian brain drain is something of the past. It remains true that computer scientists are paid in India a fraction of what they would earn in our countries. But with a quarter of an occidental salary, they can have a far better quality of life.
The first insightful comment of the page.
Of course, if he has not paid the $75 tax, he should be offered to pay the full expense of the firemen intervention (with surtaxes).
This is a bit like insurance. Either everybody pay regularly a little to be cured for free, of you pay the full amount when you get cured, or you die.
The probability to encounter something unprobable is not very low because so many unprobable things may happen.
Long links with loads of parameters are a bad practice that should be avoided by good site coding conventions.
shorteners are a bad practice and can not be justified by an other bad practice.
If you do not like Long links with loads of parameters, you will avoid them and use cleaner sites. This is natural selection. If you use shorteners, the natural selection does not work anymore.
Are you crazy ?
What has been debunked is the theory that the area would remain lifeless for generations.
The fact is that ecosystem is more developed now than it was before 1986 (in average). There are a lot more big mammals and even plants are thriving.
Plants and wild animals are a lot healthier than expected. Of course, they are not as healthy as in clean areas, they have shorter lifespans, they suffer from the radioactivity. That is not the point. The point is that they are healthier THAN EXPECTED. Nobody, even the more optimist did anticipate that.
The problem of the disintegration products is less the radioactivity than the chemical pollution. Very radioactive products have short lives.
Their estimation is still better than a Microsoft progression bar.
Use candles to lighten the room (and sun when possible) => no flicker.
In fact the 90% accuracy is maybe linked to the fact that 10% of the child diagnosed as autistic do not have autism.
What let you assume the currently used tests are more accurate than 90% ?
Even if the old test was perfectly reliable, having a new test does not mean that it will be the only test, replacing the old one.
False positive are a problem, but the proportion of false positive and false negative is not given. Maybe the test gives only false negative.
For the french speakers, I advise Bernard Werber book: http://www.amazon.fr/papillon-%C3%A9toiles-Bernard-Werber/dp/2226173498
Not very serious, but a very nice reading.
My apologizes.
In fact, google is very responsive when bugs are reported on slashdot.
Thank you very much.
It is probably an old TV patent: man watching football and woman watching documentary at the same time on the same TV.
I have reported a bug to google chrome (issue 45970) more than one month ago. They are not responsive at all. ...
This bug is a regressions that completely prevents usage of local copy of java api documentation.
Recently, I have found another bug in google "Documents": the AltGr key does not work in new documents. On a french keyboard, I can not type any more the characters {, [, |, \, ^, @,
The workaround is to duplicate an old document.
I think they are drowning in an avalanche of bugs.
Correcting security holes is probably important, but fixing major regressions on basic functionalities should not be neglected.
What! 94! I was using slackware in 92 (Linux 0.97, 0.99pl10, 0.99pl12, 0.99pl14, ...).
The minimum to be hardcore is not configuring and recompiling kernel, the minimum is correcting a bug in a driver (not applying a patch already made) before recompiling.
Producing your own device driver for a hardware is clearly above minimum.
Writing your own driver for something else than a hardware is most often below minimum: student housework.
just before you mod me down, I KNOW that there exists open source DRM projects. ;-)
But I assume they do not have the same kind of logic than me
DRM relies on one principle: Security through obscurity.
You have the data, you have the key, but the software (and hardware) to decode is closed source.
DRM works fine until the decoder is reversed engineered or hacked. It is just a question of time and willing.
How on earth could you have open source DRM ?
and it appears to be very very fast!
:-(
This is probably a wrong guess, because it is not Tex related
Knuth has already expressed interest in unicode. I think he will announce that Tex/Latex will fully rely on unicode and will completely leave out all the old mess of \alpha and so on that used to make tex code difficult to read. Some tool will help translating from old tex to new tex.
I think the point is not only to satisfy the 3D hype of the moment. For sure, 3D will become mainstream in the future. The question is not if, but when. Nintendo is doing some steps in 3D in order to increase experience in this area and be ready for a future that may be near or far.
The only information in this post is that the site www.gamasutra.com publishes very stupid articles. They should try to read before what they intend to publish and think a bit by themselves to understand how crappy this is.
Accepting to publish such bullshit is complicity in disinformation. This is bad.
I fully agree with Tcl/Tk.
Using a batch file for your very simple tasks (running sequences of commands, with simple user interactions) is a very interesting idea. If you were using smarter language like VB, Java, Perl (I love Perl), Python, Ruby, PHP or similar, there is a big risk that the program evolves to include more and more language specific tricks. By using a very limited language, as long as you don't need to use tricks to circumvent these limitations, you limit the possibility of nasty evolutions.
There are two problems with this approach:
- you may encounter new needs for which the limitations of DOS will be a real pain (in fact, it is already the case with ansi.sys)
- this is not the kind of application that can be cleanly wrapped to be delivered to a customer. A customer deserves something polished.
Tcl/Tk is the good choice for your purpose: a simple, stupid, limited language, but providing all the features needed for clean simple user interfaces and smart installations wrappers that make it look like windows native applications.
You are falling in the semantic trap. If I buy a DVD, I want to be able to use it the way I want, in all the fair use authorized ways, not limited to the crappy EULA that may be written on the DVD. This license bullshit is generally outlaw. If I just wanted permission to watch the movie, I would use VOD.
I switch to Linux exactly because windows vista64 and windows 7 do not provide drivers for my old printer and my old scanner. No driver problem with Linux, because Linux supports legacy hardware.