Instead of paper you could use water, hand (just use your other hand for eating) or cloth in the toilet. Ancient Romans used a cloth around a stick and it worked fine for them.
Or perhaps most common injury is just a small scratch, not losing your limb. Even the result looks nasty, faster healing offers one very important benefit. Open wounds tend to infect and that can cause serious illness or even death without modern medicine. It is not hard to imagine that healing your wounds a day or two faster would decrease the chance of getting sick a big time.
C is faster in the hands of experienced programmers. Python is probably faster in the hands of newbies as there are lots of build in functions that most likely do things faster than they could do if they wrote those functions themselves in C.
The problem is that majority of open source developers are programmers and UI designing is a completely different profession. Two possible solutions: - Programmers must learn UI designing also - We need more UI designers to join us
I've seen this also. Insurance companies used to help people when they were in need, but then the shareholders noticed that they could make much more money if they just sell insurance and not help the people. So nowadays they simply cover only the cheap or very rare things and the rest you have to pay yourself. It doesn't make sense anymore to buy insurance.
> They neglected to teach their child about the dangers of firearms
3 year old can happily know the dangers of getting hit by car and yet he/she can happily go on the street to see what really happens if you get hit by a car. Only at the age of 6-7 the kids start to understand these things. Before that you really need to watch them, or expect them to die. Obviously you can teach them at the age of 3, but don't expect them to understand, even if they can answer to your questions correctly(this really confuses some adults).
> He also argues that the Coverity scan was not an example of many eyeballs because it was government funded. So, the government paid for it - but it still happened.
FOSS static code analysis tool Cppcheck has done similar job (after the Coverity scans) and found bugs (that were reported and fixed) from the Kernel and other open source projects. It is not government funded, it is purely made by the community. Here is a list of reported and fixed bugs: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Found_bugs
There are a lot more bugs found and fixes that are not in the list as many developers have started using it on their own after seeing it in use and the members of the Cppcheck project are nowadays more focused in developing Cppcheck rather than testing it against other open source projects.
> would need to be implemented by all the different SCMs
You could implement a proxy which would translate the commands and answers from one system to the other. You use what ever client you like and connect to the proxy and proxy would connect to the real server.
[client you want to use] --- [proxy] --- [server your project manager wants]
But be prepared to find problems I couldn't think of.
"BFOpenGL is a variation of the Brainfuck programming language that allows you to make OpenGL and GLUT calls, thus enabling you to add GUIs to your Brainfuck programs" http://code.google.com/p/bfopengl/
> I never understood the "don't speak ill of the dead" idea.
It is for historical reasons. We used to bury our dead with their stuff, but we broke their weapons before putting them into the grave, for our own protection. For the same reason, it was not wise to speak ill of them.
> Simple fact is, the open source model doesn't apply to other creative works because there isn't the opportunity for side revenue.
1. Write a book where story doesn't quite end yet and release it as "open source" to get more readers for it. 2. Ask people to donate/pay you if you wish to see the 2nd book that continues the story. Give a limit how much people need to pay in order for you to reveal the next book. 3. If the book was good, you will get your money and you can release your next book and go back to step 1. If not, start writing a better one, or get a new job if that was the best you can do. 4. Profit.
Same can be used for TV-series and movies. And even more music (if you liked my song and want to hear more, pay me). Not everyone will pay. Only 1-5% of the people will (the amount of people who will buy a shareware product, after trying out the demo). But obviously only if you are good enough and you get enough visibility for your product (the very same problems that software products have).
"worked best for me"? I'm sorry, but isn't your job to support the others and make their work easier, not the other way around? Obviously you should make your own work more efficient, but not in the expense of the others. So are you sure your solution has not harmed anyone? "It took some getting used to" sounds like harm to me.
> Failure to find a flaw does not prove absence of a flaw.
And failure to find an unicorn doesn't prove absence of a unicorn. I claim that there is no flaw. It is now your job to find the flaw and prove me wrong.
> A paper ballot vote is completely observable and does not require trust.
So you think that computers can't be trusted, because you don't trust people handling them, but you can trust paper, because you trust people handling them?
Can't we use materials that exist on the moon instead of sending them from Earth? We could probably dig some tunnels there and live under the ground, safe from the radiation. Solar panels, lights, plants, water, air. We could bring microchips, perhaps some plastics from earth, get the metals and fuel from the Moon. Also having a colony there wouldn't hurt human kind.
It would most likely bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 8980 meters. Minor local damage might occur if a larger fragment happens to hit a house.
Have you ever made a package for Debian or other distribution for an open source application? Did it require ANY extra effort for you to support all the architectures that are supported by the distribution? I only done Debian packages and that didn't require anything from me, even the compilation is done automatically for me. So I don't see any benefit from this for open source projects. The packages for other distributions are btw. done by other individuals from their own initiative and will.
> Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done.)
For me, System -> Preferences -> Display does the trick. But I think that is too obvious for not to spot, so you probably have some other problem. But it is not usability problem (as the UI is there), more likely your hardware is not supported properly.
> The study shows that the populations are becoming more damaged over time, rather than stronger.
I think that the study shows that when there is no competition, mutations become more likely.
Now imagine this: An island, no-one lives there, except rabbits. No competition, except from other members of the same population. Now, based on evolution theory, those rabbits that can eat most of the grass, will succeed. But even more successful would be a "rabbit" which would eat something else, what other rabbits can't eat. E.g. other rabbits, or fish or insects.
So in this kind of an environment, it would be best for the genes, to mutate rapidly.
But the question is: Is the mutation speed random, or can the population/genes notice when the situation is more favorable for rapid mutation and when it is not? E.g. does the amount of stress hormones reveal this?
The image on TFA gives the impression that it is way larger than 20km and the summary claims that is is 200 yard = 0.182 km. And the text claims that it is four-in-a million aka 1 in 250.000.
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Instead of paper you could use water, hand (just use your other hand for eating) or cloth in the toilet. Ancient Romans used a cloth around a stick and it worked fine for them.
Or perhaps most common injury is just a small scratch, not losing your limb. Even the result looks nasty, faster healing offers one very important benefit. Open wounds tend to infect and that can cause serious illness or even death without modern medicine. It is not hard to imagine that healing your wounds a day or two faster would decrease the chance of getting sick a big time.
C is faster in the hands of experienced programmers. Python is probably faster in the hands of newbies as there are lots of build in functions that most likely do things faster than they could do if they wrote those functions themselves in C.
> A lot of open source coders seem to avoid UI aspects and usability like a plague
- Programmers write code.
- UI designers design UI
- Technical writers write user documentation
- Graphical designers draw buttons and icons
The problem is that majority of open source developers are programmers and UI designing is a completely different profession.
Two possible solutions:
- Programmers must learn UI designing also
- We need more UI designers to join us
I've seen this also. Insurance companies used to help people when they were in need, but then the shareholders noticed that they could make much more money if they just sell insurance and not help the people. So nowadays they simply cover only the cheap or very rare things and the rest you have to pay yourself. It doesn't make sense anymore to buy insurance.
> They neglected to teach their child about the dangers of firearms
3 year old can happily know the dangers of getting hit by car and yet he/she can happily go on the street to see what really happens if you get hit by a car. Only at the age of 6-7 the kids start to understand these things. Before that you really need to watch them, or expect them to die. Obviously you can teach them at the age of 3, but don't expect them to understand, even if they can answer to your questions correctly(this really confuses some adults).
> He also argues that the Coverity scan was not an example of many eyeballs because it was government funded. So, the government paid for it - but it still happened.
FOSS static code analysis tool Cppcheck has done similar job (after the Coverity scans) and found bugs (that were reported and fixed) from the Kernel and other open source projects. It is not government funded, it is purely made by the community. Here is a list of reported and fixed bugs:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Found_bugs
There are a lot more bugs found and fixes that are not in the list as many developers have started using it on their own after seeing it in use and the members of the Cppcheck project are nowadays more focused in developing Cppcheck rather than testing it against other open source projects.
Have you tried Cppcheck: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Main_Page
Try Cppcheck: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/cppcheck/index.php?title=Main_Page
> would need to be implemented by all the different SCMs
You could implement a proxy which would translate the commands and answers from one system to the other. You use what ever client you like and connect to the proxy and proxy would connect to the real server.
[client you want to use] --- [proxy] --- [server your project manager wants]
But be prepared to find problems I couldn't think of.
"BFOpenGL is a variation of the Brainfuck programming language that allows you to make OpenGL and GLUT calls, thus enabling you to add GUIs to your Brainfuck programs"
http://code.google.com/p/bfopengl/
> I never understood the "don't speak ill of the dead" idea.
It is for historical reasons. We used to bury our dead with their stuff, but we broke their weapons before putting them into the grave, for our own protection. For the same reason, it was not wise to speak ill of them.
The reason why we still have that rule is best explained with the famous bananas and monkeys example:
http://paws.kettering.edu/~jhuggins/humor/banana.html
> Simple fact is, the open source model doesn't apply to other creative works because there isn't the opportunity for side revenue.
1. Write a book where story doesn't quite end yet and release it as "open source" to get more readers for it.
2. Ask people to donate/pay you if you wish to see the 2nd book that continues the story. Give a limit how much people need to pay in order for you to reveal the next book.
3. If the book was good, you will get your money and you can release your next book and go back to step 1. If not, start writing a better one, or get a new job if that was the best you can do.
4. Profit.
Same can be used for TV-series and movies. And even more music (if you liked my song and want to hear more, pay me). Not everyone will pay. Only 1-5% of the people will (the amount of people who will buy a shareware product, after trying out the demo). But obviously only if you are good enough and you get enough visibility for your product (the very same problems that software products have).
"worked best for me"? I'm sorry, but isn't your job to support the others and make their work easier, not the other way around? Obviously you should make your own work more efficient, but not in the expense of the others. So are you sure your solution has not harmed anyone? "It took some getting used to" sounds like harm to me.
Next: Artificial leather.
> Failure to find a flaw does not prove absence of a flaw.
And failure to find an unicorn doesn't prove absence of a unicorn. I claim that there is no flaw. It is now your job to find the flaw and prove me wrong.
> A paper ballot vote is completely observable and does not require trust.
So you think that computers can't be trusted, because you don't trust people handling them, but you can trust paper, because you trust people handling them?
Can't we use materials that exist on the moon instead of sending them from Earth? We could probably dig some tunnels there and live under the ground, safe from the radiation. Solar panels, lights, plants, water, air. We could bring microchips, perhaps some plastics from earth, get the metals and fuel from the Moon. Also having a colony there wouldn't hurt human kind.
It would most likely bursts into a cloud of fragments at an altitude of 8980 meters. Minor local damage might occur if a larger fragment happens to hit a house.
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/cgi-bin/crater.cgi?dist=0.001&diam=7&pdens=&pdens_select=8000&vel=17&theta=45&tdens=2500&tdens_select=0
I saw one with 512 MB in the store a few weeks ago (was probably old model, but still, they were selling it).
Have you ever made a package for Debian or other distribution for an open source application? Did it require ANY extra effort for you to support all the architectures that are supported by the distribution? I only done Debian packages and that didn't require anything from me, even the compilation is done automatically for me. So I don't see any benefit from this for open source projects. The packages for other distributions are btw. done by other individuals from their own initiative and will.
> Change an Ubuntu screen to 640x480, and then try to change it back, without using secret hidden commands. Can't be done.)
For me, System -> Preferences -> Display does the trick. But I think that is too obvious for not to spot, so you probably have some other problem. But it is not usability problem (as the UI is there), more likely your hardware is not supported properly.
> The study shows that the populations are becoming more damaged over time, rather than stronger.
I think that the study shows that when there is no competition, mutations become more likely.
Now imagine this: An island, no-one lives there, except rabbits. No competition, except from other members of the same population. Now, based on evolution theory, those rabbits that can eat most of the grass, will succeed. But even more successful would be a "rabbit" which would eat something else, what other rabbits can't eat. E.g. other rabbits, or fish or insects.
So in this kind of an environment, it would be best for the genes, to mutate rapidly.
But the question is: Is the mutation speed random, or can the population/genes notice when the situation is more favorable for rapid mutation and when it is not? E.g. does the amount of stress hormones reveal this?
According to NASA, it is 1 in 135,000 and diameter is 0.270 km
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/a99942.html
The image on TFA gives the impression that it is way larger than 20km and the summary claims that is is 200 yard = 0.182 km. And the text claims that it is four-in-a million aka 1 in 250.000.
> A bird, a sheep and an australian sex-toy?
Isn't the last item in your list just a synonym for sheep?
Are you sure contract can hold you, considering that it probably mentions also speed, which has now changed?