Re: open it up to the public?
So there will be plenty of mustard for the lunch sandwiches. Sounds like a win to me!
Hmmm.. Joke Alert, or The Child Catcher.... Decisions.
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I have had something similar when I was working telephone support: a customer was trying to install a printer, and the drivers came on a CD. They inserted the CD into the drive, flipped the lever, and heard a loud crack. The 5.25 dive was now jammed up with CD shards, the CD was well busted, and I had to make up a batch of 3.5s with the printer drivers on 'em.
Simple: Person plus luggage. Women may weigh less, on average; but we all know that men pack less in their luggage. In terms of gender, it evens out.
Now, this plan does discriminate against techies. We who have to carry around the penalty weight of avoiding exercise being chained to a desk all day and tech gear which can be quite hefty...
Worst Access ever was a job I inherited that had to produce financials every year, with a preview every 6 months. The data input was comparatively sane, in that it was a CooldFusion web app that wrote to an Oracle DB. The retrieval... MS Access used ODBC to reach Oracle, it would then kick off VBA functions to create PPT decks based off of a template and then embed Excel spreadsheets into the slides, for graphs and charts. This was all done from inside Access. And then it would generate the actual full-fat document in Word, using another bit of VBA inside the Access "application".
My time was split between actually getting that to not break and agitating for permission to change it - Completely.
PHP does not help make dates less tricky with this little gem either.
I wasn't trying to say that they were better languages, or even good, that was the point of including VBA; rather I was pointing out that with the myriad options available for writing malware software for Windows, that case alone is not sufficient to keep a language 'alive'. Pascal was arguably the best language for teaching programming, but that was not enough to keep Pascal from falling by the wayside.
The point of including COBOL.NET is that owing to the plethora of ways to code for Windows, no language ever truly dies. C# may be in for a decline, but it will not be a terminal one. It will always have a place for those that need optimal behaviour in a Windows environment, and also by those who just like it. I know I prefer it to Java, because java is not just hideous on the UI, configuring its build environment can be the stuff nightmares are made of. C# project files in VS takes a large portion of the pain out of configuring build environments.
And I will absolutely agree with you about VS, that is quite possibly the best product MS has ever made.
The primary space I've seen C# being used is in ASP.Net web applications, those, I feel, are in decline, SharePoint, The Beast That Will Not Die, being the stand-out exception.
For Enterprise Windows Desktop development, that can be a mixed bag of anything, Java, C#, C/C++, VB.Net, VBA, Erlang, COBOL.Net, etc. If you can compile it, it has and will be run on a Windows desktop.
And just about everyone makes a Windows version/compiler for their IDE.
Enterprise Windows Desktops would not be enough to save C#.
I was reading, rather than bagpuss, as BuPUS, or after a few rounds "Bupkis".
It's a shame they went with "Backup Plus Ultra Slim", if they had just re-arrange the wording to "Backup Ultra Plus Slim" We'd have BUPS, which is still ugly, but could lead to "Backup Accent Plus Slim", or BAPS.
Then they would need to release the Backup Accent Compact Online Nexus, an add-on which when combined with the BAPS would make it a wi-fi enabled, uber-portable NAS.
And then we would have a(n even better) reason to read about BACON on BAPS in The Register
I got a kindle for Crimbo, and Robert's thoughts will be an excellent use for it.
I may also see about snaking the articles and compiling them into some sort of e-cook-book format for my own use, being sure to include the post-pub nosh deathmatches and the recipe for the V2 mead. If I go that far, I'll e-mail the book to Lester as it's his work anyway.
I do wonder at the amazing potential of energy weapons in Star Wars. As the article mentioned, (with our laws of physics) a large mass at near-relativistic speeds be far more efficiency than any energy beam. But, what if the SW universe has either a) a higher c or b) runs on a different exponent(e.g.e=mc^4? In the first case, it would be much harder to get a mass up to near relativistic speeds, in the both you would have a lot more energy available for energy weapons.
Or, if we are monkeying around with the basic laws of physics, why not... And I just reminded myself that Star Wars is Science Fantasy; it would be about as feasible to re-create Arisia's Lens as to re-create the main beam of the Death Star.
I expect Mattel will be the next target, especially with the additional trove provided by NSA Barbie.
I would think that things would have changes in 50-odd (very odd) years; but, on the other hand, some things are just defined by what they do. Mayhap the engineers 50 years ago picked the ultimate best-function design, and as far as the shape and form, we've not had any significant updates to improve it.
It would be ungood to go changing things to make it look "more modern", that way lies joss sticks and whalesong, not to mention nasally fitted fire.
Seriously, no OS is really secureNo OS is inherently secure, but with a few simple steps one can secure any computer:
While I do remember Pascal, fondly even, it's what I learned to program in, and this OberonStation sounded cool in the article. What with the article talking about it along with the RasPi and being a competitor to the PiZero, I expected a board and OS for somewhere between 5 and 50 USD. I did not expect the board to run 140USD; that doesn't even cover the OS, Networking, serial port connector (3.3v, not USB - which doesn't exist), or charging cord, each of which run about the same price as the PiZero.
Throw in that it's got a D-Sub (VGA) connector for video, and that the keyboard and mouse connectors are PS/2... I've been looking for something to do with a few old PS/2 keyboards, but not for 140USD.
We can say with some certainty that developers like using Git as a repository manager.
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I'm a bit torn on this. The US knows how to do propaganda - I mean, look how long the US Gov't had everyone convinced they were the good guys.
On the other hand, does the US Gov't actually want a peaceful resolution (by choking off recruitment)? And also given the US Gov't history of dealing with other cultures and minorities, will they just end up disenfranchising, marginalizing, and radicalizing moderate Muslims with "Islam is bad, MmmKay"?
Welcome to almost all broadband in the US (I can't speak for UK/EUR, but the rampant capitalism that has bred this coil seems to be a particular ailment of the US, or at least exemplified therein). This is exactly the thing that the current status quo supports that the municipal broadband (MB) movement is hoping to alleviate. Yes, in the OP's case, the MB is the incumbent monopoly, but in most places in the US, the addition of MB would add a competitor where there is none, or - at best - one.
You have light bulbs broadcasting data to receiving devices in a room, the devices cannot leave the room, or else they'll be listening to (watching?) a different light bulb; but, this limitation is also a benefit, because the lights in room A will not permeate to room B and cause interference. So you have (semi-?)static placement for devices to receive a data signal... why not use cables then?
The main use I could see for this would be to replace Bluetooth in stores/other indoor locations to broadcast alertsMarketing guff.
I mean, you could encode the modulation of the light to address specific devices, and have devices return signal via a LED mounted with a clear line of sight to the lights above...But then everybody would be walking about with a (LED circuit) chip on their shoulder.