What's left of his skin was littered with simple cross and line markings.
... upon closer inspection the scientists determined this to be Chinese writing which says "Forever Protector of Old Ladies". Work to locate the man's Facebook profile and collection of popped collar shirts is continuing.
Now back to you in the studio, Dave.
Actually, you learn about bubble sort so you can understand where is might actually be a valid choice -- i.e. where you need to sort a small set in place with minimal use of stack space or other temporary storage.
Exactly! People who throw out perfectly valid algorithms because they're problematic in some cases are just as bad as people who dismiss all design patterns because they once worked with someone who didn't know when to stop using their hammer to drive in screws.
Bubble sort is also fine for situations where you know a list is nearly sorted already and you don't care about perfect sorting. I think the classic example is a virtual bird needing to know it's closest neighbours in flight. Their relative positions don't change quickly so you only need one or two passes and if you make a mistake, who cares! So long as you haven't actually clipped your neighbours wings yet you can be a bit imprecise and let the next round of movement/sorting sort things out.
Conroy and ISPs implementing the blacklist confirm that this is a fake:
It's identical to the list being extracted from filtering packages which use the ACMA list. One of the packages even stores it in a file called websites_ACMA.txt embedded into the product.
It might not be the most current version of the list but it damn well is real.
The iLiad Book Edition is a good choice. The hardware is nice and the firmware is open source. It's also very expensive.
You could also look at the BeBook. It uses the same 6" panel as everyone else, has excellent wide and open format support and the firmware is open source. It's also sold under many other names, Hanlin V3 being the most common.
I've bought a BeBook. It should last me long enough that a better and probably cheaper generation of devices will come out. There's no need to go for the top of the line models now, the technology is changing too fast.
If your primary motivation is reading not fiddling then don't bother with wireless and touch panels yet. They cut the battery life from several weeks to a few days on every model that has them.
Talking about a "good OS" is all very well, but did classic MacOS on the Macintosh 128k do these things?
It didn't need to. It never ran a multitasking version of MacOS, IIRC. I may be mistaken though.
(And indeed, although I know that modern OSs do do this, I'd be curious to see them tested in practice - how well does OS X, or any other OS come to that, run if you never ever close anything down?)
Just fine, as long as you aren't constantly switching between every application you have open. I just looked at my dock and I've got fourteen applications open and my both cores of my CPU are 95% idle. I'm probably only going to use three or four of the running applications today so everything will be just fine.
Just about all popular games also come in a DRM free version. These versions are usually called "cracked", "patched" or "warzed".
Serriously though, pirated versions of music, DVDs and games are often superior for these kinds of reasons. Buy the boxed copy and leave it in its shrink wrap then pirate it.
You're out of luck if you want to play online.
s/think.KNOW/gi;
There, fixed it for you.
If we only THOUGHT the CIO was clueless, that would be a different story. too many businesses are like septic tanks - the really big chunks (the floaters) rise to the top.
So remember, children, high visibility isn't necessarily a good thing. It might mean you're just full of shit.
Coder: "How tall are you?"
CIO: "6.1"
Coder: "Gee, they're piling shit higher nowadays."
"The cases of unrestricted ownership concentration or of scarce content pluralism in the media are endangering cultural diversity and freedom of expression not only within national markets but also at European level. We need therefore strong European commitment to overcome those challenges especially in view of the new technologies and services in the media sector."One would think that such politicians would then champion the rise of easy publishing platforms that allows anyone, professional or amateur, to join the game. Yet, that doesn't appear to be the case.
"The blogosphere has so far been a haven of good intentions and relatively honest dealing. However, with blogs becoming commonplace, less principled people will want to use them.... We do not see bloggers as a threat. They are in position, however, to considerably pollute cyberspace. We already have too much spam, misinformation and malicious intent in cyberspace. I think the public is still very trusting towards blogs, it is still seen as sincere. And it should remain sincere. For that we need a quality mark, a disclosure of who is really writing and why."If I'm reading this right, it appears that these politicians are afraid of media consolidation, because it limits the diversity of voices -- but at the same time, it's afraid of bloggers polluting media, because that diversity of voices might be "bad." Right. In other words, the real fear isn't either the diversity of media or the rise of bad bloggers -- it's just that they're afraid that speech they don't like will become popular, whereas those who agree with them might get drowned out. That would also explain the ridiculous assertion that Europe needs a "right to reply." A sort of cousin of the fairness doctrine, a right to reply is designed to let someone respond if a publication says something about them that they don't like. This isn't the first time this has been proposed in Europe. Way back in 2003, we wrote about plans in Europe to regulate bloggers with a demand for a right to reply.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison
