Comment Re:Why do these people always have something to hi (Score 1) 348
On the contrary - it's all publicly-funded business.
By that argument, so is everyone's tax affairs.
On the contrary - it's all publicly-funded business.
By that argument, so is everyone's tax affairs.
A site-license of almost any software will be a negliegable part of your operating budget.
It depends on what the software is. Some things are genuinely expensive, enough that while maybe a Fortune 500 can handle it, the many smaller companies out there tend to swoon at the prices charged. (These pieces of software tend to be in areas without major OSS competition.)
But a 400W LED fixture would produce nearly the same heat overall [as 400W HPS lights].
Well yes. Duh. All those watts have got to go somewhere, and that's virtually all going to be heat eventually. What matters is how much light you get for that power. And LEDs and HPS are fairly similar (enough that the details of exactly what you're doing and how they were manufactured matter; the luminosities per unit power are similar, according to Wikipedia).
Halesowen? Cradley Heath? Oldbury? Shropshire? Where are these towns, Middle Earth?
Where do you think Tolkien stole the names from? Though he should've avoided getting creative with "Mordor" and stuck with Wolverhampton.
Putin is going to claim they were Russian speakers, and therefore Russia has a natural right to everything north of the Arctic circle.
So what about Tsunamis? What if a giant rock or snowball from outerspace hits it at upwards of 17000 miles per hour?
Better not worry too much, just chill out to some smooth, rolling basslines from the 1970s, man.
I think it's going ro be a long, long time...
You need to chill out to a nice, smooth rolling bassline.
Those were the days, young people.
Like, about a million years ago or something.
Times change, the world moves on.
After over three decades, we're still anticipating the release of Funky Gibbon.
C'mon everybody it's gibbon time!
Erm... I meant to write "lives", not "lies." Freudian slip.
Unless you work for the CIA, in which case the question becomes, "Will this patch cost enough lies?"
Actually that was Eric Raymond, and it is evident that in fact there never are enough eyeballs (at least ones that can comprehend what they are looking at). The theory is sound but in practice it is not.
It's a fundamental truth that, the more of the system you have to comprehend to truly understand it, the harder it is to debug. Syntax problems? Trivial. Global liveness checking? Much harder. (There's just so many ways to screw up.)
The Economist is a *lot* more US-normative than most UK publications, yes. For one thing, a lot of their market is US; for another, they're generally proponents of the US and UK becoming more similar -- mostly by the UK changing.
Having bought the Economist in various places around the world, you should be aware that the apparent focus of the magazine is different in different places. The content is formally the same, the articles are identical, but the ordering is not; this changes surprisingly strongly how one feels it is centric towards one place or another. Always buy in the US? It will be US centric. It's quite different in France.
First, we shouldn't confuse Coverity's numerical measurements with actual code quality, which is a much more nuanced property.
Yeah, but good quality might well correspond to some sort of measurable anyway. Provided you've got the right measure. Maybe some sort of measure of the degree of interconnectedness of the code? The more things are isolated from each other, across lots of levels (in a fractal dimension sense, perhaps) the better things are likely to be.
Maybe that would only apply to a larger project, and I'm not sure what effect system libraries (and other externals) would have. Yet the fact that it might be a scale-invariant approach makes me a bit more hopeful, as it wouldn't be so susceptible to the "ravioli code" problem, where the code's nicely packaged up into little pieces, but the pieces interconnect in a horrible mess of higher-level spaghetti code. Worked on a large project? You'll have probably seen it in the wild. (Yeah, I've had people argue to me that their code didn't use goto and so it had no spaghetti code problems, despite the fact that everything was so nastily interconnected that nobody else could understand it. If that's not indicative of a problem, what is?)
You are not free from being threatened by guns.
Yeah, there's all these mad asshole gun-freaks in the USA that are seeking to export their crazy to everywhere else. Keep it at home, jerks!
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.
