Comment ok today = ok tomorrow?! (Score 1) 404
Let me add: things generally considered ok today may be viewed as not ok in the future.
Comment Re:internet-connected plane (Score 1) 213
Cockpit-Popup:
"Do you want to update Java or crash?"
|_______________ [Ok ]
"Do you want to update Java or crash?"
|_______________ [Ok ]
Comment Sit on the laptop and type with your toes! (Score 1) 312
For better ergonomics sit on the laptop and type with your toes. That way you have your hands free for motion control!
Comment Read this first!! Then think again. (Score 1) 164
Everyone in the free world should read the closing statements from the members of the punk band Puss Riot http://nplusonemag.com/pussy-riot-closing-statements- A fascinating
insight in how the oppressive system works on individual levels.
One defendant's psych eval identified her values as: "justice, mutual respect, humaneness, equality, and freedom."
Those are values that I hope still define the majority of people in the free world!
And we should NEVER forget to defend them in our societies.
One defendant's psych eval identified her values as: "justice, mutual respect, humaneness, equality, and freedom."
Those are values that I hope still define the majority of people in the free world!
And we should NEVER forget to defend them in our societies.
Comment Contracts are your f riends (Score 1) 438
If you trust someone, make proper legal arangements!
As long as you can talk to each other contracts don't get in your way.
Contracts are needed for future times in case people cannot work out agreements anymore.
Comment Names of all the CIA agents ... (Score 1) 718
He perfidiously collected names of all the CIA agents in the world...
dates when they entered his organization allegedly,
fictitious amounts of their salaries,
and how they benefited his organization...
dates when they entered his organization allegedly,
fictitious amounts of their salaries,
and how they benefited his organization...
Comment Re:Large organization doing something simple (Score 1) 305
I do not know anything about the NYT. But I have seen large European corporations:
5 layers of management: 3-4 of these layers doing nothing but exchanging and adjusting project plans (using Power Point!) with each other - and of course: finding arguments to increase their project's budgets. And of course making a lot of fuss about their busyness.
I have also heard of a project which needed to cut costs. This is what they did: add another one or two managers, reduce the staff of developers (who do the actual work) by two and cut all others' hourly wages.
If a project has a good manager, that is great!
But unfortunately my experience tells me that for every great manager there are about 20 managers who act like a trainee.
Comment Re:I'm inclined to believe them (Score 1) 69
That's bad publicity. And this error must lead to a loss of users due to lost trust in the reliability of it's operation. If I were using hotmail I'd switch to Gmail or some other trusted provider.
What could be the advantage of such a measure - if it was on purpose?!
What could be the advantage of such a measure - if it was on purpose?!
Comment If you had read BEFORE posting your headline: (Score 1) 231
the authors make a clear distinction between the mythical man month and what they did!
Comment Re:High Fructose Corn Syrup (Score 1) 766
No other industry has as much freedom as the food industry when it comes to the ingredients of their products! WORLDWIDE!
There are laws, but they only cover a tiny fraction of the possible substances the industry can put into their "food".
Submission + - Translating flags in API calls (wordpress.com)
Source Code Adventures writes: Windows API calls often include flags, which are just combinations of various constants that you then need to go find in the documentation. Delphi allows you to create type-safe imports of these functions that are safer and much more intuitive to use.
Submission + - Testing (cmdrtaco.net) 2
CmdrTaco writes: "TestingTesting"
Submission + - Google, Facebook, Twitter, Others Miss Big Picture (bnet.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: You hear a lot of comparison between companies. Google will beat Microsoft, or Microsoft will devastate Google. Twitter will become the New Google, or the New Facebook, or the New Media. Yahoo will become the New Yahoo. You get the idea. But there are two things that become obvious when you think a moment. One is that all these companies are juggling for a future business landscape dominated by communications. The other is that they're all trying to fit a complex issue into their own undersized boxes. No one tool solves all communications needs, and to pretend they do is to ignore what really needs to be done.
Submission + - A radical idea for making Math education relevant (ted.com)
TEDChris writes: "Mathematician Arthur Benjamin thinks it's a big mistake to make calculus the pinnacle of high school Math. In just 3 minutes he makes a killer argument that a core understanding of probability and statistics would be far more relevant today. This strikes me as an "idea worth spreading", no?"
Submission + - Storage in clouds but in private clouds? (diaser.org.uk)
thewarewolf writes: "In an article written by Jack Schofield published by the Guardian on June 17th 2009 the question of long term control over data stored in cloud services is explored. This follows on from another late 2008 Guardian article where Richard Stallman argues strongly against the use of the term cloud computing echoing comments made by Larry Ellison. Surely it's worth having description of a complex collection of technologies? Perhaps compromise is required and I have written storage software designed to be deployed as a private storage cloud. Here I want users of SME's to retain more control in the long term over their archived data with DIASER."
