Posts by Dom 3

Re: Not a new concept

What's new is doing it *computationally*. I can identify code as mine / not-mine long after I've forgotten anything about it.

Re: I bow to the master

Portgual now, eh?

I trust that you are still a miscreant at heart.

English language version?

WTF are you talking about?

Time waster

An apt moniker. In 25 years of being paid to code [1] that's the first I've ever heard someone come out with that particular idea.

[1] Including C, C++, various flavours of assembler, on embedded systems, desktop applications, etc... you get the picture.

Re: hypothetical

"The Americans have sided with the Americans" - quite. If the claimant had been a US corporation rather than a foreign individual, I think we all know how it would have gone.

They're regular A4 in size and feels like 80gsm to me.

Re: I harbor some darknet myself

I've tried this myself. And no, Google never spidered my "googletrap" page.

Re: @AC101

"Learning Latin teaches you Latin. that's it" - that'll be "I have not done X, therefore X has no value".

None. But it is no longer needed, at least in the (apparent) opinion of the authors:

"Windows 8/7/Vista and later offer integrated support for encrypted disks and virtual disk images. Such integrated support is also available on other platforms".

Re: I would argue the situation was even worse

If you are a non-voter, you ensure that the political parties will continue to ignore you. If you do vote, they *might* do something to try and *get* your vote.

Re: No tablets before 2008?

J. O. K. E.

For the hard of thinking, they put this in - "[Copy-editors, check this – ed]" but for many of us, it wasn't really needed.

Re: Why does this need two Rovers?

"the engineers and scientists involved have considered these issues and come up with quite an elegant solution". Quite. It's like the sky-crane landing system for Curiosity. Seems utterly bonkers at first glance but is, of course, a logical solution.

I disagree that it was "effectively unbreakable by the technology of the time".

The crucial flaw was that a letter could not be encoded as itself.

Even the much more sophisticated Lorentz cipher had a statistical flaw that allowed the space-age technology of Colossus to attack it.

"the misguided notion that teens getting married was the norm in days gone by".

How do you figure that? There's still plenty of places on the planet where it is *still* the norm. I was staying in such a place in 2005. There was some disapproval of a wedding going on in the next village. Because the bride was twelve, IIRC. They felt that was too young. But fifteen would have been seen as perfectly normal. Eighteen probably counted as "stuck on the shelf". Meanwhile I think that boys were expected to become working adults at about sixteen, the Big Men of the village were in their late thirties, and anybody over about fifty was past it.

In short, everything happens much much sooner. Maybe it's because of the low life-expectancy alone, or perhaps the subsistence agriculture and low levels of education come into it too.

Re: They have't built a copy of teh Concord because the idea is crap

BA ran their Concorde fleet at an operating profit despite being hampered by the short range (which meant the only feasible route was across the North Atlantic) and the tiny fleet which meant no economies of scale on training, maintenance, etc.

An SST which had the range to get across the Pacific could piobably sell quite well.

Re: ... "just to generate some data with no real (rather than arbitary) value "

"Even then paper money can still be used as toilet paper or burnt for fuel if the banks ever collapse completely." This has been tested, in Somalia. The value of the note drops until it is more or less what it costs to print and distribute it. Because everybody and their dog is free to try their hand at making their own.

Re: Try harder!

When I lived south of the Pyrenees, I'd see people out collecting snails. Also wild asparagus, when in season. Here in blighty, as a kid we'd sometimes eat boiled stinging nettles when camping, but I think it was to prove that we could, rather than for any good reason.

Re: Nice

The cents in the article refers to Kenyan cents. 50 cents is about 0.006USD, so much the same as bitcoin.

Re: Tread carefully

I thought it was already.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-26752592

Re: Figurehead?

ISTR the young lady got sent off to the Amazon and in an interview afterwards said summat like "I never realised that rubber comes from trees".

Re: Not the least of "their" capabilities.

"1500 METERS below the water taken from another helicopter hovering 50 meters above the surface THROUGH THE PROPWASH. The helicopter under the water was upside down... and you could clearly read the aircraft identification painted on the bottom."

April issue by any chance? According to WP at a depth of "100 m (330 ft) the light present from the sun is normally about 0.5% of that at the surface." At 15 times that depth it is pitch black.

Re: So why not

http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-duxford/battle-of-britain

http://www.iwm.org.uk/exhibitions/iwm-duxford/1940-operations-room

Re: Concorde?

Boeing also won a government-funded contract to build an American SST. Before it got cancelled they'd chewed up more money than was spent developing Concorde, and they'd got as far as a plywood mockup of the cockpit (more or less). At the time of cancellation Concorde had 74 orders lined up.

Re: Totally agree about WTFapp

I have a Vodafone Spain SIM and a GiffGaff UK one. When in Spain it costs roughly twice as much to send a text to a Spanish mobile - even another Vodafone - using the Spanish SIM than it does using the UK SIM.

Re: Welcome to Toyland!

It would appear to me that on the contrary, there's been a large cultural shift in MS's engineering since BG took his hand off the tiller. Whereas BG famously argued against code modularity:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/06/ams_goes_windows_for_warships/

by the time of IIS 7, MS were trumpeting that very same modularity and replace-ability that Gates had argued against:

http://www.iis.net/overview/choice/modularandextensiblewebserver

Similarly you just have to look at the download size of the browser testing VMs that MS have made available to realise that they have put a lot of effort into modularising the OS.

Gates's point of course is that there's no *commercial* value in allowing other companies to release components that can replace your software - quite the opposite in fact.