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by bwarp 15y ago
That's a phone book! We've solved the problem already.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Horse shit. There is nothing wrong with telephone system or the numbering scheme or the fact that we use numbers. It's simple, doesn't require lots of technology (a analogue phone handset only has a few components in it) and it is ubiquitou
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by bwarp 15y ago
There goes my 3G bandwidth without even asking... Not a good feature if you ask me.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Even worse, they will make pointers illegal.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Does value need a standard or a measure? No. Value is a different thing to different people. Money is not required for value to exist. There should be no intellectual property. There should be fair reward for positive contributions to socie
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by bwarp 15y ago
Which is why the legal system is an utter failure. Patent trolls play the probability game which usually results in a net gain because the legal system is failing. I would say that there should be laws against this but that will result in a
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sorry doesn't make it OK to start with.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Excellent. I love the comment of yours "I'm not cashing this one either; now I want to find out how badly they want to give me this money."
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by bwarp 15y ago
I doubt IBM would have given away any engineering stories about this unless the Germans won.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Fine historical example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust Please don't downvote me - I'm not invoking Godwins Law here ;-)
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by bwarp 15y ago
> Thankfully, very few of us will be faced with these honestly life-or-death technical decisions. You'd be surprised. Check out the computer risks digest - always a sign of how pear shaped stuff can go: http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
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by bwarp 15y ago
It has the same advantage that any paid anti-virus has over a free one i.e. some sense that because you've paid for something it must be better. Or in plain English, no advantage at all. The irony is that Windows has had damn near perfect r
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think that's because it's an order of magnitude more complicated than Haiku. BeOS was fairly new and well designed when they started. Windows however has nearly 25 years of evolution to reproduce. ReactOS is remarkably functional consider
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by bwarp 15y ago
Driver compatibility is likely to be more important as a lot of embedded systems use proprietary and certified drivers which will never work on Linux. Not to mention, WINE is far from perfect. I'd argue that ReactOS, albeit with chunks of i
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by bwarp 15y ago
If it's a birthday, I actually manually add the birthday's next occurence to the appropriate point in the list. It helps keep the dates in mind as well!
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by bwarp 15y ago
It didn't have to work first time. People expected it to work first time and the expectation was fulfilled. Would you deliver a stinking turd first time and spend 6 months fixing it? That appears to be the way people want to work these days
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by bwarp 15y ago
Well electrical engineering turned out to be 50% software (much to my dismay) so I'd say it was right between tangible and non-tangible engineering.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I will do that some time in the next few weeks! I haven't had time to set up a blog (yet) unfortunately.
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by bwarp 15y ago
iOS is a pretty big chunk of OS X running on ARM already I understand. I think this is very unsurprising.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Sorry it is a separate issue - I should have been more clear. The original point the OP made was a bad example. Unfortunately I made a poor attempt at explaining that.
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by bwarp 15y ago
One example where "engineering" versus "agile" paid off: In 04/05, I single-handedly wrote a large Windows Mobile (.Net CF) and SOA platform for managing proof of delivery across 5000 devices which used server-push messaging over semi-persi
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by bwarp 15y ago
The art of thinking about a problem appears to be lost. What happened to getting it fast, beautiful and possible first time by thinking about it? I come from an engineering background and "right" is the only way to do it.
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by bwarp 15y ago
That's a very fair point. Thinking about it, the morality inclines for a bit after a war, then declines as another appears. Well that's my perception anyway.
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by bwarp 15y ago
I think that's a sign that you're paying too much for an iPhone.
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by bwarp 15y ago
Not every part of the government operates under the same rules as us. If they don't want someone around, they bully them to suicide or kill them (opinions are open as to what happened there). Then they run a public inquiry, ironically heade
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by bwarp 15y ago
For the person who downvoted me, have you ever lived in Slough?
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by bwarp 15y ago
Mathematically, you are correct. Practically you are not if you consider the transform source.
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by bwarp 15y ago
It makes me wonder who they'll be pardoning in 50 years time from now. Assange, Manning, David Kelly, McKinnon etc. There's no excuse to get it wrong in the first place and I'm sure for the people concerned, a pardon is probably virtually i
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by bwarp 15y ago
Note: A fourier transform is never lossless - it's an approximation (usually a fairly good one though).
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by bwarp 15y ago
ONLY law enforcement will love this. Everyone else will want to run to the hills.

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