8.5/10. Hilarious, touching and fascinating. A brilliant film with a stunning central performance by Bernal.
7.5. Classic Russian ‘Great Patriotic War’ movie in which after incredible bravery our hero is given 1 week leave to go and see his mother but is held up along the way by all kinds of diversions. Its vision of war is obviously completely inauthentic and the pristine perfection of its hero starts to create [...]
2.10. Robustness Principle
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
Source:
rfc793: specification for TCP date: 1981 editor: Jon Postel url: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/rfc/rfc793.txtYesterday I went along to hear Tim Hubbard speak at the Cambridge University Pugwash Society on New economic models for biomedical R&D to address the worldwide problem of access to medicines. Tim’s an excellent presenter and this talk did a great job of explaining a complex issue to an unfamiliar audience (I remember my Continue Reading →
6/10. Well done but of rather limited interest (had made-for-tv written all over it).
As is the way with Academic Journals nearly 3 years after the original version (and two after the revised one) the Oberholzer and Strumpf study (see my summary of the p2p literature for details) is now out in the JPE.
Just like this guy when trying to do $ port selfupdate I’d get errors like:
Selfupdate failed: couldn’t open “…/var/db/dports/sources/rsync.rsync.opendarwin.org_dpupdate1/base/dp_version”: no such file or directoryThe problem is that my macports version is very old and after an rsync dp_version is now in base/config rather than just base. Furthermore because the rsync happens before [...]
8.5/10. Quite apart from its central (and provocative) ‘decline-of-hollywood’ thesis the endless supply of corruscating anecdote makes this book more than worth the price of admission. Rather than try and cull any samples from the panopoly of possibilities here is one single item which caught my eye because of its insight into the behaviour of [...]
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