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You have a good point, and you sound stuck at the same time under your manager's hand. Perhaps you aren't negotiating right, or at all, with your manager(s). I read an article recently on freshmeat that helps with this. You may want to checkout: http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/05/20/958881540.htm l. Maybe this article will help you find a way to keep your job and even make more.
Well, we only get so many characters in the title. I already had to use a C operator to replace three English words. I was a little squeezed for space.
I didn't mean 'too far' as in 'too long', I mean, even though you would lose readers by making the title a little weaker, I think it wouldn't sound as if you had made a big conclusion about open source software being not secure. But, I admit, it was a really good catch phrase, and I probably wouldn't have read the article if it was something like: Severe bug in Open-Sourced PGP.
Not that I want to bash on the topic, but I think that, "Open-Source != Security; PGP Provides Example" is going a little too far. The linked page says, "Chances are very high that you have no problem. So, don't panic." It says that this only effects the "PGP 5.0i code base". Is the topic supposed to scare everybody out of their shoes to rethink open-source software? I believe that this topic is going a little too far considering that this software probably isn't being looked over by too many people anyways. Oh please, Slashdot, don't turn into ZDnet!
Very true! I wish more people would realize this. I think some people see C++ as they saw it back in the 1990's. I wouldn't be surprised if the next version had garbage collection.
Why does it matter if windows is open source? It still would cost money. Then the license would probably be tightened to make it even more restrictive... And MS would lose all the security they have now through obscurity... It would probably be a mess for a while. Plain open source doesn't give us our freedom, while something like the gpl does. While it may be a step, I don't think it will do any good at all. Can someone tell me why people are dying to have this happen?
You need to take into consideration that the prices of things in Japan are much more than they are in the USA. If you have ever read a tourist guide, they sometimes suggest that you take belongings with you (like medicine), because they cost more there. So this doesn't really sound that high considering that. But, of course they are old games....
Or maybe the government just uses this place and makes it all secret when actually all our tax dollars are going here so employees can play solitare on state-of-the-art computers.
C doesn't naturally support classes and inheritance. I am saying that it is pointless to try to recreate the features that c++ has by adding in extra bloat to emulate and object oriented framework. I see it as trying to re-create something and being doomed either because they don't understand oop or because they can't do it fully with c--yet I have never used gtk+ (but i use gtk--) so i can't say it that is actually the truth. I don't know much about run-time and compile-time based object systems, but I don't really see how this can make anything better or worse for the situation I described above. I know c++ can use a dynamic_cast<> (and other things) to convert types at runtime, but I don't see that as an essential part of a widget set--yet, again I really don't know enough to argue that.
I don't see why you would write a object toolkit in c... C++ is or very soon will be as portable as C (I use g++ and _it_ seems to be a portable ANSI compliant compiler). Also, c++ is written with objects/types in mind, c is a procedural language. Because gnome is the network 'object' enviroment, it would seem to their advantage to use an object oriented language like c++. At this point, i don't see java being used because it would probably have to be compiled because i don't think it would work out to have a thing like this running in a virtual machine. also with classes and inheritance, it would be really flexable and expandable if gtk was written in c++ instead of having to use gtk-- for a wrapper. as you said, it is a gtk issue but it would be helped a lot if gnome was in c++. i wished Miguel hadn't dodged this point.
The C++ standard template library provides an auto_ptr (auto garbage managaing pointer) for things like this. In C++, I can't remember the last time I actually used 'new' for anything because I love using the STL for everything. It truly takes away the worry of using pointers for me. With constructors and destructors, it is also convienient to use pointers if you have to, and you don't have to worry about errors inbetween.
I disagree with your idea on themes. mozilla is very themeable but it is an individual. When I want to theme programs, I first give Enlightenment a theme, then GTK, then, XMMS, then gkrellm, eterm, and now even mozilla. I know this is because it has to be ported, but I'm saying that I wish it would behave like other GTK program so I could give one theme and it would cooperate with me so theme writers don't have to port their themes twenty times after they change something. this is just my opinion and i don't know much about how mozilla themes, it just seems like an individual to me -- I would like it to behave with the group.
i was just writing the program for fun. It would do about 5000 primes in less than 10 seconds but when i decided to jump to 7000, I got some error, so i used a vector of a biginteger class rather than unsigned ints. if i thought i had a change at finding an exception, then i would have done it differently. however, i don't think i would have been able to use the bitshifting method because i was using a std::vector. thanks for the idea.
$ ps aux ... timmy 16418 88.1 37.3 132764 95888 pts/7 R 21:47 3:30./goldbach
Don't bother to find a counter-example
You ruined my plans!
timmy:~/prgm/goldbach/src$./goldbach Enter the number of prime numbers you need: 7000 Creating a vector with 7000 primes... Getting all possible even numbers... Sorting... Removing duplicate even numbers... Printing first missing number. Note: not correct if not enough primes found. 140792
that means i know that two primes can be added to get all the even numbers below 140792! almost there! but when my stupid program takes up ~40% of my ram using only 7000 primes, i got a real problem.
In windows, Delphi and C++ Builder have something called the VCL or visual component library. This is equivalent to something like GTK+ (but without theme ability). It is very easy to use. As a downside to some, it is written in pascal so C++ programmers may feel limited. Kylix is the VCL port and there are some other basic libraries like the AnsiString (a simpler std::string that feels like pascal). It looks like it will be a bridge between windows and linux programming for developers using borland/inprise compilers.
I don't see the FSF and RMS as being religious leaders in the patent area. But that is what they seem to focus on. I think that the FSF's job is to make free software that helps the planet but I don't think that they should be telling amazon how to run a business and what they should be doing about business practices and patents. I think that we should worry about ourselves and our software and let companies like amazon do what they want---if someone opposes their practices, they should legally settle it by fixing the government and not by trying to boycott the company. Does anyone agree with me or am I the only person that doesn't know what the FSF's true purpose is?
I would think with all the flaws that we have heard about dvd and all the resources that sony has---sony should create their own type of cd media. atleast i would think that that would be better than trying to fix a flawed (well, in a few ways i guess) product. I remember a slashdot story on some other cd that sounded really cool. I think it would be better if sony had gone with this; they could optimise it for video games...oh it would be so much cleaner than hacking up something that isn't working
I don't want to flame you but I find the layout of your website is hard to read. I was wondering if you could explain to me why:
Why you refuse to use any graphics. I find that sometimes they point me to the right direction. Many languages like chinese use symbols which can help someone recognise an idea. As another example, the penguin and the tv at the top of this article make me instantly know that there is linux and tv sections. I don't have to read t-e-l-e-v-s-i-o-n, it is instant (and it wouldn't have to be translated if it was available in more than one language). I would rather wait 5 seconds for a page to load some small graphics. It also makes me want to come back more.
why you don't highlight differnet sections. you titles are smaller than the text in them so it took me longer to find what I would want if I was searching. (it took me awhile to notice that there were titles anyways).
if you have more than like 5 sections, why don't you use a contents at the top and and ^top^ button after every section
sorry if i sound like i am cutting you down, i just want to have your expert advise on these things.
I use ddd for debugging. It is a nice interface to gdb and it can display variables and classes neatly. So i use vim and ddd (and a lot of bash scripts). Its pretty nice.
It is complex but I have never seen it taught right in the first place. I taught myself C++ when I was twelve. I took APCS as a highschool freshman and the teacher didn't know how a for loop worked. I passed the AB APCS test thought because I already knew the language. Now I am taking it again because i missed the first two weeks and because i took it during my independant study. This time the teacher knows how to write a loop but she is pretty pitiful to. She has made very many errors while she was teaching and I have a very good feeling that she does not know crap about what she is talking about. She doesn't even know what to teach the fscking students for the APCS test. And I don't have a say in it so hopefully it won't be offered again because anyone that acutally knows the lanugage isn't going to be teaching!
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You have a good point, and you sound stuck at the same time under your manager's hand. Perhaps you aren't negotiating right, or at all, with your manager(s). I read an article recently on freshmeat that helps with this. You may want to checkout: http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/05/20/958881540.htm l. Maybe this article will help you find a way to keep your job and even make more.
Well, we only get so many characters in the title. I already had to use a C operator to replace three English words. I was a little squeezed for space.
;)
I didn't mean 'too far' as in 'too long', I mean, even though you would lose readers by making the title a little weaker, I think it wouldn't sound as if you had made a big conclusion about open source software being not secure. But, I admit, it was a really good catch phrase, and I probably wouldn't have read the article if it was something like: Severe bug in Open-Sourced PGP.
I don't think you have to worry about that.
You just think? Oh that sounds comforting.
Not that I want to bash on the topic, but I think that, "Open-Source != Security; PGP Provides Example" is going a little too far. The linked page says, "Chances are very high that you have no problem. So, don't panic." It says that this only effects the "PGP 5.0i code base". Is the topic supposed to scare everybody out of their shoes to rethink open-source software? I believe that this topic is going a little too far considering that this software probably isn't being looked over by too many people anyways. Oh please, Slashdot, don't turn into ZDnet!
Very true! I wish more people would realize this. I think some people see C++ as they saw it back in the 1990's. I wouldn't be surprised if the next version had garbage collection.
I wonder who will be the first person that gets a story on slashdot because they hosted a webpage off their TI-85.
umm... Does it not work to create another user name and use that?
Why does it matter if windows is open source? It still would cost money. Then the license would probably be tightened to make it even more restrictive... And MS would lose all the security they have now through obscurity... It would probably be a mess for a while. Plain open source doesn't give us our freedom, while something like the gpl does. While it may be a step, I don't think it will do any good at all. Can someone tell me why people are dying to have this happen?
You need to take into consideration that the prices of things in Japan are much more than they are in the USA. If you have ever read a tourist guide, they sometimes suggest that you take belongings with you (like medicine), because they cost more there. So this doesn't really sound that high considering that. But, of course they are old games....
Or maybe the government just uses this place and makes it all secret when actually all our tax dollars are going here so employees can play solitare on state-of-the-art computers.
So i get to sue you everytime someone posts about hotgrits and hurts my feelings?
C doesn't naturally support classes and inheritance. I am saying that it is pointless to try to recreate the features that c++ has by adding in extra bloat to emulate and object oriented framework. I see it as trying to re-create something and being doomed either because they don't understand oop or because they can't do it fully with c--yet I have never used gtk+ (but i use gtk--) so i can't say it that is actually the truth. I don't know much about run-time and compile-time based object systems, but I don't really see how this can make anything better or worse for the situation I described above. I know c++ can use a dynamic_cast<> (and other things) to convert types at runtime, but I don't see that as an essential part of a widget set--yet, again I really don't know enough to argue that.
I don't see why you would write a object toolkit in c... C++ is or very soon will be as portable as C (I use g++ and _it_ seems to be a portable ANSI compliant compiler). Also, c++ is written with objects/types in mind, c is a procedural language. Because gnome is the network 'object' enviroment, it would seem to their advantage to use an object oriented language like c++. At this point, i don't see java being used because it would probably have to be compiled because i don't think it would work out to have a thing like this running in a virtual machine. also with classes and inheritance, it would be really flexable and expandable if gtk was written in c++ instead of having to use gtk-- for a wrapper. as you said, it is a gtk issue but it would be helped a lot if gnome was in c++. i wished Miguel hadn't dodged this point.
The C++ standard template library provides an auto_ptr (auto garbage managaing pointer) for things like this. In C++, I can't remember the last time I actually used 'new' for anything because I love using the STL for everything. It truly takes away the worry of using pointers for me. With constructors and destructors, it is also convienient to use pointers if you have to, and you don't have to worry about errors inbetween.
I disagree with your idea on themes. mozilla is very themeable but it is an individual. When I want to theme programs, I first give Enlightenment a theme, then GTK, then, XMMS, then gkrellm, eterm, and now even mozilla. I know this is because it has to be ported, but I'm saying that I wish it would behave like other GTK program so I could give one theme and it would cooperate with me so theme writers don't have to port their themes twenty times after they change something. this is just my opinion and i don't know much about how mozilla themes, it just seems like an individual to me -- I would like it to behave with the group.
i was just writing the program for fun. It would do about 5000 primes in less than 10 seconds but when i decided to jump to 7000, I got some error, so i used a vector of a biginteger class rather than unsigned ints. if i thought i had a change at finding an exception, then i would have done it differently. however, i don't think i would have been able to use the bitshifting method because i was using a std::vector. thanks for the idea.
$ ps aux ./goldbach
./goldbach
...
timmy 16418 88.1 37.3 132764 95888 pts/7 R 21:47 3:30
Don't bother to find a counter-example
You ruined my plans!
timmy:~/prgm/goldbach/src$
Enter the number of prime numbers you need: 7000
Creating a vector with 7000 primes...
Getting all possible even numbers...
Sorting...
Removing duplicate even numbers...
Printing first missing number. Note: not correct if not enough primes found.
140792
that means i know that two primes can be added to get all the even numbers below 140792! almost there! but when my stupid program takes up ~40% of my ram using only 7000 primes, i got a real problem.
In windows, Delphi and C++ Builder have something called the VCL or visual component library. This is equivalent to something like GTK+ (but without theme ability). It is very easy to use. As a downside to some, it is written in pascal so C++ programmers may feel limited. Kylix is the VCL port and there are some other basic libraries like the AnsiString (a simpler std::string that feels like pascal). It looks like it will be a bridge between windows and linux programming for developers using borland/inprise compilers.
I don't see the FSF and RMS as being religious leaders in the patent area. But that is what they seem to focus on. I think that the FSF's job is to make free software that helps the planet but I don't think that they should be telling amazon how to run a business and what they should be doing about business practices and patents. I think that we should worry about ourselves and our software and let companies like amazon do what they want---if someone opposes their practices, they should legally settle it by fixing the government and not by trying to boycott the company. Does anyone agree with me or am I the only person that doesn't know what the FSF's true purpose is?
the url doesn't work. this worked for me: here.
can you say 'format the hd and put linux on it'?
I am sure there is something you could do with a computer like this. I doubt there would be trojans at the hardware level.
have you seen the ff10 trailer? I think it is for ps2. I feel in love at first sight.
I would think with all the flaws that we have heard about dvd and all the resources that sony has---sony should create their own type of cd media. atleast i would think that that would be better than trying to fix a flawed (well, in a few ways i guess) product. I remember a slashdot story on some other cd that sounded really cool. I think it would be better if sony had gone with this; they could optimise it for video games...oh it would be so much cleaner than hacking up something that isn't working
sorry if i sound like i am cutting you down, i just want to have your expert advise on these things.
I use ddd for debugging. It is a nice interface to gdb and it can display variables and classes neatly. So i use vim and ddd (and a lot of bash scripts). Its pretty nice.
It is complex but I have never seen it taught right in the first place. I taught myself C++ when I was twelve. I took APCS as a highschool freshman and the teacher didn't know how a for loop worked. I passed the AB APCS test thought because I already knew the language. Now I am taking it again because i missed the first two weeks and because i took it during my independant study. This time the teacher knows how to write a loop but she is pretty pitiful to. She has made very many errors while she was teaching and I have a very good feeling that she does not know crap about what she is talking about. She doesn't even know what to teach the fscking students for the APCS test. And I don't have a say in it so hopefully it won't be offered again because anyone that acutally knows the lanugage isn't going to be teaching!