I admit, my reply was particularly dickish. I'm sorry, desertrat_it if it offended you in any way.
I certainly see your point, having two kids of my own. Personally I'm inclined to expose them to more of this kind of thing than their mother, within reason, knowing they will be exposed to it otherwise. The trouble comes with being able to agree on what's "within reason"!
I am currently involved in a project that involves parsing text from thousands of pages written by different people. And it's a horrendous task. Even though the pages are somewhat standardized, there are variants of wording, variants of spelling, typographical errors (those are particularly bad to deal with), etc.
Trying to create bug-free methods for parsing those into their constituent parts is a difficult job indeed.
I'm not sure if I see typographical errors in the input as being bugs in the parsing code, any more than a car ramming into a brick wall and damaging it is a fault of the wall. Both can be perfectly sound and still fail to account for all potential circumstances.
Don't get me started on the last century traffic lights on timers and no trigger sensors of any kind in sight even at the pedestrian crossings. Christmas lights I like to call them. The amount of petrol they must waste stopping scores of cars for no reason must be mind-boggling.
If they make driving too convenient, then people will drive more often and farther away, which would consume even more petrol than idling at a traffic light occasionally.
Not necessarily, credentials are often stored in plain text but in restricted access files. The Debian MySQL admin password, for example, is stored plain-text in/etc/mysql/debian.cnf
This might be of some interest as well:
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
What exactly is the point of creating something "useful"? How do you define that? Something that makes someone's life a bit easier, so they have more time for entertainment pursuits?
Seems to me in the end it's the same thing. Minecraft creations can also be shared for others enjoyment. You obviously appreciate movies and books, which are created with effort for the goal of entertainment.
But ultimately, what's the point in _anything_?
Here in Canada a dry loop DSL line is about $10 extra per month, which the CLECs justify as a price differential for a lost POTS customer.
VOIP generally has monthly additional charges - for 9-1-1 service, DID tn, etc.
Case in point: the telecom company I work for has an "unlimited" product offering - that's capped at 2000 minutes/month. According to marketing, "unlimited" means you're not limited to any time of day or day of the week.
I work for another tech company in the area, and I've found the ex-RIM employees hired here to be generally bitter and filled with a sense of entitlement. I don't know if many of them will be able to cope post-BlackBerry.
I don't think so, the suggestion is there's a single tuppence and lots of farthings. To ignore the greater wealth in smaller denominations to go after the "big prize" is foolish.
Actually RMS has said that development of the Hurd stalled largely because of the introduction of Linux, but that there was enough work already put in to it that that they didn't want to cancel it altogether.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html
That's what they say about all the landline ILECs as well, but luckily there are enough CLECs who disagree and provide choice in the marketplace, driving costs down. Of course phone service is still over-priced in North America, because of the influence of the gorillas.
Calling small, competing companies "bit players" is a bit disdainful.
My daughter, now 10, has had a gmail account for a few years which she uses to correspond to friends and family. About 6 months ago she got locked out of her account because she started creating a Google+ profile (it prompted her to do it), and put in her real birthday.
I didn't want her to lose all her correspondence, so went through the painful process of having the account put under my name (and having to verify my birth date).
Google's done a lot of things I don't like, but their services tend to be better than the alternatives.
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I admit, my reply was particularly dickish. I'm sorry, desertrat_it if it offended you in any way. I certainly see your point, having two kids of my own. Personally I'm inclined to expose them to more of this kind of thing than their mother, within reason, knowing they will be exposed to it otherwise. The trouble comes with being able to agree on what's "within reason"!
That's it, then. Your son is scarred for life. Better start saving up for counseling now!
But hey, if you were hardware a computer at a office supply, well, you've got more dollars than sense.
I'll have to take your word for it...
I am currently involved in a project that involves parsing text from thousands of pages written by different people. And it's a horrendous task. Even though the pages are somewhat standardized, there are variants of wording, variants of spelling, typographical errors (those are particularly bad to deal with), etc.
Trying to create bug-free methods for parsing those into their constituent parts is a difficult job indeed.
I'm not sure if I see typographical errors in the input as being bugs in the parsing code, any more than a car ramming into a brick wall and damaging it is a fault of the wall. Both can be perfectly sound and still fail to account for all potential circumstances.
Don't get me started on the last century traffic lights on timers and no trigger sensors of any kind in sight even at the pedestrian crossings. Christmas lights I like to call them. The amount of petrol they must waste stopping scores of cars for no reason must be mind-boggling.
If they make driving too convenient, then people will drive more often and farther away, which would consume even more petrol than idling at a traffic light occasionally.
Not necessarily, credentials are often stored in plain text but in restricted access files. The Debian MySQL admin password, for example, is stored plain-text in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
This might be of some interest as well:
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
That's why you should implement authentication/authorization first.
Aqualung is a player that will import and sort by tag, but the interface is a bit non-standard.
I used ReiserFS. It sucked.
What exactly is the point of creating something "useful"? How do you define that? Something that makes someone's life a bit easier, so they have more time for entertainment pursuits? Seems to me in the end it's the same thing. Minecraft creations can also be shared for others enjoyment. You obviously appreciate movies and books, which are created with effort for the goal of entertainment. But ultimately, what's the point in _anything_?
Here in Canada a dry loop DSL line is about $10 extra per month, which the CLECs justify as a price differential for a lost POTS customer. VOIP generally has monthly additional charges - for 9-1-1 service, DID tn, etc.
Case in point: the telecom company I work for has an "unlimited" product offering - that's capped at 2000 minutes/month. According to marketing, "unlimited" means you're not limited to any time of day or day of the week.
Worth nothing ?
Let's see...
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Yes.
And we're worried about the TSA checking out our wives panties?
Yes, because there is never any real need to enter a casino.
On the other hand, flying is sometimes the only viable way to travel somewhere you need to go.
I work for another tech company in the area, and I've found the ex-RIM employees hired here to be generally bitter and filled with a sense of entitlement. I don't know if many of them will be able to cope post-BlackBerry.
Seems you need to be educated on an idea called tragedy of the commons.
I don't think so, the suggestion is there's a single tuppence and lots of farthings. To ignore the greater wealth in smaller denominations to go after the "big prize" is foolish.
The company where I work uses their BOSS Geo service, which costs us about $20-100 per month depending on what marketing campaigns are being done.
How do you know?
Actually RMS has said that development of the Hurd stalled largely because of the introduction of Linux, but that there was enough work already put in to it that that they didn't want to cancel it altogether.
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd-and-linux.html
Approx. $2000? Wow, that is an expensive case!
Calling small, competing companies "bit players" is a bit disdainful.
1. That space is already well populated (e.g. Skype).
One data point isn't well populated :P
There's also Dell Voice and Google Voice might be coming soon, but I imagine that Facebook is piggybacking on Vonage Mobile to beat Google.
I think there's plenty of space in the market.
My daughter, now 10, has had a gmail account for a few years which she uses to correspond to friends and family. About 6 months ago she got locked out of her account because she started creating a Google+ profile (it prompted her to do it), and put in her real birthday. I didn't want her to lose all her correspondence, so went through the painful process of having the account put under my name (and having to verify my birth date). Google's done a lot of things I don't like, but their services tend to be better than the alternatives.
I have a niece that's your typical tall blond bombshell, most popular girl in a very large school, won state sports championships, etc...
Oh really? Can I get her name and phone number?