Indeed, there are many other theories to explain the apparent rise in global temperatures over the last years. For a good read about alternatives to the widely held the-oceans-will-rise-and-the-sky-will-fall belief, see Intellicast's Climate Watch/GW
I, too, used AfterStep back when I only had an 8-bit display on my HP workstation (circa 1998). The trouble is that some of the screenshots that are still on that site are the same ones from when I switched, and the new ones don't look that different either!
I've become a blackbox user because it looks nice, is easy to use and theme and it's small. I even use blackbox for windows!
So, congrats to the AfterStep folks on the new version. Too bad it's about 4 years too late!
There are two main phases to software development: the development of requirements and the testing of the developed code. That sounds a bit like enginnering to me, how about you? If you think that it takes the most time on a project to sit down and write the code, then I can guarantee that you have never worked on a software project of any size.
Almost all of the time, the requirements I've been supplied have been incomplete, or not specific enough. It is left to the programmer to determine for instance what UI will work best for a particular user. Programmers have to understand not only what the problem is, but how to deliver the process and the results to the user. (In fact, often that delivery is much more difficult than the actual process of solving the problem.)
I take offense to small minded "engineers" who claim that because we have nothing tangible to show for our efforts, we obviously are not engineers.
There is also the added benefit of being able to easily log the entire conversation for reference later, so there's no need to take notes on a verbal conversation.
You're right. This study alone does not prove anything. However, trying to draw out trends that would lead to that conclusion that could be verified through further study is valuable. Taking your arguement to an extreme no one would ever study anything because a single data point on anything would be useless.
Perhaps it would be better to say that there is preliminary evidence that seems to show that open code has fewer bugs.
I believe that code bugs are much more a function of programmer performance and code complexity than open vs. close source development model
Open Source projects have access to many more developers which leads to there being a much larger body of knowledge and skill to bring to bear on a project. The more eyes that look at the code the better the code will become.
Regardless of matters of law, which I can't really speak to (standard/. disclaimer), I believe, in effect, the changes would be made worldwide because of the sheer cost to Our Favorite Company (tm) to have to maintain two versions of Windows. They would choose for everybody to have the same version because of their bottom line.
I don't think the EU would take kindly to for instance M$ selling a crippled version of Windows in Europe for example either.
That arguement doesn't *prove* that it's impossible, because that arguement hinges on there being a long series of only S and Z pieces. The only way you could prove that that issue would always cause a loss is if you could prove that an impossible to place series _necessarily must_ occur. Unfortunately, because the piece order is by definition random, you can only say that it is very likely that an impossible to place piece order would occur eventually, not that it must occurr. Therefore, a perfect game of Tetris could be played (based on this problem alone; there may be others), but success is not entirely based on the skill of the player!
That's a very interesting result to say the least! Well I guess it's interesting if you're a math geek like myself at least......
Ben
They didn't SOLVE it...
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There's a difference between being able to play well and solve the game. If you read the article, the machine was able to complete about 600 rows per game. (Which is pretty damn impressive!)
I'm not really sure how you'd use Tetris to prove P=NP, but it probably has something to do with making an AI that could play forever and never lose, and further be able to prove that you could never lose, which is probably even harder than making the AI!
While OOP can be one method of solving repetitive code, good design is always the best way to solve it. What I've found is *any* time you're tempted to use the cut and paste functions within code, you need to ask yourself: Is there a common function that I can factor out to make only one opportunity for errors rather than two?
You'll have more functions and the code might be a little harder to follow for the unfamiliar, but it will be much easier to debug if there is only one function that does a particular task.
You missed the reference. There's a Bill Cosby routine where he's reenacting the Biblical character Noah talking to God about the flood, and God tells him to build an ark with these dimensions in cubits, and Noah responds "Riiiiight. What's a cubit."
So is there anything stopping the Community from hacking out a free implementation of the codec under say the GPL, which would prevent having to mess with the license fees at all?
I by no means meant to deal out any "sour grapes". My criticisms were only to make the point that it's an idea that it is an idea whose time has not yet come. It's an idea that needs to be refined. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I did say that this sort of thing is the future of filesystems, didn't I? Is that sour grapes?
Having said all that, you're right. Having multiple access methods to your data is a Good Thing (tm), and I missed that application when I posted. But, this is still a paradigm shift. It's going to take a long time for people to stop thinking in folder-land and start thinking in keyword-land. Ultimately, it is how that transition is made that will determine whether or not this abstraction ends up working for users. I don't see how that transition can be made smoothly with the system that I saw. That is what I was trying to get at, albeit perhaps in an obtuse way.
I agree. Basically the only way this is different from your HFS is that it encapsulates the meta-data (that is currently in the path name) differently. I'm not sure that's any better or worse. In fact, I myself like to be able to see at a glance what all the categories of documents that I have are which is quite easy with HFS, but doesn't sound so easy here. Perhaps that's more because this is a new idea and not mature yet.
Everyone seems hot to SQL the file system, and while I think that will be the way of the future, I don't think that there is a clear view of how that works from the user's perspective yet. Remember that this is a rather large paradigm shift from what everyone is used to. It's going to take a while for this to mature to the point that Joe User is going to be able to hack it. I mean, I looked at the Save As dialog on that page, and while it looks cool it also looks counter-intuitive to me and I'm a developer! How much more will a user get confused?
All in all we're going in the right direction, but by no means are we anywhere near the goal yet.
It turns out the FBI allowed Bulger to have free reign in a lot of areas in exchange for some bits of intel here and there. Up here in Boston, it's a big deal. The FBI is taking a lot of heat from Congress especially to update how it handles informants.
The point is that the US government has some loose control over the.us domain that they don't have over ICANN which controls the other domains. I would imagine that use of the domain would not be limited to US internet users....
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Indeed, there are many other theories to explain the apparent rise in global temperatures over the last years. For a good read about alternatives to the widely held the-oceans-will-rise-and-the-sky-will-fall belief, see Intellicast's Climate Watch/GW
I, too, used AfterStep back when I only had an 8-bit display on my HP workstation (circa 1998). The trouble is that some of the screenshots that are still on that site are the same ones from when I switched, and the new ones don't look that different either!
I've become a blackbox user because it looks nice, is easy to use and theme and it's small. I even use blackbox for windows!
So, congrats to the AfterStep folks on the new version. Too bad it's about 4 years too late!
Ben
I thought there was no rule number six?!
They must know how stupid they sound if they don't want to show their faces as they say it!! :-)
Ben
Yeah, except the screen wouldn't be blue anymore after everybody throws all their food at it!
There are two main phases to software development: the development of requirements and the testing of the developed code. That sounds a bit like enginnering to me, how about you? If you think that it takes the most time on a project to sit down and write the code, then I can guarantee that you have never worked on a software project of any size.
Almost all of the time, the requirements I've been supplied have been incomplete, or not specific enough. It is left to the programmer to determine for instance what UI will work best for a particular user. Programmers have to understand not only what the problem is, but how to deliver the process and the results to the user. (In fact, often that delivery is much more difficult than the actual process of solving the problem.)
I take offense to small minded "engineers" who claim that because we have nothing tangible to show for our efforts, we obviously are not engineers.
There is also the added benefit of being able to easily log the entire conversation for reference later, so there's no need to take notes on a verbal conversation.
You're right. This study alone does not prove anything. However, trying to draw out trends that would lead to that conclusion that could be verified through further study is valuable. Taking your arguement to an extreme no one would ever study anything because a single data point on anything would be useless.
Perhaps it would be better to say that there is preliminary evidence that seems to show that open code has fewer bugs.
I believe that code bugs are much more a function of programmer performance and code complexity than open vs. close source development model
Open Source projects have access to many more developers which leads to there being a much larger body of knowledge and skill to bring to bear on a project. The more eyes that look at the code the better the code will become.
Would the following DOS command fix the problem if you don't depend on LILO or another bootloader?
/mbr
fdisk
Ben
Regardless of matters of law, which I can't really speak to (standard /. disclaimer), I believe, in effect, the changes would be made worldwide because of the sheer cost to Our Favorite Company (tm) to have to maintain two versions of Windows. They would choose for everybody to have the same version because of their bottom line.
I don't think the EU would take kindly to for instance M$ selling a crippled version of Windows in Europe for example either.
That arguement doesn't *prove* that it's impossible, because that arguement hinges on there being a long series of only S and Z pieces. The only way you could prove that that issue would always cause a loss is if you could prove that an impossible to place series _necessarily must_ occur. Unfortunately, because the piece order is by definition random, you can only say that it is very likely that an impossible to place piece order would occur eventually, not that it must occurr. Therefore, a perfect game of Tetris could be played (based on this problem alone; there may be others), but success is not entirely based on the skill of the player!
That's a very interesting result to say the least! Well I guess it's interesting if you're a math geek like myself at least......
Ben
There's a difference between being able to play well and solve the game. If you read the article, the machine was able to complete about 600 rows per game. (Which is pretty damn impressive!)
I'm not really sure how you'd use Tetris to prove P=NP, but it probably has something to do with making an AI that could play forever and never lose, and further be able to prove that you could never lose, which is probably even harder than making the AI!
While OOP can be one method of solving repetitive code, good design is always the best way to solve it. What I've found is *any* time you're tempted to use the cut and paste functions within code, you need to ask yourself: Is there a common function that I can factor out to make only one opportunity for errors rather than two?
You'll have more functions and the code might be a little harder to follow for the unfamiliar, but it will be much easier to debug if there is only one function that does a particular task.
Ben
You missed the reference. There's a Bill Cosby routine where he's reenacting the Biblical character Noah talking to God about the flood, and God tells him to build an ark with these dimensions in cubits, and Noah responds "Riiiiight. What's a cubit."
Riiiiight. What's a cubit?
So is there anything stopping the Community from hacking out a free implementation of the codec under say the GPL, which would prevent having to mess with the license fees at all?
Ben
Your criticisms are sour grapes.
I by no means meant to deal out any "sour grapes". My criticisms were only to make the point that it's an idea that it is an idea whose time has not yet come. It's an idea that needs to be refined. Perhaps I wasn't clear. I did say that this sort of thing is the future of filesystems, didn't I? Is that sour grapes?
Having said all that, you're right. Having multiple access methods to your data is a Good Thing (tm), and I missed that application when I posted. But, this is still a paradigm shift. It's going to take a long time for people to stop thinking in folder-land and start thinking in keyword-land. Ultimately, it is how that transition is made that will determine whether or not this abstraction ends up working for users. I don't see how that transition can be made smoothly with the system that I saw. That is what I was trying to get at, albeit perhaps in an obtuse way.
Ben
I agree. Basically the only way this is different from your HFS is that it encapsulates the meta-data (that is currently in the path name) differently. I'm not sure that's any better or worse. In fact, I myself like to be able to see at a glance what all the categories of documents that I have are which is quite easy with HFS, but doesn't sound so easy here. Perhaps that's more because this is a new idea and not mature yet.
Everyone seems hot to SQL the file system, and while I think that will be the way of the future, I don't think that there is a clear view of how that works from the user's perspective yet. Remember that this is a rather large paradigm shift from what everyone is used to. It's going to take a while for this to mature to the point that Joe User is going to be able to hack it. I mean, I looked at the Save As dialog on that page, and while it looks cool it also looks counter-intuitive to me and I'm a developer! How much more will a user get confused?
All in all we're going in the right direction, but by no means are we anywhere near the goal yet.
Ben
It turns out the FBI allowed Bulger to have free reign in a lot of areas in exchange for some bits of intel here and there. Up here in Boston, it's a big deal. The FBI is taking a lot of heat from Congress especially to update how it handles informants.
Ben
Where is the +1 Would Be Funny If It Weren't So Sad moderation???
1. Have people send you their spam and a nominal fee.
:)
2. Repeat the process you describe.
3. Profit!!!
Now if only someone would do it!
Ben
What I really want is a phone with a freaking laser on it!
Hey how about a link in English for those who are unfortunately unilingual?!?
Ben
The point is that the US government has some loose control over the .us domain that they don't have over ICANN which controls the other domains. I would imagine that use of the domain would not be limited to US internet users....
Ben
The story says that sites in this domain will be prohibited from having chat/IM, so that problem would be mitigated somewhat.
.us domain, which is government funded.
/. disclaimer applies!
The story also says that ICANN doesn't own the rights to the domain it's another company who controls the
I don't think the suing option will work, because the system is opt-in, but the standard
I know there are dorks out there looking to warp my kids, but I'm open to any ideas there are to protect my kids while I do teach them!
Ben