The belongings of the deceased become part of the estate. The estate, with a lack of a will, can go either to the 'state' or to the next of kin (depending where you live). The 'state' usually takes its taxes and give the rest to the next of kin. This means that the laptop and accounts now belong to the family (barring the EULA on myspace and google which, correct me if I'm wrong, state that the ownership resides with them). This means that you are cracking a laptop for an OWNER that no longer has a password (forgotten it, so to speak). There is no ethical issue here.
"Also, every instance of a "{" on its own line (presumably to line up vertically with the corresponding "}"), is an antiquated waste of space, since any decent programmer's editor or integrated development environment (IDE) can do brace matching automatically. "
Thats personal taste and has no place in a book review. Remember that you are not the one reading your own code all the time. Clarity helps other programmers understand what you are doing and curly brackets on their own lines helps immensely.
gregor
Selling those 8 bit Commodores, "back in the day", the educational software market was huge...MAvis Beacon, Carmen Sandiego. Most adults bought the machine for their kids and the first software purchase was for education...then games. It wasn't until the later 8 bit years nearing the 16 bit years that games took off bigger than educational software.
When I was in Japan I noticed quite a few companies selling white ear-pods in Akahabara. The iPod is such a fad item that people that have other devices will buy the white ear-pods to make it LOOK like they have an iPod.
There are quite a few compilers out there for embedded CPU's and DSP's that are still in the stone age. In embedded programming it is not safe to assume that a compiler will contain any optimization and to write C code that is known to produce faster assembly code.
Thats just a fact of life for people in the trenches.
I suspect that for OS level compilers (GCC, VS) that the opposite is true and you could assume a decent level of optimization is available.
My wife and I did the same thing about 6 months ago.
For a media centre we kept our VCR, and bought a Mac Mini for playing DVD's and ripped all of our audio on it. As a side benifit it also doubles as our webserver and email server.
"I know my Linux desktop (several, actually) has served well enough for "corporate use" for the past several years."
I don't think that you classify as a 'regular' corporate user though. Most users don't want to learn all the stuff you did so that they can use Linux, most users want it simple, very very very simple.
1. you and your equipment will find the heat incredible 2. power is unrealiable at best, brownouts and black outs are common and will last from 5 minutes to 5 hours 3. watch your stuff! You are in an extremely poor country and will be viewed as quite rich. Many people will have no problem helping themselves to your 'wealth'. (of course thats true everywhere, but there are WAY more poor people in Africa). 4. DO NOT sit in an office all day, every day, get out, see the country and/or continent. Africa and it people are amazing. 5. Remember, people here are from a different culture, watch what you say and do until you know better.
He is right! When Linux gets even headed and even handed people at the helm across the board, things will move in a direction more positive to the masses.
This happened to my sister. Between the hours involved, and the fights to see who get on the computer, she got so pissed off she just cancelled the internet. Her family was more important than the convenience of having internet at home.
Sure, there was resentment at first, but in the cousr of a month, the whole family is back to normal.
Slashdot Mirror
is not open source. Any english language speaker should be able to get that.
...but...
The belongings of the deceased become part of the estate. The estate, with a lack of a will, can go either to the 'state' or to the next of kin (depending where you live). The 'state' usually takes its taxes and give the rest to the next of kin. This means that the laptop and accounts now belong to the family (barring the EULA on myspace and google which, correct me if I'm wrong, state that the ownership resides with them). This means that you are cracking a laptop for an OWNER that no longer has a password (forgotten it, so to speak). There is no ethical issue here.
Gregor
Its OPT IN not OPT OUT people, get over it.
Worth the time and effort to fight. Not everyone can take the moral high ground and spend time on losing money. I hope they made out better than ok.
Yes, of course, way to go GPLv2
Finally someone found a way to make money off of the GPL. If only we knew how much so that we could decide if it was worth it.
Gregor
You forgot to check if you malloc was successful.
And not the fancy graphics based version either!
Gregor
Thats personal taste and has no place in a book review. Remember that you are not the one reading your own code all the time. Clarity helps other programmers understand what you are doing and curly brackets on their own lines helps immensely. gregor
Back in the day....
Selling those 8 bit Commodores, "back in the day", the educational software market was huge...MAvis Beacon, Carmen Sandiego. Most adults bought the machine for their kids and the first software purchase was for education...then games. It wasn't until the later 8 bit years nearing the 16 bit years that games took off bigger than educational software.
Gregor
Any body that is dual booting will also know that making a partition formatted fat32 will allow copying of files between os's.
When I was in Japan I noticed quite a few companies selling white ear-pods in Akahabara. The iPod is such a fad item that people that have other devices will buy the white ear-pods to make it LOOK like they have an iPod.
Its all about perception in Japan.
Gregor
It's worms.
Surprisingly the bar is raising up to a point where web developers may have to think like software developers.
Thats the scary part...
Gregor
...no one will understand it anyway.
How much safer can it get?
Gregor
There are quite a few compilers out there for embedded CPU's and DSP's that are still in the stone age. In embedded programming it is not safe to assume that a compiler will contain any optimization and to write C code that is known to produce faster assembly code.
Thats just a fact of life for people in the trenches.
I suspect that for OS level compilers (GCC, VS) that the opposite is true and you could assume a decent level of optimization is available.
Gregor
My wife and I did the same thing about 6 months ago.
For a media centre we kept our VCR, and bought a Mac Mini for playing DVD's and ripped all of our audio on it. As a side benifit it also doubles as our webserver and email server.
works great and is cheap!
"I know my Linux desktop (several, actually) has served well enough for "corporate use" for the past several years."
I don't think that you classify as a 'regular' corporate user though. Most users don't want to learn all the stuff you did so that they can use Linux, most users want it simple, very very very simple.
Gregor
A few notes from my visit to Ghana:
:-)
1. you and your equipment will find the heat incredible
2. power is unrealiable at best, brownouts and black outs are common and will last from 5 minutes to 5 hours
3. watch your stuff! You are in an extremely poor country and will be viewed as quite rich. Many people will have no problem helping themselves to your 'wealth'. (of course thats true everywhere, but there are WAY more poor people in Africa).
4. DO NOT sit in an office all day, every day, get out, see the country and/or continent. Africa and it people are amazing.
5. Remember, people here are from a different culture, watch what you say and do until you know better.
That should cover the first little while
Gregor
Actually, consumers are stupid. They(we) have proven it to manufacturers and resellers over and over again. We have a short memory and lots of money.
Shocked, truely shocked. Mu BRAIN is NOT a COMPUTER.
Wow.
How about telling us something we don't know.
They must have interviewed my wife.
Does this mean we get to use the Intel compiler....and VTune? This is a true win for CPU intensive tasks, this is a great compiler.
And if they compile the OS with the Intel compiler, instead of GCC, we should see an extra speed boost that MIPS and Megahertz can't do.
He is right! When Linux gets even headed and even handed people at the helm across the board, things will move in a direction more positive to the masses.
Gregor
I get 6 hours on my ibook 14". Frankly thats way better than my Dell laptop which tops at 4 hours. And my iBook is very light.
For equivelant power and useability, iBooks are light and last longer on battery power.
Gregor
This happened to my sister. Between the hours involved, and the fights to see who get on the computer, she got so pissed off she just cancelled the internet. Her family was more important than the convenience of having internet at home.
Sure, there was resentment at first, but in the cousr of a month, the whole family is back to normal.