An exact bug description that nails the source of the problem can be so helpful to the maintainer that fixing it will be trivial, and done right away. All you have to do then is bug people in IRC:-] Extra functionality is hard to get, I agree with you.
Tor does not provide privacy, but as you say "crowd anonymity". But the crowd is not just Iran, it is the whole world. Since the problem is a blacklist scenario, Tor can still help. I doubt anyone will port scan for Tor providers, which you don't have to be anyway, or sniff traffic, that's just to costly. That being said, communication over Tor will be slow and you need some privacy layer above it. However, it'll do for some evil conspiracy fun.
"The answer is No. In slashdot, nobody reads TFA. However, it might go gaga in the near future, if it hasn't already. I wanna see that, even if it would permanently disfigure the Internets. Ka freaking bla!"
The answer is that there are so many libraries readily available, especially those for certain areas of physics. With python, this is not the case.
While Fortran is old, and I'm not a fan either (and can't program it), I was surprised when I heard a presentation about a code in Fortran. It is a high-level programming language, and aside from syntactic ugliness (like this uppercase stuff), it is as powerful as python (aside from lambda). So let them. The effort of reprogramming the huge amount of libraries will not be paid. Maybe a good python-fortran bridge can help both sides.
Something that removes the line between "installed" and "available" programs. Like you click on a file with a certain type and that program gets downloaded and displays the file.
Something like amazon where you select your apps graphically (not just a dumb list) and it should make a ka-ching sound when you are done.
The issue is that the ++ command (increment) is not necessarily atomic. Either you make it atomic (operating system or hardware), or you need some read-write concurrency strategy (a synchronisation strategy like locks).
Just imagine... you change a sentence on your companies website and get interviewed why you did it over and over again and people write pages about it.
There is already Gnome HIG (which is pretty good IMO), and KDE came up with something too in the recent years (for KDE3 at least that I know of).
You can not write a tool for the Gnome, KDE, MacOS and Windows platform just because you have a toolkit that supports the widget elements. Many more subtleties have to be considered since all the platforms have a different concept of user interaction (granted, MacOS&Gnome and Windows&KDE3 are closer together).
We recently developed a cross-platform tool* that we wanted to make very native and learned that it is probably easier to develop for each platform a native frontend program.
Just because all are use the Paper Paradigm, doesn't mean you can standardize it to one.
E.g. Just because you can use Googles Map or Chart Apis, you still don't have the real thing. It is an additional dependence.
In my opinion, the term "open-sourcing an API" should never be used, as it is not correct. It is more like releasing a specification and and maybe a free/open usage of the service.
democratic of them. Who would have thought a collection of nations creating a supranational government wouldn't infringe on the individual countries' rights?
Who would have thought a collection of nations agreeing on a law wouldn't set actions to make sure all countries are effectively implementing this law?
The EU would be toothless if the countries would be just promising things.
I don't know why you people cry so loud. This is just normal EU procedure: First the countries agree on a law, then all countries have a period of time to implement this law in their national . If they don't, they get a warning. The country is given time to respond on why it has not implemented the law (lots of reasons are possible) and opportunity to make its case. After another period, there is a fine to pay. This happens for all laws.
If you don't like that particular law, cry about the EU law, not that Sweden got "sued". It would be interesting if Sweden's EU parliamentarians voted for or against the law in the first place, and what their arguments were.
Concerning the law itself: The strongest argument against it that people will easily understand are the enormous costs.
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v-- people below will point out that Tor provides no security but group anonymity.
Also, you can run in a power-saving CPU mode.
An exact bug description that nails the source of the problem can be so helpful to the maintainer that fixing it will be trivial, and done right away. All you have to do then is bug people in IRC :-]
Extra functionality is hard to get, I agree with you.
Embargoes are effective measures to bankrupt a country. Especially if done by Europe and the US.
What for?
Tor does not provide privacy, but as you say "crowd anonymity". But the crowd is not just Iran, it is the whole world. Since the problem is a blacklist scenario, Tor can still help.
I doubt anyone will port scan for Tor providers, which you don't have to be anyway, or sniff traffic, that's just to costly.
That being said, communication over Tor will be slow and you need some privacy layer above it. However, it'll do for some evil conspiracy fun.
"The answer is No. In slashdot, nobody reads TFA. However, it might go gaga in the near future, if it hasn't already. I wanna see that, even if it would permanently disfigure the Internets. Ka freaking bla!"
afaik Windows 7 Updates works with a seperate program, not via the browser.
*cough* ;-)
The answer is that there are so many libraries readily available, especially those for certain areas of physics. With python, this is not the case.
While Fortran is old, and I'm not a fan either (and can't program it), I was surprised when I heard a presentation about a code in Fortran.
It is a high-level programming language, and aside from syntactic ugliness (like this uppercase stuff), it is as powerful as python (aside from lambda).
So let them. The effort of reprogramming the huge amount of libraries will not be paid. Maybe a good python-fortran bridge can help both sides.
With screen movies! And everything flying around!
Something that removes the line between "installed" and "available" programs. Like you click on a file with a certain type and that program gets downloaded and displays the file.
Something like amazon where you select your apps graphically (not just a dumb list) and it should make a ka-ching sound when you are done.
evince?
I mean for PDF readers you have a choice, I find these hundreds of megabytes for updating the .NET-Framework (MS Update) rich. I don't download that.
Fedora is probably the only general audience distribution that supports disk encryption and lockup security features user-friendly and out-of-the-box.
Has anyone got full disk encryption in daily use?
I'm not a programmer but why would totalVotes[candidate]++; not work?
Is it a race condition, it pulls the number adds one and puts it back, and if the system is run parallel it will drop vote added at the same time?
Because totalVotes[candidate]++ really is
totalVotes[candidate] = totalVotes[candidate] + 1
which is
temp = totalVotes[candidate];
totalVotes[candidate] = temp + 1
and with 2 threads this might look like this:
Thread1: tempA = totalVotes[candidate];
Thread1: totalVotes[candidate] = tempA + 1
Thread2: tempB = totalVotes[candidate];
Thread2: totalVotes[candidate] = tempB + 1
Or like this:
Thread1: tempA = totalVotes[candidate];
Thread2: tempB = totalVotes[candidate];
Thread1: totalVotes[candidate] = tempA + 1
Thread2: totalVotes[candidate] = tempB + 1
The issue is that the ++ command (increment) is not necessarily atomic. Either you make it atomic (operating system or hardware), or you need some read-write concurrency strategy (a synchronisation strategy like locks).
Also see Readers-writers_problem
Ah delicious ... Democracy, the system that works despite faulty humans.
Just imagine ... you change a sentence on your companies website and get interviewed why you did it over and over again and people write pages about it.
Asking for a standardization, you want to drop the only thing all desktops share? The one where the least forks exist?
Umm yeah, I mean, fork it.
We need to stop people from saying "We need to" and "Linux" in the same sentence! ... damn ...
There is already Gnome HIG (which is pretty good IMO), and KDE came up with something too in the recent years (for KDE3 at least that I know of).
You can not write a tool for the Gnome, KDE, MacOS and Windows platform just because you have a toolkit that supports the widget elements. Many more subtleties have to be considered since all the platforms have a different concept of user interaction (granted, MacOS&Gnome and Windows&KDE3 are closer together).
We recently developed a cross-platform tool* that we wanted to make very native and learned that it is probably easier to develop for each platform a native frontend program.
Just because all are use the Paper Paradigm, doesn't mean you can standardize it to one.
* http://jakeapp.com/
The Gathering Place?
There will be lolcats all over the place, I promise! ;-)
Please mod parent up.
E.g. Just because you can use Googles Map or Chart Apis, you still don't have the real thing. It is an additional dependence.
In my opinion, the term "open-sourcing an API" should never be used, as it is not correct. It is more like releasing a specification and and maybe a free/open usage of the service.
Nice loop unrolling! Does that make it go faster?
democratic of them. Who would have thought a collection of nations creating a supranational government wouldn't infringe on the individual countries' rights?
Who would have thought a collection of nations agreeing on a law wouldn't set actions to make sure all countries are effectively implementing this law?
The EU would be toothless if the countries would be just promising things.
I don't know why you people cry so loud. This is just normal EU procedure: First the countries agree on a law, then all countries have a period of time to implement this law in their national .
If they don't, they get a warning.
The country is given time to respond on why it has not implemented the law (lots of reasons are possible) and opportunity to make its case.
After another period, there is a fine to pay.
This happens for all laws.
If you don't like that particular law, cry about the EU law, not that Sweden got "sued".
It would be interesting if Sweden's EU parliamentarians voted for or against the law in the first place, and what their arguments were.
Concerning the law itself: The strongest argument against it that people will easily understand are the enormous costs.