Huh, what? It's no harder for an installer to remove registry entries than it is for either an installer or application to add them.
It most certainly is. When you have multiple applications sharing a single registry key, you can easily add-if-not-exist, but on removal, you will have to check somehow if any other application might still be using it
That is what the GP and I would call an absolute pain
Space is still the big unknown. If this "shows' anything, it seems more probable that this 'shows' that the simulations aren't complete enough yet.
If they would deduce this from actual statistical data, it would show something, but deducing this from simulation seems a a bit to trustful to the current state of science if you ask me
I even believe the features of v4 will unnecessarily complicate the language. Most problems in javascript arise when people try to mimic 'normal' OO-behaviour instead of using javascript's powerful prototype-based system as given.
Javascript is extremely useful to create large scale applications but most programmers are to much educated towards 'convetional' OO-programming to use it right.
I guess it is the same problem as with functional programming, which is often preferable above OO-programming for the server-side model layer. The mindset of the common programmer is simply not diverse enough to use a completely different approach, such as prototype-based or pure functional programming
1) Novelty themed restaurant, where you place your order by "voting".
Slightly offtopic:
In Amsterdam we used to have a bar called the "stock"-bar where the price of items was (inversely) determined in real time by the number of people ordering it.
Pretty nice idea, but people ended up drinking a lot filthy "exotic" drinks. I guess that doesn't invite people to come back...
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s!(?:^|\w*/|\.\./|\./)[^\s,@;:]*(?
Interesting?
Thats a one line regexp which does something which appears to be very very simple to do, but actually isnt.
That looks really simple? Sorry but it doesn't look to me. Perl may be a a very very powerful language, but that alone does not make it a language of choice.
For a company to choose a language, one should not only consider the power, but also the maintainability. One should not only consider how a strong programmer would perform in it, but also how a beginner can screw it up, and how a beginner can understand a powerful program.
These considerations make Perl generally a bad choice. As a simple test, download 50 perl programs at random, download 50 python programs at random, compare the quality. Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
"... this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity.
I guess accurate reckoning was no requirement to be a part of the team...
My personal favorite is Krita, which IMHO is surpasses GIMP in many ways. Full CMYK support, much more friendly user interface and better intergration with the Office suite.
As a rule, you don't copyright the exact data (i.e. the sequence of numbers representing a digital file). You copyright the actual tangible information. Attempting to abstract the law into mathematics is pointless. They are not compatible.
That's not the point. The point is that if someone downloads blocks from me to be used for copyrighted material, I cannot know what it is used for. Maybe these block also encode legal stuff. Because the same block encodes multiple files, and because a request does not state what the data is gonna be used for, I (probably) cannot be holded responsable for sharing copyrighted material.
Legal questions aside, is there some technical merit to using Sandvine instead of just blocking the packets? Is it less expensive to the ISP or something? I don't understand why they're doing it.
Blocking the packets would simply cause the client to retry. Replying with a reset packet normally causes the client to give up, thus saving more bandwidth
As a next step in the cat & mouse game, they'l probably start blocking packets in addition to the reset reply
In holland we have machines that require an "age-coin" to be inserted along with the money. The bartender gives these out for free but only to 18+. The system isn't foolproof, but I guess no system is. It's way better then camaras and waaaay cheaper.
After the bubble pop the net matured a bit. People didn't jump in thinking they will be rich, just enough to get by. The moderating approach is what saved the net echonomy. the 1990's everyone was trying to get Rich! Rich!! Rich!!!
Still I wonder how mature it really got. Todays big web companies' bussness models are all almost solely based on banner-advertisement. Surround that with huge investments, incredibly high registration and visitor numbers and you get a general feeling that when you're as big as a youtube, a digg or a slashdot, money will come easily
Some simple changes in end-user browsing behavior, could create a total fall in ad-revenues. If you ask me, the current web businesses, especially the big ones, are living on the edge, and the current bubble could burst any moment.
It's the sound of that joke going way over your head.
Your remark interests me cause as a relative new slashdot member, I noticed that one of the main things I love about the threads here is the wonderful intermixing between jokes, facts, irony, wisdom and sarcasm.
Your reasonably funny joke, gave someone else the opportunity to spread a fact he's been sitting on for years. Besides all the funny guys, there are a lot of smart people dwelling here, and I for one welcome the knowledge especially in this intermixed way.
Whenever you see animal life; thats carbon thats been sucked out of the air and concentrated in plants.
Nope. Whenever you see animal life; thats carbon thats been taken from plants and blown back in the air.
A living planet needs carbon.
True, but the carbon is already in the cycle. Thats not the problem. The only problem might be that due to us burning loads of fuel, the balance of the cycle is a bit shifted.
If a game or program requires a downloaded component it is pretty easy to make it impossible to crack. If every sold product has a large unique key and that key is stored in a database on the server then you can check if a key isn't used from different locations or in parellel.
For normal games, you wouldn't want to make an internet connection a requirement though.
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Huh, what? It's no harder for an installer to remove registry entries than it is for either an installer or application to add them.
It most certainly is. When you have multiple applications sharing a single registry key, you can easily add-if-not-exist, but on removal, you will have to check somehow if any other application might still be using it
That is what the GP and I would call an absolute pain
I wouldn't read it like that
Space is still the big unknown. If this "shows' anything, it seems more probable that this 'shows' that the simulations aren't complete enough yet.
If they would deduce this from actual statistical data, it would show something, but deducing this from simulation seems a a bit to trustful to the current state of science if you ask me
I strongly suggest Douglas Crockford's articles on Javascript. He shows some neat tricks, good style, and deep understanding.
I strongly agree.
I even believe the features of v4 will unnecessarily complicate the language. Most problems in javascript arise when people try to mimic 'normal' OO-behaviour instead of using javascript's powerful prototype-based system as given.
Javascript is extremely useful to create large scale applications but most programmers are to much educated towards 'convetional' OO-programming to use it right.
I guess it is the same problem as with functional programming, which is often preferable above OO-programming for the server-side model layer. The mindset of the common programmer is simply not diverse enough to use a completely different approach, such as prototype-based or pure functional programming
1) Novelty themed restaurant, where you place your order by "voting".
Slightly offtopic:
In Amsterdam we used to have a bar called the "stock"-bar where the price of items was (inversely) determined in real time by the number of people ordering it.
Pretty nice idea, but people ended up drinking a lot filthy "exotic" drinks. I guess that doesn't invite people to come back...
s!(?:^|\w*/|\.\./|\./)[^\s,@;:]*(? Interesting? Thats a one line regexp which does something which appears to be very very simple to do, but actually isnt.
That looks really simple? Sorry but it doesn't look to me. Perl may be a a very very powerful language, but that alone does not make it a language of choice.
For a company to choose a language, one should not only consider the power, but also the maintainability. One should not only consider how a strong programmer would perform in it, but also how a beginner can screw it up, and how a beginner can understand a powerful program.
These considerations make Perl generally a bad choice. As a simple test, download 50 perl programs at random, download 50 python programs at random, compare the quality. Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
"... this switch takes only one picosecond to change tracks. This means that in one second the switch is turning on and off about one million times. We are talking about photonic technology that has terabit per second capacity.
I guess accurate reckoning was no requirement to be a part of the team...
The're is nothing wrong with selling it. It can even be useful for people who don't have a fast internet connection.
What I don't understand is that they label the publisher to be ValuSoft
WTF is ValuSoft ??!??
Shareware shows that sometimes you can get people to pay more for free software than for pay software.
What do you mean? Shareware is not free software by any definition of free.
Can someone tell me why this is interent enabled?
From TFA: We're able to do the programming and communicate to the controllers through our laptops or Blackberries ...
Sounds pretty useful in a production environment..
silly pluri week it is...
My personal favorite is Krita, which IMHO is surpasses GIMP in many ways. Full CMYK support, much more friendly user interface and better intergration with the Office suite.
As a rule, you don't copyright the exact data (i.e. the sequence of numbers representing a digital file). You copyright the actual tangible information. Attempting to abstract the law into mathematics is pointless. They are not compatible.
That's not the point. The point is that if someone downloads blocks from me to be used for copyrighted material, I cannot know what it is used for. Maybe these block also encode legal stuff. Because the same block encodes multiple files, and because a request does not state what the data is gonna be used for, I (probably) cannot be holded responsable for sharing copyrighted material.
Legal questions aside, is there some technical merit to using Sandvine instead of just blocking the packets? Is it less expensive to the ISP or something? I don't understand why they're doing it.
Blocking the packets would simply cause the client to retry. Replying with a reset packet normally causes the client to give up, thus saving more bandwidth
As a next step in the cat & mouse game, they'l probably start blocking packets in addition to the reset reply
In holland we have machines that require an "age-coin" to be inserted along with the money. The bartender gives these out for free but only to 18+. The system isn't foolproof, but I guess no system is. It's way better then camaras and waaaay cheaper.
Silly japanese
After the bubble pop the net matured a bit. People didn't jump in thinking they will be rich, just enough to get by. The moderating approach is what saved the net echonomy. the 1990's everyone was trying to get Rich! Rich!! Rich!!!
Still I wonder how mature it really got. Todays big web companies' bussness models are all almost solely based on banner-advertisement. Surround that with huge investments, incredibly high registration and visitor numbers and you get a general feeling that when you're as big as a youtube, a digg or a slashdot, money will come easily
Some simple changes in end-user browsing behavior, could create a total fall in ad-revenues. If you ask me, the current web businesses, especially the big ones, are living on the edge, and the current bubble could burst any moment.
It's the sound of that joke going way over your head.
Your remark interests me cause as a relative new slashdot member, I noticed that one of the main things I love about the threads here is the wonderful intermixing between jokes, facts, irony, wisdom and sarcasm.
Your reasonably funny joke, gave someone else the opportunity to spread a fact he's been sitting on for years. Besides all the funny guys, there are a lot of smart people dwelling here, and I for one welcome the knowledge especially in this intermixed way.
In other words. Take it easy..
What surprises me is that there has not been any significant change in sea level even though the sea level rose about 130m since the last ice age.
I thought flooding was one of the major dangers of global warning. Where did the ice go?
Ghostscript can do the conversion from the console.
You can write a simple shell script to convert all files.
s/go!/global/g
the g switch ensures all occurrences are replaces instead of the first of each line
Nope. Whenever you see animal life; thats carbon thats been taken from plants and blown back in the air.
A living planet needs carbon.True, but the carbon is already in the cycle. Thats not the problem. The only problem might be that due to us burning loads of fuel, the balance of the cycle is a bit shifted.
Not everyone can afford a 56k6, you rich, insensitive clod!
If a game or program requires a downloaded component it is pretty easy to make it impossible to crack. If every sold product has a large unique key and that key is stored in a database on the server then you can check if a key isn't used from different locations or in parellel.
For normal games, you wouldn't want to make an internet connection a requirement though.
Water, especially sea water is an excellent conductor...
The iPhone has bluetooth which can only be used for connecting to iTunes or to an Apple headphone
It cannot be used with an external keyboard