Don't need to - most lawyers (at least around here) will work for free on the assumption that they'll get their fees when they win. Only works for 'easy' cases though (that's why there are so many compensation lawyers unfortunately).
There's also the government scheme where they'll pay for it for you.. again if you have a reasonable case it needn't cost you a penny.
No reason for money problems to keep you from justice.
Works on everywhere where the same version of Java is and there are no apps that don't require a conflicting version.
I worked at a place that dumped java because of that.. we needed 1.2 , some clients had other 1.2 apps that was fine.. then some clients got 1.4 apps which blew up if the 1.2 jre was present.. so we ported a version to 1.4 for them (took a couple of months - there are a *lot* of differences)... which broke all the clients that had apps that needed the 1.2 version.. so we ended up having to support both.
Bittorrent is fine with NAT for one, maybe two machines, but on large networks won't work because you'll *never* persuade IT to port forward a different port for every machine on the network...
It would be nice if BT clients broadcast for other local clients & allowed them to connect directly.. that wouldn't need much of a change to the protocol (since BT is already p2p, except for the tracker) and would achieve the benefits the OP wanted.
I have more than 20 licenses to XP (2 concurrent MSDN subs, not to mention the ones that came with the laptops)... I'm not stealing anything.
I used to do the registration thing, until it started being randomly refused, so I gave up on it. Slipstreamed a corporate version and installed off that.
This worked fine until the 'genuine' advantage bullshit, now I have to break that too to get some of the upgrades... which slows down the already glacial windows install time quite considerably.
..becuase most of us outside AU haven't heard of Warrnambool, but we have heard of sydney.
If you read the news around here, *everything* that happens in AU happens in sydney.
The Reuters article is a particularly bad piece of journalism though.. confusing volts and amps, inserting the 'rubbing clouds' quote, and even getting the facts wrong (it was 30kv not 40kv).
They took the original article, embellished it, introduced some basic inconsistencies.....and half the newspapers in the world will do the same to the reuters article tomorrow:(
I've come up with many sorting algorithms over the years.. sometimes I was just bored and wanted to play with an idea. Some of them sucked.. some of them were really good (IMO). Never gave them names, although I'm not stupid enough to believe they hadn't been thought of independently by others.. maybe they used maths to do it (although moving groups objects around a in list isn't inherently mathematical)
The most important thing I learned? Don't let your data get out of order in the first place..
I've never seen a math teacher that didn't just read the textbook out loud, let alone 'wing it'... one of the things that put me off maths was that it was all rote learning.. no imagination - I'm an essentially creative person and it seems to me that something with all the answers in a big book isn't very creative.
I'm software development manager, and I didn't get there by not knowing how to program. I've also lost count of the number of libraries I've written. When I first start there *was* no code that other people had written - no internet to get it... you always wrote from scratch.
None (well, very little) of this needed maths.
Algorithms are *not* maths. Why should they be? Anyone can derive something like a bubble sort from first principles without the use of a calculator. A binary search is intuitively obvious - people do something like it all the time in things like interviews (the game of 20 questions as it's known). I could go on... OTOH it's rare to actually work at that level these days - the STL, Java libs, etc. provide all the primitives then you just build on top of them.. there's nothing wrong with this - going back to the days when everything was written was scratch just aint fun.
Well of course if you're doing 3d transormations you're essentially doing matrix multiplication all day... personally I'd hate that which is why I don't do it... never understooed matrixes.
OTOH I'm not a game programmer that would need that - the closest I've ever come was a least cost calculator for a large project a couple of years ago, in which (99% of it was just knowing pythagoras (distance between two points, basically.. think of it like a triangle and it becomes easy).
Had a collegue who wanted to translate E/N to Lat/Lon at one point.. that had the potential to become very maths heavy, since you're mapping a flat coordinate system onto a sphere (and we had nobody that could do that).. google came to the rescue, but the poor guy had to read this mess of greek symbols and squiggles and turn it into a program... it worked too.. until we just replaced it with a lookup table a month later!
The point is the programming itself needs no maths - occasionally the problem you're solving might, but that's what google is for.. the assertion that you need to be a maths guru to know programming might have had some truth in the 70's but hasn't been remotely true for some time.
What's so transendental about that? Was I supposed to medidate for 6 hours before doing the division?
My take on trig isn't that it's hard (it is, after all, just division), but that it's pretty damned useless unless you're into stacking triangles in odd configurations...
That's an old idea, largely discredited... from the days when the math teachers where the computer science teachers.
Programming isn't maths.. maybe simple algebra, but it's a lot more about creativity and logically solving problems. I've been programming professionally now for 15 years and never needed more than rudimentary maths knowledge - nor can I imagine any situation when I would actually need it.
Algorithms are worth learning, but algorithms aint maths either.. they're just the 'known best' way to solve problems.
All the passwords are stored/transmitted as hashes.
Switching to SHA1 hashes only will break compatibility with everything earlier than XP.. which is probably what MS really want - force everyone to upgrade.
There's already a crack for AES.. check the archives.
Any encryption will be broken given enough time... for most people it really isn't an issue - for example your browser communication only needs to be 'secure' for about 10 seconds to do a transaction.
Especially over VPNs where kerberos is problematic (since MS kerberos has no kinit you can't connect to multiple kerberos domains) NTLMv2 is pretty much the only usable protocol.
If they're mandating kerberos only they pretty much lock vista out of remote usage and make it LAN only.
Paper? When there's a perfectly good computer on the desk?
Fire up notepad, or even word (assuming a Windows box) and do it there.. or forget that and just prototype it - I find it a lot more efficient to write a version, junk it then write the real version (sometimes I'll write 4 or 5 versions before deciding on a solution) - since it's difficult to do the more complex cases on paper.
It took me *ages* to get my ipod up to 13GB.. and that's at 320kbps. I now have all the music I've ever listened to and liked... and 47GB of empty space.
4GB is plenty for most I expect.
Of course when they add video to the ipod all that space will start to get used.
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Maybe in the US...
No software patents in the rest of the world.
Don't need to - most lawyers (at least around here) will work for free on the assumption that they'll get their fees when they win. Only works for 'easy' cases though (that's why there are so many compensation lawyers unfortunately).
There's also the government scheme where they'll pay for it for you.. again if you have a reasonable case it needn't cost you a penny.
No reason for money problems to keep you from justice.
Needs more qualification.
Works on everywhere where the same version of Java is and there are no apps that don't require a conflicting version.
I worked at a place that dumped java because of that.. we needed 1.2 , some clients had other 1.2 apps that was fine.. then some clients got 1.4 apps which blew up if the 1.2 jre was present.. so we ported a version to 1.4 for them (took a couple of months - there are a *lot* of differences)... which broke all the clients that had apps that needed the 1.2 version.. so we ended up having to support both.
Bittorrent is fine with NAT for one, maybe two machines, but on large networks won't work because you'll *never* persuade IT to port forward a different port for every machine on the network...
It would be nice if BT clients broadcast for other local clients & allowed them to connect directly.. that wouldn't need much of a change to the protocol (since BT is already p2p, except for the tracker) and would achieve the benefits the OP wanted.
I have more than 20 licenses to XP (2 concurrent MSDN subs, not to mention the ones that came with the laptops)... I'm not stealing anything.
I used to do the registration thing, until it started being randomly refused, so I gave up on it. Slipstreamed a corporate version and installed off that.
This worked fine until the 'genuine' advantage bullshit, now I have to break that too to get some of the upgrades... which slows down the already glacial windows install time quite considerably.
..becuase most of us outside AU haven't heard of Warrnambool, but we have heard of sydney.
If you read the news around here, *everything* that happens in AU happens in sydney.
The Reuters article is a particularly bad piece of journalism though.. confusing volts and amps, inserting the 'rubbing clouds' quote, and even getting the facts wrong (it was 30kv not 40kv).
The original article has 30kv too.
It looks like Reuters didn't think that was high enough, so added a fudge factor...
By tomorrow all the newspapers will have it up to a couple of hundred kv I bet...
They took the original article, embellished it, introduced some basic inconsistencies... ..and half the newspapers in the world will do the same to the reuters article tomorrow :(
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original: http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2005/09/16/11
The Original article is much clearer. They called an electrician.
Reuters just made some shit up and made the story look even more like bullshit than it already was.
Note that this is a Reuters embellishment.
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The original story:
http://the.standard.net.au/articles/2005/09/16/11
Did not confuse current and voltage.
It still sounds like bullshit though.
Maybe not..
I've come up with many sorting algorithms over the years.. sometimes I was just bored and wanted to play with an idea. Some of them sucked.. some of them were really good (IMO). Never gave them names, although I'm not stupid enough to believe they hadn't been thought of independently by others.. maybe they used maths to do it (although moving groups objects around a in list isn't inherently mathematical)
The most important thing I learned? Don't let your data get out of order in the first place..
I've never seen a math teacher that didn't just read the textbook out loud, let alone 'wing it'... one of the things that put me off maths was that it was all rote learning.. no imagination - I'm an essentially creative person and it seems to me that something with all the answers in a big book isn't very creative.
I'm software development manager, and I didn't get there by not knowing how to program. I've also lost count of the number of libraries I've written. When I first start there *was* no code that other people had written - no internet to get it... you always wrote from scratch.
None (well, very little) of this needed maths.
Algorithms are *not* maths. Why should they be? Anyone can derive something like a bubble sort from first principles without the use of a calculator. A binary search is intuitively obvious - people do something like it all the time in things like interviews (the game of 20 questions as it's known). I could go on... OTOH it's rare to actually work at that level these days - the STL, Java libs, etc. provide all the primitives then you just build on top of them.. there's nothing wrong with this - going back to the days when everything was written was scratch just aint fun.
Well of course if you're doing 3d transormations you're essentially doing matrix multiplication all day... personally I'd hate that which is why I don't do it... never understooed matrixes.
OTOH I'm not a game programmer that would need that - the closest I've ever come was a least cost calculator for a large project a couple of years ago, in which (99% of it was just knowing pythagoras (distance between two points, basically.. think of it like a triangle and it becomes easy).
Had a collegue who wanted to translate E/N to Lat/Lon at one point.. that had the potential to become very maths heavy, since you're mapping a flat coordinate system onto a sphere (and we had nobody that could do that).. google came to the rescue, but the poor guy had to read this mess of greek symbols and squiggles and turn it into a program... it worked too.. until we just replaced it with a lookup table a month later!
The point is the programming itself needs no maths - occasionally the problem you're solving might, but that's what google is for.. the assertion that you need to be a maths guru to know programming might have had some truth in the 70's but hasn't been remotely true for some time.
As a child I thought it was a real place in Japan...
Not a maths guru so no idea what that means.
Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
What's so transendental about that? Was I supposed to medidate for 6 hours before doing the division?
My take on trig isn't that it's hard (it is, after all, just division), but that it's pretty damned useless unless you're into stacking triangles in odd configurations...
I'm the same.. did integration, trig, calc at school, never used it since... went into computers instead which is all I was ever good at.
Most of these things seem to be just there to torture students - we don't all want to become theoretical phyisicists!
That's an old idea, largely discredited... from the days when the math teachers where the computer science teachers.
Programming isn't maths.. maybe simple algebra, but it's a lot more about creativity and logically solving problems. I've been programming professionally now for 15 years and never needed more than rudimentary maths knowledge - nor can I imagine any situation when I would actually need it.
Algorithms are worth learning, but algorithms aint maths either.. they're just the 'known best' way to solve problems.
Presumably not.
The opportunity to break compatibility with all 3rd party browsers? MS will jump at the chance.
I'm guessing it'll be kerberos auth only.
All the passwords are stored/transmitted as hashes.
Switching to SHA1 hashes only will break compatibility with everything earlier than XP.. which is probably what MS really want - force everyone to upgrade.
There's already a crack for AES.. check the archives.
Any encryption will be broken given enough time... for most people it really isn't an issue - for example your browser communication only needs to be 'secure' for about 10 seconds to do a transaction.
Especially over VPNs where kerberos is problematic (since MS kerberos has no kinit you can't connect to multiple kerberos domains) NTLMv2 is pretty much the only usable protocol.
If they're mandating kerberos only they pretty much lock vista out of remote usage and make it LAN only.
Paper? When there's a perfectly good computer on the desk?
Fire up notepad, or even word (assuming a Windows box) and do it there.. or forget that and just prototype it - I find it a lot more efficient to write a version, junk it then write the real version (sometimes I'll write 4 or 5 versions before deciding on a solution) - since it's difficult to do the more complex cases on paper.
When I looked there were a lot of 'mailbox full' and underliverable notices marked as spam too.
I think the spma detection needs work...
It took me *ages* to get my ipod up to 13GB.. and that's at 320kbps. I now have all the music I've ever listened to and liked... and 47GB of empty space.
4GB is plenty for most I expect.
Of course when they add video to the ipod all that space will start to get used.