Not possible I am afraid. Adobe has patented something related to most of the items which make the difference between Photoshop and the competition. It is nearly impossible to get past them.
The real solution here is to license the IP and create non-free plug-ins for GIMP. As a result the GIMP will continue to develop without resources going on a Wine Photoshop abomination. This is not necessary anyway, photoshop supports enough architectures to make an X native port trivial.
It is also obscured by dust clouds so we have no direct visual observations. Frankly, I am not surprised that the number is off, it is surprising by how much.
There are other ways to "separate man from boys" which are much more efficient. Pointers, manipulation of linked lists, hashes and the like. In other words - Data representation. I have seen many people who have survived through C and ASM fail totally on this and this is what determines if you are good SE or not. If you cannot manipulate and manage your data you might as well go for an MBA.
This can be done with or without IDE. In fact the IDE hardly matters, what matters is the ability of the language to support the notion of pointer, linked list, referencing, dereferencing and typecasting. In other words things like java should be shot and sunk the moment they show up on the radar and cretins insisting that students get "practical skills" castrated before they can do more damage. There is no point for a student to get "practical skills" if he or she is not suitable for a software engineer in the first place due to being unable to manage data.
Well, as far as USA is concerned Scientology is recognised as a religion and its supposed financial and other crimes have never been proven in a court of law. Why, who, what is a different story.
There are other countries where Scientology status is very different. In these countries such level of cooperation with the Church of Scientology is bound to raise some eybrows in law enforcement.
So if you do not like this arrangement I suggest you find someone with a fluent French, German or Russian and draft a suitable letter to their equivalents of serious fraud or organised crime police divisions. Frankly, I do not envy eBay local divisions in these countries from this point onwards. They are on financial crime division hate list in most non-English speaking countries anyway, and this may end up being the proverbial pebble that will tip the proverbial cart.
While there is a grain of truth in what you say, you are being a bit unfair.
An IDE is a great helper to start coding. Once you learn how to code it is no longer a help, it is a hindrance.
For example, while I did a few bits of code for money here and there as far back as 1984, I really started to code commercially when I got my hands of Borland Turbo Pascal 4.0 and onwards. It gave me confidence and made my life as a beginner easy.
A few years later I moved to Linux, perl and Vim and never ever wanted to deal with an IDE from there onwards. Most of the stuff I do is daemons, system software, provisioning, etc so it is invoked asynchronously by clients elsewhere. I have found that using an IDE or a debugger for this is only a hindrance. You get much further by thinking what you are doing and adding good logging and tracing throughout your program. This also allows people in the field to give you meaningful bug reports.
Compared to that programs developed A-Z under an IDE and tested under a debugger are like blackboxes. They work fine on the developer machine, they go out in the field and they go belly up. At that point nobody knows what happened because there is no trace and no debug info either. If it is a daemon especially with elevated privs there is no core file as well. So all you know is it is broken. How, who what is hell to replicate.
Torrents do that anyway. That is the reason why comcast have to beat them on the head. Each segment in the download is small enough to fit its "booster" criteria.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with this approach. This means that interactive services and casual browsing are favoured vs bulk downloads. That is what every ISP wants to do anyway.
Suitable "Soviet Russian" submarine an hour earlier North East of Hawaii... Hmm... That will be verrrrrrry entertaining. This of course if we discount the fact that the sat passes over the yellow sea and Chinese land facilities a few hours earlier.
Exactly. I am still using WEP and I do not give a flying fuck about any newer security schemes.
I run a 256 bit AES OpenVPN with 2048 bit DSA keys over it. Before that I used to run IPSEC with 3DES of an RC4 PPTP tunnel. Either one works perfectly fine for most stuff you want to be secure. It is not much slower on modern systems either because things like the new Core2 laptops do the wireless crypto in software anyway.
It looks like I am not the only one. I look for a relatively big telecoms company and it has the same policy - wireless, fine, now run VPN over it.
I do not know what their patent is, but the ideas from the DOCSIS MAC layer are also used in all 802.11 standards as well as satellite modem standards. The MAP metod to mix CSMA-CD and mandatory transmit opportunities is the de-facto method for managing Layer2 QoS in all subscriber oriented tech that has hit the market for the last 10 years. There are other places where other network standards have heavily borrowed from DOCSIS.
So if their patents are anywhere close this it will get extremely entertaining...
No we have the concept of Innocent UNLESS proven guilty...
Nope. Concept has been revoked. For example teachers are currently considered automatically guilty if something happens to a pupil and so on (last amendments to the HS Act and so on). The presumption of innocence no longer exists in UK law. Thank el presidente Antonio Bliar and his various cronies for that. Actually that should be Generalissimus Josef Vissarionovich Blair.
My thought as well. If the Russians or Chinese whack it first they will make the US a total laughing stock. The narrower the window between the US launch and the RU or CN hit the better. Gawd, I can just imagine the sour faces in the Pentagon. It will really be "what a laugh" case.
Blighty legal system does not have the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" (it is really true, do not jump, ask a lawyer). None the less, it has some residual integrity checks and as with most legal systems you cannot sign-off your fundamental rights. T&C are governed by contractual law. Contractual law cannot override a fundamental right like the right not to incriminate yourself in most legislations. So the moment T&Cs go beyond T&C and become a law enforcement tool the ISPs will find themselves in a very sticky situation. Even additional UK legislation will not help here. It will be escalated straight to EU Courts and they will happily bitch slap the UK government the way they usually do on such occasions. It will be truly deserved as well.
Not for long. Josef Vissarionovich Brown and Lavretnij Pavlovich Straw will be amending the legislation shortly and the Congress of People's Deputies will vote for it in the next session based on suggestions of the Central Committee.
This more or less describes the current situation in the Union of Soviet British Republics.
I got my MP on the similar case when a man was disallowed basic chemistry refresher course for thoughtcrime and he got as far as the Home Office. At that point Lavrentij Pavlovich Straw henchmen told him to f*** off. And there is bugger all he can do and because the man is on a control order there is nothing the courts can do either.
... the damage to Best Buy's rep has already been done.
You mean, "free advertisement for Best Buy has already been done"
With the current reputation of Best Buy or PC World it is not like you can damage it any further. That will require using irrational numbers and complex math to compute it.
The new graduates are uncomfortable with: "Klingon multitasking systems do not support "time-sharing". When a Klingon program wants to run, it challenges the scheduler in hand-to-hand combat and owns the machine." They have to use java, schedulers, vm protection, etc.
On a more serious note, to do real embedded programming you need to know data representation in and out because you tend to manipulate your data directly, no band-aids allowed. Until the embedded systems will support band-aids as used in todays college it will be a profession for the myopic geeks with grey pony-tails or the ones who are way on their way to well developed pattern boldness.
1. The impulsiveness of purchases is highest in low income categories. The middle class actually counts pennies much more and the rich have someone counting for them. Example, my wife nearly choked on her dinner watching BBC News awhile ago when they reported the failure of a pyramid "christmas present purchase" scheme predominantly used by the poor. She was very sympathetic until she heard the numbers lost by most families which were in the range of 400-800 pounds. We are reasonably well off and sorry, no way in hell for us to spend that for a Christmas budget. That is more like what we will spend in several years. So after that she immediately switched to a "well deserved, serves you right" mode.
2. The worst perception of his personal finance state in the developed world is... Surprise... Surprise... Young males college to around 35. These are most likely to buy crazy stuff even if it will hurt their pocket. Next worst offenders as far "financial discipline" is concerned are women right before they hit a certain "golden" age.
Overall, the study matches very well the actual "buy based on advertisement" demographic. I do not see anything particularly detrimental to the online ad business coming out of it. It is business as usual. Move along.
On a more serious note gliding or "flying" under water as means of improving fuel efficiency and maneuvrability are not new. Research has been going on this since the 60-es. None of it has produced anything particularly spectacular.
Neat design, though there is a simpler way to do it. Put some solars on the glider, charge it on the surface, after that use the energy to compress the air used to expell the ballast tank. Sink. Reach target depth (gliding). Spew out ballast the same way a submarine does. Float up. Gliding. Sit on the surface while charging for another dive.
Trivial to do. No need for complex thermal stuff and you can probably survey half of the Pacific at a leasurely pace on one run until your batteries run out of charge cycles. This type of kit needs to float to the surface to transmit data back to base anyway, so why not do something productive in the meantime.
It is already the next step with the minor difference that approved is QoS-ed into specific class while non-approved goes into the junk category to fight for its 64K with P2P and other bottom feeders. Quite a few ISPs are doing that. A jolly good use for Ellacoya, PCube and other DPI gear.
The right question is: Why an ISP claiming to censor and filter is not transparently proxying DNS?
It is the easiest protocol to abuse. A single line NAT entry can do the trick. 99.9% of access equipment out there is capable of doing that. Just add it to the default user profile along with the mandatory web proxy/cache and other similar lines.
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Actually not true. They are being less effective at whom they kill.
As the ancient saying goes: If you steal a penny they will hang you at the dawn, if you steel a million you will become a banker.
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Whose ehics are you talking about?
The Ethics of an MBA giving IT orders, the ethics of a BOFH doing his job, the ethics of a developer?
Let's not speak of Joe Average consumer of IT as he actually has no IT Ethics, he applies his Ethical viewpoint to IT so his inclusion will only muddle up the concepts.
Each of these communities (PHB, BOFH, Developers) has their own ethical codes (or lack of). While there is a great difference between them, there are not that many differences between members of a particular caste.
At the time I said it in private conversation and I did not put it in writing. I was looking at future features that may affect the product which the company I worked for was doing at the time. So probably I would not have been allowed to comment on my findings anyway.
I was not the only one though. If you look at the discussion around the introduction of vmsplice() and the ensuing flamewar after Linux flamed COW and FreeBSD into a crisp at the time a number of people pointed out that making vmsplice() secure will be a very entertaining proposition. Anything else aside COW is a devil we know while this is a devil which is yet to show itself.
Can't give you exact pointers, but the argument was definitely raised as a part of the COW vs vmsplice() flamewar ^W discussion...
In other news a goofy red-blue character with the habit of spinning threads of various lengths has been seen roaming the streets of New York.
On a more serious note this is what many silk spinners do. They excrete silk as liquid and it becomes a wire or a sheet a few ms later. Some silk spinners manage threads which are in micrometers in diameter as well.
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Not possible I am afraid. Adobe has patented something related to most of the items which make the difference between Photoshop and the competition. It is nearly impossible to get past them.
The real solution here is to license the IP and create non-free plug-ins for GIMP. As a result the GIMP will continue to develop without resources going on a Wine Photoshop abomination. This is not necessary anyway, photoshop supports enough architectures to make an X native port trivial.
It is also obscured by dust clouds so we have no direct visual observations. Frankly, I am not surprised that the number is off, it is surprising by how much.
There are other ways to "separate man from boys" which are much more efficient. Pointers, manipulation of linked lists, hashes and the like. In other words - Data representation. I have seen many people who have survived through C and ASM fail totally on this and this is what determines if you are good SE or not. If you cannot manipulate and manage your data you might as well go for an MBA.
This can be done with or without IDE. In fact the IDE hardly matters, what matters is the ability of the language to support the notion of pointer, linked list, referencing, dereferencing and typecasting. In other words things like java should be shot and sunk the moment they show up on the radar and cretins insisting that students get "practical skills" castrated before they can do more damage. There is no point for a student to get "practical skills" if he or she is not suitable for a software engineer in the first place due to being unable to manage data.
Well, as far as USA is concerned Scientology is recognised as a religion and its supposed financial and other crimes have never been proven in a court of law. Why, who, what is a different story.
There are other countries where Scientology status is very different. In these countries such level of cooperation with the Church of Scientology is bound to raise some eybrows in law enforcement.
So if you do not like this arrangement I suggest you find someone with a fluent French, German or Russian and draft a suitable letter to their equivalents of serious fraud or organised crime police divisions. Frankly, I do not envy eBay local divisions in these countries from this point onwards. They are on financial crime division hate list in most non-English speaking countries anyway, and this may end up being the proverbial pebble that will tip the proverbial cart.
While there is a grain of truth in what you say, you are being a bit unfair.
An IDE is a great helper to start coding. Once you learn how to code it is no longer a help, it is a hindrance.
For example, while I did a few bits of code for money here and there as far back as 1984, I really started to code commercially when I got my hands of Borland Turbo Pascal 4.0 and onwards. It gave me confidence and made my life as a beginner easy.
A few years later I moved to Linux, perl and Vim and never ever wanted to deal with an IDE from there onwards. Most of the stuff I do is daemons, system software, provisioning, etc so it is invoked asynchronously by clients elsewhere. I have found that using an IDE or a debugger for this is only a hindrance. You get much further by thinking what you are doing and adding good logging and tracing throughout your program. This also allows people in the field to give you meaningful bug reports.
Compared to that programs developed A-Z under an IDE and tested under a debugger are like blackboxes. They work fine on the developer machine, they go out in the field and they go belly up. At that point nobody knows what happened because there is no trace and no debug info either. If it is a daemon especially with elevated privs there is no core file as well. So all you know is it is broken. How, who what is hell to replicate.
Torrents do that anyway. That is the reason why comcast have to beat them on the head. Each segment in the download is small enough to fit its "booster" criteria.
Actually, there is nothing wrong with this approach. This means that interactive services and casual browsing are favoured vs bulk downloads. That is what every ISP wants to do anyway.
Well...
Suitable "Soviet Russian" submarine an hour earlier North East of Hawaii... Hmm... That will be verrrrrrry entertaining. This of course if we discount the fact that the sat passes over the yellow sea and Chinese land facilities a few hours earlier.
Exactly. I am still using WEP and I do not give a flying fuck about any newer security schemes.
I run a 256 bit AES OpenVPN with 2048 bit DSA keys over it. Before that I used to run IPSEC with 3DES of an RC4 PPTP tunnel. Either one works perfectly fine for most stuff you want to be secure. It is not much slower on modern systems either because things like the new Core2 laptops do the wireless crypto in software anyway.
It looks like I am not the only one. I look for a relatively big telecoms company and it has the same policy - wireless, fine, now run VPN over it.
I do not know what their patent is, but the ideas from the DOCSIS MAC layer are also used in all 802.11 standards as well as satellite modem standards. The MAP metod to mix CSMA-CD and mandatory transmit opportunities is the de-facto method for managing Layer2 QoS in all subscriber oriented tech that has hit the market for the last 10 years. There are other places where other network standards have heavily borrowed from DOCSIS.
So if their patents are anywhere close this it will get extremely entertaining...
Nope. Concept has been revoked. For example teachers are currently considered automatically guilty if something happens to a pupil and so on (last amendments to the HS Act and so on). The presumption of innocence no longer exists in UK law. Thank el presidente Antonio Bliar and his various cronies for that. Actually that should be Generalissimus Josef Vissarionovich Blair.
My thought as well. If the Russians or Chinese whack it first they will make the US a total laughing stock. The narrower the window between the US launch and the RU or CN hit the better. Gawd, I can just imagine the sour faces in the Pentagon. It will really be "what a laugh" case.
Blighty legal system does not have the idea of "innocent until proven guilty" (it is really true, do not jump, ask a lawyer). None the less, it has some residual integrity checks and as with most legal systems you cannot sign-off your fundamental rights. T&C are governed by contractual law. Contractual law cannot override a fundamental right like the right not to incriminate yourself in most legislations. So the moment T&Cs go beyond T&C and become a law enforcement tool the ISPs will find themselves in a very sticky situation. Even additional UK legislation will not help here. It will be escalated straight to EU Courts and they will happily bitch slap the UK government the way they usually do on such occasions. It will be truly deserved as well.
Yessshhh my precioussssssshhh...
But that is likely to be treated as one offence...
So 6 months sound about right... My precioussshhh... web sources... Nasty hobbitsessssss
Not for long. Josef Vissarionovich Brown and Lavretnij Pavlovich Straw will be amending the legislation shortly and the Congress of People's Deputies will vote for it in the next session based on suggestions of the Central Committee.
This more or less describes the current situation in the Union of Soviet British Republics.
I got my MP on the similar case when a man was disallowed basic chemistry refresher course for thoughtcrime and he got as far as the Home Office. At that point Lavrentij Pavlovich Straw henchmen told him to f*** off. And there is bugger all he can do and because the man is on a control order there is nothing the courts can do either.
... the damage to Best Buy's rep has already been done.You mean, "free advertisement for Best Buy has already been done"
With the current reputation of Best Buy or PC World it is not like you can damage it any further. That will require using irrational numbers and complex math to compute it.
You are out of luck buddy.
There is enough statistical data out there already. It is called subprime mortgages (when used for refinancing).
It delayed the inevitable Bush recession by channeling money into the retail sector where it should have never been.
And we will have to eat that now for some time to come.
The profession has become domesticated.
The new graduates are uncomfortable with: "Klingon multitasking systems do not support "time-sharing". When a Klingon program wants to run, it challenges the scheduler in hand-to-hand combat and owns the machine." They have to use java, schedulers, vm protection, etc.
On a more serious note, to do real embedded programming you need to know data representation in and out because you tend to manipulate your data directly, no band-aids allowed. Until the embedded systems will support band-aids as used in todays college it will be a profession for the myopic geeks with grey pony-tails or the ones who are way on their way to well developed pattern boldness.
Wrong.
... Surprise... Surprise... Young males college to around 35. These are most likely to buy crazy stuff even if it will hurt their pocket. Next worst offenders as far "financial discipline" is concerned are women right before they hit a certain "golden" age.
1. The impulsiveness of purchases is highest in low income categories. The middle class actually counts pennies much more and the rich have someone counting for them. Example, my wife nearly choked on her dinner watching BBC News awhile ago when they reported the failure of a pyramid "christmas present purchase" scheme predominantly used by the poor. She was very sympathetic until she heard the numbers lost by most families which were in the range of 400-800 pounds. We are reasonably well off and sorry, no way in hell for us to spend that for a Christmas budget. That is more like what we will spend in several years. So after that she immediately switched to a "well deserved, serves you right" mode.
2. The worst perception of his personal finance state in the developed world is
Overall, the study matches very well the actual "buy based on advertisement" demographic. I do not see anything particularly detrimental to the online ad business coming out of it. It is business as usual. Move along.
It is spelled GLIDER. G L I D E R
On a more serious note gliding or "flying" under water as means of improving fuel efficiency and maneuvrability are not new. Research has been going on this since the 60-es. None of it has produced anything particularly spectacular.
Neat design, though there is a simpler way to do it. Put some solars on the glider, charge it on the surface, after that use the energy to compress the air used to expell the ballast tank. Sink. Reach target depth (gliding). Spew out ballast the same way a submarine does. Float up. Gliding. Sit on the surface while charging for another dive.
Trivial to do. No need for complex thermal stuff and you can probably survey half of the Pacific at a leasurely pace on one run until your batteries run out of charge cycles. This type of kit needs to float to the surface to transmit data back to base anyway, so why not do something productive in the meantime.
It is already the next step with the minor difference that approved is QoS-ed into specific class while non-approved goes into the junk category to fight for its 64K with P2P and other bottom feeders. Quite a few ISPs are doing that. A jolly good use for Ellacoya, PCube and other DPI gear.
You are asking the wrong question.
The right question is: Why an ISP claiming to censor and filter is not transparently proxying DNS?
It is the easiest protocol to abuse. A single line NAT entry can do the trick. 99.9% of access equipment out there is capable of doing that. Just add it to the default user profile along with the mandatory web proxy/cache and other similar lines.
Actually not true. They are being less effective at whom they kill.
As the ancient saying goes: If you steal a penny they will hang you at the dawn, if you steel a million you will become a banker.
Whose ehics are you talking about?
The Ethics of an MBA giving IT orders, the ethics of a BOFH doing his job, the ethics of a developer?
Let's not speak of Joe Average consumer of IT as he actually has no IT Ethics, he applies his Ethical viewpoint to IT so his inclusion will only muddle up the concepts.
Each of these communities (PHB, BOFH, Developers) has their own ethical codes (or lack of). While there is a great difference between them, there are not that many differences between members of a particular caste.
At the time I said it in private conversation and I did not put it in writing. I was looking at future features that may affect the product which the company I worked for was doing at the time. So probably I would not have been allowed to comment on my findings anyway.
I was not the only one though. If you look at the discussion around the introduction of vmsplice() and the ensuing flamewar after Linux flamed COW and FreeBSD into a crisp at the time a number of people pointed out that making vmsplice() secure will be a very entertaining proposition. Anything else aside COW is a devil we know while this is a devil which is yet to show itself.
Can't give you exact pointers, but the argument was definitely raised as a part of the COW vs vmsplice() flamewar ^W discussion...
In other news a goofy red-blue character with the habit of spinning threads of various lengths has been seen roaming the streets of New York.
On a more serious note this is what many silk spinners do. They excrete silk as liquid and it becomes a wire or a sheet a few ms later. Some silk spinners manage threads which are in micrometers in diameter as well.