Where exactly in my comment do I suggest a wide scale copying or mass surveillance?
I'm telling you why having everything for free and waiting for people to realize that they really want to pay for something doesn't work.
Communism have been tried a lot of times. A society where people take what they need and give what they don't, where goods and wealth are equally distributed. In theory a perfect government system, in practice a system that doesn't work because personal interest ends up overuling every effort put in another direction.
With that said, I think no one should have to pay for second hand games or second hand whatever. The fact is, when they sold you the game they sold you a physical thing, something that if you resell you stop having (as opposed to copying a CD) so nothing new is being created, is just the same thing which has been already paid! It just doesn't make sense to pay it again.
Wrong, not everything can be reselled or rented and I belive it to be a good thing. You CAN'T resell medicines, you can't project a dvd movie, you can't resell weapons, even if you legally own one and there's a long list like that.
That's a really stupid thing to say, your should take a look to the Prisoner's dilemma. Humans doesn't follow the most logical rules so if we have to wait for the people to "realize (all by themselves, with no censorship and mass punishment laws needed) that they really really really have to pay you to get it" we will be waiting a really, really, really long time.
You are right, the number of primes lower than a given number is fixed... the thing is, even being fixed, there are still A LOT of prime numbers for the numbers we're taling about.
If we use a 1024 RSA Key we are talking about 2^1024 and that's... well, a lot, so let's say (and this is just a guess, could be more or less, I have no idea), that one every 16 million consecutive number is a prime, and let's say 16 million is 2^24... then you have to test with 2^1000 primes... which is the hell of a loop...
So, yeah, the number of primes below a given number is fixed but fixed doesn't mean few...
1. Maybe. 2. Just because someone pays for something doesn't mean that something is good or appropiate. 3. In my experience, no matter how hard you try, for a lot of situations is better to learn how to use an screwdriver than start hitting the screw with your well learned hammer.
As a final note:
When management says something is "good" and the whole company should use it you have a clue that something won't be good, won't save money and will produce headache to the most people possible.
That would be in the case of an absolutely aleatory sample which must or must not be the case.
Statistics doesn't work as well with cultural related factors, meaning two different schools can have absolute deviation far overweight than an aleatory sample will.
I'm not dismissing the survey, I'm just saying I tend to mistrust the ones that doesn't specify anything about the sample.
As ever, I'd like to know the scope of the survey cause if the sample where something like 1000 students for one survey and 1000 for the other then maybe the fist 1000 copied far less than the latter.
Statistics is just about distribution and probability not about well known facts and extrapolating conclusions from an insufficiently wide sample can lead to terribly wrong conclusions.
I'm so tired of this stupid studies. So if we say "men code better than women do" then it's clearly a chauvinist article that makes unfair or unclear comparisons and undermine females and blah blah blah...
But if the article says "women code better than men" then everything is ok. Is like some spot by Boss (at least in Spain) where the woman could replace the man if he wasn't able to use the stove or the washer... or those chapters of Family Matters when men always mess up... Well I'm tired of this.
I think coding is about the person not about the gender. Careful people comment more and make more comments while rush people may make more cryptic code. Sometimes some brilliant people just don't comment but makes the most elegant code... but you see... "PEOPLE"
This is the same "killing" like when Firefox is killing Internet Explorer and then they explain Explorer is up to 78% of the market while FF is up to 20%?
Before Internet (and google in part) when you didn't know the answer to something you look it up in the dictionary or the encyclopedia, if you had one. Sometimes you found what you were looking for and sometimes you didn't... in the latter case you simply didn't learn anything, if you found it you get the "encyclopedia truth".
Now you "ask" the question to google. Not only you get an answer in about 99.999% of the cases, you also get different points of view, analysis, opinions, photos, videos... so WTF are they talking about? Now you LEARN a lot of things, get access to a lot more information that you did before
Yeah they are. It's supossed to compesate for book printing (so it's completely legal to download and print a pdf book from) in the case of printers.
And for the cameras... I didn't even know anything about it... anyway.. here is a list so you can make an idea of how mucho money this people make... even if you don't use the cd, dvd or whatever to make private copys of copyrighted content.
Scanners - 10 €
Scanner with copy capabilities (less than 10 copies/minute) - 16,67 €
Scanner (or similar) with copy capabilities (from 10 to 29 copies/minute) - 114,95 €
Scanner (...) (from 30 to 49 copies/minute) - 153,28 €
CD, DVD - 0,16 € every 525,38 MB (that makes you pay about 1 â for every DVD you buy)
I mean, it might be a funny thing, a cool home-made project or a public internet demostration but serously.. running an university server on an XBox? WTH were they thinking? [ironic]I guess the university doesn't get enough founds to buy a proper server so teachers have to take its personal entertainment servers to work or otherwise they can have a server for their classes.[/ironic]
Guess what? The manager should be awarded for discovering a critical security risk (surely what he was intending to demostrate in the first place:P)
Get used to it. Managment have its own rules and, with a very few exceptions, they live in a different world. You may get promoted if you do your job fine, and you might get promoted really fast if you excel doing it but the really high ranks are usually given to friends, sons, cousins and so.
There's nothing bad with that (apart form the unfairness of it all and all that shit), I personally like programming too much to give it up for a "management job" (I wouldn't mind the salary though). So just live up to reasonable expectations and you'll be fine. Coders usually have fair or high salarys, they fools pay us for doing what we like to do and, if you work what you're paid for (and I mean 40th hours a week) then you should enjoy what you have.
With age (and work) some improvemente will come. On the other hand if "much of the new content was indeed his idea" he is right taking credit. You coded it, ok, but he took responsability, he took the risk. He might (or should) be grateful to you and make a good evaluation, maybe try hard to promote you but remember, if it had all gone badly, the one who would have been sacked (degraded or whatever) was him.
Just so that noone have doubts I'm a simple coder, I just try to live with reality in mind.
Quite the contrary, I think he's got a point. That's mainly the reason why great companys (specially google) try so hard to get the best coders they can.
Of course best coders still make mistakes but lousy coders make a lot of them, belive me "I've seen things you people wouldn't belive". Every coder makes mistakes but some coders or maybe so called coders which in fact happens to have a learn xxx in 21 days course makes lots of mistakes.
I'm sorry, you don't belong here. You lied in the registration form.
The licence agreement for Slashdot surely states "I admit I'm a geek or nerd with little or not social life, I therefore know twitter, use RSS and send at least two text messages a day. I hate Microsoft (having any version of Windows is allowed, but should be denied publicly, if you are busted using it Slashdot denies any knoledge or responsabilite and will not be hold responsible)"
I'd suggest buying a PDA so you can keep a schedule.
It would warn you if you forget to get to the bar with your friends and it will help you keep track of Hillary vs Obama debate. It will also help you remember you have a wife and kids so you don't forget.
Email will also be useful to keep you away from certain statistics and be part of that wonderful 80%.
Slashdot Mirror
That's actually Slashdot fault. With a natural language compiler (programmed by a duct tape programmer of course) this would have never happened.
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Where exactly in my comment do I suggest a wide scale copying or mass surveillance?
I'm telling you why having everything for free and waiting for people to realize that they really want to pay for something doesn't work.
Communism have been tried a lot of times. A society where people take what they need and give what they don't, where goods and wealth are equally distributed. In theory a perfect government system, in practice a system that doesn't work because personal interest ends up overuling every effort put in another direction.
With that said, I think no one should have to pay for second hand games or second hand whatever. The fact is, when they sold you the game they sold you a physical thing, something that if you resell you stop having (as opposed to copying a CD) so nothing new is being created, is just the same thing which has been already paid! It just doesn't make sense to pay it again.
Wrong, not everything can be reselled or rented and I belive it to be a good thing. You CAN'T resell medicines, you can't project a dvd movie, you can't resell weapons, even if you legally own one and there's a long list like that.
That's a really stupid thing to say, your should take a look to the Prisoner's dilemma. Humans doesn't follow the most logical rules so if we have to wait for the people to "realize (all by themselves, with no censorship and mass punishment laws needed) that they really really really have to pay you to get it" we will be waiting a really, really, really long time.
You are right, the number of primes lower than a given number is fixed... the thing is, even being fixed, there are still A LOT of prime numbers for the numbers we're taling about.
... well, a lot, so let's say (and this is just a guess, could be more or less, I have no idea), that one every 16 million consecutive number is a prime, and let's say 16 million is 2^24... then you have to test with 2^1000 primes ... which is the hell of a loop...
If we use a 1024 RSA Key we are talking about 2^1024 and that's
So, yeah, the number of primes below a given number is fixed but fixed doesn't mean few...
Isn't there a command in emacs that definetly answer that question? C-x C-m vimvsemacs
You know Bush is still sitting there, don't you?
The question is not why, but when!!
Slashdot, the only site in internet where a post titled The Internet Biggest Security Hole can result on a vagina talk.
Correcting myself is the site with the fastest convergence rate to that topic.
just because a sentence FOLLOWS another doesn't mean there's causality there, you know?
"I writte messy code nobody understand but that works.
Because of this, if you want to develop a completely new program ..."
So one thing is about having good REUSABLE code and a completely different thing to have readable code...
1. Maybe.
2. Just because someone pays for something doesn't mean that something is good or appropiate.
3. In my experience, no matter how hard you try, for a lot of situations is better to learn how to use an screwdriver than start hitting the screw with your well learned hammer.
As a final note:
When management says something is "good" and the whole company should use it you have a clue that something won't be good, won't save money and will produce headache to the most people possible.
That would be in the case of an absolutely aleatory sample which must or must not be the case.
Statistics doesn't work as well with cultural related factors, meaning two different schools can have absolute deviation far overweight than an aleatory sample will.
I'm not dismissing the survey, I'm just saying I tend to mistrust the ones that doesn't specify anything about the sample.
As ever, I'd like to know the scope of the survey cause if the sample where something like 1000 students for one survey and 1000 for the other then maybe the fist 1000 copied far less than the latter.
Statistics is just about distribution and probability not about well known facts and extrapolating conclusions from an insufficiently wide sample can lead to terribly wrong conclusions.
I'm so tired of this stupid studies. So if we say "men code better than women do" then it's clearly a chauvinist article that makes unfair or unclear comparisons and undermine females and blah blah blah...
... or those chapters of Family Matters when men always mess up ... Well I'm tired of this.
... but you see ... "PEOPLE"
But if the article says "women code better than men" then everything is ok. Is like some spot by Boss (at least in Spain) where the woman could replace the man if he wasn't able to use the stove or the washer
I think coding is about the person not about the gender. Careful people comment more and make more comments while rush people may make more cryptic code. Sometimes some brilliant people just don't comment but makes the most elegant code
Do you mind the rest of you are getting girls? Why didn't anybody tell me!!??
This is the same "killing" like when Firefox is killing Internet Explorer and then they explain Explorer is up to 78% of the market while FF is up to 20%?
Before Internet (and google in part) when you didn't know the answer to something you look it up in the dictionary or the encyclopedia, if you had one. Sometimes you found what you were looking for and sometimes you didn't... in the latter case you simply didn't learn anything, if you found it you get the "encyclopedia truth".
... so WTF are they talking about? Now you LEARN a lot of things, get access to a lot more information that you did before
Now you "ask" the question to google. Not only you get an answer in about 99.999% of the cases, you also get different points of view, analysis, opinions, photos, videos
And for the cameras
I always mess up with that so thanks for the explanation (I'm Spanish but I'll try to remember).
Why the hell was the server running on an Xbox?
:P)
I mean, it might be a funny thing, a cool home-made project or a public internet demostration but serously.. running an university server on an XBox? WTH were they thinking? [ironic]I guess the university doesn't get enough founds to buy a proper server so teachers have to take its personal entertainment servers to work or otherwise they can have a server for their classes.[/ironic]
Guess what? The manager should be awarded for discovering a critical security risk (surely what he was intending to demostrate in the first place
I'll try to say this as carefully as I can.
Get used to it. Managment have its own rules and, with a very few exceptions, they live in a different world. You may get promoted if you do your job fine, and you might get promoted really fast if you excel doing it but the really high ranks are usually given to friends, sons, cousins and so.
There's nothing bad with that (apart form the unfairness of it all and all that shit), I personally like programming too much to give it up for a "management job" (I wouldn't mind the salary though). So just live up to reasonable expectations and you'll be fine. Coders usually have fair or high salarys, they fools pay us for doing what we like to do and, if you work what you're paid for (and I mean 40th hours a week) then you should enjoy what you have.
With age (and work) some improvemente will come. On the other hand if "much of the new content was indeed his idea" he is right taking credit. You coded it, ok, but he took responsability, he took the risk. He might (or should) be grateful to you and make a good evaluation, maybe try hard to promote you but remember, if it had all gone badly, the one who would have been sacked (degraded or whatever) was him.
Just so that noone have doubts I'm a simple coder, I just try to live with reality in mind.
Quite the contrary, I think he's got a point. That's mainly the reason why great companys (specially google) try so hard to get the best coders they can.
Of course best coders still make mistakes but lousy coders make a lot of them, belive me "I've seen things you people wouldn't belive". Every coder makes mistakes but some coders or maybe so called coders which in fact happens to have a learn xxx in 21 days course makes lots of mistakes.
You should look at Spec# who does really care about null pointers among other things such as contracts.
No need for television?
Doesn't homes come with integrated tvs? I mean, if you don't have a tv where are you supposed to plugin the PS3?
I'm sorry, you don't belong here. You lied in the registration form.
The licence agreement for Slashdot surely states "I admit I'm a geek or nerd with little or not social life, I therefore know twitter, use RSS and send at least two text messages a day. I hate Microsoft (having any version of Windows is allowed, but should be denied publicly, if you are busted using it Slashdot denies any knoledge or responsabilite and will not be hold responsible)"
I'd suggest buying a PDA so you can keep a schedule.
It would warn you if you forget to get to the bar with your friends and it will help you keep track of Hillary vs Obama debate. It will also help you remember you have a wife and kids so you don't forget.
Email will also be useful to keep you away from certain statistics and be part of that wonderful 80%.