Is it good enough to invest at 5% considering inflation?
I'm not familiar with the current inflation trends, but I'm pretty sure it's not too far from 5%.
Anyway, I'm just being picky... you raise a good point.
There's also Pinball Expo held in the Chicago, IL area: pinball expo
I've been the last 4 years... it's pretty good.
My friend's pinball website: shameless plug
...yeah, because having a turkey dinner and laying around for a few hours watching football is going to cause spammers to take a break from what they do best. get real, you think the major spammers only do so "hands-on"? yeah, ok... maybe they use cron or just maybe they even let their applications that search for relays and send their spam run continuously!?!
...i can understand where the comment came from, but "get it right"? the story talks about having plans and source code available... which are soon to be available... yeah, right:-P
I hereby predict that a year from now we will be paying more for the same service we have now.
Like another person replied, inflation may have something to do with prices consistently rising.
If cell carriers can't count on a consistent base of customers, some of which consistency was predicated on people not switching due to losing their phone number, then the only logical result is that the cost of the service will rise.
ummm... if people switch to a different provider if the numbers are portable, then it's due to service. those who aren't offering reasonable service for a reasonable price are going to end up raising prices, and then tank. that's the way capitalism works.
keep in mind that the cell phone market, with regards to the customer base, will NOT get any smaller with this, if anything it'll get bigger... new customers because of number portability would even mean the opposite of what the quote above predicts.
I've predicted and eagerly anticipated the demise (by replacement) of spinning media (magnetic and optical) for 10 or more years now... I've predicted it will happen, not when.
well, i've been "predicting" that the end of life as we know it will come, not when though.
Had me too... till I actually started to read the RFC... pretty funny stuff, esp:
Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have a harder problem. Because of
their known propensity for false negatives and false positives, IDSs
MUST apply a probabilistic correction factor when evaluating the evil
bit. If the evil bit is set, a suitable random number generator
[RFC1750] must be consulted to determine if the attempt should be
logged. Similarly, if the bit is off, another random number
generator must be consulted to determine if it should be logged
despite the setting.
It's your processor after you purchase it, but it's still Intel's product to do what they wish with. I don't see this as an issue... they might feel a very small hit in the "overclocking community", but with the price of 2+ GHz processors these days, many don't find it necessary anymore (like myself). However, you'll always have some (insignificant as far as they're concerned?) backlash when you take away the ability for a geek to tinker with your product... but it's your right to do so.
I think allowing any posts to "future" slashdot stories could be a Bad Thing. There may be 10's of thousands of subscribers, but you guys have more non-subscribers, I'm sure. I wouldn't be too surprised if non-subscribers get really discouraged finding out that if they want to post a comment on a story, it will be posted after all the subscribers get to post, putting their comment all the way at the bottom of the page... and we all know which comments get modded more frequently. Which would in effect make non-subscribers feel like they can't even have active participation in the conversation... because it happened 20 minutes ago... limiting your "community" to only those willing to pay.
maybe it's just me, but i saw a bunch of marketing from my registrar (register.com) for the.name tld.
so much, in fact, that i went ahead and registered mine... and haven't done a thing with it since (it's been probably almost 2 years now maybe). this is mainly due to the fact that i'm lazy and not sure what to do with it... but still seems to be the norm for the.name tld.
IMHO, this sounds like a good place to go *after* getting that CS degree. If they either don't teach or don't require some or most of those "other things", this would turn out to be the MCSE of the game programming world, if it survived at all... anyone who's even slightly familiar with programming knows that game programming involves math very heavily...
No doubt. I used hotbot pretty exclusively until google came along. I think most of the people who say it sucked are those who used it after google was around for a little while and hotbot was grasping, trying to change things around to compete, only making things worse.
Anyway, does anyone else think the offset tables on the main page are a bad idea as far as user interfaces go? it makes me uncomfortable just looking at it.
like he's going to condemn it if he's admitting to doing it himself.
anyway, i would consider this along the same lines as asking around about a person's past and whatnot... it's not necessarily considered bad ethics, but it can get yourself into trouble if you don't take it for what it's worth.
it's pretty easy to tell that you were looking to be a karma whore... considering you didn't even notice that there were more pages to the story.
for those who can't get to it, there are a total of 14 pages to this in-depth article. The text that was posted is just the first page, the introduction.
Computer-security breaches must be treated like any other issue of public safety, and people must be informed when they're at risk.
Computer security breaches are hardly similar to other issues of public safety. Announcing that a breach has occurred when there is no viable solution to keep it from happening again (either to the same company or other companies using the same software) would put the public's safety at an even greater risk.
If it involves any of my personal data, then I would rather them keep their mouths shut for damage control until there is a solution to the original problem.
It is sort of a catch-22 though. Other companies using the same software would be unaware of the vulnerability until a solution to the problem is found by that one company (which could potentially be slower than if many companies were looking for a fix). Maybe what we need is a *trusted* network (not in the ether sense of the word) where vulnerabilities could be posted without getting the word out to the people that would use this information maliciously.
whether it's for better or worse (i'm not here to debate vc++ vs. gcc or windows vs. linux), it's sad to see new programmers give up on porting their code when it doesn't compile on the first, second.. or fifth try.
granted, it's frustrating getting to know the nuances of different operating systems, and what "standard" libraries are supported in different environments, but the fact that they exist is not necessarily a bad thing IMHO. i'm not denying there are things in vc++ that should be changed (or "fixed"), but some things are different for a very good reason. it may be that something you're doing is antiquated or maybe there exists a different way to do it that offers more advantages than the "tride and true" methods.
to turn your back on finding these differences only limits your opportunity to become a better programmer and know how to code in different environments, not to mention the exposure of your program (if that's important to you).
so, why not figure out the real cause of the incompatibilities and THEN make a decision on whether it's a Bad Thing or if it was just a minor nuance of the environment?
I doubt veteran linux programmers who were masters of ncurses turned their noses up to gtk or qt completely (maybe a thin analogy, OK, but you get the point:-P)
Unless you build your own custom browser (using Mozilla, which is why this isn't off topic;-), you need code to execute on client-side... which lends itself towards javascript. You can easily capture key events (presses, "downs", "ups", etc.) and process them accordingly. I've already had to do this to allow users to use the Enter key to "tab down" a spreadsheet type interface, instead of submitting the actual HTML form or doing nothing. It's actually very easy. You could generate this javascript dynamically even, based on the links for a certain page and whatnot, or just have static javascript if that meets your needs. At any rate, just wanted to point out that it's presently quite possible, and given the nature of the internet, I don't see how there'll be any other way to do it that doesn't involve some kind of client-side script like javascript.
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I'm not familiar with the current inflation trends, but I'm pretty sure it's not too far from 5%.
Anyway, I'm just being picky... you raise a good point.
There's also Pinball Expo held in the Chicago, IL area: pinball expo
I've been the last 4 years... it's pretty good.
My friend's pinball website: shameless plug
...yeah, because having a turkey dinner and laying around for a few hours watching football is going to cause spammers to take a break from what they do best. get real, you think the major spammers only do so "hands-on"? yeah, ok...
maybe they use cron or just maybe they even let their applications that search for relays and send their spam run continuously!?!
...i can understand where the comment came from, but "get it right"? the story talks about having plans and source code available... which are soon to be available... yeah, right :-P
I hereby predict that a year from now we will be paying more for the same service we have now.
Like another person replied, inflation may have something to do with prices consistently rising.
If cell carriers can't count on a consistent base of customers, some of which consistency was predicated on people not switching due to losing their phone number, then the only logical result is that the cost of the service will rise.
ummm... if people switch to a different provider if the numbers are portable, then it's due to service. those who aren't offering reasonable service for a reasonable price are going to end up raising prices, and then tank. that's the way capitalism works.
keep in mind that the cell phone market, with regards to the customer base, will NOT get any smaller with this, if anything it'll get bigger... new customers because of number portability would even mean the opposite of what the quote above predicts.
Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have a harder problem. Because of their known propensity for false negatives and false positives, IDSs MUST apply a probabilistic correction factor when evaluating the evil bit. If the evil bit is set, a suitable random number generator [RFC1750] must be consulted to determine if the attempt should be logged. Similarly, if the bit is off, another random number generator must be consulted to determine if it should be logged despite the setting.
It's your processor after you purchase it, but it's still Intel's product to do what they wish with.
I don't see this as an issue... they might feel a very small hit in the "overclocking community", but with the price of 2+ GHz processors these days, many don't find it necessary anymore (like myself).
However, you'll always have some (insignificant as far as they're concerned?) backlash when you take away the ability for a geek to tinker with your product... but it's your right to do so.
Isn't posting a story on slashdot that links to a government website (which results in bringing down said website) considered an act of terror?
He fantasized science fiction?
Need I say more?
I think allowing any posts to "future" slashdot stories could be a Bad Thing.
There may be 10's of thousands of subscribers, but you guys have more non-subscribers, I'm sure. I wouldn't be too surprised if non-subscribers get really discouraged finding out that if they want to post a comment on a story, it will be posted after all the subscribers get to post, putting their comment all the way at the bottom of the page... and we all know which comments get modded more frequently.
Which would in effect make non-subscribers feel like they can't even have active participation in the conversation... because it happened 20 minutes ago... limiting your "community" to only those willing to pay.
maybe it's just me, but i saw a bunch of marketing from my registrar (register.com) for the .name tld.
.name tld.
so much, in fact, that i went ahead and registered mine... and haven't done a thing with it since (it's been probably almost 2 years now maybe). this is mainly due to the fact that i'm lazy and not sure what to do with it... but still seems to be the norm for the
i couldn't agree with you more...
IMHO, this sounds like a good place to go *after* getting that CS degree.
If they either don't teach or don't require some or most of those "other things", this would turn out to be the MCSE of the game programming world, if it survived at all...
anyone who's even slightly familiar with programming knows that game programming involves math very heavily...
No doubt.
I used hotbot pretty exclusively until google came along. I think most of the people who say it sucked are those who used it after google was around for a little while and hotbot was grasping, trying to change things around to compete, only making things worse.
Anyway, does anyone else think the offset tables on the main page are a bad idea as far as user interfaces go? it makes me uncomfortable just looking at it.
anyway, i would consider this along the same lines as asking around about a person's past and whatnot... it's not necessarily considered bad ethics, but it can get yourself into trouble if you don't take it for what it's worth.
where'd my mod points go...
for those who can't get to it, there are a total of 14 pages to this in-depth article. The text that was posted is just the first page, the introduction.
Computer security breaches are hardly similar to other issues of public safety. Announcing that a breach has occurred when there is no viable solution to keep it from happening again (either to the same company or other companies using the same software) would put the public's safety at an even greater risk.
If it involves any of my personal data, then I would rather them keep their mouths shut for damage control until there is a solution to the original problem.
It is sort of a catch-22 though. Other companies using the same software would be unaware of the vulnerability until a solution to the problem is found by that one company (which could potentially be slower than if many companies were looking for a fix). Maybe what we need is a *trusted* network (not in the ether sense of the word) where vulnerabilities could be posted without getting the word out to the people that would use this information maliciously.
calling the /. crowd the "general public" is a bit of a stretch, don't ya think? :-P
Well, this isn't exactly a mundane detail, MICHAEL!@#!
bless his strict self
whether it's for better or worse (i'm not here to debate vc++ vs. gcc or windows vs. linux), it's sad to see new programmers give up on porting their code when it doesn't compile on the first, second.. or fifth try.
:-P)
granted, it's frustrating getting to know the nuances of different operating systems, and what "standard" libraries are supported in different environments, but the fact that they exist is not necessarily a bad thing IMHO.
i'm not denying there are things in vc++ that should be changed (or "fixed"), but some things are different for a very good reason. it may be that something you're doing is antiquated or maybe there exists a different way to do it that offers more advantages than the "tride and true" methods.
to turn your back on finding these differences only limits your opportunity to become a better programmer and know how to code in different environments, not to mention the exposure of your program (if that's important to you).
so, why not figure out the real cause of the incompatibilities and THEN make a decision on whether it's a Bad Thing or if it was just a minor nuance of the environment?
I doubt veteran linux programmers who were masters of ncurses turned their noses up to gtk or qt completely (maybe a thin analogy, OK, but you get the point
Unless you build your own custom browser (using Mozilla, which is why this isn't off topic ;-), you need code to execute on client-side... which lends itself towards javascript.
You can easily capture key events (presses, "downs", "ups", etc.) and process them accordingly. I've already had to do this to allow users to use the Enter key to "tab down" a spreadsheet type interface, instead of submitting the actual HTML form or doing nothing. It's actually very easy.
You could generate this javascript dynamically even, based on the links for a certain page and whatnot, or just have static javascript if that meets your needs.
At any rate, just wanted to point out that it's presently quite possible, and given the nature of the internet, I don't see how there'll be any other way to do it that doesn't involve some kind of client-side script like javascript.