Debugging without an interactive debugger is much more fun.. you get to see such gems as:
printf("I'm in the fscking DoStuffRightThisTime() function!!");
I've yet to see a function in MSVC++ that lets me curse when I'm frustrated by something not doing what I thought it should be;). If I'm really frustrated I can always loop a few hundred times with my favorite expletives:P.
Yes, just rememebered why the first time getting qmail up and running took me so long, by trying once again to replace sendmail with qmail.
80% of the author's instructions are fine, from there, you have a choice of 10 or so slightly different ways of configuring the rest of it. Would be nice if the author kept his documentation up to date (he recommended running it from inetd at one time but that doesn't even work any longer).
I decided to scrap it, because it was not apparent to me how to setup DNSBL, it seems like some other program with perhaps non-functional installation instructions is required for that.
I'll stick with sendmail, it's been running on my home machine for 2+ years, it may mean I have to keep up with patches, and deal with sendmail.cf (the m4 files are a bit more understandable).
But, next to no spam is more important than the fact that sendmail USED to have security problems. I also don't know why someone would think it's bloated. It consumes very little CPU on my machine - but then I only have one or two accounts to contend with.
YES US TELEPHONE SUPPORT! it's *SO* cheap calling from Denmark to US.
What happens when you dial TOLL FREE numbers over here? Do they charge you??
Man, it's almost like a tax to own a phone in some parts of europe. Friend of mine called me from London once. He plopped in 10 Pounds and we got to talk long enough to say hi, and for me to say hi to his wife or something (like about 3-5 minutes maybe?). That's insane. I called a friend in Italy nearly 10 years ago (when long distance was more expensive in NA) and a 20 minute call was only 40 bucks.
And, I just got finished looking at this guy's web page......what in the hell is he talking about?...I think that this guy should seriously consider some basic English classes.
Well, he writes a one page doc, and submits it to slashdot. I'd say he just got a new web host, and is 'testing' his bandwidth xfer:).
It always seemed to be that the benefit of having AMD competing with Intel, was that I could get a really good CPU pretty cheap. (Though now it seems AMD is taking it easy for awhile, so that benefit may have been short-lived.) Yet I don't see the competition driving video card prices down.
Yes, the commodity GFX cards (which are insanely powerful compared to bleeding edge a year ago) are substantially cheaper due to competition. The _top end_ CPU is still not really cheaper than it ever was in my recollection, from watching the industry over the last 8+ years.
So you can't compare what any product debuts at with what it eventually will cost.
CPUs still seem to start at about $800-$1200 and decrease in price.
GFX cards seem to come out at about $600, and decrease until they're 'commodity'.
This is based on my experience in CDN$, so your numbers may be a little different;).
Some other team with less engineering talent can specialize in great stories
I'm not sure I buy the less vs. more engineering talent idea at all. Within games, there are many specialties, and engine tech is but one of them.
Carmack's not more or less talented than the top AI programmers, but he'd be as lost in what they do as they are in what he specialises in. Looking at jobs in the industry, there's demand for truly talented individuals in all sorts of areas.
The industry is generally comprised of people talented enough to know that no generalist is going to excel in all areas simultaneously. And either by necessity, college training or inclination folks end up in a specialty of sorts.
There's been huge leaps and bounds in game AI in the last decade.. but because it doesn't have that mass market eye-candy ooh ahh appeal to it, most people probably aren't aware of LOD AI systems exist (and we're not supposed to be the unwashed masses here), unless it was hyped to the max like that monkey in Black and White.
If you don't think on the fly 'role' changes, dependent on how much you interact with the agent in an AI system take as much talent as what Carmack et al put into their engine tech, you probably don't understand as much about computer science as you think you do;).
It's unfortunate that there's no seemingly objective measure like fps for an AI system, else we'd be blown away by some of those also...
Otherwise, I agree with the sentiment that we need these 'specialists'.
warnings about applications not being able to launch because of a lack of mfc42.dll exports
Hmm, the MFC.dll is part of windows. If the OS is hosed or the software you just installed screwed up the OS, it's a sort of atypical (common maybe) situation.
*nix counter part, another programmer I work with decided to updated his glibc, then build our server component, and gave it to me to update a server. Lo and behold, atoi (no that's not right anyway, some relatively standard library call) didn't exist. It appears someone decided to move it from where it was in the glibc package that shipped on RedHat 7.3.
Changes to libraries or replacements by crappy installers (if they need a different older version of mfc42 they're screwing something up) happen on both Linux and Windows, thanks.
Blame shitty QA at Adaptec maybe, not the operating systems in question.
First off, spamcop's too narrow. What happens when spammer is moved to another subdomain on the same network? You get mail again and wait for spamcop to kick in.
With spews it was targetted first, then broadened as the upstreams refused to deal with the problem.
Also, philisophically, all spammers being directly blocked accomplishes is that there aren't enough complaints to justify the big guys paying attention to the anti-spam crowd. When REAL customers are also complaining, then the big guys start listening. Takes time, but some of them have finally woke up and smelled the coffee, and work on a continual basis to kick the spammers off their networks.
If it takes expanding the block to all of Sprint for example, pretty quickly does sprint realise that no matter how much the spammer is paying them, it hurts their business model to not fix their problems.
Well, for the same reason that Linux hasn't done it.
There's no 'Windows Buffer' or 'Linux Buffer' thing, it's just an array. If the OS was interrupting all malloc/sprintf/strcpy calls, then C would perform orders of magnitute slower like VB/Java, because their runtimes check on EACH access (scroll up) if that call is about to go out of bounds.
Java and VB have come a long way towards running faster, but type-safe/bounds safe arrays take execution time away from the programmer. The lack of bounds checking is what makes C so fast.
The error is a logical error on the part of the programmer.
You're allowed to have enough rope to hang yourself in C, if you choose to put your head through the noose, it's not the fault of Microsoft/Linus/K&R/Stroustrop -- it's your own.
I blame poor training -- CS students today are graduating missing fundamental concepts of the programming languages they work with. Couple that with a severe lack of engineering/mentorship in the workplace, and we get to a dangerous situation. Everyone talks about code reviews, but WHO is doing it? No one.
Junior programmers need mentoring, they've got a bunch of CS theory running around their heads, but not enough experience to work in a language like C safely. Also, realistically responsible vendors should be auditing their code to keep it secure, even very experienced programmers get tired / burnt out, and might inadvertently dangerously treat unknown data.
When your projects are 1,000s of lines long only it's really easy to not ever come across this. Most modern software systems number in the millions per project, and can easily lead to situations where the programmers do stupid things because they are only human (not lazy or stupid as some posters may contend - writing unsafe code like that to me is a sign of overwork).
Why oh Why Dear Slashdot Editors dose Lord of the Rings not have a Logo? Starwars has a Logo.. the Ipod has a Logo.. why dosent LOTR?
Well, just hazarding a guess, but things that have logos have either been around for a while, or have a volume of stories posted about them. Just saw the movie it's great and all, but this and maybe one other story have been on slashdot about the subject that I recall in the last 6 months (some troll will probably show us 2 more - so what?).
If it's in the same boat as star wars where people are still doing fan sites / zines, collecting stuff years later then sure, give it a logo, because there's a VOLUME of stories about it. LOTR has of course been around in book form, but doesn't have enough stories on average to warrant a seperate category yet. Maybe that will change. It's not a comment on how good something is whether its worthy of a category, its a reflection on how many stories are posted here about it.
Is AOL keeping all the money and doing nothing for it's users? Or is it going to do something to redistribute it's winnings, like refunds or discounts on on-line fees for a few months
Isn't this Offtopic? I thought this was a long discussion about/. and dupe stories?:P
That is a good question actually.. should a share go to the users, or a cut to maybe other providers having to deal with spam from the AOL throwaway acocunts that often were the source of the spam in the first place... AOL not that long ago routinely re-reouted abuse@aol.com messages to/dev/null, only recently after years of their lusers complaining did they start doing anything about it.
I also use it, however, when I used to develop sites for Netscape 4 and IE 4, I didn't praise Netscape for being more anal about the JavaScript interpreter, I cursed it.
That is until I learned that IE would grok whatever I threw at it practically, and just realised to develop in the less flexible browser first, then make sure it looked/worked right in the more flexible one rather than the other way around.
Why is Linux better technically than Windows? Because it's more restrictive or because its less? Less right? I'm not sure why that argument is invalid when it comes to browsers.
Mind you Mozilla is what I use at home. There are some areas of clear superiority (i don't have to blindly accept ActiveX - try turning it off in IE), but I don't see the 'only proper HTML gets rendered' approach as technically superior.
I think it would be an improvment if Mozilla would bear in mind the 'improper' HTML that IE allows, and become more flexible in every aspect (how it interprets HTML - even sloppy HTML), not just things like popups.
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Why? Sexual content is no less valid than any other form of expression. It's obviously popular -- why isn't it represented equally in the study?
Because we are a horribly prudish society?
I work and interact with many people a lot younger than me (I'm in my 30's many of these folks range from like 12-40).
One of these guys and I were talking about how he caught his cousin (female) masturbating. He was thinking that he should 'blackmail' her about this.
I asked him why he would want to do that, saying what it's natural, don't tell me you've never done that, etc. After talking for a couple of hours, he actually decided against this course of action.
It's shocking to see the 'values' that parents are still passing onto their kids regarding sex.
I once lived with a woman who had a young daughter, most times she asked about sex related questions, it was a relief that we just talked to her honestly about it. She caused quite a fuss in our little neighborhood for repeating something we talked about once, so I'm guessing we were in the vast minority by actually not being fscked up about sex questions from a kid.
Sad really, I don't think I'm perfect or anything, but why is it that so many people are so bloody prudish still? Didn't the sexual revolution happen 30 years ago?
Why not just reinstall XP, phone them back.. get a refund?
That's somewhat ridiculous anyway, just because the support drones aren't trained to troubleshoot linux has nothing to do with the warranty does it? That's like saying you void your Warranty by installing a legally obtained copy of Visual Studio or something, 'well sir it's a home machine, sorry you can't install development software on it'.
Or did OSes somehow stop being computer programs at some point? I mean, sure crack in and solder on some extra nifty toys, that should void the warranty, but installing software on computers somehow damages the hardware how?
Democracy is supposed to be founded on the principle that the MAJORITY sets the standard for conduct of said democracies' laws.
With anti-spam legislation being chiefly set by the spammers themselves, the majority is under represented.
Another freedom democracies have is the right to PROTEST the government's actions if the citizens are unhappy with the laws passed by said governm ent. Or, the practices of one corporation's actions (like animal activists peacefully demonstrating outside research facilities).
Yes, vigilante justice is horrible. However, this was simply in my view an effective protest by the citizens (Internet wise anyway, because living outside the USA does not exempt you from this man's actions) of a businesses practices.
Possibly, by getting a little media attention, those that are responsible for passing laws governing spam in many countries, may just wake up and smell the coffee and recognize that their proposed legislation stinks, and hurts the 'little people', the ones that elect them and that they are supposed to represent.
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
Wrong book(s). Lije Baily and Daneel Olivaw were in the Caves of Steel, etc. Written somewhat later than I, Robot -- which was a collection of short stories, like 'Robbie' (which had various names at various times, according to Asimov).
I hope Hollywood hasn't mucked it up that badly. Personally I'd rather see foundation or The 'sci-fi murder mysteries' that do feature Lije and Olivaw as movies.
They're upset I think about the early disclosure of this information.
By 'leaking' the info to FatWallet ahead of the 'official' announcement, the retailers feel that the competitors can get the 'jump' on them, and chop a buck or two off here and there and out compete them.
Of course, that's sort of flawed logic, because they could well use the site to do the same back.. but heck, the management types are more likely to fling their weight around than consider the ramifications of their actions.;).
Can't have the lifetime costs built into everything - that would make just about everything price-prohibitive.
Which is more price-prohibitive?
Paying the disposal/recycling costs on your consumables up-front; or Paying them after the municipal dump heap has already poisoned your ground water?
Good ideas, agree with that principal. But can someone please explain when a PC became a consumable?? Best not tell the IRS or other taxman, because you can't depreciate consumables.;)
Bloated crappy software is partly to blame for this bogus trend to think that if you don't get a new PC every year you're poor.
But still, bearing that in mind, I'm sure we all know one person who's kinda 'have not' that may be interested in a computer. Don't throw the damn thing away give it to a starving comp. sci. student near you.
That's true, however, what's sad about it is in Canada, some folks with LEGITIMATE (i.e. health related) reasons to be using MRI are on mile long waiting lists.
The media loves to make it sound worse, but there are still long enough lists, that I'm not sure the resource should be squandered like that.
This is taking place in the US, but it wont' be long before Canadian Corporation's marketing buffoons want to try it (oh sorry was that biased:P), and for us that is a bad waste of resources.
These machines aren't cheap in the US either, I can't imagine that it's a sensible allocation of resources there either. Hope you folks don't have waiting lists;).
There is a lot of power in X that your average user doesn't use. Ditching X support in favor of only supporting some sort of framebuffer output doesn't make sense.
This doesn't make any sense at all.. who but us geeks cares about power? No one. If it's stabler than windows, then it's going to get used by mom and pop users.
Sorry, but my desktop X experiences have ranged from painless, to completely and utterly impossible. Why? Because of all the s**t you have to go through when it goes wrong, and all the layers of crap you have to futz with. Also, when X applications crashed a couple years ago, they just bloody disappeared. I'd rather see a message telling me the stupid thing crashed...
I say split X into two flavours, the 'normal' desktop type of GUI subsystem, and the 'networked' stuff that most people aren't going to use (mom & pop kettle and heck even me). Cut out a bunch of the extra teeth pulling you have to go through to get X running and middle layers of stuff, and save that for the folks that want to harness the power (i.e. X terminals all over the place).
I know it's gotten better, but maybe some of you forget what it used to be like.
Sourceforge has done 100 times more for Open Source Development than Sims Online ever will
Has it? As a student, I applied to about half a dozen sourceforge projects. Total replies: 0.
Applied to about 3 game mods, was hired by one within a week, and have been solicited by about 7 others.
I think there are some projects on sourceforge that are a little too full of themselves..
Some aren't sure, but don't kid yourself. Open Source used to mean, I want to contribute therefore I can. That's not been my personal experience with sourceforge, that was more like applying for a day job...
Well, I work on a Halflife mod. I'd say there are parallels, and there are differences.
Some Similarities: - our mod team is international, and collaborates via the net - anyone can contribute, and receive credit for their contribution - mods rely on folks working together without necessarily getting pay for their work - there is already a small community of independents producing work to be used in it, that hasn't been put into the project - there's a large community of other mod developers, and we all kinda 'hang out' and help each other with techniques, approaches etc. - anyone who contributes work, does it to give it to the community of players, moreso than for direct personal gain..
In our case, the source is closed. We've accepted the source under a license agreement (from the game manufacturer) that I'm not sure others wouldn't break otherwise. There are other reasons related to possible cheats (although I still think more eyes looking at the source is better for that in general).
Is it the same as OpenSource? No. Is it somewhat similar? In my opinion yes.
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Debugging without an interactive debugger is much more fun.. you get to see such gems as:
;). If I'm really frustrated I can always loop a few hundred times with my favorite expletives :P.
printf("I'm in the fscking DoStuffRightThisTime() function!!");
I've yet to see a function in MSVC++ that lets me curse when I'm frustrated by something not doing what I thought it should be
Yes, just rememebered why the first time getting qmail up and running took me so long, by trying once again to replace sendmail with qmail.
80% of the author's instructions are fine, from there, you have a choice of 10 or so slightly different ways of configuring the rest of it. Would be nice if the author kept his documentation up to date (he recommended running it from inetd at one time but that doesn't even work any longer).
I decided to scrap it, because it was not apparent to me how to setup DNSBL, it seems like some other program with perhaps non-functional installation instructions is required for that.
I'll stick with sendmail, it's been running on my home machine for 2+ years, it may mean I have to keep up with patches, and deal with sendmail.cf (the m4 files are a bit more understandable).
But, next to no spam is more important than the fact that sendmail USED to have security problems. I also don't know why someone would think it's bloated. It consumes very little CPU on my machine - but then I only have one or two accounts to contend with.
YES US TELEPHONE SUPPORT! it's *SO* cheap calling from Denmark to US.
What happens when you dial TOLL FREE numbers over here? Do they charge you??
Man, it's almost like a tax to own a phone in some parts of europe. Friend of mine called me from London once. He plopped in 10 Pounds and we got to talk long enough to say hi, and for me to say hi to his wife or something (like about 3-5 minutes maybe?). That's insane. I called a friend in Italy nearly 10 years ago (when long distance was more expensive in NA) and a 20 minute call was only 40 bucks.
And, I just got finished looking at this guy's web page... ...what in the hell is he talking about? ...I think that this guy should seriously consider some basic English classes.
:).
Well, he writes a one page doc, and submits it to slashdot. I'd say he just got a new web host, and is 'testing' his bandwidth xfer
It always seemed to be that the benefit of having AMD competing with Intel, was that I could get a really good CPU pretty cheap. (Though now it seems AMD is taking it easy for awhile, so that benefit may have been short-lived.) Yet I don't see the competition driving video card prices down.
;).
Yes, the commodity GFX cards (which are insanely powerful compared to bleeding edge a year ago) are substantially cheaper due to competition. The _top end_ CPU is still not really cheaper than it ever was in my recollection, from watching the industry over the last 8+ years.
So you can't compare what any product debuts at with what it eventually will cost.
CPUs still seem to start at about $800-$1200 and decrease in price.
GFX cards seem to come out at about $600, and decrease until they're 'commodity'.
This is based on my experience in CDN$, so your numbers may be a little different
Some other team with less engineering talent can specialize in great stories
;).
I'm not sure I buy the less vs. more engineering talent idea at all. Within games, there are many specialties, and engine tech is but one of them.
Carmack's not more or less talented than the top AI programmers, but he'd be as lost in what they do as they are in what he specialises in. Looking at jobs in the industry, there's demand for truly talented individuals in all sorts of areas.
The industry is generally comprised of people talented enough to know that no generalist is going to excel in all areas simultaneously. And either by necessity, college training or inclination folks end up in a specialty of sorts.
There's been huge leaps and bounds in game AI in the last decade.. but because it doesn't have that mass market eye-candy ooh ahh appeal to it, most people probably aren't aware of LOD AI systems exist (and we're not supposed to be the unwashed masses here), unless it was hyped to the max like that monkey in Black and White.
If you don't think on the fly 'role' changes, dependent on how much you interact with the agent in an AI system take as much talent as what Carmack et al put into their engine tech, you probably don't understand as much about computer science as you think you do
It's unfortunate that there's no seemingly objective measure like fps for an AI system, else we'd be blown away by some of those also...
Otherwise, I agree with the sentiment that we need these 'specialists'.
warnings about applications not being able to launch because of a lack of mfc42.dll exports
.dll is part of windows. If the OS is hosed or the software you just installed screwed up the OS, it's a sort of atypical (common maybe) situation.
Hmm, the MFC
*nix counter part, another programmer I work with decided to updated his glibc, then build our server component, and gave it to me to update a server. Lo and behold, atoi (no that's not right anyway, some relatively standard library call) didn't exist. It appears someone decided to move it from where it was in the glibc package that shipped on RedHat 7.3.
Changes to libraries or replacements by crappy installers (if they need a different older version of mfc42 they're screwing something up) happen on both Linux and Windows, thanks.
Blame shitty QA at Adaptec maybe, not the operating systems in question.
I'd rather bother with spews as you put it.
First off, spamcop's too narrow. What happens when spammer is moved to another subdomain on the same network? You get mail again and wait for spamcop to kick in.
With spews it was targetted first, then broadened as the upstreams refused to deal with the problem.
Also, philisophically, all spammers being directly blocked accomplishes is that there aren't enough complaints to justify the big guys paying attention to the anti-spam crowd. When REAL customers are also complaining, then the big guys start listening. Takes time, but some of them have finally woke up and smelled the coffee, and work on a continual basis to kick the spammers off their networks.
If it takes expanding the block to all of Sprint for example, pretty quickly does sprint realise that no matter how much the spammer is paying them, it hurts their business model to not fix their problems.
Well, for the same reason that Linux hasn't done it.
There's no 'Windows Buffer' or 'Linux Buffer' thing, it's just an array. If the OS was interrupting all malloc/sprintf/strcpy calls, then C would perform orders of magnitute slower like VB/Java, because their runtimes check on EACH access (scroll up) if that call is about to go out of bounds.
Java and VB have come a long way towards running faster, but type-safe/bounds safe arrays take execution time away from the programmer. The lack of bounds checking is what makes C so fast.
The error is a logical error on the part of the programmer.
You're allowed to have enough rope to hang yourself in C, if you choose to put your head through the noose, it's not the fault of Microsoft/Linus/K&R/Stroustrop -- it's your own.
I blame poor training -- CS students today are graduating missing fundamental concepts of the programming languages they work with. Couple that with a severe lack of engineering/mentorship in the workplace, and we get to a dangerous situation. Everyone talks about code reviews, but WHO is doing it? No one.
Junior programmers need mentoring, they've got a bunch of CS theory running around their heads, but not enough experience to work in a language like C safely. Also, realistically responsible vendors should be auditing their code to keep it secure, even very experienced programmers get tired / burnt out, and might inadvertently dangerously treat unknown data.
When your projects are 1,000s of lines long only it's really easy to not ever come across this. Most modern software systems number in the millions per project, and can easily lead to situations where the programmers do stupid things because they are only human (not lazy or stupid as some posters may contend - writing unsafe code like that to me is a sign of overwork).
Why oh Why Dear Slashdot Editors dose Lord of the Rings not have a Logo? Starwars has a Logo.. the Ipod has a Logo.. why dosent LOTR?
;)
Well, just hazarding a guess, but things that have logos have either been around for a while, or have a volume of stories posted about them. Just saw the movie it's great and all, but this and maybe one other story have been on slashdot about the subject that I recall in the last 6 months (some troll will probably show us 2 more - so what?).
If it's in the same boat as star wars where people are still doing fan sites / zines, collecting stuff years later then sure, give it a logo, because there's a VOLUME of stories about it. LOTR has of course been around in book form, but doesn't have enough stories on average to warrant a seperate category yet. Maybe that will change. It's not a comment on how good something is whether its worthy of a category, its a reflection on how many stories are posted here about it.
Or, to sumarize - story normalization
Is AOL keeping all the money and doing nothing for it's users? Or is it going to do something to redistribute it's winnings, like refunds or discounts on on-line fees for a few months
/. and dupe stories? :P
/dev/null, only recently after years of their lusers complaining did they start doing anything about it.
Isn't this Offtopic? I thought this was a long discussion about
That is a good question actually.. should a share go to the users, or a cut to maybe other providers having to deal with spam from the AOL throwaway acocunts that often were the source of the spam in the first place... AOL not that long ago routinely re-reouted abuse@aol.com messages to
I also use it, however, when I used to develop sites for Netscape 4 and IE 4, I didn't praise Netscape for being more anal about the JavaScript interpreter, I cursed it.
That is until I learned that IE would grok whatever I threw at it practically, and just realised to develop in the less flexible browser first, then make sure it looked/worked right in the more flexible one rather than the other way around.
Why is Linux better technically than Windows? Because it's more restrictive or because its less? Less right? I'm not sure why that argument is invalid when it comes to browsers.
Mind you Mozilla is what I use at home. There are some areas of clear superiority (i don't have to blindly accept ActiveX - try turning it off in IE), but I don't see the 'only proper HTML gets rendered' approach as technically superior.
I think it would be an improvment if Mozilla would bear in mind the 'improper' HTML that IE allows, and become more flexible in every aspect (how it interprets HTML - even sloppy HTML), not just things like popups.
Why? Sexual content is no less valid than any other form of expression. It's obviously popular -- why isn't it represented equally in the study?
Because we are a horribly prudish society?
I work and interact with many people a lot younger than me (I'm in my 30's many of these folks range from like 12-40).
One of these guys and I were talking about how he caught his cousin (female) masturbating. He was thinking that he should 'blackmail' her about this.
I asked him why he would want to do that, saying what it's natural, don't tell me you've never done that, etc. After talking for a couple of hours, he actually decided against this course of action.
It's shocking to see the 'values' that parents are still passing onto their kids regarding sex.
I once lived with a woman who had a young daughter, most times she asked about sex related questions, it was a relief that we just talked to her honestly about it. She caused quite a fuss in our little neighborhood for repeating something we talked about once, so I'm guessing we were in the vast minority by actually not being fscked up about sex questions from a kid.
Sad really, I don't think I'm perfect or anything, but why is it that so many people are so bloody prudish still? Didn't the sexual revolution happen 30 years ago?
...problem is that it's $49.99 for 608up/128down instead of 1.5Mup/128down that directv offered....
:D
s/up/down/g; ?
At least I thought DSL was usually faster downstream.. I could be wrong, or staring at too much Perl lately
Why not just reinstall XP, phone them back.. get a refund?
That's somewhat ridiculous anyway, just because the support drones aren't trained to troubleshoot linux has nothing to do with the warranty does it? That's like saying you void your Warranty by installing a legally obtained copy of Visual Studio or something, 'well sir it's a home machine, sorry you can't install development software on it'.
Or did OSes somehow stop being computer programs at some point? I mean, sure crack in and solder on some extra nifty toys, that should void the warranty, but installing software on computers somehow damages the hardware how?
Democracy is supposed to be founded on the principle that the MAJORITY sets the standard for conduct of said democracies' laws.
;).
With anti-spam legislation being chiefly set by the spammers themselves, the majority is under represented.
Another freedom democracies have is the right to PROTEST the government's actions if the citizens are unhappy with the laws passed by said governm ent. Or, the practices of one corporation's actions (like animal activists peacefully demonstrating outside research facilities).
Yes, vigilante justice is horrible. However, this was simply in my view an effective protest by the citizens (Internet wise anyway, because living outside the USA does not exempt you from this man's actions) of a businesses practices.
Possibly, by getting a little media attention, those that are responsible for passing laws governing spam in many countries, may just wake up and smell the coffee and recognize that their proposed legislation stinks, and hurts the 'little people', the ones that elect them and that they are supposed to represent.
That's how I view it anyway..
Silly question, perhaps, but are we all just assuming that Smith is being cast as R. Daneel Olivaw? He could be playing Lije Bailey, who IS the viewpoint character (or "star"), after all.
Wrong book(s). Lije Baily and Daneel Olivaw were in the Caves of Steel, etc. Written somewhat later than I, Robot -- which was a collection of short stories, like 'Robbie' (which had various names at various times, according to Asimov).
I hope Hollywood hasn't mucked it up that badly. Personally I'd rather see foundation or The 'sci-fi murder mysteries' that do feature Lije and Olivaw as movies.
Re:This is all well and good... (Score:3, Funny) .. snip .. .. snip ..
:P
(Don't mod this up as 'Funny' -- I'm dead serious here.)
Ok, gave the monkeys mod points again ?
why do people care what ISS says? Just because "X-Force" sounds cool?
:o Oh, hmm.. I think I'm posting on the wrong article here ;).
Two words: Gilian Anderson.. rrrrr...
They're upset I think about the early disclosure of this information.
;).
By 'leaking' the info to FatWallet ahead of the 'official' announcement, the retailers feel that the competitors can get the 'jump' on them, and chop a buck or two off here and there and out compete them.
Of course, that's sort of flawed logic, because they could well use the site to do the same back.. but heck, the management types are more likely to fling their weight around than consider the ramifications of their actions.
Can't have the lifetime costs built into everything - that would make just about everything price-prohibitive.
Which is more price-prohibitive?
Paying the disposal/recycling costs on your consumables up-front; or
Paying them after the municipal dump heap has already poisoned your ground water?
Good ideas, agree with that principal. But can someone please explain when a PC became a consumable?? Best not tell the IRS or other taxman, because you can't depreciate consumables.
Bloated crappy software is partly to blame for this bogus trend to think that if you don't get a new PC every year you're poor.
But still, bearing that in mind, I'm sure we all know one person who's kinda 'have not' that may be interested in a computer. Don't throw the damn thing away give it to a starving comp. sci. student near you.
That's true, however, what's sad about it is in Canada, some folks with LEGITIMATE (i.e. health related) reasons to be using MRI are on mile long waiting lists.
:P), and for us that is a bad waste of resources.
;).
The media loves to make it sound worse, but there are still long enough lists, that I'm not sure the resource should be squandered like that.
This is taking place in the US, but it wont' be long before Canadian Corporation's marketing buffoons want to try it (oh sorry was that biased
These machines aren't cheap in the US either, I can't imagine that it's a sensible allocation of resources there either. Hope you folks don't have waiting lists
There is a lot of power in X that your average user doesn't use. Ditching X support in favor of only supporting some sort of framebuffer output doesn't make sense.
This doesn't make any sense at all.. who but us geeks cares about power? No one. If it's stabler than windows, then it's going to get used by mom and pop users.
Sorry, but my desktop X experiences have ranged from painless, to completely and utterly impossible. Why? Because of all the s**t you have to go through when it goes wrong, and all the layers of crap you have to futz with. Also, when X applications crashed a couple years ago, they just bloody disappeared. I'd rather see a message telling me the stupid thing crashed...
I say split X into two flavours, the 'normal' desktop type of GUI subsystem, and the 'networked' stuff that most people aren't going to use (mom & pop kettle and heck even me). Cut out a bunch of the extra teeth pulling you have to go through to get X running and middle layers of stuff, and save that for the folks that want to harness the power (i.e. X terminals all over the place).
I know it's gotten better, but maybe some of you forget what it used to be like.
Sourceforge has done 100 times more for Open Source Development than Sims Online ever will
Has it? As a student, I applied to about half a dozen sourceforge projects. Total replies: 0.
Applied to about 3 game mods, was hired by one within a week, and have been solicited by about 7 others.
I think there are some projects on sourceforge that are a little too full of themselves..
Some aren't sure, but don't kid yourself. Open Source used to mean, I want to contribute therefore I can. That's not been my personal experience with sourceforge, that was more like applying for a day job...
Well, I work on a Halflife mod. I'd say there are parallels, and there are differences.
Some Similarities:
- our mod team is international, and collaborates via the net
- anyone can contribute, and receive credit for their contribution
- mods rely on folks working together without necessarily getting pay for their work
- there is already a small community of independents producing work to be used in it, that hasn't been put into the project
- there's a large community of other mod developers, and we all kinda 'hang out' and help each other with techniques, approaches etc.
- anyone who contributes work, does it to give it to the community of players, moreso than for direct personal gain..
In our case, the source is closed. We've accepted the source under a license agreement (from the game manufacturer) that I'm not sure others wouldn't break otherwise. There are other reasons related to possible cheats (although I still think more eyes looking at the source is better for that in general).
Is it the same as OpenSource? No. Is it somewhat similar? In my opinion yes.