So, if pronto had been written in Python, what would be the likelihood of the same bug popping up? It would be equal, thus your post has little relevance to the problem at hand. Any language would fall prey to this problem if its programmer overlooked the fact that the widget's interface sorts alphanumerically, even your wonderful "strongly-typed-makes-me-a-better-programmer" languages.
The fact that Perl has vague distinctions between strings and numbers has very little to do with the situation at hand. The problem with the billennium bug is that there's a risk that programmers did not allocate enough digits to hold a date correctly; since both Perl and Python reallocate memory to handle larger values internally, your Python will succeed or fail in an equal number of situations as Perl. It's not an issue of the actual program language, the issue is how the date is persistently stored when the program ends (a database, columnar text file, or whatever).
You're not flamebait because you're a Python bigot, you're flamebait because your post is an invalid rant and off-topic.
Well, the Crusoe processor uses about 1-2 watts. So, you're talking about 65 Crusoe processors to eat up the power of a single Itanium. If you're going by the entire motherboard with its components, an RLX 324 uses 15.7 watts of power.
Private schools subsidize the government, not vice versa. Do you really want a situation where millions of children are dropped into public schools, and the government forced to pay the costs to teach them?
You know what would happen to your taxes if that occurred.
If the government wanted to cut costs, it would provide extra incentive to parents to pay for their own children's schooling.
It makes sense to have a compiler default to fast compiles - gcc is a developer's tool, and one thing that developers do is recompile their code A LOT. Any good programmer knows that the last step in code development is optimization.
Setting the compiler to fast executables is something that is only done when the software has reached its release state. Any distributed software will of course include a Makefile or similar which will set the fast executable settings on.
"The average person in the street doesn't need to worry, as they would have to be specifically targeted," said Graham Cluley, an Internet security expert with antivirus firm Sophos.
I suppose the quux is whether I'm an "average person" or not. I think I'll go stand in the street to hedge my bets.
I would vote against the Toshiba for the reason that their dock/undock system is sucky - if you don't wait the 3 minutes to undock the laptop, it'll usually lock up and become unusable.
...speaking from the perspective of a Tecra 8100, that is.
There is a huge gap between communism and socialism. The GNU manifesto follows much more closely to socialism.
Socialism: Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
I don't see where we have any authoritarian parties holding power, so please don't compare the GNU movement to the Soviet system of government.
It really depends on the application -- most of the applications that these devices are being developed are more effective with a linux environment.
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I was surprised that the original poster missed that element of the picture -- I thought that the comparison of a 15 year old's breasts and the outrage over Morris' "sick" show was the whole point!
My point was that, with raw sockets, it's possible to spoof the source IP address making it impossible to block the traffic (unless you have excellent cooperation from your upstream providers).
However, replying specifically to your case, I have been hit by 20 servers attacking one of the sites I administer and was able to block them within a few minutes (haven't been privileged enough to be hit by more than 20 yet). I can't imagine 100 machines would be that much harder.
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See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21493&cid=2272 567. The problem is in GTK+'s sorting algorithm (alphanumeric) and has nothing to do with the interfacing language.
So, if pronto had been written in Python, what would be the likelihood of the same bug popping up? It would be equal, thus your post has little relevance to the problem at hand. Any language would fall prey to this problem if its programmer overlooked the fact that the widget's interface sorts alphanumerically, even your wonderful "strongly-typed-makes-me-a-better-programmer" languages.
The fact that Perl has vague distinctions between strings and numbers has very little to do with the situation at hand. The problem with the billennium bug is that there's a risk that programmers did not allocate enough digits to hold a date correctly; since both Perl and Python reallocate memory to handle larger values internally, your Python will succeed or fail in an equal number of situations as Perl. It's not an issue of the actual program language, the issue is how the date is persistently stored when the program ends (a database, columnar text file, or whatever).
You're not flamebait because you're a Python bigot, you're flamebait because your post is an invalid rant and off-topic.
intergalactics.net also allows users to create Java robots to test and play them on the server.
...which is where I wrote my first (and last) java class. Ech.
do people tremble in fear at the mention of driving a Honda simply because they've only ever driven Fords?
They do when there isn't an accessible Honda repair shop.
Sometimes you don't need that kind of horsepower or bandwidth - putting a mouse on firewire seems a little rediculous to me.
USB (well, USB 1.0) microcontrollers can be found for under $1 each. I don't think you're going to be able to swing that with FireWire anytime soon.
The Sparc chips may be many things, but cheap is definitely not one of them.
Somebody keep this guy away from the Dark Side developer kit
Well, the Crusoe processor uses about 1-2 watts. So, you're talking about 65 Crusoe processors to eat up the power of a single Itanium. If you're going by the entire motherboard with its components, an RLX 324 uses 15.7 watts of power.
If you had read the book like I did you would realize that this is a good thing.
I downloaded the demo on August 10th, so it's been out for quite a while, really.
...and of course, like all of their demos, it installs and plays flawlessly.
Lemme guess - you're trying to pioneer recursive misspelling?
Private schools subsidize the government, not vice versa. Do you really want a situation where millions of children are dropped into public schools, and the government forced to pay the costs to teach them?
You know what would happen to your taxes if that occurred.
If the government wanted to cut costs, it would provide extra incentive to parents to pay for their own children's schooling.
It makes sense to have a compiler default to fast compiles - gcc is a developer's tool, and one thing that developers do is recompile their code A LOT. Any good programmer knows that the last step in code development is optimization.
Setting the compiler to fast executables is something that is only done when the software has reached its release state. Any distributed software will of course include a Makefile or similar which will set the fast executable settings on.
"The average person in the street doesn't need to worry, as they would have to be specifically targeted," said Graham Cluley, an Internet security expert with antivirus firm Sophos.
I suppose the quux is whether I'm an "average person" or not. I think I'll go stand in the street to hedge my bets.
Bingo! :)
I was thinking it'd be pretty easy to spot if it was rouge. I don't understand what all the trouble was about...
Not when this "growth area" is a bunch of B.S.
Canada has been excluded from the world, and you're worried about the Middle East and parts of Africa?
Don't forget the long battery life and the nice hibernate mode. Very cool running OS X.
Socialism: Any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned collectively or by a centralized government that often plans and controls the economy.
Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
I don't see where we have any authoritarian parties holding power, so please don't compare the GNU movement to the Soviet system of government.
It really depends on the application -- most of the applications that these devices are being developed are more effective with a linux environment.
I was surprised that the original poster missed that element of the picture -- I thought that the comparison of a 15 year old's breasts and the outrage over Morris' "sick" show was the whole point!
However, replying specifically to your case, I have been hit by 20 servers attacking one of the sites I administer and was able to block them within a few minutes (haven't been privileged enough to be hit by more than 20 yet). I can't imagine 100 machines would be that much harder.
..but if someone doesn't have 300,000 machines at their disposal, raw sockets make all the difference.