Event if you teach them what hash tables and linked lists are, many developers still write functions that are 500 lines long that could be 20 lines. Some people I have worked with don't even grasp the concept of a subroutine.
But of course they now know about patterns and javadoc, so they put a
/**
* This is a FooBar singleton factory (See the Design Patterns book)
*/
Basically, a few people in Second Life make some digital replicas of Taser's products that do not have the same function as Taser's products, or props that have the Taser name, but do not have any functions or resemblance similar to Taser products.
So people have to know in *advance* how good the novel will be.
Do you have to know in advance how good a haircut is going to be, how well a mechanic will fix your car, how well a CEO will run your company, and so on?
If haircuts were something I could read a review on, flip through, and resell, I would be delighted. I would love to keep it that way. Buying haircuts and mechanical repair sucks, why on earth would I like books to be sold in that manner?
Agreeing to pay someone for a service they'll perform in the future is hardly new. Billions of people earn a living that way.
Just because many people (certainly not billions) do it, doesn't mean it's superior. The concept that the guy who made an album that 1000 people enjoyed should earn ~1000 more than the guy who made an album that one person enjoyed seems rational and intuitive to me.
I'm not saying that the industries are doing it right, but the filesharer mythology about being trapped in this unfair system they want to destroy, so that their post-riaa piratebay-powered utopia will rise where indy-bands will flourish and get paid by flying unicords smells like bullshit to me.
Today in Europe would a set of construction plans from 1920 make any sense at all?
The metric system was introduced in the 18th century.
And in 100 years the likelyhood that either ASCII or Unicode will survive is very remote.
I think, 100 years from now some people will still remember the order of the alphabet, and some will even know what binary digits are. Put those two things together - you got ASCII. Add some more offsets - you got Unicode.
Alan Turing cracked Enigma 70 years ago. I'm pretty confident someone will crack ASCII or Unicode in 100 years - if it will be abandoned.
The whole article is ridiculous. The first sentence is
My wife and I were in New York's Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible
What is remarkable about that? If you want to put a ancient Egypt rock in the Central Park, do you use a shattered obelisk where you can't read anything or do you take the nice one?
And how ignorant is the author to ignore all the broken, lost and otherwise destroyed rocks that didn't survive?
If you want to write an article about the lack of metadata standards and your perceived lack of long-term storage options, fine, but don't built it around your wifes spontaneous epiphanies.
Yes, correct. Just as inane as RiotingPacifits wish for his overrated space opera to reappear. But the evil free market killed the "good" stuff - which of course is subjectively defined by his taste.
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I thought so too, but I have noticed that deleting files on ext4 is faster than on ext3 on my dm-crypted drive.
Event if you teach them what hash tables and linked lists are, many developers still write functions that are 500 lines long that could be 20 lines. Some people I have worked with don't even grasp the concept of a subroutine.
But of course they now know about patterns and javadoc, so they put a
* This is a FooBar singleton factory (See the Design Patterns book)
*/
On top of their stinking mess and feel smart.
Is it my hangover or is the sentence?
Basically, a few people in Second Life make some digital replicas of Taser's products that do not have the same function as Taser's products, or props that have the Taser name, but do not have any functions or resemblance similar to Taser products.
So... what did those few people do?
I wonder if they could build an antenna to capture some of the energy - Tesla style. But I'm no radio geek.
So people have to know in *advance* how good the novel will be.
Do you have to know in advance how good a haircut is going to be, how well a mechanic will fix your car, how well a CEO will run your company, and so on?
If haircuts were something I could read a review on, flip through, and resell, I would be delighted. I would love to keep it that way. Buying haircuts and mechanical repair sucks, why on earth would I like books to be sold in that manner?
Agreeing to pay someone for a service they'll perform in the future is hardly new. Billions of people earn a living that way.
Just because many people (certainly not billions) do it, doesn't mean it's superior. The concept that the guy who made an album that 1000 people enjoyed should earn ~1000 more than the guy who made an album that one person enjoyed seems rational and intuitive to me.
I'm not saying that the industries are doing it right, but the filesharer mythology about being trapped in this unfair system they want to destroy, so that their post-riaa piratebay-powered utopia will rise where indy-bands will flourish and get paid by flying unicords smells like bullshit to me.
I was thinking that they failed to go with the times and were to slow to adopt new technology and would therefore die out. Strange.
So people have to know in *advance* how good the novel will be.
Better yet, unknown authors have no way to charge money after they publish a book. They have to rely on charity.
Mod parent up.
The article blatantly ignores this fact and is therefore rubbish.
I see
1. Stephen King writes novel
2. People download free ebooks
3. ???
4. Profit
I would think that the successful tribes were all extremely friendly and peaceful in nature.
There is no reason to believe that. This might be of interest to you.
But the individual prisoners goal isn't "Prisoner team wins". It is "Not being in jail".
There is no prison player. That's the point of the game. The prisoners only care about their jail time.
Those with the best grasp of quantum mechanics will tell you up front its a crock of shit that no one understands.
And who is that?
The game involves three players - "prisoner one", "prisoner two" and "prison".
No it doesn't.
probably not (and please tag this !aprilsfools until you are sure)
"Although similar, it builds on 1960s technology"? While the old one was build on 1860 technology? I don't get it.
How come the formal definition of the Mandelbrot set lacks those switch-loop-and-jump statements?
On linux you can use
easy_install impacket
to install impacket if it isn't in your repository (you need the setuptools package for python however)
lucky the beta index isn't linked in the summary, otherwise it would already be slashdotted
again EVIL people deny that only TIME CUBE can make sense of the world
Today in Europe would a set of construction plans from 1920 make any sense at all?
The metric system was introduced in the 18th century.
And in 100 years the likelyhood that either ASCII or Unicode will survive is very remote.
I think, 100 years from now some people will still remember the order of the alphabet, and some will even know what binary digits are. Put those two things together - you got ASCII. Add some more offsets - you got Unicode.
Alan Turing cracked Enigma 70 years ago. I'm pretty confident someone will crack ASCII or Unicode in 100 years - if it will be abandoned.
The whole article is ridiculous. The first sentence is
My wife and I were in New York's Central Park last fall when we saw a nearly 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk that has been remarkably well preserved, with hieroglyphs that were clearly legible
What is remarkable about that? If you want to put a ancient Egypt rock in the Central Park, do you use a shattered obelisk where you can't read anything or do you take the nice one?
And how ignorant is the author to ignore all the broken, lost and otherwise destroyed rocks that didn't survive?
If you want to write an article about the lack of metadata standards and your perceived lack of long-term storage options, fine, but don't built it around your wifes spontaneous epiphanies.
But you can use it to hurt people that want to steal the rock.
he might be harsh but he is right - broken here too (firefox 3.0.7, no greasemonkey or the likes)
Yes, correct. Just as inane as RiotingPacifits wish for his overrated space opera to reappear. But the evil free market killed the "good" stuff - which of course is subjectively defined by his taste.