money being spent on creating larger monitors should be redirected to productive tasks such as maintaining the nationwide Pneumatic Tube Network.
Sarcasm, I know. But still, it'd be cool if you won something on eBay, and the seller could just shove it into The Tube. I'm thinking of those big ones they had on the Daffy Duck in space cartoons. Of course, you'd have to worry about kids climbing into it and stuff...
The nice thing about having a slow modem connection, is that you can close pop-ups before they actually display anything.
You can almost always deduce from the content on the main page whether or not the pop-up is useful. If the site is one you visit regularly, you get to know the "personality" of the site. For example, Intellicast pop-ups are never useful. When one appears, I dismiss it before it has any chance to display content.
That's not to say that all pop-up windows are bad. The online finance people seem to have the most useful pop-ups, but they are voluntary ones. Nasdaq's customizable ticker is a good example.
Now, if everything were copyleft (a Free Software advocate's dream) we'd be all the way over to the right of the curve. Likewise, if nobody had ever shared source, achievements in computer science would be very limited. We'd be all the way over to the left of the curve.
As usual, the truth is in the middle. I dislike Copyleft because it has a tendency to push us farther and farther to the right on this graph. Eventually, it may reduce the output of useful code. Despite what FSF advocates say, reducing useful output does *not* enhance freedom.
What we really need are some useful measurements of output and utility in the software industry. Maybe someday we will even be able to establish an optimum ammount of time that should be spent contributing to Open Source. However, it is likely to remain a political issue for the foreseable future--just like taxation.
I've used both the IDE and printfs for debugging. The IDE is great for tracing flow through deeply nested calls. It's also good for pinpointing problems like infinite loops. For example, you keep hitting F-10, and then it goes grey on line 532. Bingo! That's the function that's gone loopy.
But then printf is better for checking the contents of things sometimes. For example, after you read in the data file, you can write a simple "dump" function for the data structure to check and make sure that it has the right contents. In general, printf is great when you know what value a variable should have at a particular point.
As for threads, I can't really say since I haven't done any.
Someone who reads/., is familiar with DeCSS, understands why Louisana law is different, *and* has time to post that early? I think it had to be obvious to just about anybody that this was a prepared piece "held in reserve" for the right occasion, but I'm surprised that he didn't link it or credit it in the first place.
Quite some time ago I saw something on TV that came out of Germany. They had enclosed the fissile material in ceramic spheres. You could drain all the water out of the reactor, and the pile of spheres would establish a safe equilibrium temperatore--physically impossible to melt down.
My Dad remarked at the time that even though such "second generation" nuclear technologies were orders of magnitude safer, they would never be deployed in the US because of the tremendous prejudice against nuclear. I guess he was right.
1. Everytime you hit backspace, it sends you back to the last page. I don't think I really want to train my fingers to forget what backspace does in a normal shell.
2. It looks like a good flash alternative except... The traditional flash developer uses flash because it has decent development tools that a graphic arts person can understand. Are these people going to drop everything to learn Tk?
3. Number 2 might not be a problem if it ran on Linux and was under an OSI certified license. At least the geeks who like programming, graphics, and Linux might use it. But NO, they targeted IE, and the license has some issues. Aren't the X fonts free?
My recommendations: 1. come out with a Linux version. 2. work out the license issues to the point where it is MPL / LGPL compatable so that it can be plugged into Mozilla. 3. Offer secured EiC as an alternative to that other funky language.
Shoot! If they followed my recommendations, it'd be Scrubbed C (I wrote that before I knew what a VM was. If I were to write that today, I would forget about preprocessing the language and propose a sandbox instead)
Maybe not, but cost analysis is engineering. Don't believe me? Next time your manager asks you to outline your approach to a new problem, present him with something that requires 10,000 developers and a $60 billion equipment expenditure.
Yes boss, our next server should use the Hoover dam as a power supply, and hand-wound relays instead of transistors for the processor core. Actually, I'd kind of like to see that...
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Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I still have my IP. We both have it now.
Do we both have the blood, sweat, tears and long lonely hours that went into creating it?
Moderators -- crack ain't enough eh? Ya gotta speedball crystal meth and heroin too? You never should have touched that post. If anything you should have given him +1 Funny.
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Right. it's about large checks from wealthy aunts.
Father Christmas, give us your money.
We've got no time for your silly toys.
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over.
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed...
Several years ago when I was commuting regularly on the Metro near Arlington, VA; there was a guy who took the same train who always wore a helmet. It even had a special plexiglass shield for the face. He did not appear to be mentally retarded--just strange.
The helmet may or may not have protected him from any falling objects, but it certainly protected him from strangers. Nobody went near the guy.
Anyhow, if there is a subway nearby, I would think that's enough to protect you from the debris.
I enjoyed the TV show. They plot-shift between Harrison's life and the life of a 20th century enthusiast who restored the clocks. One of the underlying themes is that they were both obsessed with the project to the point of destroying their personal lives. One might take it as a cautionary tale for today's computer professionals. If you don't mind the plot-shifting, it's good but rather long. I think it might have been 3 hours.
Home Depot announced that it would stop selling nails designed to be hit with bricks. Surveys indicated that most customers preferred hitting them with hammers, despite the fact that bricks were cheaper and that the process for making bricks was well documented and open.
Many people in the brick community expressed dissapointment. One of their leading spokesman took a break from mixing red clay and was quoted as saying that "bricks still have a promising future as nail pounding devices. We just have to educate users about how it isn't so bad if you have good nails with wide heads, and properly bake your bricks. This doesn't change the fact that bricks are a great building material either, but we think they have the potential for so much more".
The only similarity is that Best Buy appears to be taking a loss on certain CDs, perhaps with the intention of undercutting and ruining their competition. Microsoft's use of this technique (giving IE away for free), was a relatively unimportant action.
sure my hobby and choice of music may be a little obscure, but it's the semi-obscure things that i want the internet for.
Right on! That's what so many people failed to realize before all the.coms starting dying. At the peak of the frenzy I was heard to say on more than one occasion that "I miss the internet the way it used to be--obscure, intellectual, and hostile".
...and into the oven monopoly. I'm referring to the CDs. Think about it. How many musicians work at "Best Buy" and are happy? How many starving musicians work at record stores and at least don't totally hate it? How does Best Buy stack up as a cultural center vs. your local record store? Where are you more likely to find out about the local scene? How is this any different from MS bundling IE? Will the government bring a case against Best Buy now for trying to lock record stores out of business, or will they wait until all the record stores fold, thus doing a good job for lawyers, but leaving everybody else high and dry?
On the serious side, I guess we should have all known that only the government could save this. After all, everybody else figured it was worthless, so naturally they have to spend our tax dollars on 'em.
That stuff about lots of reentries causing problems is bogus. Some people at DoD probably want them as yet-another-backup-channel in the event of a military communication problem. Why don't they just come out and say that?
Ummm... because it's good enough to command a premium. Duh!
Not an Opera user myself, but I've heard people say that its small memory footprint is a major advantage. That, and the fact that it's not integrated into Windows and therefore won't take the OS down when it crashes.
IMHO, a bloat-reduced Mozilla could put the final nail in Opera's coffin, but don't hold your breath. Until then, some people are willing to pay for what FS/OSS doesn't offer.
It was related to me that in a certain call center they got bored one night and decided that everybody would be named "Bob". I wasn't there when it happened, but it was part of the lore, and it seemed just as plausible as anything else.
(in the voice of the Comic Book store owner, typing into his laptop) "Choosed", best grammatical error for the purpose of enhancing posts and ad revenue ever!
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money being spent on creating larger monitors should be redirected to productive tasks such as maintaining the nationwide Pneumatic Tube Network.
Sarcasm, I know. But still, it'd be cool if you won something on eBay, and the seller could just shove it into The Tube. I'm thinking of those big ones they had on the Daffy Duck in space cartoons. Of course, you'd have to worry about kids climbing into it and stuff...
The nice thing about having a slow modem connection, is that you can close pop-ups before they actually display anything.
You can almost always deduce from the content on the main page whether or not the pop-up is useful. If the site is one you visit regularly, you get to know the "personality" of the site. For example, Intellicast pop-ups are never useful. When one appears, I dismiss it before it has any chance to display content.
That's not to say that all pop-up windows are bad. The online finance people seem to have the most useful pop-ups, but they are voluntary ones. Nasdaq's customizable ticker is a good example.
There must be a Laffer Curve for software.
Now, if everything were copyleft (a Free Software advocate's dream) we'd be all the way over to the right of the curve. Likewise, if nobody had ever shared source, achievements in computer science would be very limited. We'd be all the way over to the left of the curve.
As usual, the truth is in the middle. I dislike Copyleft because it has a tendency to push us farther and farther to the right on this graph. Eventually, it may reduce the output of useful code. Despite what FSF advocates say, reducing useful output does *not* enhance freedom.
What we really need are some useful measurements of output and utility in the software industry. Maybe someday we will even be able to establish an optimum ammount of time that should be spent contributing to Open Source. However, it is likely to remain a political issue for the foreseable future--just like taxation.
I've used both the IDE and printfs for debugging. The IDE is great for tracing flow through deeply nested calls. It's also good for pinpointing problems like infinite loops. For example, you keep hitting F-10, and then it goes grey on line 532. Bingo! That's the function that's gone loopy.
But then printf is better for checking the contents of things sometimes. For example, after you read in the data file, you can write a simple "dump" function for the data structure to check and make sure that it has the right contents. In general, printf is great when you know what value a variable should have at a particular point.
As for threads, I can't really say since I haven't done any.
Someone who reads /., is familiar with DeCSS, understands why Louisana law is different, *and* has time to post that early? I think it had to be obvious to just about anybody that this was a prepared piece "held in reserve" for the right occasion, but I'm surprised that he didn't link it or credit it in the first place.
Quite some time ago I saw something on TV that came out of Germany. They had enclosed the fissile material in ceramic spheres. You could drain all the water out of the reactor, and the pile of spheres would establish a safe equilibrium temperatore--physically impossible to melt down.
My Dad remarked at the time that even though such "second generation" nuclear technologies were orders of magnitude safer, they would never be deployed in the US because of the tremendous prejudice against nuclear. I guess he was right.
Does anybody know what became of this technology?
1. Everytime you hit backspace, it sends you back to the last page. I don't think I really want to train my fingers to forget what backspace does in a normal shell.
2. It looks like a good flash alternative except... The traditional flash developer uses flash because it has decent development tools that a graphic arts person can understand. Are these people going to drop everything to learn Tk?
3. Number 2 might not be a problem if it ran on Linux and was under an OSI certified license. At least the geeks who like programming, graphics, and Linux might use it. But NO, they targeted IE, and the license has some issues. Aren't the X fonts free?
My recommendations: 1. come out with a Linux version. 2. work out the license issues to the point where it is MPL / LGPL compatable so that it can be plugged into Mozilla. 3. Offer secured EiC as an alternative to that other funky language.
Shoot! If they followed my recommendations, it'd be Scrubbed C (I wrote that before I knew what a VM was. If I were to write that today, I would forget about preprocessing the language and propose a sandbox instead)
Maybe not, but cost analysis is engineering. Don't believe me? Next time your manager asks you to outline your approach to a new problem, present him with something that requires 10,000 developers and a $60 billion equipment expenditure.
Yes boss, our next server should use the Hoover dam as a power supply, and hand-wound relays instead of transistors for the processor core. Actually, I'd kind of like to see that...
Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I still have my IP. We both have it now.
Do we both have the blood, sweat, tears and long lonely hours that went into creating it?
Moderators -- crack ain't enough eh? Ya gotta speedball crystal meth and heroin too? You never should have touched that post. If anything you should have given him +1 Funny.
Right. it's about large checks from wealthy aunts.
Father Christmas, give us your money.
We've got no time for your silly toys.
We'll beat you up if you don't hand it over.
We want your bread so don't make us annoyed...
Several years ago when I was commuting regularly on the Metro near Arlington, VA; there was a guy who took the same train who always wore a helmet. It even had a special plexiglass shield for the face. He did not appear to be mentally retarded--just strange.
The helmet may or may not have protected him from any falling objects, but it certainly protected him from strangers. Nobody went near the guy.
Anyhow, if there is a subway nearby, I would think that's enough to protect you from the debris.
You forgot to mention that the satellite survives with solar panels intact.
A fatal exception 0E has occured. Please make sure that your computer is cooled to within 2K of absolute zero, and reboot.
I enjoyed the TV show. They plot-shift between Harrison's life and the life of a 20th century enthusiast who restored the clocks. One of the underlying themes is that they were both obsessed with the project to the point of destroying their personal lives. One might take it as a cautionary tale for today's computer professionals. If you don't mind the plot-shifting, it's good but rather long. I think it might have been 3 hours.
Home Depot announced that it would stop selling nails designed to be hit with bricks. Surveys indicated that most customers preferred hitting them with hammers, despite the fact that bricks were cheaper and that the process for making bricks was well documented and open.
Many people in the brick community expressed dissapointment. One of their leading spokesman took a break from mixing red clay and was quoted as saying that "bricks still have a promising future as nail pounding devices. We just have to educate users about how it isn't so bad if you have good nails with wide heads, and properly bake your bricks. This doesn't change the fact that bricks are a great building material either, but we think they have the potential for so much more".
The only similarity is that Best Buy appears to be taking a loss on certain CDs, perhaps with the intention of undercutting and ruining their competition. Microsoft's use of this technique (giving IE away for free), was a relatively unimportant action.
The DOJ and a federal judge thought otherwise.
D%$#it! spintronics.com is already registered.
sure my hobby and choice of music may be a little obscure, but it's the semi-obscure things that i want the internet for.
Right on! That's what so many people failed to realize before all the .coms starting dying. At the peak of the frenzy I was heard to say on more than one occasion that "I miss the internet the way it used to be--obscure, intellectual, and hostile".
You don't even have to use obscure Japanese stuff. Just type in 'xxx' and the 5th link you get is http://majesticescorts.com/.
...and into the oven monopoly. I'm referring to the CDs. Think about it. How many musicians work at "Best Buy" and are happy? How many starving musicians work at record stores and at least don't totally hate it? How does Best Buy stack up as a cultural center vs. your local record store? Where are you more likely to find out about the local scene? How is this any different from MS bundling IE? Will the government bring a case against Best Buy now for trying to lock record stores out of business, or will they wait until all the record stores fold, thus doing a good job for lawyers, but leaving everybody else high and dry?
I think we know the answers to these questions.
Can't they just send all the satellites to Quasi?
On the serious side, I guess we should have all known that only the government could save this. After all, everybody else figured it was worthless, so naturally they have to spend our tax dollars on 'em.
That stuff about lots of reentries causing problems is bogus. Some people at DoD probably want them as yet-another-backup-channel in the event of a military communication problem. Why don't they just come out and say that?
So why the hell is Opera $50?
Ummm... because it's good enough to command a premium. Duh!
Not an Opera user myself, but I've heard people say that its small memory footprint is a major advantage. That, and the fact that it's not integrated into Windows and therefore won't take the OS down when it crashes.
IMHO, a bloat-reduced Mozilla could put the final nail in Opera's coffin, but don't hold your breath. Until then, some people are willing to pay for what FS/OSS doesn't offer.
It was related to me that in a certain call center they got bored one night and decided that everybody would be named "Bob". I wasn't there when it happened, but it was part of the lore, and it seemed just as plausible as anything else.
(in the voice of the Comic Book store owner, typing into his laptop) "Choosed", best grammatical error for the purpose of enhancing posts and ad revenue ever!