I was wondering how long before this actually happened. Back when my web server was under a barrage of malformed requests from infected IIS installations, I had the urge to create a script which would retaliate with exploiting, gaining access and patching the zombified computer... or at least, shut it down.
While I never actually did this, mostly due to lack of time and for fear of possible lawsuit, it was certainly possible. So now it's a reality, thanks to... whoever. I think it's a Good Thing.
That might well be because the article discusses the present state of the conflict and not the history. The history article is on a separate page, which is linked from the main article. Depending on your point of view this may or may not make sense; obviously you think it doesn't.
I think it does because the history of the conflict is a lot less disputed, and thus the other article can stay relatively stable and neutral while edits in the main article are occasionally extremist.
Joke aside, Australia has a good reason to play nice with the United States. Remember that Australia has vast resources, is much richer than neighboring countries AND has very little in the way of a defense force. Compare it to Indonesia, and guess which would have reason to conquer the other.
This puts a pressure on Australia to either build a greater army (not much chance with 20 million people vs 240 million) or seek powerful allies... Allies which have a political and economical stake.
Here, a trip to the movies is a little cheaper that in the US. And DVDs are more expensive. But I think it's worth the extra money and waiting a big of time.
Me and my friends get together to watch a DVD every weekend. With a projector, 5.1 sound system and the friendly atmosphere it beats going to the movies. And since we rent the DVD's for the equivalent of about €2, it's hell of a lot cheaper too.
A really bizarre theory called Welteislehre actually theorized that every heavenly object except for the Sun and Earth are composed of ice, or at least covered by a thick layer of it. It also theorized an eternal struggle between fire and ice, and that our moon collides with Earth every few thousand years.
Hörbiger is said to have developed his theory after observing the Moon at night. He concluded from the strong reflection of the light and the structure of the impact craters that the moon must be made of ice. He further theorized that the entire Milky Way, since it was very shiny at night, must be a collection of ice bodies.
This theory has gone on to become official cosmology in the Third Reich (mostly to offset Jewish influence on mainstream science).
Ironically, some aspects of this bizarre theory have turned out to be correct. Today we know that asteroids and Saturn's rings are based on ice, and that the outer planets of our solar system have significant amounts of ice.
Qt has always been techically superior and rather geek-friendly. Looks like in the new release they have found PHB-friendly names for their existing components. For example, they call the QTL (Qt Template Library - their replacement for STL) "Tulip".
Seems like they have changed more classes than they usually do, and have moved a whole set of "obsolete" classes into a separate compatibility library to help the transition from Qt3 to Qt4. This probably means that developers have a few years to remove these classes from their codebase before they go from "deprecated" to "completely removed".
The press release seems to be quiet about their previous challenge to Java (they have claimed a few months ago to produce a Qt4 that will be in "direct competition" to Sun's offerings). I'm kind of happy about this.
There is a sort of "talent pool" at sourceforge.net called "Project Help Wanted". It's mostly for developers, but there's also a section for graphics artists/designers. If you are an artist and would like to help out a project, why not try and see if there is one that could use your talent.
I have tried it before (I'm working on a game called OpenMortal)... got zero response. Maybe others have been luckier.
Exactly. What I've seen from all the colored bars is that there are no extreme differences for most usage patterns between the filesystems. ext3 seemed surprisingly slow in some (regular) tests, but otherwise all the journaling filesystems seemed rather evenly matched.
I wouldn't recommend choosing a filesystem based on this benchmark because it showed that the speed is basically the same within ~20%.
Is there a benchmark that shows some real difference between these filesystems? Like how they recover from regular disc corruption patterns?
I read this... For the most part the discussion is intelligent and most people explain the reason for their views well. It contains several dozen comments, some are close to being essays. Then you go and take the lamest one, and say this is whay open source is like... which is OK, because you're a Troll.
What is NOT ok is your post being moderates as Insightful.
I just signed the petition, posted it's logo all over my webpage, asked all my users to read about it, and sign it if they agree.. The number of signatures is 229044 and counting. I took down the entire web server during the online demonstration too.. not just the frontpage (http://apocalypse.rulez.org).
This is more important than the usual games and anime on the server.
Copy from KDE, or not, there's one important problem , the same as before with desktop environments: double architecture. Now if you want your app to have desktop indicator support, you have TWO API's to support. This is a major problem for developers, packagers and distributions (not to mention the end user).
I suggest to create a meta-API, one that can use either gDesklets and Karamba. It would expose a common set of functions and capabilities and map them to the current session's API.
The moc is not just about signals. It is used for type identification, handles properties and some other stuff as well, these capabilities are used for example by Designer.
Also, boost signals aren't exactly the same as Qt signals (e.g. in Qt you can connect an X(int) to a X(void) slot, and there are some automatic conversions as well). Changing to boost would impact existing Qt applications, and the Trolls are quite proud of their binary and source compatibility.
As pointed out by other posters, some of the compilers that Qt supports can't properly handle the templates.
On a related note: have you seen libsigc++?
On another related note: check out Connect, it handles signals without moc using aspect-oriented programming... (Yes, it's my thesis)
HTML and others do not reproduce content as faithfully as PDF does. A better replacement is good old PostScript: the only downside of PS is that it takes up about 2.5 as much space as the equivalent PDF.
Incidentally, does anyone know of any patents or copyrights on PS?
Please note that the question wasn't C# vs Java, but.NET vs J2EE. The languages themselves are just plain irrelevant in this case. Also note that.NET is not just C#, but a whole bunch of CLI'ed languages (there's even a bastardization of C++ there).
I have used both J2EE and.NET, and there are a few things I can offer for the report.
J2EE is more mature. It's been around longer, so it simply had a longer time to grow out of childhood sicknesses. For example: The documentation is more complete..NET's docs are like all Microsoft docs: mostly generated, and sometimes the very reason you're reading them is missing. For example sometimes you don't have a clue what exceptions a library method can throw...
.NET is pretty handy for what it was concieved: creating simple web-based DB frontends. If you want an object model behind it, with good persistency options, you will want to choose J2EE instead with it's Enterprise Java Beans.
This is quite general for everything: e.g..NET has the almighty DataSet, J2EE has persistent beans. DataSets are simple, but go back to the structured programming age. The beans are more sophisticated, but take a little longer to get the hang of.
Learning curve: IMHO J2EE takes a little longer to comprehend. Once you got the hang of them, though, both environments are easy to use.
Oh and one more thing: C# doesn't check the exceptions. I may be a purist, but I just detest that. You have to document, maintain, and generally keep an eye out for your and the system's exceptions all the time (of course sometimes you have no idea what system exceptions there are..)
Summary: If you want a quick and dirty DB frontend, go for.NET (with C# or VB). If you want something more complex, I'd recommend J2EE.
While I agree that it's not "realistic" to be able to level up as long as you like, it's still "fun" to be able walk around, explore the world, do any side quest you like, etc. without having to worry about being able to win the final boss fight.
Chrono Cross got this right: you could only advance levels by completing certain quests (during which you got to beat up bosses). Just spending time in killing random monsters didn't help (or not that much, anyway).
I wonder how well it would play without the digital joystick of the C64. The game used to be one of my favorites on the original platform, I played it with my cousin for hours. Recently I tried the emulated version, and some of the PC clones, but they all sucked because of the controls.
The keypad sucks when you go up and down and try being unpredictable, and the new analog joysticks are too slow.
More interesting is the question: what is the point of taxing rewritable media? If you pay for being rewritable (CD-RW costs a lot more than CD-R), chances are, that you will not keep the stuff on it for long. Probably you won't be using CD-RW's to build your personal CD library copied from wherever.
I would be interested to see the justification (as the English article doesn't seem to have any). (The fact that casette tapes are rewritable too doesn't count as one:)
And it is being done right. At least in Hungary they managed to have one phone number where you can ask about land-based phone numbers and numbers of all three of the GSM providers numbers. They ask if you want to be listed before you sign your GSM contract, and you can change this any time.
As clearly stated in the Acts of Gord: Think, then steal! Think, then steal! Not the other way around!
Seriously: This type of scam works because subscribers don't understand how the system works. If you advertised a device which will allow you to pay no taxes, everyone would catch on quickly.
I can see it now... "For $10 you don't need to file your taxes anymore! The deal of the century!..."
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I was wondering how long before this actually happened. Back when my web server was under a barrage of malformed requests from infected IIS installations, I had the urge to create a script which would retaliate with exploiting, gaining access and patching the zombified computer... or at least, shut it down.
While I never actually did this, mostly due to lack of time and for fear of possible lawsuit, it was certainly possible. So now it's a reality, thanks to... whoever. I think it's a Good Thing.
That might well be because the article discusses the present state of the conflict and not the history. The history article is on a separate page, which is linked from the main article. Depending on your point of view this may or may not make sense; obviously you think it doesn't.
I think it does because the history of the conflict is a lot less disputed, and thus the other article can stay relatively stable and neutral while edits in the main article are occasionally extremist.
Does anyone have a .torrent?
Joke aside, Australia has a good reason to play nice with the United States. Remember that Australia has vast resources, is much richer than neighboring countries AND has very little in the way of a defense force. Compare it to Indonesia, and guess which would have reason to conquer the other.
This puts a pressure on Australia to either build a greater army (not much chance with 20 million people vs 240 million) or seek powerful allies... Allies which have a political and economical stake.
Me and my friends get together to watch a DVD every weekend. With a projector, 5.1 sound system and the friendly atmosphere it beats going to the movies. And since we rent the DVD's for the equivalent of about €2, it's hell of a lot cheaper too.
A really bizarre theory called Welteislehre actually theorized that every heavenly object except for the Sun and Earth are composed of ice, or at least covered by a thick layer of it. It also theorized an eternal struggle between fire and ice, and that our moon collides with Earth every few thousand years.
Hörbiger is said to have developed his theory after observing the Moon at night. He concluded from the strong reflection of the light and the structure of the impact craters that the moon must be made of ice. He further theorized that the entire Milky Way, since it was very shiny at night, must be a collection of ice bodies.
This theory has gone on to become official cosmology in the Third Reich (mostly to offset Jewish influence on mainstream science).
Ironically, some aspects of this bizarre theory have turned out to be correct. Today we know that asteroids and Saturn's rings are based on ice, and that the outer planets of our solar system have significant amounts of ice.
Oh, is this where I put the shameless plug for my game too? It isn't? Oh well, here it is anyway:
:)
OpenMortal - geek fighting for all!
Qt has always been techically superior and rather geek-friendly. Looks like in the new release they have found PHB-friendly names for their existing components. For example, they call the QTL (Qt Template Library - their replacement for STL) "Tulip".
Seems like they have changed more classes than they usually do, and have moved a whole set of "obsolete" classes into a separate compatibility library to help the transition from Qt3 to Qt4. This probably means that developers have a few years to remove these classes from their codebase before they go from "deprecated" to "completely removed".
The press release seems to be quiet about their previous challenge to Java (they have claimed a few months ago to produce a Qt4 that will be in "direct competition" to Sun's offerings). I'm kind of happy about this.
There is a sort of "talent pool" at sourceforge.net called "Project Help Wanted". It's mostly for developers, but there's also a section for graphics artists/designers. If you are an artist and would like to help out a project, why not try and see if there is one that could use your talent.
I have tried it before (I'm working on a game called OpenMortal)... got zero response. Maybe others have been luckier.
Exactly. What I've seen from all the colored bars is that there are no extreme differences for most usage patterns between the filesystems. ext3 seemed surprisingly slow in some (regular) tests, but otherwise all the journaling filesystems seemed rather evenly matched.
I wouldn't recommend choosing a filesystem based on this benchmark because it showed that the speed is basically the same within ~20%.
Is there a benchmark that shows some real difference between these filesystems? Like how they recover from regular disc corruption patterns?
I don't want these forums because I need a new place to advocate Linux/BSD/Mac... honest!
I read this... For the most part the discussion is intelligent and most people explain the reason for their views well. It contains several dozen comments, some are close to being essays. Then you go and take the lamest one, and say this is whay open source is like... which is OK, because you're a Troll.
What is NOT ok is your post being moderates as Insightful.
My resume is this:
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If they don't understand, I wouldn't want to work there anyway.
I just signed the petition, posted it's logo all over my webpage, asked all my users to read about it, and sign it if they agree.. The number of signatures is 229044 and counting. I took down the entire web server during the online demonstration too.. not just the frontpage (http://apocalypse.rulez.org).
This is more important than the usual games and anime on the server.
Copy from KDE, or not, there's one important problem , the same as before with desktop environments: double architecture. Now if you want your app to have desktop indicator support, you have TWO API's to support. This is a major problem for developers, packagers and distributions (not to mention the end user).
I suggest to create a meta-API, one that can use either gDesklets and Karamba. It would expose a common set of functions and capabilities and map them to the current session's API.
Hmm.. Next OSS project..
The moc is not just about signals. It is used for type identification, handles properties and some other stuff as well, these capabilities are used for example by Designer.
Also, boost signals aren't exactly the same as Qt signals (e.g. in Qt you can connect an X(int) to a X(void) slot, and there are some automatic conversions as well). Changing to boost would impact existing Qt applications, and the Trolls are quite proud of their binary and source compatibility.
As pointed out by other posters, some of the compilers that Qt supports can't properly handle the templates.
On a related note: have you seen libsigc++?
On another related note: check out Connect, it handles signals without moc using aspect-oriented programming... (Yes, it's my thesis)
(For more fun, grep for the word "fuck" in the kernel tree.)
Oh, but amazons are girls, not guys.
(OK, offtopic.. humor me..)
HTML and others do not reproduce content as faithfully as PDF does. A better replacement is good old PostScript: the only downside of PS is that it takes up about 2.5 as much space as the equivalent PDF.
Incidentally, does anyone know of any patents or copyrights on PS?
I have used both J2EE and
This is quite general for everything: e.g.
Summary: If you want a quick and dirty DB frontend, go for
I think the answer is "realism vs fun".
While I agree that it's not "realistic" to be able to level up as long as you like, it's still "fun" to be able walk around, explore the world, do any side quest you like, etc. without having to worry about being able to win the final boss fight.
Chrono Cross got this right: you could only advance levels by completing certain quests (during which you got to beat up bosses). Just spending time in killing random monsters didn't help (or not that much, anyway).
I wonder how well it would play without the digital joystick of the C64. The game used to be one of my favorites on the original platform, I played it with my cousin for hours. Recently I tried the emulated version, and some of the PC clones, but they all sucked because of the controls.
The keypad sucks when you go up and down and try being unpredictable, and the new analog joysticks are too slow.
How do other archon players work around this?
I think it's a mistake in the article.
:)
More interesting is the question: what is the point of taxing rewritable media? If you pay for being rewritable (CD-RW costs a lot more than CD-R), chances are, that you will not keep the stuff on it for long. Probably you won't be using CD-RW's to build your personal CD library copied from wherever.
I would be interested to see the justification (as the English article doesn't seem to have any). (The fact that casette tapes are rewritable too doesn't count as one
Oh, and by the way, where is your 'here'?
And it is being done right. At least in Hungary they managed to have one phone number where you can ask about land-based phone numbers and numbers of all three of the GSM providers numbers. They ask if you want to be listed before you sign your GSM contract, and you can change this any time.
As clearly stated in the Acts of Gord: Think, then steal! Think, then steal! Not the other way around!
Seriously: This type of scam works because subscribers don't understand how the system works. If you advertised a device which will allow you to pay no taxes, everyone would catch on quickly.
I can see it now... "For $10 you don't need to file your taxes anymore! The deal of the century!..."