Unfortunate that the review doesn't mention S3 or JungleDisk as those are excellent options for these same things and are much cheaper for most uses than e.g. GoDaddy. Their open source clients do lots of nice caching and encrypting as well.
C and C++ are "portable assembly". All the languages that you mentioned are inherently portable and cross-platform.
No they aren't. If the language spec ever says "Implementation dependent" then it is not "inherently portable and cross-platform." Any time it says "can" or "may" you have lost portability. Any other definition of "portable" lessens the meaning of the word.
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He's already added it in the Vim 7 sources. It was initially called occult completion but is now called omni completion. (Intellisense is a trademarked term.) Read the vim dev list for more details.
My understanding of IPv6 is that you can use SLAAC to acquire an address (after all it is only called Stateless Address Autoconfiguration) but that you are expected to use DHCPv6 (aka IPv6's stateful autoconfiguration) to get stuff like NTP and SIP servers. A quick glance through the rfc for SLAAC didn't show an obvious way of including that information. Actually it even says to use DHCP to configure information other than the address.
IPv6 has site local and link local IP addresses. I am sure that is what most organizations would use rather than publicly routable IP addresses for the vast majority of their machines.
I've played plenty of pen & paper RPG campaigns where everyone had a premade character and ran through a preset adventure. RPG stands for Role Playing Game. You know, where you play a role. Nothing says it has to be party based, or that you have to come up with that role on your own. The change in RPGs is, in my mind, an improvement over that hidebound way of thinking. I despise party based RPGs. I hate the illusion of giving me freedom to create my own role while still forcing me to play the story the designer wants me to. I hate games that tell you the world is about to be conquered by Big Bad Guy then give me months of game time to pursue side quests and explore lost continents (thanks for waiting Big Bad Guy!). I hate RPGs where they ask you to defeat the dragon and save the princess and then still charge you for that healing potion. I am glad the traditional RPG is nearly dead and it is in that state for a reason.
# - If you run a server, you can't make it private # - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
Both of these statements are incorrect. eMule supports secure user identification based on a public key system. All the server has to do is reject login requests from clients not on a whitelist. Similarly, when a client issues a search request the server is free to do whatever it wants both with the request and the results. If you only want people sharing known good files via your server then only report those files in search results.
In Freakanomics Levitt has an analysis of drug dealers, based on research by Sudhir Venkatesh, showing that most foot soldiers make less than minimum wage while facing a 1-in-4 chance of being killed over a four-year period. The chapter is entitled, "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?"
What about IMAP's own query language fails to meet your needs such that you need SQL? With IMAP searching you can already search for, say, all messages you've answered since Jan-03-2001 that weren't to "John Smith" in UTF-8 that contain the string "flight" and are smaller than 5k. What more do you want?
If by "searching sucks" you mean "it is slow" then that's an implementation detail. It is entirely possible to build an IMAP server that is either on top of an RDBMS (which is what DBMail.org does) or uses indices to speed up searching (which is what dovecot.org does).
LSB is not a package format- there is not such thing as an "LSB package", and deb, ebuild, rpm, etc. have nothing to do with the LSB.
You might have to have a re-read of the Linux Packaging Specification section of the LSB. The LSB does not currently require that packages be in RPM (although it is "encouraged" and in the future may be required) but there definitely is an LSB package format and it is RPM.
There's nothing that says you can't have a user with that capability. But why should the user who can read the dead employee's information also be the only user who can run a web server on port 80?
Wouldn't even 64-bit WEP keep wardrivers away, too? The only people who can break even that little bit of WEP can sit outside your AP for hours or days on end and those are the same people who will see your SSID even if you turn off broadcasting it.
I don't know how anyone was saying it was impossible. Ultima Underworld had been out for about a year before Wolfenstein 3D and was full 3D rather than even Doom's 2.5D. I don't think it required a 386, either.
I always wonder how well the people actually know the various languages when something like this comes up. For instance they say python has no "verbose execution" but I don't see how sys.settrace doesn't give you verbose execution.
If the Sims 2 is "designed to allow players to easily integrate content created by players outside the game", then how could this content be created or used on the XBox?
Every game system has some kind of external save game mechanism. Today I can buy 256 MB of USB flash storage for under $40. How much space do you reckon that player-created Sim 2 content is going to take up? No, it isn't as convenient as having a 40 GB hard drive but for a lot of gamers and the games they play it'd be more than sufficient.
This is only true if the people who dress up at Sci-Fi conventions or go to Klingon Language Institute gatherings actual comprise a sizable percentage of the scientists who make the kinds of achievements you talk about. I've seen nothing to suggest this might be the case. Certainly many scientists are fans of science fiction. But the OP wasn't just about sci-fi fans. It was about a particular kind of sci-fi fan who makes the whole genre look bad.
I would wager that not very many members of the Mars Pathfinder team dress us as Klingons. A "true" science fiction fan is not defined as "someone who learns Klingon". I don't know why you seem to implicitly assume that the people being discussed are the pilgrims to the future.
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Unfortunate that the review doesn't mention S3 or JungleDisk as those are excellent options for these same things and are much cheaper for most uses than e.g. GoDaddy. Their open source clients do lots of nice caching and encrypting as well.
C and C++ are "portable assembly". All the languages that you mentioned are inherently portable and cross-platform.
No they aren't. If the language spec ever says "Implementation dependent" then it is not "inherently portable and cross-platform." Any time it says "can" or "may" you have lost portability. Any other definition of "portable" lessens the meaning of the word.
He's already added it in the Vim 7 sources. It was initially called occult completion but is now called omni completion. (Intellisense is a trademarked term.) Read the vim dev list for more details.
There's no difference between a process and a thread in the ps listing.
My understanding of IPv6 is that you can use SLAAC to acquire an address (after all it is only called Stateless Address Autoconfiguration) but that you are expected to use DHCPv6 (aka IPv6's stateful autoconfiguration) to get stuff like NTP and SIP servers. A quick glance through the rfc for SLAAC didn't show an obvious way of including that information. Actually it even says to use DHCP to configure information other than the address.
IPv6 has site local and link local IP addresses. I am sure that is what most organizations would use rather than publicly routable IP addresses for the vast majority of their machines.
Why would DHCP disappear? It hands out a lot more than IP addresses.
I've played plenty of pen & paper RPG campaigns where everyone had a premade character and ran through a preset adventure. RPG stands for Role Playing Game. You know, where you play a role. Nothing says it has to be party based, or that you have to come up with that role on your own. The change in RPGs is, in my mind, an improvement over that hidebound way of thinking. I despise party based RPGs. I hate the illusion of giving me freedom to create my own role while still forcing me to play the story the designer wants me to. I hate games that tell you the world is about to be conquered by Big Bad Guy then give me months of game time to pursue side quests and explore lost continents (thanks for waiting Big Bad Guy!). I hate RPGs where they ask you to defeat the dragon and save the princess and then still charge you for that healing potion. I am glad the traditional RPG is nearly dead and it is in that state for a reason.
re: ed2k:
# - If you run a server, you can't make it private
# - If you run a server, you cannot control what is shared there
Both of these statements are incorrect. eMule supports secure user identification based on a public key system. All the server has to do is reject login requests from clients not on a whitelist. Similarly, when a client issues a search request the server is free to do whatever it wants both with the request and the results. If you only want people sharing known good files via your server then only report those files in search results.
In Freakanomics Levitt has an analysis of drug dealers, based on research by Sudhir Venkatesh, showing that most foot soldiers make less than minimum wage while facing a 1-in-4 chance of being killed over a four-year period. The chapter is entitled, "Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?"
What about IMAP's own query language fails to meet your needs such that you need SQL? With IMAP searching you can already search for, say, all messages you've answered since Jan-03-2001 that weren't to "John Smith" in UTF-8 that contain the string "flight" and are smaller than 5k. What more do you want?
If by "searching sucks" you mean "it is slow" then that's an implementation detail. It is entirely possible to build an IMAP server that is either on top of an RDBMS (which is what DBMail.org does) or uses indices to speed up searching (which is what dovecot.org does).
I just tried it and it worked fine on my windows box. You should try again after you've installed scp, find, convert, and xargs.
If by "little guy" you mean a game from a company with $400 million a year in video game revenue...
LSB is not a package format- there is not such thing as an "LSB package", and deb, ebuild, rpm, etc. have nothing to do with the LSB.
You might have to have a re-read of the Linux Packaging Specification section of the LSB. The LSB does not currently require that packages be in RPM (although it is "encouraged" and in the future may be required) but there definitely is an LSB package format and it is RPM.
There's nothing that says you can't have a user with that capability. But why should the user who can read the dead employee's information also be the only user who can run a web server on port 80?
Wouldn't even 64-bit WEP keep wardrivers away, too? The only people who can break even that little bit of WEP can sit outside your AP for hours or days on end and those are the same people who will see your SSID even if you turn off broadcasting it.
x86 is an instruction set architecture which is separate from a micro-architecture. They have certainly benchmarked more than one micro-architecture.
I don't know how anyone was saying it was impossible. Ultima Underworld had been out for about a year before Wolfenstein 3D and was full 3D rather than even Doom's 2.5D. I don't think it required a 386, either.
That's exactly what Kolab does.
VPN in, use webmail, submit mail on port 527.
XML Spy supports web dav.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2476.html
I always wonder how well the people actually know the various languages when something like this comes up. For instance they say python has no "verbose execution" but I don't see how sys.settrace doesn't give you verbose execution.
If the Sims 2 is "designed to allow players to easily integrate content created by players outside the game", then how could this content be created or used on the XBox?
Every game system has some kind of external save game mechanism. Today I can buy 256 MB of USB flash storage for under $40. How much space do you reckon that player-created Sim 2 content is going to take up? No, it isn't as convenient as having a 40 GB hard drive but for a lot of gamers and the games they play it'd be more than sufficient.
This is only true if the people who dress up at Sci-Fi conventions or go to Klingon Language Institute gatherings actual comprise a sizable percentage of the scientists who make the kinds of achievements you talk about. I've seen nothing to suggest this might be the case. Certainly many scientists are fans of science fiction. But the OP wasn't just about sci-fi fans. It was about a particular kind of sci-fi fan who makes the whole genre look bad.
I would wager that not very many members of the Mars Pathfinder team dress us as Klingons. A "true" science fiction fan is not defined as "someone who learns Klingon". I don't know why you seem to implicitly assume that the people being discussed are the pilgrims to the future.