I think it's time to upgrade that 386 buddy. Ran pretty fast for me and I have no problem with silly fonts or graphics. Give the guy a break - it's very encouraging that he can jest about the weaknesses of his project.
it [ethanol] produces higher octane numbers than gasoline!
Excuse if I'm being ignorant about terminology but "octane" as I know it refers to C8H18 as in the straight hydrocarbon chain with one more carbaon than hexane and one less than nonane and is the principal ingrediant of gasoline (usually around 87% for "regular"). Ethanol OTOH is ethane with an OH AKA ethyl alcohol AKA grain alcohol AKA as in beer. So I'm confused as to how grain alcohol as "higher octane".
Put most of the money in the script, something really good. I would rather have an awesome story and so-so graphics than a bad story and million dollar graphics.
Bingo! This is a major problem with film makers today. Case in point: Star Wars I, II, III.
I only run essential services - ssh, http, https, and secure imap. That's it. If you don't have any other services on the inet interfaces you don't need a firewall at all.
Why aren't the Chinese getting involved with ISS? Or are they? If not, who's being the stick in the mud - NASA or the Chinese? It seems terribly wasteful to ignore existing infrastructure.
This is completely foolish. Using data structures and algorithms will never change and plain o'l vanilla C will always be great at that. In fact I would argue there's not much wrong with the C language itself. It's actually a really good languang. It's the standard C library that's starting to show it's age (e.g. malloc is far far to simple now) but you can mostly solve that problem in-house. It would be better if we separated the languange from the standar library. That would be a step in the right direction.
I agree they can be evil...but one thing Google lacks is giving new sites some priority....say i come out with the best tech site ever, but I have no money to advertise with, how do i get it popular?
Who says your site is the "best tech site ever"? What if I decide that *my* site is the "best tech site ever" and game the system to bump out yours?
The site that has truely good content and that has been around longer should be ranked highest. Trying to manipulate your page rank using any other means is a little underhanded IMO.
Imagine what proportions piracy will take when everyone can copy their favorite car instead of buying it. That doesn't mean that it won't cost anything, but there probably will be a few objects that will cost more to buy than copy...
Yes, this is very interesting if you think about classic car parts for example. If there were a cost effective way to create the various doors, quarterpanels, trim, etc for that 57 bel air you always wanted then some very interesting things could happen.
Then mix in simplified CAD design and suddenly after-market modification could enter a new era.
To find subtley malicous code in an open source project, we first must know what it looks like. Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks to read and learn from.
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Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks that evil doers can use to craft subtley malicous code in open source projects.
Yup, this is definately the problem. Unfortunately I cannot seem to figure out what driver option disables gesture control. I have tried disabling many thing and I can see the options being parsed in the X server log file but none appear to have any affect whatsoever. This is very frustrating!
I don't understand why someone cannot simply fool DRM-ized software into thinking it's running on a DRM platform through emulation. Meaning why can't someone just implement the Pentium D's DRM chips in software?
Sometimes when I move the mouse over the browser main display pane it triggers a "back" event. This is with the mouse pointer no where near the back button. It's very annoying. It it possible that FF 1.0.4 has some kind of gesture control turned on? If so, how can I turn it off?
Power Generation: Pipes draw warm water from the ocean surface and cold water from the seabed. The warm water enters a vacuum chamber and is evaporated into steam that drives an electricity-producing turbine. The cold water condenses the steam back into water for drinking and irrigation.
Ok, can someone elaborate on this? Sounds like crap on a stick to me.
I'm not sure Apple Gets It though. Why in the world would they use XML configs?
To make it easy to edit the files both by hand and via utilities which can be written very easily by leveraging existing XML parsing libraries?
Sorry but I have to agree with the grandparent. XML for configs is a HORRIBLE choice. Here's some reasons why:
XML is hard to understand. The hierarchy of tags is so verbose you need a special viewer to understand it.
XML is slow. XML parsers require a considerable amount of code. That code eats CPU cache. So you're crusing along nice and quick but suddenly you need to read some XML file. That's like opening the car door an putting your foot down doing 80. Let's review what happends when you need to make some kind of modification to the XML. You read the entire file into a DOM tree validating it along the way. Then you allocate and free nodes as you perform the manipulation. Then you traverse the tree and reserialize it into XML. Compare that to say a file backed memory mapping type config or even a line oriented record format. It's orders of magnatude faster.
Scripting is painful because it requires special tools. In all likelyhood you probably need to write an actual program or at least have the skills of a programmer.
Personally I would actually prefer a binary format to XML. If you can't read it or script it you might as well get the speed of a binary format.
Actually what really bugs me about using XML for configuration data is that shows that the designer did not understand that the FORMAT of the data is not the problem. It's the INTERFACE that matters. If they had they would realize that DOM and SAX are horrible generic faceless interfaces. Store it however you like but provide INTELLIGENT APIs for querying and storing the information.
Writing clear code in the first place is your best option. If the code is concise and well written it is easy to understand and an joy to work with. Of course there are always instances where something requires a tight loop or you're interfacing with an external API that is not consistent with the calling code. In these cases you need comments. Use your head. Don't comment or not comment as some kind of religion. If the code is hairly comment it. If the code is obvious don't comment it (and not because you don't have to - it's an annoying distraction to read useless comments).
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I think it's time to upgrade that 386 buddy. Ran pretty fast for me and I have no problem with silly fonts or graphics. Give the guy a break - it's very encouraging that he can jest about the weaknesses of his project.
it [ethanol] produces higher octane numbers than gasoline!
Excuse if I'm being ignorant about terminology but "octane" as I know it refers to C8H18 as in the straight hydrocarbon chain with one more carbaon than hexane and one less than nonane and is the principal ingrediant of gasoline (usually around 87% for "regular"). Ethanol OTOH is ethane with an OH AKA ethyl alcohol AKA grain alcohol AKA as in beer. So I'm confused as to how grain alcohol as "higher octane".
Put most of the money in the script, something really good. I would rather have an awesome story and so-so graphics than a bad story and million dollar graphics.
Bingo! This is a major problem with film makers today. Case in point: Star Wars I, II, III.
I wonder if one could improve on this using maps.google.com for the mapping part.
Why is a stupid plug for lisp a 5?
Have any evidence to back it up?
How about the fact that I've been running a site that get's 2GB of traffic a month for 3 years?
If there's an exploit in the network stack of the OS how would a firewall help if I need to allow some traffic through?
So how would a firewall help protect you against exploits in services that you allow through the firewall?
I only run essential services - ssh, http, https, and secure imap. That's it. If you don't have any other services on the inet interfaces you don't need a firewall at all.
Why aren't the Chinese getting involved with ISS? Or are they? If not, who's being the stick in the mud - NASA or the Chinese? It seems terribly wasteful to ignore existing infrastructure.
What you really need is a new language.
This is completely foolish. Using data structures and algorithms will never change and plain o'l vanilla C will always be great at that. In fact I would argue there's not much wrong with the C language itself. It's actually a really good languang. It's the standard C library that's starting to show it's age (e.g. malloc is far far to simple now) but you can mostly solve that problem in-house. It would be better if we separated the languange from the standar library. That would be a step in the right direction.
Wouldn't this be good for hosting? You could sell zones w/ root like linode.com does with UML. Is anyone doing this or planning on it?
I agree they can be evil...but one thing Google lacks is giving new sites some priority....say i come out with the best tech site ever, but I have no money to advertise with, how do i get it popular?
Who says your site is the "best tech site ever"? What if I decide that *my* site is the "best tech site ever" and game the system to bump out yours?
The site that has truely good content and that has been around longer should be ranked highest. Trying to manipulate your page rank using any other means is a little underhanded IMO.
Imagine what proportions piracy will take when everyone can copy their favorite car instead of buying it. That doesn't mean that it won't cost anything, but there probably will be a few objects that will cost more to buy than copy...
Yes, this is very interesting if you think about classic car parts for example. If there were a cost effective way to create the various doors, quarterpanels, trim, etc for that 57 bel air you always wanted then some very interesting things could happen.
Then mix in simplified CAD design and suddenly after-market modification could enter a new era.
To find subtley malicous code in an open source project, we first must know what it looks like. Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks to read and learn from.
OR
Having contests like these creates a sample base of dangerous code and clever tricks that evil doers can use to craft subtley malicous code in open source projects.
Yup, this is definately the problem. Unfortunately I cannot seem to figure out what driver option disables gesture control. I have tried disabling many thing and I can see the options being parsed in the X server log file but none appear to have any affect whatsoever. This is very frustrating!
I don't understand why someone cannot simply fool DRM-ized software into thinking it's running on a DRM platform through emulation. Meaning why can't someone just implement the Pentium D's DRM chips in software?
I can see the headlines now "Giant Drill Ship Triggers Undersea Earthquake".
A synaptics touchpad. And w/ RH 7.3 not using the synaptics driver it worked perfected. Add me to list of data points.
Sometimes when I move the mouse over the browser main display pane it triggers a "back" event. This is with the mouse pointer no where near the back button. It's very annoying. It it possible that FF 1.0.4 has some kind of gesture control turned on? If so, how can I turn it off?
Power Generation:
Pipes draw warm water from the ocean surface and cold water from the seabed. The warm water enters a vacuum chamber and is evaporated into steam that drives an electricity-producing turbine. The cold water condenses the steam back into water for drinking and irrigation.
Ok, can someone elaborate on this? Sounds like crap on a stick to me.
This is like putting an after market "cherry bomb" muffler on a Toyota Prius.
New features. Enhancements. Bloat. Then a minimalistic rewrite or fork will emerge. And the neverending cycle continues. So be it.
To make it easy to edit the files both by hand and via utilities which can be written very easily by leveraging existing XML parsing libraries?
Sorry but I have to agree with the grandparent. XML for configs is a HORRIBLE choice. Here's some reasons why:
Personally I would actually prefer a binary format to XML. If you can't read it or script it you might as well get the speed of a binary format.
Actually what really bugs me about using XML for configuration data is that shows that the designer did not understand that the FORMAT of the data is not the problem. It's the INTERFACE that matters. If they had they would realize that DOM and SAX are horrible generic faceless interfaces. Store it however you like but provide INTELLIGENT APIs for querying and storing the information.
Then Canada rejects your rejection to our rejection. Back to you.
Writing clear code in the first place is your best option. If the code is concise and well written it is easy to understand and an joy to work with. Of course there are always instances where something requires a tight loop or you're interfacing with an external API that is not consistent with the calling code. In these cases you need comments. Use your head. Don't comment or not comment as some kind of religion. If the code is hairly comment it. If the code is obvious don't comment it (and not because you don't have to - it's an annoying distraction to read useless comments).