If your a GNU/ Linux user who likes to game then why don't you dual boot or virtualize? GNU/Linux is NOT meant for desktop level gaming, if Blizzard didn't release a Linux binary then clearly they have NO interest in you gaming on Linux.
Before someone trolls this post because 99.9% of people don't know what a troll is, I'm a Linux user and even I had to admit that I want to game I'll just reboot into my copy of Windows and game for a bit. Gaming on Linux is like trying to walk using thumb tacks, there's not enough there to make your attempt reasonable.
I really hope who ever wrote this isn't a programmer. C is only unsafe when you don't understand how memory works and if you don't understand how memory works you shouldn't be programming. C is only clunky at the hands of an unskilled and amateur programmer who doesn't understand good coding methods and antiquated, well just show me one other language besides ASM that can holds it's own and keep going.
I know someone will try to talk about how OO programming is where it's at and managed code = better code and all that BS, OO languages were invented because people had no F'ing clue on how to write good software. If you can't write it in C then go back and try again. Managed code is the biggest slap in the face because it's extracting the programmer from clean programming. If you honestly want to claim that managed code or OO code is better then good old C then do me a favour and NEVER program again because I can promise you that the crap you input to an IDE is so poorly structured and programmed it should be used for house mats and not actual hardware.
Call me stupid here but I thought that no company was allowed to gain an entire monopoly in one area, after all IBM was taken on by the government and finally disbanded. By blocking Samsung from being allowed to release there phone your effectively saying that a monopoly is fine as long as you put a big shiny apple on your product and up sell it like never before seen in marketing. If this injunction isn't lifted then any company the government has taken on for being a monopoly should be reinstated all costs plus all loses.
Are you kidding, the command prompt / terminal is REQUIRED on any system. Even if your a user that has no computer ability and no skill it is still a requirement when you ask for help. There are some problems that have no way to be fixed via GUI, any IT "professional" that claims they don't need a prompt should stay 100 meters away from all computers. The command prompt / terminal is the single most powerful computer tool there is, with out it your using a childs toy mean't for kids 0 - 3.
There not going to teach critical thinking? That doesn't make sense. Why not teach that the earth is flat or at the centre of the universe, sounds right up the alley.
I honestly don't know a single person who doesn't use the start menu. The correct thing to do isn't to get rid of it but have an option to turn it off the first time you visit the desktop. Now that "Start" is no more I can promiss start menu usage will be going down.
A bug is a bug, unless the company at fault can produce evidence that the bugs could not of caused a misread then I think the DUI's should be overturned.
Okay but I still disagree with that, your code should run as fast and small ( memory ) as possible. Yes you need to be able to maintain it and test it and read it but having code that is slow, bulky and chugs along isn't any use to anyone. It can be the most maintainable code in the world but if it doesn't run as fast and optimized as possible then why are you calling yourself a software engineer.
When you design a hardware embedded system, one of the things you look for is ways to cut size, power and cost. Well the same should go with software, I want the most optimized output I can get and then it's up the a true "software engineer" to be able to read code and understand it, just like an eletrical engineer is able to understand a schematic or circuit diagram.
I never said anything about maintainable code or readable code, you can't extract that because I don't care how I write that my code that it's unmaintainable or unreadable. I will grant you that unmaintable code is just a pile of useless lines and should only be used for toilet paper, however I never said I write unmaintainable code, I would assume if I did that someone over that last 10 years might of said something.
Oh and I have actually programmed projects worth some weight, including multiple operating systems and a full radio astronomy control system.
When it comes time to document my work I take a different stand but slashdot isn't a documentation site and it's not really professional in anyway, so as far as I'm concerned I'll just throw down what I want and submit.
nope, I just don't care how I write. Great spelling and grammar is needed by authors and teachers, programmers only care about getting working, optimized code outputted.
It's time for school's to update what they teach for standard C, Even after C99 was released and C11 I had profs teaching C89, I think school's should follow suite with industry and upgrade.
All Apple needs to do is to flat out say, "If you run Windows you will be infected", it's not false, it's not a lie and it's bashing Microsoft. Apple is insanely more secure then Windows and only slightly less secure then Linux, I think they should use what they have and just call it like it is.
If the "Experts" and I use the term very lightly, already claimed that gas price would rise and they were completely wrong, then why should we believe them that this time it will continue to fall. I could ask my 5 year old cousin and get the same answer, so I guess he's an expert.
I completely disagree, saying a web crawler can't have rights is no different then saying a black person can't ride at the front of the bus, that women can't vote and that all there can only be one superior race. I'm sorry but this is Black and White issue for me, either the crawl gets assigned rights by abstraction or NO one gets ANY rights on the computer, not the programmer, not the blog writer, not even the facebook poster.
Negligence would only apply if you programmed the computer to do an act you know is destructive to property. For instance you can't program a computer to go out and steal bank accounts and then claim the computer did it so I can use it because I did nothing wrong. On to the original fact that if you program a web crawl that does active work like building a search index then indeed that web crawler has all the rights of a normal human.
The second you attempt to protect electronic work of any kind human inputed or not such as a blog post then you MUST allow extractions the same right. It's not even a grey area here, that is what is amazing, it's so clean cut that anyone opposing the computers to free speech must themselves not want it. So I say that the second anyone claims that a computer shouldn't have it then they should have to give there right to free speech up. Black and white, the only way this argument looks!
Or the only other way I can see this working is remove speech protection from computers all together. If a human has speech protection on a blog then so to does computer software, DONE! If a computer doesn't get speech protection then under no circumstance in anyway can a human be provided that right.
Well if you say that computers don't get free speech then where else do you limit speech from? I would say if a computer can make a descision for itself, such as a web crawler building a serach index then indeed that is speech. If a blogger or eNews post can get protected by free speech then you have to give any program or any method of "speech" generation protection and hence a crawler would become protected.
Are you joking that there trying to blame the software structure and the design? That is so much bull I can smell it from here. A good programmer doesn't need over structered code design and over engineered software solutions. Blame who's really responsible, blame the craptasktic programmers who can't do there job. Programmers who needs strict structure and standards to program need to change professioins.
The reason code standards are made is simply because there are programmers who need to have there hand held and be treated like a 5 year old.
LOL that is what is wrong wiht the Yanquis, which is why I'm glad I'm not american, I don't have to worry about when the next shooter is showing up at school.
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I never said buy Windows, I said boot into Windows.
If your a GNU/ Linux user who likes to game then why don't you dual boot or virtualize? GNU/Linux is NOT meant for desktop level gaming, if Blizzard didn't release a Linux binary then clearly they have NO interest in you gaming on Linux.
Before someone trolls this post because 99.9% of people don't know what a troll is, I'm a Linux user and even I had to admit that I want to game I'll just reboot into my copy of Windows and game for a bit. Gaming on Linux is like trying to walk using thumb tacks, there's not enough there to make your attempt reasonable.
"Antiquated, clunky, and unsafe"
I really hope who ever wrote this isn't a programmer. C is only unsafe when you don't understand how memory works and if you don't understand how memory works you shouldn't be programming. C is only clunky at the hands of an unskilled and amateur programmer who doesn't understand good coding methods and antiquated, well just show me one other language besides ASM that can holds it's own and keep going.
I know someone will try to talk about how OO programming is where it's at and managed code = better code and all that BS, OO languages were invented because people had no F'ing clue on how to write good software. If you can't write it in C then go back and try again. Managed code is the biggest slap in the face because it's extracting the programmer from clean programming. If you honestly want to claim that managed code or OO code is better then good old C then do me a favour and NEVER program again because I can promise you that the crap you input to an IDE is so poorly structured and programmed it should be used for house mats and not actual hardware.
Call me stupid here but I thought that no company was allowed to gain an entire monopoly in one area, after all IBM was taken on by the government and finally disbanded. By blocking Samsung from being allowed to release there phone your effectively saying that a monopoly is fine as long as you put a big shiny apple on your product and up sell it like never before seen in marketing. If this injunction isn't lifted then any company the government has taken on for being a monopoly should be reinstated all costs plus all loses.
Are you kidding, the command prompt / terminal is REQUIRED on any system. Even if your a user that has no computer ability and no skill it is still a requirement when you ask for help. There are some problems that have no way to be fixed via GUI, any IT "professional" that claims they don't need a prompt should stay 100 meters away from all computers. The command prompt / terminal is the single most powerful computer tool there is, with out it your using a childs toy mean't for kids 0 - 3.
Your completely right
There not going to teach critical thinking? That doesn't make sense. Why not teach that the earth is flat or at the centre of the universe, sounds right up the alley.
I honestly don't know a single person who doesn't use the start menu. The correct thing to do isn't to get rid of it but have an option to turn it off the first time you visit the desktop. Now that "Start" is no more I can promiss start menu usage will be going down.
A bug is a bug, unless the company at fault can produce evidence that the bugs could not of caused a misread then I think the DUI's should be overturned.
Okay but I still disagree with that, your code should run as fast and small ( memory ) as possible. Yes you need to be able to maintain it and test it and read it but having code that is slow, bulky and chugs along isn't any use to anyone. It can be the most maintainable code in the world but if it doesn't run as fast and optimized as possible then why are you calling yourself a software engineer.
When you design a hardware embedded system, one of the things you look for is ways to cut size, power and cost. Well the same should go with software, I want the most optimized output I can get and then it's up the a true "software engineer" to be able to read code and understand it, just like an eletrical engineer is able to understand a schematic or circuit diagram.
when did I say optimized mean't unmaintainable and untested ....... learning to read is always a good first step to mature software engineering.
I never said anything about maintainable code or readable code, you can't extract that because I don't care how I write that my code that it's unmaintainable or unreadable. I will grant you that unmaintable code is just a pile of useless lines and should only be used for toilet paper, however I never said I write unmaintainable code, I would assume if I did that someone over that last 10 years might of said something.
Oh and I have actually programmed projects worth some weight, including multiple operating systems and a full radio astronomy control system.
When it comes time to document my work I take a different stand but slashdot isn't a documentation site and it's not really professional in anyway, so as far as I'm concerned I'll just throw down what I want and submit.
nope, I just don't care how I write. Great spelling and grammar is needed by authors and teachers, programmers only care about getting working, optimized code outputted.
It's time for school's to update what they teach for standard C, Even after C99 was released and C11 I had profs teaching C89, I think school's should follow suite with industry and upgrade.
All Apple needs to do is to flat out say, "If you run Windows you will be infected", it's not false, it's not a lie and it's bashing Microsoft. Apple is insanely more secure then Windows and only slightly less secure then Linux, I think they should use what they have and just call it like it is.
Never failing to impress me go to the US were acceptance means your white and any IQ over 80 means your a geinus.
If the "Experts" and I use the term very lightly, already claimed that gas price would rise and they were completely wrong, then why should we believe them that this time it will continue to fall. I could ask my 5 year old cousin and get the same answer, so I guess he's an expert.
Your an idiot and that's using language you can process.
I completely disagree, saying a web crawler can't have rights is no different then saying a black person can't ride at the front of the bus, that women can't vote and that all there can only be one superior race. I'm sorry but this is Black and White issue for me, either the crawl gets assigned rights by abstraction or NO one gets ANY rights on the computer, not the programmer, not the blog writer, not even the facebook poster.
In effect giving the web crawler rights and therefore the web crawler now has rights that can be exercised.
Negligence would only apply if you programmed the computer to do an act you know is destructive to property. For instance you can't program a computer to go out and steal bank accounts and then claim the computer did it so I can use it because I did nothing wrong. On to the original fact that if you program a web crawl that does active work like building a search index then indeed that web crawler has all the rights of a normal human.
The second you attempt to protect electronic work of any kind human inputed or not such as a blog post then you MUST allow extractions the same right. It's not even a grey area here, that is what is amazing, it's so clean cut that anyone opposing the computers to free speech must themselves not want it. So I say that the second anyone claims that a computer shouldn't have it then they should have to give there right to free speech up. Black and white, the only way this argument looks!
Or the only other way I can see this working is remove speech protection from computers all together. If a human has speech protection on a blog then so to does computer software, DONE! If a computer doesn't get speech protection then under no circumstance in anyway can a human be provided that right.
Well if you say that computers don't get free speech then where else do you limit speech from? I would say if a computer can make a descision for itself, such as a web crawler building a serach index then indeed that is speech. If a blogger or eNews post can get protected by free speech then you have to give any program or any method of "speech" generation protection and hence a crawler would become protected.
Are you joking that there trying to blame the software structure and the design? That is so much bull I can smell it from here. A good programmer doesn't need over structered code design and over engineered software solutions. Blame who's really responsible, blame the craptasktic programmers who can't do there job. Programmers who needs strict structure and standards to program need to change professioins.
The reason code standards are made is simply because there are programmers who need to have there hand held and be treated like a 5 year old.
LOL that is what is wrong wiht the Yanquis, which is why I'm glad I'm not american, I don't have to worry about when the next shooter is showing up at school.
I'm so glad Balmer just realized what an Embedded System is, you design the software and hardware to work together :-).