Seriously, this is not a troll - can someone explain to me how open source software doesn't undermine programmers being able to earn a crust. I could be way off, but doesn't it undermine our industry?
Open Source undermines the ability of programmers being able to earn a crust by doing something that has already been done. It doesn't undermine the ability of programmers to earn a crust by doing something new.
"Look at my nice shiny wheel !" "Sorry, already seen one of those, come back when you've got something original to contribute to the human race."
Yes we need to crack down on online frauds, spam, worms, et al as much as the next guy but I really don't think that sending spam should carry (roughly) the same penalty as a rape conviction. Looking at these sentences our court is either saying "Sending spam is a horrific a crime as rape" or "Rape is no more worse than sending spam."
Reading the link you provided, the case you quoted appears to have been for a single rape (plus associated charges). Taking the 10,000/mo responses quoted, assuming a 0.1% response rate (probably way too high), and (to pull a number out of my ass) 6 months in operation, these people sent out 60 million spams. Maybe a BS number, but somewhere in the range 10-60 million sounds like a reasonable estimate.
To me, that does not say that the court regards spamming and rape as equally horrific, but that the court regards rape as at least 10 million times worse than spam. Which seems far more reasonable.
Alternatively, you could say that each spam sent wastes about 2 seconds of someone's life to delete it, for a total of (using the midrange above) just over 2 life-years wasted. Add on 7 years for the fraud and this looks a lot more reasonable.
Me, I just wish they'd just get spammers, epoxy their typing fingers to the table and allow everyone they spammed one swing of the hammer... (well, almost).
The Economist is an extremely liberal publication.
It has been, forever. It seems like a 'moderate' publication if you're far-left.
Actually, the Economist is fairly libertarian (i.e. classical liberalism) - socially liberal but economically conservative. Whether you map this onto "liberal" or "conservative" in the US sense of the words is, of course, up to you.
And your periods and commas belong inside the quotation marks.
It depends on whether you're writing English English or American English. Putting punctuation inside quotation marks isn't really all that a good idea - how do you write a question about a question that someone asked without having to restructure the sentence for that specific case ?
That's horse-shit. I should be heard when I have a complaint. They party behind MY house, not my neighbours' houses. My house is stregically located between the lamp posts where they cannot be seen.
My suggestion would be an IR sensor and a bright spotlight. Many times in my teens I settled down to enjoy a quiet joint only to be startled by a security light suddenly flashing on. Far more effective than a static light.
Why do I think hardware has less errors than software? Because hardware errors are expensive.
In a previous job, we had a sign on the wall that read: "Software would be as reliable as hardware if it took 6 months and $500,000 to compile."
One thing I've noticed about developing software on faster machines is that it's far far easier to just tweak something, recompile, see if that fixes the problem, repeat. When it took 30 minutes (or even 8 hours as with one large AI project I worked on in the late 80s) to compile the app you were working on, it was far preferable, and far quicker, to stop, sit down with pencil and paper and actually understand the problem you were trying to solve. The "beat it with a stick until it works" development pattern is way too easy to fall into (I find myself doing it all the time but fortunately most of the stuff I work on nowadays is scaffolding and interim tools).
A P4 will do one instruction per cycle for most instructions.
Actually, even not counting the SIMD stuff (SSE, MMX, etc) a P4 will do more than one instruction per cycle a lot of the time. Still does less work per clock than AMD though, especially with code that involves lots of branches. Me, I like cornering ability...
You (and the next poster) completely missed the point. RAID gives you *read thoroughput*, not *seek time* (it actually tends to hurt your seek time a little).
True, but not quite the complete picture. You also need to consider that with RAID you now (effectively) have more capacity per cylinder, therefore less seeks are needed over the same size dataset.
Seems like an awful lot of work. It's much easier to set a break points and step through the code. Log files are good for some types of bugs, but I don't resort to them until after I've tried stepping through.
I agree, stepping through is easier, and it's great for bugs that involve the behaviour of a single thread of execution (though it is still a lot easier to rewind a logfile). When the bug is in the interaction of multiple subsystems (which covers most of the code I write), then single-stepping isn't going to get you very far.
You might appreciate this link: Imperial Tea Court. I get all my "good" tea from there - great place, well worth stopping by in person when you're in SF.
What about your neighbor's wireless connection that he encrypts? Do they violate your physical space as well? Does he have to ask your permission before he sets it up? What about the cell phone conversations that float through your backyard? True, like DirecTV, the legality is still unclear on these specific issues, but is it ethical to listen in on cell phone conversations, or "borrow" internet bandwidth from your neighbor's encrypted wireless network, or worse, view the information he sends between him and his ISP?
For those cases, I would regard it as unethical, because I'm invading someone's privacy. No loss of privacy is involved when viewing TV broadcasts. Privacy is, to me, a far more serious issue than the "right" to make a profit using public resources.
Oh geez. What a lame analogy. A correct one would have been an ecrypted sentence that said, "YOU CAN ONLY READ THIS BY PAYING $100 FOR A BROWSER PLUGIN TO READ THIS SENTENCE."
Your original comment said nothing about decryption, merely reception.
My "improved" analogy to include the crypto element would be the situation where someone threw a locked safe containing cash into my backyard. In my worldview - which I fully accept you may not share - it would be perfectly reasonable to crack the lock on that safe and take the cash.
By the way, what is your occupation, and if so, may I also accidently steal the results of your work?
Chip architect. If you have a good enough electron microscope, a wafer fab, and plenty of patience to write down where all those millions of transistors go, feel free...
Sun should licence their processor design (at low or no cost) to create competion to create a SPARC-comaptible marketplace. If they really have been converted to open source they will soon realise that they cannot make money from selling software.
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II Timothy 3:16
Allegedly.
Seriously, this is not a troll - can someone explain to me how open source software doesn't undermine programmers being able to earn a crust. I could be way off, but doesn't it undermine our industry?
Open Source undermines the ability of programmers being able to earn a crust by doing something that has already been done. It doesn't undermine the ability of programmers to earn a crust by doing something new.
"Look at my nice shiny wheel !" "Sorry, already seen one of those, come back when you've got something original to contribute to the human race."
Yes we need to crack down on online frauds, spam, worms, et al as much as the next guy but I really don't think that sending spam should carry (roughly) the same penalty as a rape conviction. Looking at these sentences our court is either saying "Sending spam is a horrific a crime as rape" or "Rape is no more worse than sending spam."
Reading the link you provided, the case you quoted appears to have been for a single rape (plus associated charges). Taking the 10,000/mo responses quoted, assuming a 0.1% response rate (probably way too high), and (to pull a number out of my ass) 6 months in operation, these people sent out 60 million spams. Maybe a BS number, but somewhere in the range 10-60 million sounds like a reasonable estimate.
To me, that does not say that the court regards spamming and rape as equally horrific, but that the court regards rape as at least 10 million times worse than spam. Which seems far more reasonable.
Alternatively, you could say that each spam sent wastes about 2 seconds of someone's life to delete it, for a total of (using the midrange above) just over 2 life-years wasted. Add on 7 years for the fraud and this looks a lot more reasonable.
Me, I just wish they'd just get spammers, epoxy their typing fingers to the table and allow everyone they spammed one swing of the hammer ... (well, almost).
The Economist is an extremely liberal publication.
It has been, forever. It seems like a 'moderate' publication if you're far-left.
Actually, the Economist is fairly libertarian (i.e. classical liberalism) - socially liberal but economically conservative. Whether you map this onto "liberal" or "conservative" in the US sense of the words is, of course, up to you.
Are their tech skills sufficient to notice that you've swapped the video cards over without telling them ?
what does Windows do that Linux doesn't?
grep foo *
'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Linux doesn't do that.
And your periods and commas belong inside the quotation marks.
It depends on whether you're writing English English or American English. Putting punctuation inside quotation marks isn't really all that a good idea - how do you write a question about a question that someone asked without having to restructure the sentence for that specific case ?
That's horse-shit. I should be heard when I have a complaint. They party behind MY house, not my neighbours' houses. My house is stregically located between the lamp posts where they cannot be seen.
My suggestion would be an IR sensor and a bright spotlight. Many times in my teens I settled down to enjoy a quiet joint only to be startled by a security light suddenly flashing on. Far more effective than a static light.
Why do I think hardware has less errors than software? Because hardware errors are expensive.
In a previous job, we had a sign on the wall that read: "Software would be as reliable as hardware if it took 6 months and $500,000 to compile."
One thing I've noticed about developing software on faster machines is that it's far far easier to just tweak something, recompile, see if that fixes the problem, repeat. When it took 30 minutes (or even 8 hours as with one large AI project I worked on in the late 80s) to compile the app you were working on, it was far preferable, and far quicker, to stop, sit down with pencil and paper and actually understand the problem you were trying to solve. The "beat it with a stick until it works" development pattern is way too easy to fall into (I find myself doing it all the time but fortunately most of the stuff I work on nowadays is scaffolding and interim tools).
A P4 will do one instruction per cycle for most instructions.
Actually, even not counting the SIMD stuff (SSE, MMX, etc) a P4 will do more than one instruction per cycle a lot of the time. Still does less work per clock than AMD though, especially with code that involves lots of branches. Me, I like cornering ability...
not only was your grammer horrible, but so was your spelling
That would be "grammar" you would be referring to, I assume.
Internet Explorer is a project currently under development by Microsoft.
Interestingly enough, a quick look at this "Internet Explorer" thing's User-Agent string claims that it is Mozilla-compatible.
Hooray ! Now all we have to do is design+test our sites for compatibility with Mozilla, and IE will render them as intended - Bill guarantees it !
You (and the next poster) completely missed the point. RAID gives you *read thoroughput*, not *seek time* (it actually tends to hurt your seek time a little).
True, but not quite the complete picture. You also need to consider that with RAID you now (effectively) have more capacity per cylinder, therefore less seeks are needed over the same size dataset.
Seems like an awful lot of work. It's much easier to set a break points and step through the code. Log files are good for some types of bugs, but I don't resort to them until after I've tried stepping through.
I agree, stepping through is easier, and it's great for bugs that involve the behaviour of a single thread of execution (though it is still a lot easier to rewind a logfile). When the bug is in the interaction of multiple subsystems (which covers most of the code I write), then single-stepping isn't going to get you very far.
The right tool for the right job, and all that...
Please explain how printf will let you debug the following (more than just a binary chop):
An extensive logfile, and intelligent use of grep/awk/etc to analyse the behaviour of the system over time ?
Leastways, that's what I do...
Funny how liberals cling to the first admendment, but ignore the rest of the Constitution.
There's a reason it's called an amendment.
I use Yahoo for two things; News (via Google and Fark) and currency conversion. That's it.
Here you go, 50% reduction in yahoo use and the url's easier to type
Google for "subjunctive".
You might appreciate this link: Imperial Tea Court. I get all my "good" tea from there - great place, well worth stopping by in person when you're in SF.
What about your neighbor's wireless connection that he encrypts? Do they violate your physical space as well? Does he have to ask your permission before he sets it up? What about the cell phone conversations that float through your backyard? True, like DirecTV, the legality is still unclear on these specific issues, but is it ethical to listen in on cell phone conversations, or "borrow" internet bandwidth from your neighbor's encrypted wireless network, or worse, view the information he sends between him and his ISP?
For those cases, I would regard it as unethical, because I'm invading someone's privacy. No loss of privacy is involved when viewing TV broadcasts. Privacy is, to me, a far more serious issue than the "right" to make a profit using public resources.
Oh geez. What a lame analogy. A correct one would have been an ecrypted sentence that said, "YOU CAN ONLY READ THIS BY PAYING $100 FOR A BROWSER PLUGIN TO READ THIS SENTENCE."
Your original comment said nothing about decryption, merely reception.
My "improved" analogy to include the crypto element would be the situation where someone threw a locked safe containing cash into my backyard. In my worldview - which I fully accept you may not share - it would be perfectly reasonable to crack the lock on that safe and take the cash.
By the way, what is your occupation, and if so, may I also accidently steal the results of your work?
Chip architect. If you have a good enough electron microscope, a wafer fab, and plenty of patience to write down where all those millions of transistors go, feel free...
but receiving something you didn't pay for when the party providing the service fully expects compensation is stealing.
I expect you to pay me $100 for receiving this sentence in your retina.
"They're putting the airwaves in my backyard, I just happen to be catching them in my satellite dish!"
"But your just posting that sentence on Slashdot. I just happen to be reading it in my browser."
So uh, yeah...cut em up, throw on some olive oil, rosemary, parsley, and...roast it. I don't do high-starch things really, but eh.
If you parboil them first, they turn out even fluffier in the middle and crispier on the outside. Yummy.
Sun should licence their processor design (at low or no cost) to create competion to create a SPARC-comaptible marketplace. If they really have been converted to open source they will soon realise that they cannot make money from selling software.
Here you go:
The LEON2 processor is a synthesisable VHDL model of a 32-bit processor compliant with the SPARC V8 acrhitecture. The model is highly configurable, and particularly suitable for system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs. The full source code is available under the GNU LGPL license, allowing free and unlimited use in both research and commercial applications.