On the other hand, I think it's more likely that a planet would develop life in close proximity to another planet with life, rather than have them equally distributed through the universe.
I'm assuming that cross-insemination through meteorite impacts, etc... is possible.
I do wonder if and when it is decided that mars could support life but no life exists, wouldn't it make a damn cool experiment to start planting life there? Could start with some sort of simple plant life (algae?) that would help prime the atmosphere for higher life forms. They may need to be genetically altered to survive in the environment.
And if Mars does turn out to have some sort of life, could we do it on the next candidate that matches the requirements? Europa maybe? That in fact may be an even better candidate because there is less chance of indigenous life making it to earth (by hitching a ride on a rock after a meteor impact). That is, until they develop space flight.;)
The only bad thing would be that I wouldn't be around to see the end results of the experiment.
As I replied in a different thread, I am using FAT32 because I moved the drive from a windows machine and I do not have enough disk space to copy the files off, repartition, and copy them back on. If there was a non-destructive solution to convert the drive, I'd go for it.
I solved the problem by going with Linux for this project.
Let's face it, file coruption should not be in -stable under any file systems that are shipped with the distribution! Unfortunately with (free) open source many programmers go where the glory is, and don't much care for the mundane details. I've lose trust in BSD because of this bug, because it is not documented in the distribution, because users are not prevented from setting this combination in some way, and because I don't know what other similar bugs there are in FBSD.
For me, FBSD has been relegated to firewalls, since I know that part works (even tho I'm seeing some intermittend flakiness -- something that happens every 3-4 months for some reason -- in the bridging code, possibly caused by network conditions.)
Well, in my case, I can't do that because that drive was moved from a Windows machine. I do not have enough disk space to copy the files off th drive, reformat it, and then copy them back. And AFAIK there is no non-destructive convert utility. Do you have a solution for me? If you say "buy another drive" my reply to you would be "Why would I spend money to get around a bug in the OS when there are other viable option out there -- e.g linux?"
Finally, my original point was, if this bug is a known bug, and it leads to file corruption, it should never have made it in -stable!. Luckly in my case I didn't delete my source files after copying them to the BSD box via samba, and I didn't lose them. However other people out there may lose their files. This is unnaceptable for -stable.
I am not sure what your former employer is doing, but many people are aware of this bug. It's as simple as setting up FAT32 and sharing it to a windows machine using samba.
The bug only happens if the external machine (in my case XP) pushes files to the samba/f32 share, not if it pulls them.
The size of the files or the amount of files in the batch may affect your results. In my case, copying a number of MP3s from the Win machine to the BSD machine gives you a wonderfuly scrambled bit soup, even though the size is correct.
Using samba, if you share Fat32 and write to it from the network, you end up with corrupted files.
I hope it has been fixed, but I somehow doubt it since it's been around for at least 2 years (earliest bug report was on 4.6RC) so it exists in -stable as well.
I think that the limit you discuss can be bypassed by compression and parallelism.;) Sure, there may be 10 ns on one wire, but 1 ns on 10 wires.
Also if someone gave up this binary system and figured out how to represent a decimal number (or higher) in one unit of information over the wire, that would speed up things.
Whenever someone like RMS tries to redefine a word which is so ingrained in popular culture to mean "free as in you don't have to pay for it", he's asking for trouble.
It's arrogance for him to think that his definition of "free" is known enough to convey the message without an explanation.
To 99% of the people out there, free means "I don't have to pay for it". Those 99% of people could care less about the source code. They want the software free.
If a company is willing to offer software free but is not willing to release source code, most people would be happy. The only ones objecting would be those who want to tell those 99% what is good for them.
What's next, Open Source Pride Parade down main? "We're here, we're freer than beer, get used to it"?
house of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, "a swimming bath") with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it "the sheep-pool." It is also called "Bethsaida" and "Beth-zatha" (John 5:2, R.V. marg.). Under these "porches" or colonnades were usually a large number of infirm people waiting for the "troubling of the water." It is usually identified with the modern so-called Fountain of the Virgin, in the valley of the Kidron, and not far from the Pool of Siloam (q.v.); and also with the Birket Israel, a pool near the mouth of the valley which runs into the Kidron south of "St. Stephen's Gate." Others again identify it with the twin pools called the "Souterrains," under the convent of the Sisters of Zion, situated in what must have been the rock-hewn ditch between Bezetha and the fortress of Antonia. But quite recently Schick has discovered a large tank, as sketched here, situated about 100 feet north-west of St. Anne's Church, which is, as he contends, very probably the Pool of Bethesda. No certainty as to its identification, however, has as yet been arrived at.
Furthermore, a little common sense and configuration tweaking can make Outlook quite secure. I have had absolutely no problem with Outlook and I've every version (OL 98?? through OL 2003) I really do like 2003.
I don't use OE so I don't know about the express version.
I ould gladly buy a thin-client for my parents, instad of a PC. They don't need a PC. The problem is that the ISP doesn't have the infrastructure to support it.
And yes, they have failed before. however, as the market sayeth, past performance is not indicative of future returns. All it needs is fr someone to implement it right, price it right, and offer an end-to-end solution.
The innovator will have the first shot at the market. This means that they can charge premium if they want.
The copier comes later, and must compete on price. Dell is doing that okay for now, but how are they going to do once big boys like Walmart have their game down?
The innovator at least can hit the market hard, and get a little profit until everybody else jumps in. They can also profit from licensing patents to others, so even if they lose the marketing war later on, they can profit from the copiers' volume. However for the copiers, they must outmarket or underprice every other copier in the market.
Dell's been doing a good job of marketing sofar. We'll see how they deal with Walmart's muscle considering their many distribution points. I think Dell is in big trouble.
They should also be very afraid if the thin client makes inroads in the home user market. Then people will end up buying their next computer at the supermarket, throwing it into their shopping cart alongside the box of cereals and toothpaste. Not that far fetched.. in a year or two, the cost of the hardware to build a thin client good enough for the average (non-game-playing) end user would be less than the cost of an imported wheel of cheese.
I thought it was destroyed by Omar (Caliph of Baghdad) in 640-someting AD. Julius Caesar would've taken his shot way earlier (47BC) and then by anoher Christian dude.. But if it was destroyed by Omar in 640s it means it was still around to destroy.
Maybe I'm wrong? Or maybe it's politically correct to blame it on the romans.;)
I thought together supports C++ refactoring, but I have only used it for C#. I can't afford the full blown version:(
Quoting:
"Refactoring Support for Refactoring at Class, Attribute and method level. Refactoring means rewriting existing source code with the intent of improving its design rather than changing its external behavior. The focus of refactoring is on the structure of the source code, changing the design to make the code easier to understand, maintain, and modify. The primary resource book on refactoring is Refactoring -- Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (Addison -Wesley, 1999). "
http://www.borland.com/together/controlcenter/in de x.html
I think people who have 12 years of experience and are still "programmers" are wasting their experience, and I may be agreeing with your boss here.. but probably from a different point of view.
If you have 12 years of experience, by now you should have collected enough experience to have moved beyond "programming." Your skills are better spent in architecture and software design, and not coding. After a while, the programming language becomes irrelevant, and yes, you can trust the 2+ years programmers to implement what you design. You may be a hot shot programmer, but you can't match the speed with which a proper design is implemented by 12 code monkeys working in parallel.
Yes, I do know that are people who like programming. However most people are expected to grow and develop, and I think architecture/design is on the logical path away from programming.
I don't think stripping down windows will hurt Microsoft. They will still probably include Media Player and other such things as an option on the CD or on windows update. Or bundled with other programs (e.g. Office, etc) And people will still get it.. All they probably managed to do is give people another pain in the ass. Thank you, big government.
Oh.. there is one bright side. Real Audio. And yes, I'm being facetious.
And people will still not be any wiser on how to get good, free players without spyware.
I hate realplayer probably more than anything else out there except one thing: Sony's OpenMG. And strangely enough, those are the only two apps I can use to send tracks to my MD Player. If MS's mplayer or Winamp had MD support, I'd be a happy camper.
How do you define "Rival product"? why should RealAudio get the benefit, but not WinAmp? Why should WinAmp, but not Bob's Media Thingamajing? etc, etc.. where do you draw the line?
Okay, maybe competition is good, but why should RealAudio profit? What is this law doing for the small media players out there that are better (and less intrusive) than RealOne?
I hate realone much more than I hate mediaplayer. I will not support any law that benefits them. Of course, I dont' live in the EU so the point is moot. It's just my opinion.
Again.. dont' bundle anything. That is the only fair way to go.
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Shhh... I see dead languages.
Not to act trollish, but how in the world was this modded "informative"???
On the other hand, I think it's more likely that a planet would develop life in close proximity to another planet with life, rather than have them equally distributed through the universe.
I'm assuming that cross-insemination through meteorite impacts, etc... is possible.
I do wonder if and when it is decided that mars could support life but no life exists, wouldn't it make a damn cool experiment to start planting life there? Could start with some sort of simple plant life (algae?) that would help prime the atmosphere for higher life forms. They may need to be genetically altered to survive in the environment.
;)
And if Mars does turn out to have some sort of life, could we do it on the next candidate that matches the requirements? Europa maybe? That in fact may be an even better candidate because there is less chance of indigenous life making it to earth (by hitching a ride on a rock after a meteor impact). That is, until they develop space flight.
The only bad thing would be that I wouldn't be around to see the end results of the experiment.
What color is a trans[p]arent color?
As I replied in a different thread, I am using FAT32 because I moved the drive from a windows machine and I do not have enough disk space to copy the files off, repartition, and copy them back on. If there was a non-destructive solution to convert the drive, I'd go for it.
I solved the problem by going with Linux for this project.
Let's face it, file coruption should not be in -stable under any file systems that are shipped with the distribution! Unfortunately with (free) open source many programmers go where the glory is, and don't much care for the mundane details. I've lose trust in BSD because of this bug, because it is not documented in the distribution, because users are not prevented from setting this combination in some way, and because I don't know what other similar bugs there are in FBSD.
For me, FBSD has been relegated to firewalls, since I know that part works (even tho I'm seeing some intermittend flakiness -- something that happens every 3-4 months for some reason -- in the bridging code, possibly caused by network conditions.)
Well, in my case, I can't do that because that drive was moved from a Windows machine. I do not have enough disk space to copy the files off th drive, reformat it, and then copy them back. And AFAIK there is no non-destructive convert utility. Do you have a solution for me? If you say "buy another drive" my reply to you would be "Why would I spend money to get around a bug in the OS when there are other viable option out there -- e.g linux?"
Finally, my original point was, if this bug is a known bug, and it leads to file corruption, it should never have made it in -stable!. Luckly in my case I didn't delete my source files after copying them to the BSD box via samba, and I didn't lose them. However other people out there may lose their files. This is unnaceptable for -stable.
I am not sure what your former employer is doing, but many people are aware of this bug. It's as simple as setting up FAT32 and sharing it to a windows machine using samba.
The bug only happens if the external machine (in my case XP) pushes files to the samba/f32 share, not if it pulls them.
The size of the files or the amount of files in the batch may affect your results. In my case, copying a number of MP3s from the Win machine to the BSD machine gives you a wonderfuly scrambled bit soup, even though the size is correct.
Yep. I had the same problem under 5.2.1. After I discussed it on the list, I had confirmations that other people are seeing it as well.
Using samba, if you share Fat32 and write to it from the network, you end up with corrupted files.
I hope it has been fixed, but I somehow doubt it since it's been around for at least 2 years (earliest bug report was on 4.6RC) so it exists in -stable as well.
I think that the limit you discuss can be bypassed by compression and parallelism. ;) Sure, there may be 10 ns on one wire, but 1 ns on 10 wires.
Also if someone gave up this binary system and figured out how to represent a decimal number (or higher) in one unit of information over the wire, that would speed up things.
Whenever someone like RMS tries to redefine a word which is so ingrained in popular culture to mean "free as in you don't have to pay for it", he's asking for trouble.
It's arrogance for him to think that his definition of "free" is known enough to convey the message without an explanation.
To 99% of the people out there, free means "I don't have to pay for it". Those 99% of people could care less about the source code. They want the software free.
If a company is willing to offer software free but is not willing to release source code, most people would be happy. The only ones objecting would be those who want to tell those 99% what is good for them.
What's next, Open Source Pride Parade down main? "We're here, we're freer than beer, get used to it"?
bethesda
house of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, "a swimming bath") with five
porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the
historian (A.D. 330) calls it "the sheep-pool." It is also called "Bethsaida"
and "Beth-zatha" (John 5:2, R.V. marg.). Under these "porches" or colonnades
were usually a large number of infirm people waiting for the "troubling of the
water." It is usually identified with the modern so-called Fountain of the
Virgin, in the valley of the Kidron, and not far from the Pool of Siloam
(q.v.); and also with the Birket Israel, a pool near the mouth of the valley
which runs into the Kidron south of "St. Stephen's Gate." Others again identify
it with the twin pools called the "Souterrains," under the convent of the
Sisters of Zion, situated in what must have been the rock-hewn ditch between
Bezetha and the fortress of Antonia. But quite recently Schick has discovered a
large tank, as sketched here, situated about 100 feet north-west of St. Anne's
Church, which is, as he contends, very probably the Pool of Bethesda. No
certainty as to its identification, however, has as yet been arrived at.
Furthermore, a little common sense and configuration tweaking can make Outlook quite secure. I have had absolutely no problem with Outlook and I've every version (OL 98?? through OL 2003) I really do like 2003.
I don't use OE so I don't know about the express version.
I ould gladly buy a thin-client for my parents, instad of a PC. They don't need a PC. The problem is that the ISP doesn't have the infrastructure to support it.
And yes, they have failed before. however, as the market sayeth, past performance is not indicative of future returns. All it needs is fr someone to implement it right, price it right, and offer an end-to-end solution.
The problem with copying is this:
The innovator will have the first shot at the market. This means that they can charge premium if they want.
The copier comes later, and must compete on price. Dell is doing that okay for now, but how are they going to do once big boys like Walmart have their game down?
The innovator at least can hit the market hard, and get a little profit until everybody else jumps in. They can also profit from licensing patents to others, so even if they lose the marketing war later on, they can profit from the copiers' volume. However for the copiers, they must outmarket or underprice every other copier in the market.
Dell's been doing a good job of marketing sofar. We'll see how they deal with Walmart's muscle considering their many distribution points. I think Dell is in big trouble.
They should also be very afraid if the thin client makes inroads in the home user market. Then people will end up buying their next computer at the supermarket, throwing it into their shopping cart alongside the box of cereals and toothpaste. Not that far fetched.. in a year or two, the cost of the hardware to build a thin client good enough for the average (non-game-playing) end user would be less than the cost of an imported wheel of cheese.
I thought it was destroyed by Omar (Caliph of Baghdad) in 640-someting AD. Julius Caesar would've taken his shot way earlier (47BC) and then by anoher Christian dude.. But if it was destroyed by Omar in 640s it means it was still around to destroy.
;)
Maybe I'm wrong? Or maybe it's politically correct to blame it on the romans.
I thought together supports C++ refactoring, but I have only used it for C#. I can't afford the full blown version :(
n de x.html
Quoting:
"Refactoring
Support for Refactoring at Class, Attribute and method level. Refactoring means rewriting existing source code with the intent of improving its design rather than changing its external behavior. The focus of refactoring is on the structure of the source code, changing the design to make the code easier to understand, maintain, and modify. The primary resource book on refactoring is Refactoring -- Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler (Addison -Wesley, 1999). "
http://www.borland.com/together/controlcenter/i
Well, I get quotes for a company with stock symbol D, then the top links are:
D-Link Systems, Inc.
D-Lib Magazine
Physical Review D, Journal
Cuz it makes it hard to google for "D".
I think people who have 12 years of experience and are still "programmers" are wasting their experience, and I may be agreeing with your boss here.. but probably from a different point of view.
If you have 12 years of experience, by now you should have collected enough experience to have moved beyond "programming." Your skills are better spent in architecture and software design, and not coding. After a while, the programming language becomes irrelevant, and yes, you can trust the 2+ years programmers to implement what you design. You may be a hot shot programmer, but you can't match the speed with which a proper design is implemented by 12 code monkeys working in parallel.
Yes, I do know that are people who like programming. However most people are expected to grow and develop, and I think architecture/design is on the logical path away from programming.
Just my $0.03.
I don't think stripping down windows will hurt Microsoft. They will still probably include Media Player and other such things as an option on the CD or on windows update. Or bundled with other programs (e.g. Office, etc) And people will still get it.. All they probably managed to do is give people another pain in the ass. Thank you, big government.
Oh.. there is one bright side. Real Audio. And yes, I'm being facetious.
And people will still not be any wiser on how to get good, free players without spyware.
I hate realplayer probably more than anything else out there except one thing: Sony's OpenMG. And strangely enough, those are the only two apps I can use to send tracks to my MD Player. If MS's mplayer or Winamp had MD support, I'd be a happy camper.
Why _SHOULD_ microsoft go out of business?
It is one thing to aim for fairness, it is another thing to just be blinded by hate.
Why would it be a bad thing?
How do you define "Rival product"? why should RealAudio get the benefit, but not WinAmp? Why should WinAmp, but not Bob's Media Thingamajing? etc, etc.. where do you draw the line?
Okay, maybe competition is good, but why should RealAudio profit? What is this law doing for the small media players out there that are better (and less intrusive) than RealOne?
I hate realone much more than I hate mediaplayer. I will not support any law that benefits them. Of course, I dont' live in the EU so the point is moot. It's just my opinion.
Again.. dont' bundle anything. That is the only fair way to go.
Oh my God no!!
"You have 1 critical patches: Gator"
besides, who would be responsible for integration testing? I would no longer use Windows Update if anyone else started dumping crap in there..
besides, to everyone their own update is critical.