But posting the URL on Slashdot, resulting in their slashdotting, is a way to directly strike a blow against the terrorists & is clearly the patriotic thing to do.
I don't think any CS students want to do flowcharting, it's just something that old boneheaded profs cling to. I've had a few that wanted flowcharts, mostly so they could avoid having to read students' code.
There's different types of technologies... plugins to make software extensible are, I would think, more of a fundamental technique than something like one-click-shopping. Virtual machines and garbage collection have been around for well over 20 years, and will most likely continue to be. Java, OTOH, uses these technologies but will most likely be a museum piece in 20 years.
One type of innovation deserves protection (if we are to allow these things to be patentable at all) and the other is just a joke. Assuming Eolas was the first (which is doubtful) to come up with the idea of plugins and a workable implementation, this is the kind of advance in software design that would be worth giving some credit/protection to (tho, as has been said numerous tims before, there's an assload of prior art, so the point isn't worth mentioning).
Well, since the gov't isn't going to listen to us, the best we can hope for is for some multi-billion dollar corporation (who's quite adept at purchasing laws) to decide that getting the laws made more sane is in their best interests.
Speaking of biographies, let's look at Neal Stephenson's background. As great of a sci-fi author as he is, what really qualifies him to talk about the politics of accademia?
Those rechargable electric scooters are pretty slick. They should be able to do a 10KM trip if you recharge at the office; they fold down and they only run about $200 (around here, you can buy them at auto-parts stores)
What's in the casino's best interest is to get an armed squad of jack-booted thugs to roam the countryside, killing people an taking their life savings while supporting a violent overthrow of the government that will get them sympathetic powers that be.
Fortunately, they're one of the most highly regulated industries out there; I doubt they're allowed to change the odds on machines based on customer identity. Of course, gamblers are generally uninformed, unintellighent and superstitious, so believe what you want.
Well, X11 is really 1.1 and GNU Emacs 21 is really 2.1; when somebody realized that the releases were going to be glacially slow, they decided to inflate the version numbers by a factor of 10 so that traditional release numbering scheme would still appear to show actual progress.
...and to make the lameness filter happy I'm going to have to type in a bunch of stuff since, "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 7.3)." And some more BS goes here 'cuz "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 9.4).". Even more because 10.9 isn't enough either. Of course, I can just abuse the HTML formatting and make the list "one line". Fuck this.
Without user resource quotas, something like this will hurt the machine. Even if it's not using much CPU time itself, it'll bog down the kernel w/ system calls & it'll spend so much time switching processes that nothing'll actually get done.
Even if SCO's got nothing on you, as a Linux user, the minute you sign the contract with them and agree to their licence, you give SCO a contract they can then take you to court with. If you remember, SCO isn't suing any Linux developers; they're suing companies that they've got contracts with.
Yes, SGI's hurting, but they're still much stronger than SCO. I mean... they've got _customers_ buying _products_ which produce _revenue_. Definately a big advantage over SCO.
SCO is saying that IBM moved the code into Linux on purpose to destroy UNIX.
SCO's saying many things, but most of them (such as this) are just the FUD machine at work and don't really enter into the actual lawsuit. If they had more to go on, they'd be hitting IBM with something stronger than a minor breach of contract.
Actually, not having a label would make the disk -less- prone to damage. The label side is the one that, if damaged, causes a loss of information. If you look at a CD/DVD, you'll notice that the 'shiney side' is a fairly thick slab of clear plastic; the reflective surface is just a thin foil layer on the label side, which is poorly protected (you may notice that video rental places have been putting thick stickers over the labels for extra protection).
Scratches to the media side can often be buffed/polished out without losing anything; scrathes through the label are uncorrectable, as the material carying the data is lost.
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Even better, we have beer. It makes the ugly people cute.
I always forget if it's "two in the pink & one in the stink) or the other way 'round...
But posting the URL on Slashdot, resulting in their slashdotting, is a way to directly strike a blow against the terrorists & is clearly the patriotic thing to do.
I don't think any CS students want to do flowcharting, it's just something that old boneheaded profs cling to. I've had a few that wanted flowcharts, mostly so they could avoid having to read students' code.
Actually, in the US, there -are- rather strict laws regulating how medical (HIPAA) and academic information (FERPA) is to be kept confidential.
There's different types of technologies... plugins to make software extensible are, I would think, more of a fundamental technique than something like one-click-shopping. Virtual machines and garbage collection have been around for well over 20 years, and will most likely continue to be. Java, OTOH, uses these technologies but will most likely be a museum piece in 20 years.
One type of innovation deserves protection (if we are to allow these things to be patentable at all) and the other is just a joke. Assuming Eolas was the first (which is doubtful) to come up with the idea of plugins and a workable implementation, this is the kind of advance in software design that would be worth giving some credit/protection to (tho, as has been said numerous tims before, there's an assload of prior art, so the point isn't worth mentioning).
Well, since the gov't isn't going to listen to us, the best we can hope for is for some multi-billion dollar corporation (who's quite adept at purchasing laws) to decide that getting the laws made more sane is in their best interests.
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Actually, it's a rip-off of a much older game, Tetris Attack, which originally appeared on the SNES.
On the game front, I must mention Crack Attack. Quite possibly the most addicting puzzle game I've ever played.
Speaking of biographies, let's look at Neal Stephenson's background. As great of a sci-fi author as he is, what really qualifies him to talk about the politics of accademia?
Those rechargable electric scooters are pretty slick. They should be able to do a 10KM trip if you recharge at the office; they fold down and they only run about $200 (around here, you can buy them at auto-parts stores)
What's in the casino's best interest is to get an armed squad of jack-booted thugs to roam the countryside, killing people an taking their life savings while supporting a violent overthrow of the government that will get them sympathetic powers that be.
Fortunately, they're one of the most highly regulated industries out there; I doubt they're allowed to change the odds on machines based on customer identity. Of course, gamblers are generally uninformed, unintellighent and superstitious, so believe what you want.
Well, X11 is really 1.1 and GNU Emacs 21 is really 2.1; when somebody realized that the releases were going to be glacially slow, they decided to inflate the version numbers by a factor of 10 so that traditional release numbering scheme would still appear to show actual progress.
main(while(1){fork();})
Without user resource quotas, something like this will hurt the machine. Even if it's not using much CPU time itself, it'll bog down the kernel w/ system calls & it'll spend so much time switching processes that nothing'll actually get done.
Even if SCO's got nothing on you, as a Linux user, the minute you sign the contract with them and agree to their licence, you give SCO a contract they can then take you to court with. If you remember, SCO isn't suing any Linux developers; they're suing companies that they've got contracts with.
Yes, SGI's hurting, but they're still much stronger than SCO. I mean... they've got _customers_ buying _products_ which produce _revenue_. Definately a big advantage over SCO.
SCO is saying that IBM moved the code into Linux on purpose to destroy UNIX.
SCO's saying many things, but most of them (such as this) are just the FUD machine at work and don't really enter into the actual lawsuit. If they had more to go on, they'd be hitting IBM with something stronger than a minor breach of contract.
Yes... now you have all the time in the world to be a FPer. Congrats, yo, you've achieved the Amernian dream.
More importantly, what we really need is yet another project using an abstract drawing of a perspective view of a cube done in primary colors.
And it's always easier to make a point with wild speculation and numbers conveniently pulled out of your ass that can't help but prove your point.
Actually, not having a label would make the disk -less- prone to damage. The label side is the one that, if damaged, causes a loss of information. If you look at a CD/DVD, you'll notice that the 'shiney side' is a fairly thick slab of clear plastic; the reflective surface is just a thin foil layer on the label side, which is poorly protected (you may notice that video rental places have been putting thick stickers over the labels for extra protection).
Scratches to the media side can often be buffed/polished out without losing anything; scrathes through the label are uncorrectable, as the material carying the data is lost.
How many slackware users bother with binary packages after the initial system install?
Well, so much for letting users run the compiler...