in related news, what other products besides Google Desktop Search, Spybot Search & Destroy, Google Toolbar and Service Pack 2 are Slashdotters installing on their parents' Windows machines?"
Adobe Reader - solves the "I got this attachement and I can't read it" problem Picasa - solves the "I can't find the picture of the grandkids you sent"... MS Streets and trips Nothing says "get lost" like mapping software and it solves all sorts of arguments on the best route yahoo messenger so my mom can IM me at work (this is a bad idea - but now that she knows about it, can't not do it)
And last, don't forget to bring tools and other crap because mom may have went out and bought a new graphics card or some other piece of equipment (firewire card, usb2.0 card etc) she wants you to install...
Wooo hooo ! Slashdot goes to Kindergarten
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The patents belongs to Pico Electronics
Limited, of Scotland NOT to IBM.
IBM didn't enter the X-10 marker with Home Director until the patents expired.
See http://www.execulink.com/~hometech/x10faqa.htm
When it affects me - I'll switch. I suspect that every person reading this can also afford to gas up their cars despite the price so until it affects them too, no switcheroo...
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Holy smokes - there are 40 year old programmers in Silicon Valley who aren't rich and still have to work ? Whats wrong with those people and why would you want to hire them ? Any programmer worth his salt should be rich by 30 !
Yup. You either missed the fix or added a new bug - you decide which since its your code. Your suggested code will loop "count" times reading *UP TO* count bytes each time which means you will read up to (count * count) bytes which is not what is expected. If your code had !read(fd,RandBuf,1) then you would read up to count bytes total. The other fix would be to add some "count -= bytesRead" code in the loop.
Personally, I think someone should sue Amazon for making it too easy to buy something. Picture the poor old 80 year old naive internet user tricked into buying something on Amazon. "I accidentally clicked the mouse... once and they sent me a book" How can the average consumer expect to be safe from this aggressive sales tactic. Some consumer protection group should insist that Amazon add a confirmation page to every single click purchase so the consumer has a chance at "second sober thought" and doesn't buy something they don't want. We need additional legislation which kicks in if you purchase any product with a single click - a 24 hr "change your mind" rule like they have for door to door sales. I'm going to patent the "confirmation" click (one or more extra clicks) which cites the 1-click patent and adds a new level of "safety" to online purchases.
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in related news, what other products besides Google Desktop Search, Spybot Search & Destroy, Google Toolbar and Service Pack 2 are Slashdotters installing on their parents' Windows machines?"
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Adobe Reader - solves the "I got this attachement and I can't read it" problem
Picasa - solves the "I can't find the picture of the grandkids you sent"
MS Streets and trips Nothing says "get lost" like mapping software and it solves all sorts of arguments on the best route
yahoo messenger so my mom can IM me at work (this is a bad idea - but now that she knows about it, can't not do it)
And last, don't forget to bring tools and other crap because mom may have went out and bought a new graphics card or some other piece of equipment (firewire card, usb2.0 card etc) she wants you to install
remember, don't let go of the rope.
The patents belongs to Pico Electronics Limited, of Scotland NOT to IBM. IBM didn't enter the X-10 marker with Home Director until the patents expired. See http://www.execulink.com/~hometech/x10faqa.htm
When it affects me - I'll switch. I suspect that every person reading this can also afford to gas up their cars despite the price so until it affects them too, no switcheroo ...
Holy smokes - there are 40 year old programmers in Silicon Valley who aren't rich and still have to work ? Whats wrong with those people and why would you want to hire them ? Any programmer worth his salt should be rich by 30 !
Yup. You either missed the fix or added a new bug - you decide which since its your code. Your suggested code will loop "count" times reading *UP TO* count bytes each time which means you will read up to (count * count) bytes which is not what is expected. If your code had !read(fd,RandBuf,1) then you would read up to count bytes total. The other fix would be to add some "count -= bytesRead" code in the loop.
Personally, I think someone should sue Amazon for making it too easy to buy something. Picture the poor old 80 year old naive internet user tricked into buying something on Amazon. "I accidentally clicked the mouse ... once and they sent me a book" How can the average consumer expect to be safe from this aggressive sales tactic. Some consumer protection group should insist that Amazon add a confirmation page to every single click purchase so the consumer has a chance at "second sober thought" and doesn't buy something they don't want. We need additional legislation which kicks in if you purchase any product with a single click - a 24 hr "change your mind" rule like they have for door to door sales. I'm going to patent the "confirmation" click (one or more extra clicks) which cites the 1-click patent and adds a new level of "safety" to online purchases.