Microsoft has a "shared source" thing where they will show you the source code for reference purposes (Wikipedia says for viewing Microsoft classes while debugging) but you can't redistribute it. Definitely not open source.
Open source has been around a lot longer than Google. The OSI can just continue doing their thing, and everyone will look for the nod from RMS, and nothing will change. Google can of course just use the words "open source" and maybe the OSS fad people who get a kick out of sticking it to the man and not using IE will be led astray, but the open source community isn't a bunch of art students looking for a sleek OPEN SOURCE logo at the bottom of the page, it's a bunch of intelligent developers who already deal with the ins and outs of software licensing and it will remain cognizant of the issues. And maybe many of them will decide that Google's terms are fine, and develop software using this new format. Why is that a bad thing?
The only thing that worries me is that the GPL isn't very flexible when it comes to differences of opinion. One developer's decision to develop software on Google's terms could have huge ramifications for the options available to the project, because everything is GPL'd these days. It's more important than ever to encourage more permissive licensing like the BSD and MIT licenses to give earnest open-source developers the option of disagreeing and the ability to improve OSS.
I think anyone who spends a lot of time on games past about 16 years needs some help growing up. The need to play so much indicates (to me) that they don't have enough interesting, more important things to think about.
If he's the type to play games, nothing can compete with the fun of a video game. You don't know what you're up against. People literally, literally, abandon their lives for World of Warcraft. Life isn't very fun you know, especially for a teenager (treated like second-class citizens, zero assets and completely dependent on parents, most available jobs border on psychologically unendurable, plus all the stresses of trying to figure out what the world is all about etc).
A teenager probably won't have a predisposition to hard work, but fun exploratory studying while a student isn't supposed to be hard work. Contrary to TFS, it's easier than ever to get started programming, like in Python. If he's even remotely conscious he'll be a user of the internet, and PHP has a strong pull for new programmers because it can do cool things on a platform that everyone's familiar with.. the ins and outs are very easily inferred from what you see in the web browser. Fundamental stuff like GET/POST form requests and sessions being based on secret token IDs (implying the statelessness of HTTP, although he won't know it in so many words) show up right in the address bar. It's a quick jump to realizing that you can send Content-type:Image/PNG or whatever and discovering a world of wonders in procedural image generation with easy-as-turtle GD functions. All of this stuff is staring him in the face, and if he doesn't notice and explore it on his own when he's young then he "probably" doesn't have the curiosity to teach himself (be successful).
I don't buy that the prison industry conspiracy is to blame. It's the legislators that are idiotic enough to believe what the lobbyists are telling them, and too entrenched in politics to challenge senior lawmakers. I don't think my language is too strong here; nothing short of idiocy can describe the kind of new technology-related laws coming out of state legislatures. You'd think that a basic level of intelligence would be found among the most powerful people in the state.. I would genuinely rather have a random sampling of math majors at my university run my state because I know at least they can reason logically.
Yes hydrogenated oils are evil, I didn't say we couldn't make poisons in laboratories. But the kneejerk reaction of calling things frankenfood is tiring.
Uh any convictions of particular criminals won't stop the flow, and shouldn't be depended on to stop the flow. In other words, there's no point in prosecuting them. The problem is a technical one not a legal one.
I don't need a psychology degree to tell you right now what the problem is: religion. Faith makes a virtue out of not thinking. And if you accept rational science then you're doing something morally wrong.
No, there's no such thing as "frankenfood," that's just typical kdawson or is iting.
Chemistry is chemistry, there's no conspiracy to deprive people of their precious bodily fluids. People spend way more than they need to on pure organic ingredients when we have supplanted them with better, cheaper artificial substitutes. It's apparently an attractive fallacy that if it comes from nature it must be good. Hemlock grows in nature, and we make aspirin in laboratories.
I had a run-in recently from a drive-by malware install (curse you Chrome!). It immediately disabled task manager and locked me out of regedit and msconfig, and icons began to fill my desktop as I gazed on in horror... I couldn't install MalwareBytes because the malware killed the installer process immediately. I couldn't even download anything with an ad-aware-like filename since the request was hijacked and I got a scareware page instead.
A reboot into safe mode failed. Luckily, I had Process Explorer on a thumbdrive and was able to wrangle it dead with judicious use of Kill Process Tree and very fast clicking, since the processes restart each other when you kill them. Then I could use autoruns to nuke anything remotely non-Microsoft from my startup, and then I could install malware removal tools and antivirus scanners.
While it's easy to bash Windows after this privilege-escalation browser-hijacking nightmare, the tools available for defeating malicious software even when it has root are impressive. The problem of regaining control from a hostile takeover is fascinating and despite the panic it's always fun to engage in combat using your own little tricks.. it's like sitting in the computer lab on locked-down machines and trying to break free:) In middle school, there were very few icons on the desktop, nothing in the start menu, task manager was locked out, Run didn't work, none of the usual key combinations were effective... but I discovered that you could embed a hyperlink to file://c:/windows/cmd.exe in a word document and control+click it to bring up the DOS prompt!
And frankly the only reason that I was able to recover control from the malware is because XP's internal security is a wreck and there are a million different things to lock down individually. Let's face it, if somehow malicious code found a way to be executed as root on my linux system, there are no tools on earth short of going over the entire filesystem in a different OS with a text editor that can save you. Even rudimentary tools like Autoruns have no analogue in Linux.. there are rc.d scripts and.bashrc scripts and.xsession scripts and rc.conf and etc etc etc scattered all over the place, it's a mess. Well, I don't want to turn this into a unix haters rant...
It's a shame too, because the only reason Intel is making this offer at all is to compete with AMD's similar offerings. AMD should see more business for its influence on the market alone, but nobody has financial incentive to be altruistic toward the underdog. More "free" market forces at work unfortunately.
Probably because phones (you remember phone calls right?) used to have that easy option to turn "Location" to off except for E911 use. You could set it and forget it. But now that everyone has a smart phone or feature phone, they use it for services like apps and have that location tracking enabled.
What worries me as a student is that I'm one of the quality ones you're looking for, and my resume looks identical to all of the chaff. Is there some secret password I can put in the footer or something that lets recruiters know I'm not one of the idiots?:)
To use someone else's example of linked lists, I could work through a doubly-linked list insert routine immediately when the idea of a list made of Node objects was introduced to me. In pseudocode because I didn't actually know any programming language. And I came up with the idea of a doubly-linked list before the prof even introduced it. How do I put that kind of thing on my resume?
Maybe if you used a browser that just renders HTML instead of running a Javascript interpreter (mega bloat), 15 addons, and an XUL based UI then you wouldn't have trouble rendering a web page with 128MB of memory.. browsers worked fine back when 64MB was decent. Install uzbl or netsurf or something.
Hmm.. OK I can buy that. It's definitely possible to make an artistic statement with photography, especially with the power of post-processing. For example I love the post processing on shots in this.
But for the most part it seems that the goal of tweaking all of those variables is simply to overcome technical limitations and capture as faithful to reality an image as possible. Tweaking the f-stop or whatever is most often done just to get the lighting to turn out realistically, not to add anything to the work artistically.
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You want lower latency, not higher latency. Thanks soulskill.
Oh, right that happened too. I had to right-click Process Explorer and hit Run As... and run it as myself.
Microsoft has a "shared source" thing where they will show you the source code for reference purposes (Wikipedia says for viewing Microsoft classes while debugging) but you can't redistribute it. Definitely not open source.
Open source has been around a lot longer than Google. The OSI can just continue doing their thing, and everyone will look for the nod from RMS, and nothing will change. Google can of course just use the words "open source" and maybe the OSS fad people who get a kick out of sticking it to the man and not using IE will be led astray, but the open source community isn't a bunch of art students looking for a sleek OPEN SOURCE logo at the bottom of the page, it's a bunch of intelligent developers who already deal with the ins and outs of software licensing and it will remain cognizant of the issues. And maybe many of them will decide that Google's terms are fine, and develop software using this new format. Why is that a bad thing?
The only thing that worries me is that the GPL isn't very flexible when it comes to differences of opinion. One developer's decision to develop software on Google's terms could have huge ramifications for the options available to the project, because everything is GPL'd these days. It's more important than ever to encourage more permissive licensing like the BSD and MIT licenses to give earnest open-source developers the option of disagreeing and the ability to improve OSS.
If he's the type to play games, nothing can compete with the fun of a video game. You don't know what you're up against. People literally, literally, abandon their lives for World of Warcraft. Life isn't very fun you know, especially for a teenager (treated like second-class citizens, zero assets and completely dependent on parents, most available jobs border on psychologically unendurable, plus all the stresses of trying to figure out what the world is all about etc).
A teenager probably won't have a predisposition to hard work, but fun exploratory studying while a student isn't supposed to be hard work. Contrary to TFS, it's easier than ever to get started programming, like in Python. If he's even remotely conscious he'll be a user of the internet, and PHP has a strong pull for new programmers because it can do cool things on a platform that everyone's familiar with.. the ins and outs are very easily inferred from what you see in the web browser. Fundamental stuff like GET/POST form requests and sessions being based on secret token IDs (implying the statelessness of HTTP, although he won't know it in so many words) show up right in the address bar. It's a quick jump to realizing that you can send Content-type:Image/PNG or whatever and discovering a world of wonders in procedural image generation with easy-as-turtle GD functions. All of this stuff is staring him in the face, and if he doesn't notice and explore it on his own when he's young then he "probably" doesn't have the curiosity to teach himself (be successful).
I don't buy that the prison industry conspiracy is to blame. It's the legislators that are idiotic enough to believe what the lobbyists are telling them, and too entrenched in politics to challenge senior lawmakers. I don't think my language is too strong here; nothing short of idiocy can describe the kind of new technology-related laws coming out of state legislatures. You'd think that a basic level of intelligence would be found among the most powerful people in the state.. I would genuinely rather have a random sampling of math majors at my university run my state because I know at least they can reason logically.
Yes hydrogenated oils are evil, I didn't say we couldn't make poisons in laboratories. But the kneejerk reaction of calling things frankenfood is tiring.
Uh any convictions of particular criminals won't stop the flow, and shouldn't be depended on to stop the flow. In other words, there's no point in prosecuting them. The problem is a technical one not a legal one.
I don't need a psychology degree to tell you right now what the problem is: religion. Faith makes a virtue out of not thinking. And if you accept rational science then you're doing something morally wrong.
No, there's no such thing as "frankenfood," that's just typical kdawson or is iting.
Chemistry is chemistry, there's no conspiracy to deprive people of their precious bodily fluids. People spend way more than they need to on pure organic ingredients when we have supplanted them with better, cheaper artificial substitutes. It's apparently an attractive fallacy that if it comes from nature it must be good. Hemlock grows in nature, and we make aspirin in laboratories.
I had a run-in recently from a drive-by malware install (curse you Chrome!). It immediately disabled task manager and locked me out of regedit and msconfig, and icons began to fill my desktop as I gazed on in horror... I couldn't install MalwareBytes because the malware killed the installer process immediately. I couldn't even download anything with an ad-aware-like filename since the request was hijacked and I got a scareware page instead.
A reboot into safe mode failed. Luckily, I had Process Explorer on a thumbdrive and was able to wrangle it dead with judicious use of Kill Process Tree and very fast clicking, since the processes restart each other when you kill them. Then I could use autoruns to nuke anything remotely non-Microsoft from my startup, and then I could install malware removal tools and antivirus scanners.
While it's easy to bash Windows after this privilege-escalation browser-hijacking nightmare, the tools available for defeating malicious software even when it has root are impressive. The problem of regaining control from a hostile takeover is fascinating and despite the panic it's always fun to engage in combat using your own little tricks.. it's like sitting in the computer lab on locked-down machines and trying to break free :) In middle school, there were very few icons on the desktop, nothing in the start menu, task manager was locked out, Run didn't work, none of the usual key combinations were effective... but I discovered that you could embed a hyperlink to file://c:/windows/cmd.exe in a word document and control+click it to bring up the DOS prompt!
And frankly the only reason that I was able to recover control from the malware is because XP's internal security is a wreck and there are a million different things to lock down individually. Let's face it, if somehow malicious code found a way to be executed as root on my linux system, there are no tools on earth short of going over the entire filesystem in a different OS with a text editor that can save you. Even rudimentary tools like Autoruns have no analogue in Linux.. there are rc.d scripts and .bashrc scripts and .xsession scripts and rc.conf and etc etc etc scattered all over the place, it's a mess. Well, I don't want to turn this into a unix haters rant...
It's a shame too, because the only reason Intel is making this offer at all is to compete with AMD's similar offerings. AMD should see more business for its influence on the market alone, but nobody has financial incentive to be altruistic toward the underdog. More "free" market forces at work unfortunately.
The human factor is exactly what it's trying to eliminate, because it's worthless.
Probably because phones (you remember phone calls right?) used to have that easy option to turn "Location" to off except for E911 use. You could set it and forget it. But now that everyone has a smart phone or feature phone, they use it for services like apps and have that location tracking enabled.
The point is that once you have an ID card you can just flash it, instead of having to produce all of that documentation just to open a bank account.
What worries me as a student is that I'm one of the quality ones you're looking for, and my resume looks identical to all of the chaff. Is there some secret password I can put in the footer or something that lets recruiters know I'm not one of the idiots? :)
To use someone else's example of linked lists, I could work through a doubly-linked list insert routine immediately when the idea of a list made of Node objects was introduced to me. In pseudocode because I didn't actually know any programming language. And I came up with the idea of a doubly-linked list before the prof even introduced it. How do I put that kind of thing on my resume?
Maybe I'm wrong, but what does being a conductor/semiconductor have to do with an optical disk?
And anyone uses them?
Nobody should be able to patent it. The original inventors could just as well be the patent trolls keeping stem cells out of hospitals.
There is no "quantum shit going on" that breaks special relativity. Attention world: Once and for all, quantum theory does not break relativity.
Maybe if you used a browser that just renders HTML instead of running a Javascript interpreter (mega bloat), 15 addons, and an XUL based UI then you wouldn't have trouble rendering a web page with 128MB of memory.. browsers worked fine back when 64MB was decent. Install uzbl or netsurf or something.
Oh, and I don't mean the corny CG imagery in that video, I mean the urban landscapes somehow made to look like HL2, like at 1:44.
Hmm.. OK I can buy that. It's definitely possible to make an artistic statement with photography, especially with the power of post-processing. For example I love the post processing on shots in this.
But for the most part it seems that the goal of tweaking all of those variables is simply to overcome technical limitations and capture as faithful to reality an image as possible. Tweaking the f-stop or whatever is most often done just to get the lighting to turn out realistically, not to add anything to the work artistically.
http://i48.tinypic.com/f2it91.jpg
http://m.xkcd.com/37/