My account is frozen because Paypal lacks the capability to accept credit cards from my country (I can buy at amazon or thinkgeek, just not paypal). I only learned about that problem after they had taken my initial deposit (they have no problem accepting bank wires from my country). So the money came in and it can't go out. For about a year now. Luckily it was a small amount.
I agree it seems windows machines need to be reinstalled every now and then to stay healthy. Which in some sense is good because you always have a fresh system. In the case of Linux I have 2 machines here one that has not failed for 3 years and still has redhat 6.0 and another with redhat 7.3 which I use for the desktop. Good that I have not needed to reinstall everything but I'm using software that is very much outdated.
I'm planning on installing Mandrake 10 soon on the desktop, and the other one I guess I will wait until the disk dies or something.
Depends on how clever it is. Your breath comes out at apporximately body temperature, for example, and making the air in a balloon body temperature plus or minus a few degrees would be tough.
Not really, you would just need to quickly blow some air into the balloon and then release into the tester.
There may be a need for a "canonical name", which is it? All lowercase? All uppercase?
Just pick one (lower/upper) and use that as the canonical name, no problem there.
Because it takes fewer CPU cycles when compiling or scanning source code.
why?
Because some languages use case to indicate a different class of variable (Ruby for instance, issues a warning if you try and change a variable starting with uppercase).
Yes but what about all others?
Because many programmer's text editors are case-sensitive (I know, I know, chicken, egg, etc).
I doubt that would be important when designing the language.
Because sometimes it actually is useful to have a symbol "ID" and another one "id" in the same symbol table.
That doesn't sound like good programming, more like a quick fix for some design error.
Because stuff like case and english language is not part of programming, programming is about precision and computers. Introducing ambiguity (whether for the compiler or the programmer) can't be good.
There is no ambiguity when a canonical name is used.
I don't see what you mean by clean code. If you meant that having the same case in all parts of the program makes it cleaner, I'm not sure that's true and in any case I'm not sure the language should care about that.
Last time I traveled they made everyone take off the shoes before going thru the metal detector so that shouldn't make any difference or matter when picking shoes.
However, we once used similar messaging commands to eventually take down the entire network at my school about 10 years ago. At that time the term denial of service was not common but we did exactly that. Some clever dude found out how to send the messages and told everybody, so everyone started sending messages until it was impossible to work. Also I beleive the amount of messages somehow overloaded the server. I remember the computer teacher screaming like crazy saying we had broken the computers. And that was the computer teacher! We knew a restart of all machines would make it alright but we got reprimemnded anyway.
We later found out where the circuit breakers for the pc lab where and so we sent out someone to turn them off and we were home free, It would take a while for them to notice what had happen if at all. Haha I think we pulled that one a few times before they caught us. Those were the good old days.
And then you just know people will start putting more powerful motors to make them faster and arming them with weapons to one-up the other robots when looking for the same book. With live webcast from the library halls this could be quite amusing.
I am sure it can be arranged so that the escrow tests the software build process and verifies everything needed is really there. One could even go look at the machine compiling and run the built application.
Apparently they are finally passing some control of this feature to the user. Whereas in previous versions the software decided on its own when and what to destroy.
How could that be good? We hate a company because of their ad practices then we like the guys who patented the practices and sued? That is all messed up somewhere.
I tried the sample files and there should be a big notice warning that they simply won't work out of the box. There are no files for runlevel 6 or 0 so after making the changes you can't even reboot to test it.
It basically does a stop for all services and then a start for all services at each runlevel change. There is no way to tell it which services to run in each runlevel.
Finally I managed to make several files for each runlevel and it does work but it cut my boot time from 1:24 to 1:13, not noticeable at all.
Plus I wasted an hour just making it work, bad deal.
A client of mine has an online store and while they don't use spam, the access log stats are interesting and may be related to the spam schedules:
-visits peak on thurdsay and friday, they are lowest on sunday, awstats shows a nice regular curve. -visits reach a peak about 10am, stay steady until about 9pm and then fall to lowest at 5am (Central Time)
My point was that while I have had car troubles and know many other people who have had them too, I have never heard of someone suing a tech for some work done on a computer, I guess this country just works differently to the U.S.
How common is this? In five years working in this field I have never seen a complaint of this type from a customer. Are all pros really insured, is the insurance that costly?
I don't get why they must make some words special. I can make a list of 100 words which may be considered obscene but I'm sure kids will learn faster a few of those just because the doll can't say them and so they are very special. It's like telling them not to touch one out of many things, and you just know 5 minutes later they will have it in their hands wondering what is so special about it. I think is is a bad approach, I wouldn't know which other approach is better though.
PS: if the kid is already showing the word to the doll what difference would it make if it repeats it? Silly...
I think the issue is that while I would mind someone comming to my house even to take a peek, I don't seem to care if a program checks wethere it is legally installed, as long as that is all it checks.
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My account is frozen because Paypal lacks the capability to accept credit cards from my country (I can buy at amazon or thinkgeek, just not paypal). I only learned about that problem after they had taken my initial deposit (they have no problem accepting bank wires from my country). So the money came in and it can't go out. For about a year now. Luckily it was a small amount.
I agree it seems windows machines need to be reinstalled every now and then to stay healthy. Which in some sense is good because you always have a fresh system. In the case of Linux I have 2 machines here one that has not failed for 3 years and still has redhat 6.0 and another with redhat 7.3 which I use for the desktop. Good that I have not needed to reinstall everything but I'm using software that is very much outdated.
I'm planning on installing Mandrake 10 soon on the desktop, and the other one I guess I will wait until the disk dies or something.
Depends on how clever it is. Your breath comes out at apporximately body temperature, for example, and making the air in a balloon body temperature plus or minus a few degrees would be tough.
Not really, you would just need to quickly blow some air into the balloon and then release into the tester.
Oh, wait...
I bought this great book which explains all about CSS and javascript and the differences between browsers. I keep it near me always.
Dynamic HTML, The Definitive Reference
There are some reader reviews in there so I won't go into detail, check it out and see if that's what you need.
There may be a need for a "canonical name", which is it? All lowercase? All uppercase?
Just pick one (lower/upper) and use that as the canonical name, no problem there.
Because it takes fewer CPU cycles when compiling or scanning source code.
why?
Because some languages use case to indicate a different class of variable (Ruby for instance, issues a warning if you try and change a variable starting with uppercase).
Yes but what about all others?
Because many programmer's text editors are case-sensitive (I know, I know, chicken, egg, etc).
I doubt that would be important when designing the language.
Because sometimes it actually is useful to have a symbol "ID" and another one "id" in the same symbol table.
That doesn't sound like good programming, more like a quick fix for some design error.
Because stuff like case and english language is not part of programming, programming is about precision and computers. Introducing ambiguity (whether for the compiler or the programmer) can't be good.
There is no ambiguity when a canonical name is used.
I don't see what you mean by clean code. If you meant that having the same case in all parts of the program makes it cleaner, I'm not sure that's true and in any case I'm not sure the language should care about that.
Last time I traveled they made everyone take off the shoes before going thru the metal detector so that shouldn't make any difference or matter when picking shoes.
However, we once used similar messaging commands to eventually take down the entire network at my school about 10 years ago. At that time the term denial of service was not common but we did exactly that. Some clever dude found out how to send the messages and told everybody, so everyone started sending messages until it was impossible to work. Also I beleive the amount of messages somehow overloaded the server. I remember the computer teacher screaming like crazy saying we had broken the computers. And that was the computer teacher! We knew a restart of all machines would make it alright but we got reprimemnded anyway.
We later found out where the circuit breakers for the pc lab where and so we sent out someone to turn them off and we were home free, It would take a while for them to notice what had happen if at all. Haha I think we pulled that one a few times before they caught us. Those were the good old days.
The degeneration of Ask Slashdot is wildly frusterating to me
Well, at least the long tradition of bad speling lives on to this day.
And then you just know people will start putting more powerful motors to make them faster and arming them with weapons to one-up the other robots when looking for the same book. With live webcast from the library halls this could be quite amusing.
according to my webserver logs about half of the people that visit use winXP now.
I am sure it can be arranged so that the escrow tests the software build process and verifies everything needed is really there. One could even go look at the machine compiling and run the built application.
Apparently they are finally passing some control of this feature to the user. Whereas in previous versions the software decided on its own when and what to destroy.
How could that be good? We hate a company because of their ad practices then we like the guys who patented the practices and sued? That is all messed up somewhere.
I have worked with godaddy.com for 2 years and am quite happy. The prices are unbeatable and the admin is quite decent. Transfers are easy.
Of course in my apt. you would just leave them in the floor and let the rats finish them off overnight. Hmmm.. corn...
How does this prevent the spammer from sending mail to the mailbackup server ?
couch> Hey man look what you did! You spilled the coke on me! Get off of your fat ass and bring something to clean me will ya!
fat ass> Shut up stupid couch!
couch> [turns off TV] What's that?
fat ass> Uhh..nothing man, ok, I will clean you just turn that on! Please?
I tried the sample files and there should be a big notice warning that they simply won't work out of the box. There are no files for runlevel 6 or 0 so after making the changes you can't even reboot to test it.
It basically does a stop for all services and then a start for all services at each runlevel change. There is no way to tell it which services to run in each runlevel.
Finally I managed to make several files for each runlevel and it does work but it cut my boot time from 1:24 to 1:13, not noticeable at all.
Plus I wasted an hour just making it work, bad deal.
A client of mine has an online store and while they don't use spam, the access log stats are interesting and may be related to the spam schedules:
-visits peak on thurdsay and friday, they are lowest on sunday, awstats shows a nice regular curve.
-visits reach a peak about 10am, stay steady until about 9pm and then fall to lowest at 5am (Central Time)
I would like to see these schools organizing and telling the RIAA that no students will buy any CD's until they drop the lawsuits.
Maybe changing the law is difficult but putting the RIAA in their place is a simple as that.
Anyone knows how much the RIAA would loose if many schools unite to boycott them?
My point was that while I have had car troubles and know many other people who have had them too, I have never heard of someone suing a tech for some work done on a computer, I guess this country just works differently to the U.S.
How common is this? In five years working in this field I have never seen a complaint of this type from a customer. Are all pros really insured, is the insurance that costly?
I don't get why they must make some words special. I can make a list of 100 words which may be considered obscene but I'm sure kids will learn faster a few of those just because the doll can't say them and so they are very special. It's like telling them not to touch one out of many things, and you just know 5 minutes later they will have it in their hands wondering what is so special about it. I think is is a bad approach, I wouldn't know which other approach is better though.
PS: if the kid is already showing the word to the doll what difference would it make if it repeats it? Silly...
I think the issue is that while I would mind someone comming to my house even to take a peek, I don't seem to care if a program checks wethere it is legally installed, as long as that is all it checks.