The program you are running is python. Its input is myprogram.py
If you don't want your users to run perl, python and other script interpreters just chmod these so that only root can execute them. You can always wrap them around some simple script to execute validated scripts.
THIS is why those tools don't exist. Because every time you ask, some self-righteous idealist responds like this. Unfortunately, those self-righteous idealists are often also the really good programmers who have the ability to create such tools.
That may be true but could it also be that when the programmers start asking questions like "why exactly do you need this?" and "why do you want to use the same solution for Windows and Linux?", they get answers like "That's what people are used to", "I know what people are willing to accept", "If it works in Windows it should work in Linux."
Maybe programmers are simply tired of having to explain that Linux is not Windows and that problems and solutions for Linux are different.
... If anyone should get a tax cut, it's probably corporations which create jobs. A good start would be eliminating payroll tax, which effectively taxes businesses for hiring people.
I'm not an accountant but, if by payroll taxes you mean the taxes that the corporations pay in lieu of the worker, how does that change the total tax burden? In the first scenario, assume an employer hires someone for 100$, pays 10$ in benefits and the employee pays 0$ in benefits. The corporation can deduct 110$ from its revenues and the state gets 10$. If the employer doesn't deduct the 10$ then the state will require the same income and therefore the employer will pay 110$ to the employee who will pay the 10$ to the state. What am I missing?
I agree with some of what you say and disagree with some. However, given the situation Obama has been placed into, it will be very hard to blame him for any of it.
The USA, and due to the influence of its economy on others, many other countries as well, has been placed into a recession by the former president. The current president has to make difficult decisions because of that.
All I'm saying is that maybe the people that supported the previous president should shut the fuck up - they've shown that they don't have the skills to judge the merits of a president. Those that did criticize Bush might want to remember that Obama didn't start the fire. It was already burning when he got the job.
Doesn't handwritten assembly have the potential to be much faster than assembly compiled from C?
Short answer: no.
Long answer:...
I don't know how good compilers have become but I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago.
To do this, I would write the best possible code in C first, then compile it and then optimize the generated assembler code.
My point is that if you already start with the best code the compiler will provide, you can only improve from there.
Also, in some situations, looking at the generated assembler code helped identify clues as to how writing the original C code could result in better performance.
This was a long time ago, for an embedded application with very limited CPU and memory. I haven't had to do that since.
The problem with sharing memory is that one thread can corrupt the other. You then crash all threads.
I don't know Erlang so I can't comment on how good Erlang is at preventing applications from crashing but garbage-in-garbage-out therefore corrupted data by one thread corrupts data in all threads.
Another difference is that all threads run with the same uid:gid. With processes, I can lower the ability of one process to do harm.
When I kill a process, the system will usually do a good job of freeing its resources. When I kill a thread, I have to manually free its resources.
The industry I'm referring to is the chip industry. Hardware designers code pretty much like software developers (except the languages they use are massively parallel, but apart from that, they use the same basic constructs). Hardware companies can't afford a single mistake because once the chip goes to fab, that's it. No patches like software, no version 1.0.1.
Webster adds the 'usually large' adjectives. This, to me, implies that it's not always the case that the source of the transfer is larger or a computer.
I've always seen this the same way as KDR_11k. That is, the model shouldn't assume that the view will validate the input. The validation, and other processing from the view, may simplify the user's interaction but the model can't trust it. This makes it possible to replace the view and keep the business logic. It also makes it possible to test the model independently of the view and controller. There's nothing wrong, in my opinion, to have intelligent views just as long as the model doesn't depend on them.
Clearly what you want is Mac OS X, not Linux. So use it instead of bitching that Linux isn't what you want.
If we choose Mac OS over Linux, the Linux fanboys will go nuts saying.... "Linux is just as good as Mac OS" or some such thing.
Why would you base your decision of which OS to choose based on somebody's whining?
There is an unbelievable amount of "anything you can do, I can do better" elitism within the LINUX promoting crowd, to the point that it doesn't matter what is better, Linux is always better because of some ideological, and often non user, based point. Usually it comes down to "GPL" vs "non-free commercial".
The fact is, GPL (Or other OSS license) and what is functionally best are two separate points. Until the GPL zealots get off their high horses and realize that most people either don't care, or aren't technically proficient enough to work around the shortcomings.
That you are not able or unwilling to work around these shortcomings shouldn't force someone who is able to work around these shortcomings to use proprietary software. Who's whining now?
Granted, LINUX is MUCH MUCH better than it was a few short years ago!! It is very usable for a vast majority of tasks, but some are NOT yet available. We should be working with the popular applications that are NOT native on Linux to try and help get them port over.
Who's "we" and why should anyone care what "you" want?
It doesn't help when we criticize the users for using such applications when there is no alternative on Linux (or Mac as the case may be).
The poster you responded to informed the previous poster that based on his requirements he should use Mac OS.
If I were writing an APPLICATION today, I'd write it to run under WINE specifically, and be done. We can KILL windows if we write to a WINE spec, because then the underlying OS doesn't matter.
"If" you were writing an application you could select the platform you want. Since you have this choice, I think it's just fair that others should as well.
None. I learned my lesson in the 1980s to not buy albums, but instead wait for the "greatest hits" compilation. That way the whole CD is filled with good songs, and you get your money's worth.
Same here. I'm still waiting for the greatest hits compilation from Golden Hearing.
IANAL but if you took part in the conversation, can't you simply post the conversation? That conversation was on slashdot so there's no expectation of privacy.
If it is distribution, you're now legally required to make available copies of the modified source code, at least by mail.
It doesn't matter if it's considered distribution as long as you provide SisterCo with the source code. You can meet the license agreement either by offering the source code or by providing it with the distribution. All that ChildCo has to do is distribute the source code to SisterCo. Since SisterCo has no obligation to distribute the MediaWiki source code and you've already met your requirements for re-licensing to SisterCo, the code won't go wild. However, if SisterCo becomes a separate entity, you might not have any legal means to stop them from redistributing the software.
I totally disagree with Joe the Plumber's ideology that the taxes should not be raised on people that earn more than 250K$. I guess he doesn't want his guilt level for not paying his taxes to raise even higher.
On the other hand, I wasn't aware that he was brought up on charges. Even if this is for not paying these taxes this is wrong. There is justice and there's the appearance of justice. Both are important. This is why I think the tax agencies (IRS, Revenue Canada, etc.) shouldn't do audits based on politician requests. If Joe is being brought on charges, this has a negative impact on the appearance of justice.
I'm not an American so I won't vote. Luckily this time around, you have 2 valid options so whoever you vote for, things can only improve - unless for some reason, something was to happen to McCain.
From the article you quote, the "freedom of speech is an American concept" is followed by, "we have freedom of expression."
To say that Canadians don't have freedom of speech because of that is like saying that Americans don't have freedom of speech because they can't yell "fire" in a theater. The limits are simply different since they are based on different principles.
Ah yes, so if millions demand that some category of people X be killed, they should be.
The case is not referring to a category of people. It is referring to an individual breaking some law.
As someone else pointed out, other "civilized" country will put people in jail for "using drugs." Others have been put in jail for getting an abortion; Others for unpaid parking tickets.
I heard, yesterday on 98.5fm Montreal (French radio station), that during the Great Depression the movie business was doing rather well. People, it seems, wanted something to take their minds off reality.
First, I live in Canada so tax laws are different. Second I am not an accountant.
Here we can deduct some expenses for paid work as well - there are limits. Also, if you have a single employer/contractor, it's considered differently so as to avoid people deducting salaried work expenses; These tax deductions are mostly for contract and consultant work. As far as I know, you can't deduct expenses for work you give away - unless it's a registered non profit organization and in this case you would be looking at charity deduction instead.
The reason for this is that it's expected that you are in the business to make a profit from the work and will therefore pay taxes. If you deducted more expenses than revenue for 3 or 4 years in a row, you could reasonably expect a visit from the tax man.
Actually, the GPS and station map would be used to restrict the usage of the device. The device would also need to detect other white space devices. A simple protocol could be used to do this. It would require that your wireless mic use the same detection protocol.
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The U.S. government is EXTREMELY corrupt.
EXTREMELY corrupt? Compared to who?
Does it matter? Is it OK to be corrupt if some other government is more corrupt?
The program you are running is python. Its input is myprogram.py
If you don't want your users to run perl, python and other script interpreters just chmod these so that only root can execute them. You can always wrap them around some simple script to execute validated scripts.
THIS is why those tools don't exist. Because every time you ask, some self-righteous idealist responds like this. Unfortunately, those self-righteous idealists are often also the really good programmers who have the ability to create such tools.
That may be true but could it also be that when the programmers start asking questions like "why exactly do you need this?" and "why do you want to use the same solution for Windows and Linux?", they get answers like "That's what people are used to", "I know what people are willing to accept", "If it works in Windows it should work in Linux."
Maybe programmers are simply tired of having to explain that Linux is not Windows and that problems and solutions for Linux are different.
... If anyone should get a tax cut, it's probably corporations which create jobs. A good start would be eliminating payroll tax, which effectively taxes businesses for hiring people.
I'm not an accountant but, if by payroll taxes you mean the taxes that the corporations pay in lieu of the worker, how does that change the total tax burden? In the first scenario, assume an employer hires someone for 100$, pays 10$ in benefits and the employee pays 0$ in benefits. The corporation can deduct 110$ from its revenues and the state gets 10$. If the employer doesn't deduct the 10$ then the state will require the same income and therefore the employer will pay 110$ to the employee who will pay the 10$ to the state. What am I missing?
I agree with some of what you say and disagree with some. However, given the situation Obama has been placed into, it will be very hard to blame him for any of it.
The USA, and due to the influence of its economy on others, many other countries as well, has been placed into a recession by the former president. The current president has to make difficult decisions because of that.
All I'm saying is that maybe the people that supported the previous president should shut the fuck up - they've shown that they don't have the skills to judge the merits of a president. Those that did criticize Bush might want to remember that Obama didn't start the fire. It was already burning when he got the job.
They've also terminated the license of a Quebec City radio station (CHOI-FM).
The reason the license was terminated can be found here
One of the hosts, Jeff Fillion, now has a web site and the other, André Arthur is a member of parliament.
Doesn't handwritten assembly have the potential to be much faster than assembly compiled from C?
Short answer: no.
Long answer: ...
I don't know how good compilers have become but I've had to optimize generated code (for space and speed) a long time ago.
To do this, I would write the best possible code in C first, then compile it and then optimize the generated assembler code.
My point is that if you already start with the best code the compiler will provide, you can only improve from there.
Also, in some situations, looking at the generated assembler code helped identify clues as to how writing the original C code could result in better performance.
This was a long time ago, for an embedded application with very limited CPU and memory. I haven't had to do that since.
That's basically what I'm proposing in my journal entry. My proposal has the added benefit of merging the accounts together.
The problem with sharing memory is that one thread can corrupt the other. You then crash all threads.
I don't know Erlang so I can't comment on how good Erlang is at preventing applications from crashing but garbage-in-garbage-out therefore corrupted data by one thread corrupts data in all threads.
Another difference is that all threads run with the same uid:gid. With processes, I can lower the ability of one process to do harm.
When I kill a process, the system will usually do a good job of freeing its resources. When I kill a thread, I have to manually free its resources.
The difference is that with Agile development, you do your meetings standing up. In the waterfall model, you can sit down.
[snip]
The industry I'm referring to is the chip industry. Hardware designers code pretty much like software developers (except the languages they use are massively parallel, but apart from that, they use the same basic constructs). Hardware companies can't afford a single mistake because once the chip goes to fab, that's it. No patches like software, no version 1.0.1.
[snip]
Dream on
Webster adds the 'usually large' adjectives. This, to me, implies that it's not always the case that the source of the transfer is larger or a computer.
I've always seen this the same way as KDR_11k. That is, the model shouldn't assume that the view will validate the input. The validation, and other processing from the view, may simplify the user's interaction but the model can't trust it. This makes it possible to replace the view and keep the business logic. It also makes it possible to test the model independently of the view and controller. There's nothing wrong, in my opinion, to have intelligent views just as long as the model doesn't depend on them.
Clearly what you want is Mac OS X, not Linux. So use it instead of bitching that Linux isn't what you want.
If we choose Mac OS over Linux, the Linux fanboys will go nuts saying .... "Linux is just as good as Mac OS" or some such thing.
Why would you base your decision of which OS to choose based on somebody's whining?
There is an unbelievable amount of "anything you can do, I can do better" elitism within the LINUX promoting crowd, to the point that it doesn't matter what is better, Linux is always better because of some ideological, and often non user, based point. Usually it comes down to "GPL" vs "non-free commercial".
The fact is, GPL (Or other OSS license) and what is functionally best are two separate points. Until the GPL zealots get off their high horses and realize that most people either don't care, or aren't technically proficient enough to work around the shortcomings.
That you are not able or unwilling to work around these shortcomings shouldn't force someone who is able to work around these shortcomings to use proprietary software. Who's whining now?
Granted, LINUX is MUCH MUCH better than it was a few short years ago!! It is very usable for a vast majority of tasks, but some are NOT yet available. We should be working with the popular applications that are NOT native on Linux to try and help get them port over.
Who's "we" and why should anyone care what "you" want?
It doesn't help when we criticize the users for using such applications when there is no alternative on Linux (or Mac as the case may be).
The poster you responded to informed the previous poster that based on his requirements he should use Mac OS.
If I were writing an APPLICATION today, I'd write it to run under WINE specifically, and be done. We can KILL windows if we write to a WINE spec, because then the underlying OS doesn't matter.
"If" you were writing an application you could select the platform you want. Since you have this choice, I think it's just fair that others should as well.
None. I learned my lesson in the 1980s to not buy albums, but instead wait for the "greatest hits" compilation. That way the whole CD is filled with good songs, and you get your money's worth.
Same here. I'm still waiting for the greatest hits compilation from Golden Hearing.
Still further off topic,
IANAL but if you took part in the conversation, can't you simply post the conversation? That conversation was on slashdot so there's no expectation of privacy.
It's still nicer to ask I guess.
Is that considered distribution?
If it is distribution, you're now legally required to make available copies of the modified source code, at least by mail.
It doesn't matter if it's considered distribution as long as you provide SisterCo with the source code. You can meet the license agreement either by offering the source code or by providing it with the distribution. All that ChildCo has to do is distribute the source code to SisterCo. Since SisterCo has no obligation to distribute the MediaWiki source code and you've already met your requirements for re-licensing to SisterCo, the code won't go wild. However, if SisterCo becomes a separate entity, you might not have any legal means to stop them from redistributing the software.
I totally disagree with Joe the Plumber's ideology that the taxes should not be raised on people that earn more than 250K$. I guess he doesn't want his guilt level for not paying his taxes to raise even higher.
On the other hand, I wasn't aware that he was brought up on charges. Even if this is for not paying these taxes this is wrong. There is justice and there's the appearance of justice. Both are important. This is why I think the tax agencies (IRS, Revenue Canada, etc.) shouldn't do audits based on politician requests. If Joe is being brought on charges, this has a negative impact on the appearance of justice.
I'm not an American so I won't vote. Luckily this time around, you have 2 valid options so whoever you vote for, things can only improve - unless for some reason, something was to happen to McCain.
From the article you quote, the "freedom of speech is an American concept" is followed by, "we have freedom of expression."
To say that Canadians don't have freedom of speech because of that is like saying that Americans don't have freedom of speech because they can't yell "fire" in a theater. The limits are simply different since they are based on different principles.
Ah yes, so if millions demand that some category of people X be killed, they should be.
The case is not referring to a category of people. It is referring to an individual breaking some law.
As someone else pointed out, other "civilized" country will put people in jail for "using drugs." Others have been put in jail for getting an abortion; Others for unpaid parking tickets.
+1
I heard, yesterday on 98.5fm Montreal (French radio station), that during the Great Depression the movie business was doing rather well. People, it seems, wanted something to take their minds off reality.
First, I live in Canada so tax laws are different. Second I am not an accountant.
Here we can deduct some expenses for paid work as well - there are limits. Also, if you have a single employer/contractor, it's considered differently so as to avoid people deducting salaried work expenses; These tax deductions are mostly for contract and consultant work. As far as I know, you can't deduct expenses for work you give away - unless it's a registered non profit organization and in this case you would be looking at charity deduction instead.
The reason for this is that it's expected that you are in the business to make a profit from the work and will therefore pay taxes. If you deducted more expenses than revenue for 3 or 4 years in a row, you could reasonably expect a visit from the tax man.
Your analogy is crap.
Here's another crappy analogy. Free software is like a country not depending on other countries for foreign oil. See what I did there?
Actually, the GPS and station map would be used to restrict the usage of the device. The device would also need to detect other white space devices. A simple protocol could be used to do this. It would require that your wireless mic use the same detection protocol.
One solution to this might be to enforce GPS technology on white space devices.
The device would also need to have a map of the white space free regions with a timestamp and a requirement to update the map regularly.
This way, the device doesn't have to detect TV transmissions. If it knows where it is and it knows that the spectrum is free, it can use it.