The current C++ is C++98. When C++09 (presumably) comes out, it will still just be called C++. Sort of like C99 is called C and Ada95 is called Ada. They year is the published standard. The name is what people call it.
The only language that I can think of that changed names (sort of) during a standards revision was Fortran -- it was all caps in FORTRAN77 and turned to mixed case in Fortran90. But people still just call it Fortran (unless you're in a coding standards meeting).
When you smell your depositions in the toilet bowl you are actually receiving pfeces particles in your nose.
Funnily enough, I'm comfortable with a few parts per billion of feces in the air. That's well within a sanitary amount that is healthy for a non-immune compromised human.
You can safely assume that if you take your laptopto the toilet (why for bunnies sakes!) particles of your faces/urine will happily settle there, no matter how clean you keep your toilet.
Probably, but as I'm not germ-phobic (I'm merely sanitary), I'm happy with a healthy environment, not one that is sterile and clear of all airborn particles.
Hell, I'd imagine that most (clean) people's keyboards have a larger amount of both benign and harmful bacteria in them than most (clean) people's toilet seats. Hands are remarkably effective vectors.
Not mine, which is the point I made that you seem to have missed. There's a guest bathroom -- and three other bathrooms that my fiance and I are the only users of. I keep all four clean, but the one off my office and off the master bedroom are pretty much exclusively my flora and fauna in quantities appropriate for a hygenic environment.
I do this really strange activity that I have dubbed "cleaning". I like to keep my house clean, and -- possibly unlike yours -- I keep my bathroom on the inside of my house. Thus that activity "cleaning" occurs within my bathroom.
Plus I've discovered that the trash can (which is usually empty with a fresh bag due to that "cleaning" thing) is a great place to prop a laptop. The trashcan in my downstairs bathroom is especially good.
Oh, and I neither stand while wiping nor do I urinate on the floor (and when I occasionally do so while fumbling in the dark in the middle of the night, it is immediately followed by that mysterious act of "cleaning", sometimes accompanied by a act of creative speech known as "cursing"). My fiance does not do either act standing up. If she stood while urinating, it would probably get on the floor as well as disturb me a bit.
What you propose with users "instantly sharing webpage packets, image packets, and even the music/programs they download" by means of a public portion of a "Temporary Internet Files" type folder is interesting, in theory. But realistically, I don't see it happening any time soon.
We have it now. They are called servers -- FTP servers, web servers, etc. I can put an image up with one command and anybody in the world with internet access can see it with a simple text string called a URL. The same goes for a Kubuntu DVD image or pictures of my ex-girlfriend naked.
That's an already solved issue. What this guy wants is lack of accountability. Which, while nice in a "I don't want to pay for music" way, is really scary in "the CIA and that now-stalker ex-girlfriend have it too" way. Not to mention the traditional criminals engaged in fixing prices of garbage collection, covering up hazmat dumping and running drugs and desperate families across borders.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be good, just that it's not some sort of warm and fuzzy "it's just better" thing -- there are some drawbacks with lack of accountability and some of them are named Enron II, domestic spying, and annoying 15 year old jackasses, not just the traditional and fringe bogeymen of child molestors and terrorists.
The pros and cons of accountability are pretty heavy on both sides.
Well stated. That's pretty much the point of most replies and what renders this entire article pointless. The person has laid out a very reasonable argument not to call Microsoft a monopoly while completely ignoring the carefully defined legal definition -- which is what most educated people generally are referring to when speaking of Microsoft as a monoply. The Wall Street Journal isn't using the street definition of monopoly when they discuss Microsoft, they are using the definition that the courts used when deciding that the term can be applied to Microsoft with all the ramifications inherent in that act.
As for street usage of the term, I have no doubt that there are 15 year old kids ranting about Micro$oft being an Evil Monopoly in the same way they glamorize Che Guevara on a tee shirt. There are idiots and children discussing all sorts of things they don't really understand. At least the children have a chance to grow up and understand the actual definition of the term 'monopoly' as it was applied to Microsoft -- a specific legal definition that limits their actions in a managed capitalist economy.
Yeah congrats you can copy paste [probably in X no less]. Can you do anything original? Or is that the best you can come up with? Some lunatics rant from 1994. I've programmed in GTK+ and Motif and both weren't too hard to work with.
Yeah, well... he did write a chunk of X10, quite a few libraries that influenced X11, and also was an author of NeWS, which is generally considered to be one of the better interfaces ever written. I'd say he's qualified to comment.
Oh, plus I think he may have written that rant originally... it certainly jibes with the sarcasm in his published writings about X and display architecture design.
If you start talking about the color of animals when you remove their outer layers, we can just refer to all human beings as red with white and yellow streaks.
Yes, and they are quite popular with the mainstream consumer market. There are some other technological advances that you might have heard of -- TiVo, WiFi and HDTV. Homes that have those kinds of things tend to have Roombas... and they are hardly "geek houses". They are just ordinary family homes.
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Amazon lists a half dozen Roomba models from $150 to $250, about the same price as decent traditional vacuum cleaners. I'm sure you can find expensive $1500 canister vacs as well, but most people buy the normal range, and that's where Roomba is priced.
Yeah - there are several things that make this questionable to use, but it addresses most of the problems that existed before, which makes it nice. They are envisioning this being used for headlines and headers or callout quotes within the text.
Since the common solution in use right now is to create an image of the text (which, even with an alt tag has drawbacks), this is a pretty good advantage over the prior common solution. When seen as an alternative to that, pretty much the only drawback I see that remains is "some ad blockers make the site look funky", which is always the case when you have software overriding the given layout instructions.
Did you even look at this? This is perfectly selectable, searchable and resizable. It degrades to regular CSS, and then to html... so it looks perfectly fine in lynx. This is simply a flash that overlays the existing text with an embedded font and does so based on the content and the presentation . When the page is used, it works exactly like a normal html page with a CSS stylesheet -- only you can define fonts the person doesn't have.
Slick, but it's very illuminating that people like you are discounting it as "just flash".
No, you just call it 'pop'. Nomenclature doesn't much matter -- it's just a regional thing (and more proof that the supposed media homogenization of the United States is a myth). I call it 'coke', my favorite of which is ginger ale, although I quite like the non diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper. I don't much care for colas. 'Soda' sounds fine to my ears, but 'pop' is what my brother calls my dad.
Thats not true. All the original nations respected a tribal lifestyle and had great respect for nature.
You mean engaging in land wars for water sources and wiping out species though overhunting? Running buffalo off cliffs, camping in the gore and gorging until the rotting corpses drove them off?
All this happened *before* the Europeans arrived. There has been a glamorization of the 'Noble Savage', but keep in mind that these were people who collected parts of their enemies' bodies. Europeans also did some pretty terrible things, from the Inquisition to the Crusades, but the people inhabiting North America before the Europeans got there were happily engaging in their own warfare, atrocities and ecologically unsound practices.
People are people -- we're all the same species, and all capable of the same acts. Civilization has had great moments of peace and development (the Roman Republic in Europe and Asia Minor, the Five Nations in North America), but even during these moments, there has never been a society that was free of nasty, brutish events. We like to picture the past as romantic, but that is a false view, blind patriotism to a culture already gone.
That's less of a password usage flaw and more of a trojan horse exploit. Poor password encryption is bad too, but unrelated to password usage. Good story for anybody who hasn't read it, though.
Had it been, say, Camino and Firefox, or Safari and Konqueror
It seems to work fine in Konqueror. Meanwhile, GMail and Google Maps still requires that you set the Browser ID to Safari (i.e., the sites work fine in Konqueror, but you have to lie and say you're Safari).
Seems to work fine -- I can browse around the site. Is there a particular page that won't work? I can't find anything that won't work.
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I'd imagine that most bridges, dams and skyscrapers built by inexperienced or non-formally educated engineers would be pretty lousy.
The problem is that it's illegal to have a non certified engineer working on a project that can impact others. Those engineers are expensive because you're paying for their recognized skills and the years it took them to obtain them.
Meanwhile, 15 year olds are bidding on software projects and it's seen as a great opportunity. There are certainly some benefits to the industry being willing to hire self-trained and inexperienced programmers, but those inexperienced programmers are being handed even mission critical projects.
You should probably be informed that people with Aspergers generally cannot live unassisted. My fiance's brother has Aspergers and lives in an assisted living facility with many others like him. While it seems trendy to self-diagnose with Aspergers ("Misfit socially? That sounds like me!"), the real mental disease is significantly less "being a geek or nerd" (your words) and much more a debilitating mental disorder.
He is a nice guy - outgoing and cheerful, just like most people with Aspergers. If you talk to him long enough, he simply starts looping over and over about every 20 minutes on the same sequence of subjects. He's very smart -- he can list off the businesses that have occupied any given corner or strip mall (and he tends to as you drive around), but he can't find his way home unless it's the same way he drove there.
People hear that and think "I know somebody like that", or even "that's like me", but don't realize how profound the level of these symptoms are. He speaks about his dead cat in present tense because that's how he always has spoken about her. He literally cannot comprehend that somebody is lying to him. He threw a superbowl party with GI Joe tablecloths because that's how his parties were decorated when he was a little kid.
People (other than hypochondriacs) never forget where their keys are and then leap to conclude that they have a chronic and fatal disease like ALS. People seldom talk to themselves and then self-diagnose schizophrenia. Lately however, it seems like it has become very trendy in certain geek circle to decide you have Aspergers or a "light case" of Aspergers.
If they spent time with people living in facilities with legitimately diagnosed Aspergers, they might reconsider their self-diagnosis. You might reconsider it being an "attack on the intelligent" and more of a bizarre confusion regarding what the mental disorder entails.
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I don't disagree. It's just that the top quality seems to have gotten better, and the ratio of good to bad has gotten better.
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all the entertainment mediums are going to shit right now
I'd say that television has been going through a period of renewal and several quality shows have been appearing over the past couple years (or the past several years if you add in HBO and Showtime). I've heard various theories that it is a reaction to reality shows or simply new time slots opening up as the reality shows wane in popularity, but there seems to be a nice trend toward quality recently.
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The only language that I can think of that changed names (sort of) during a standards revision was Fortran -- it was all caps in FORTRAN77 and turned to mixed case in Fortran90. But people still just call it Fortran (unless you're in a coding standards meeting).
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Funnily enough, I'm comfortable with a few parts per billion of feces in the air. That's well within a sanitary amount that is healthy for a non-immune compromised human.
You can safely assume that if you take your laptopto the toilet (why for bunnies sakes!) particles of your faces/urine will happily settle there, no matter how clean you keep your toilet.
Probably, but as I'm not germ-phobic (I'm merely sanitary), I'm happy with a healthy environment, not one that is sterile and clear of all airborn particles.
Hell, I'd imagine that most (clean) people's keyboards have a larger amount of both benign and harmful bacteria in them than most (clean) people's toilet seats. Hands are remarkably effective vectors.
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Plus I've discovered that the trash can (which is usually empty with a fresh bag due to that "cleaning" thing) is a great place to prop a laptop. The trashcan in my downstairs bathroom is especially good.
Oh, and I neither stand while wiping nor do I urinate on the floor (and when I occasionally do so while fumbling in the dark in the middle of the night, it is immediately followed by that mysterious act of "cleaning", sometimes accompanied by a act of creative speech known as "cursing"). My fiance does not do either act standing up. If she stood while urinating, it would probably get on the floor as well as disturb me a bit.
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We have it now. They are called servers -- FTP servers, web servers, etc. I can put an image up with one command and anybody in the world with internet access can see it with a simple text string called a URL. The same goes for a Kubuntu DVD image or pictures of my ex-girlfriend naked.
That's an already solved issue. What this guy wants is lack of accountability. Which, while nice in a "I don't want to pay for music" way, is really scary in "the CIA and that now-stalker ex-girlfriend have it too" way. Not to mention the traditional criminals engaged in fixing prices of garbage collection, covering up hazmat dumping and running drugs and desperate families across borders.
I'm not saying it wouldn't be good, just that it's not some sort of warm and fuzzy "it's just better" thing -- there are some drawbacks with lack of accountability and some of them are named Enron II, domestic spying, and annoying 15 year old jackasses, not just the traditional and fringe bogeymen of child molestors and terrorists.
The pros and cons of accountability are pretty heavy on both sides.
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As for street usage of the term, I have no doubt that there are 15 year old kids ranting about Micro$oft being an Evil Monopoly in the same way they glamorize Che Guevara on a tee shirt. There are idiots and children discussing all sorts of things they don't really understand. At least the children have a chance to grow up and understand the actual definition of the term 'monopoly' as it was applied to Microsoft -- a specific legal definition that limits their actions in a managed capitalist economy.
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Oh, plus I think he may have written that rant originally... it certainly jibes with the sarcasm in his published writings about X and display architecture design.
So... what did you write in GTK+ and Motif?
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You misspelled "Hollywood chaos theory" in your message. Just so you know.
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Since the common solution in use right now is to create an image of the text (which, even with an alt tag has drawbacks), this is a pretty good advantage over the prior common solution. When seen as an alternative to that, pretty much the only drawback I see that remains is "some ad blockers make the site look funky", which is always the case when you have software overriding the given layout instructions.
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Slick, but it's very illuminating that people like you are discounting it as "just flash".
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It's interesting how certain things don't change despite decades of technology advancements.
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You mean engaging in land wars for water sources and wiping out species though overhunting? Running buffalo off cliffs, camping in the gore and gorging until the rotting corpses drove them off?
All this happened *before* the Europeans arrived. There has been a glamorization of the 'Noble Savage', but keep in mind that these were people who collected parts of their enemies' bodies. Europeans also did some pretty terrible things, from the Inquisition to the Crusades, but the people inhabiting North America before the Europeans got there were happily engaging in their own warfare, atrocities and ecologically unsound practices.
People are people -- we're all the same species, and all capable of the same acts. Civilization has had great moments of peace and development (the Roman Republic in Europe and Asia Minor, the Five Nations in North America), but even during these moments, there has never been a society that was free of nasty, brutish events. We like to picture the past as romantic, but that is a false view, blind patriotism to a culture already gone.
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It seems to work fine in Konqueror. Meanwhile, GMail and Google Maps still requires that you set the Browser ID to Safari (i.e., the sites work fine in Konqueror, but you have to lie and say you're Safari).
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Seems to work fine -- I can browse around the site. Is there a particular page that won't work? I can't find anything that won't work.
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The problem is that it's illegal to have a non certified engineer working on a project that can impact others. Those engineers are expensive because you're paying for their recognized skills and the years it took them to obtain them.
Meanwhile, 15 year olds are bidding on software projects and it's seen as a great opportunity. There are certainly some benefits to the industry being willing to hire self-trained and inexperienced programmers, but those inexperienced programmers are being handed even mission critical projects.
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He is a nice guy - outgoing and cheerful, just like most people with Aspergers. If you talk to him long enough, he simply starts looping over and over about every 20 minutes on the same sequence of subjects. He's very smart -- he can list off the businesses that have occupied any given corner or strip mall (and he tends to as you drive around), but he can't find his way home unless it's the same way he drove there.
People hear that and think "I know somebody like that", or even "that's like me", but don't realize how profound the level of these symptoms are. He speaks about his dead cat in present tense because that's how he always has spoken about her. He literally cannot comprehend that somebody is lying to him. He threw a superbowl party with GI Joe tablecloths because that's how his parties were decorated when he was a little kid.
People (other than hypochondriacs) never forget where their keys are and then leap to conclude that they have a chronic and fatal disease like ALS. People seldom talk to themselves and then self-diagnose schizophrenia. Lately however, it seems like it has become very trendy in certain geek circle to decide you have Aspergers or a "light case" of Aspergers.
If they spent time with people living in facilities with legitimately diagnosed Aspergers, they might reconsider their self-diagnosis. You might reconsider it being an "attack on the intelligent" and more of a bizarre confusion regarding what the mental disorder entails.
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I'd say that television has been going through a period of renewal and several quality shows have been appearing over the past couple years (or the past several years if you add in HBO and Showtime). I've heard various theories that it is a reaction to reality shows or simply new time slots opening up as the reality shows wane in popularity, but there seems to be a nice trend toward quality recently.
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