Even if you use your own domain and your own mail server, your mail isn't really private. It's still read, parsed and rewritten by several computers down the line everytime you send or receive a message. Also, cached copies and deleted remains of your emails remain on the disks of these computers. You shouldn't expect privacy from something which is essentially just a postcard unless you use your own cryptography.
Gmail doesn't introduce any ads into your email. In fact, if you actually take a look at it, the flashy banner ads you see on all other webmail sites are gone and replaced with less distractive text ads. It also has a neat spell check facility that would help you spell GENIUS correctly.
And as for screenscraping their news service... what makes you think you have a right to use and abuse their bandwidth and server resources for free? Try using slashdot's own rss feed with a high refresh rate and see what happens.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with his HTML coding. Its trivial to make it look pretty to satisfy the likes of you, but in its present state it fulfils it purpose of being a bare-bones interface to his program very well.
Concepts in computer science, unlike {hard,soft,firm}ware do not get obsolete and become untrue with the passage of time. Ken Thompson's illustration is still applicable today. If I gave you a machine where the C compiler is not gcc, you could never be completely sure that the source for any given program has the semantics that you expect.
Sure, you can call it paranoia, but it (the probability of this occurring) wasn't necessarily any different in 1984.
$.10, or 4 rupees will not get you a lot. A bottle of pepsi would be around $.25. An international music CD about $10 - $15. Cable TV would be around $2 - $3 per month (with HBO!) Books for a semester in college would cost less than $20.
You can download those IE powertoys (aka web accessories) even for older windows versions too.
Try associating 'gg' with http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnI=lucky&q=%s... it will take you straight to the first search result found. Google-powered internet keywords for you there.
Handheld computers have an advantage over desktop PCs or laptops in that they are small enough to be carried anywhere and relatively inexpensive -- "the cost of a pair of tennis shoes," Soloway said
What kind of tennis shoes do these school kids use?
Psuedocode doesn't work. I could be calling the solveHaltingProblem function while writing the pseudocode for some compiler optimizing technique...
Basically, you can't use pseudocode bcoz once again you get to decide the level of abstraction (read ambiguity).
Why not?
One can at least easily do lossy whitespace compression. For more ideas relevant to markup languages, see the ICFP 2001 contest.
I'm sure you can't get that 200 byte XML document from the "2 bits + a few bits" ASN.1 representation... but it doesn't really matter.
In this case, your $33 buys you six entire seconds in a kernel compile. Thats $5.50 a second
Some of us prefer not to dispose off the CPU after a kernel compile
I think lots of {if time > limit then return} statements would be a better idea than threads. Anyway, better or not, its still easy to do it in any of those jurassic procedural languages.
Still, ocaml has good chances of winning coz its a powerful language with a great implementation.
Only a few years in jail?
He nearly commited the the biggest crime of all times - with that much computing power, he could've almost converted pi to binary
Could it be that they think it damages their society?
Porn is way too extreme. Things like dating and even valentines day "damage the pristine Indian society".
I find your statement about murdering Christian missionaries baseless, though. India is secular and very tolerant towards all religions (even Islam).
Its simple.
There is a mythical "Indian culture" that white-collar politicians actively protect against "corruption" by the Western world.
You sucker the 0.99 billion Internet unaware people into believing that you're doing a "morally good cause" by freeing the nation of "unethical and sinful" things. That ultimately helps you win a few more votes in the next election, which lets you have a better chance of being in power and increasing your bank balance by abominable amounts.
A college dropout who attended just two semesters of engineering school, Walker will be staking his life on how well he has been able to teach himself rocket science.
What plans does MSFT have regarding the shape and color of the Windows start menu button?
What about 3D depth and the floating tooltip visualization technology?
Slashdot Mirror
Even if you use your own domain and your own mail server, your mail isn't really private. It's still read, parsed and rewritten by several computers down the line everytime you send or receive a message. Also, cached copies and deleted remains of your emails remain on the disks of these computers. You shouldn't expect privacy from something which is essentially just a postcard unless you use your own cryptography.
Geez moderators, this is hardly insightful.
... what makes you think you have a right to use and abuse their bandwidth and server resources for free? Try using slashdot's own rss feed with a high refresh rate and see what happens.
Gmail doesn't introduce any ads into your email. In fact, if you actually take a look at it, the flashy banner ads you see on all other webmail sites are gone and replaced with less distractive text ads. It also has a neat spell check facility that would help you spell GENIUS correctly.
And as for screenscraping their news service
And do what exactly when the satellites return?
There's absolutely nothing wrong with his HTML coding. Its trivial to make it look pretty to satisfy the likes of you, but in its present state it fulfils it purpose of being a bare-bones interface to his program very well.
Concepts in computer science, unlike {hard,soft,firm}ware do not get obsolete and become untrue with the passage of time. Ken Thompson's illustration is still applicable today. If I gave you a machine where the C compiler is not gcc, you could never be completely sure that the source for any given program has the semantics that you expect.
Sure, you can call it paranoia, but it (the probability of this occurring) wasn't necessarily any different in 1984.
Well, how do you say slashdotted in Christian? or Jew?
Are you suggesting they integrate mod_perl in X?
$.10, or 4 rupees will not get you a lot.
A bottle of pepsi would be around $.25.
An international music CD about $10 - $15.
Cable TV would be around $2 - $3 per month (with HBO!)
Books for a semester in college would cost less than $20.
> Hi, my name is Jenny im 18 and me and my girlfriend were wondering if you wanted to see us live ...
No, Ms. Jenny, but what wouldn't I give to see you die?
> I hate my COBOL! course
Is that the Yahoo! version of COBOL?
You can download those IE powertoys (aka web accessories) even for older windows versions too.
s ... it will take you straight to the first search result found. Google-powered internet keywords for you there.
Try associating 'gg' with http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&btnI=lucky&q=%
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html
That's fine. Micro$oft keeps doing that all the time.
Handheld computers have an advantage over desktop PCs or laptops in that they are small enough to be carried anywhere and relatively inexpensive -- "the cost of a pair of tennis shoes," Soloway said
What kind of tennis shoes do these school kids use?
Do you mean it has its own SMTP client code?
Psuedocode doesn't work. I could be calling the solveHaltingProblem function while writing the pseudocode for some compiler optimizing technique ...
Basically, you can't use pseudocode bcoz once again you get to decide the level of abstraction (read ambiguity).
Why not? ... but it doesn't really matter.
One can at least easily do lossy whitespace compression. For more ideas relevant to markup languages, see the ICFP 2001 contest.
I'm sure you can't get that 200 byte XML document from the "2 bits + a few bits" ASN.1 representation
In this case, your $33 buys you six entire seconds in a kernel compile. Thats $5.50 a second
Some of us prefer not to dispose off the CPU after a kernel compile
I think lots of {if time > limit then return} statements would be a better idea than threads. Anyway, better or not, its still easy to do it in any of those jurassic procedural languages. Still, ocaml has good chances of winning coz its a powerful language with a great implementation.
Only a few years in jail?
He nearly commited the the biggest crime of all times - with that much computing power, he could've almost converted pi to binary
Porn is way too extreme. Things like dating and even valentines day "damage the pristine Indian society".
I find your statement about murdering Christian missionaries baseless, though. India is secular and very tolerant towards all religions (even Islam).
Its simple.
There is a mythical "Indian culture" that white-collar politicians actively protect against "corruption" by the Western world.
You sucker the 0.99 billion Internet unaware people into believing that you're doing a "morally good cause" by freeing the nation of "unethical and sinful" things. That ultimately helps you win a few more votes in the next election, which lets you have a better chance of being in power and increasing your bank balance by abominable amounts.
A college dropout who attended just two semesters of engineering school, Walker will be staking his life on how well he has been able to teach himself rocket science.
I'm staying indoors
What plans does MSFT have regarding the shape and color of the Windows start menu button?
What about 3D depth and the floating tooltip visualization technology?