Why are you wary? You probably use gcc all the time. There's no real equivalent of Sun-as-language-parent in C/C++ land.
IBM's jikes compiler generates bytecode that is incorrect. But that's because their implementation doesn't hold true to the spec, not because they don't have access to compiler source.
Called IBM Rational tech support 'cause the site didn't explain how to upgrade from older Purify to latest Purify. Get shunted to India. "Open a browser and go to h t t p colon slash slash..."
I was punted (RTFA) to the same freakin' website I came from...what a joke. Eventually I found a more specific number, mostly by randomly jabbing at my phone with a dialing wand while in phone menu hell.
I think the dock is great, with the exception of the stuff disappear when you drag it off...that just makes no sense whatsoever. Other than that, why would you want to wade through your drive to get to applications? Or create a lot of aliases on your desktop?
Second that...Perforce is great. Used Visual Source Safe (now with more repository corruption!), MKS (sweet jebus), StarTeam, CVS and Perforce...Perforce is the best out of those. Very simple but powerful command-line syntax. Good Windows client and VC++ integration. Works the way you would expect it to.
Quicksilver was a cool book. However, IMHO it wasn't nearly as good as Cryptonomicon. Here's why:
* The characters feel similar to those in Cryptonomicon (another crazy Shaftoe, Daniel Waterhouse is akin to the main character from Crypto).
* One of the hardest things to do right when there are parallel plotlines is connect them in a flowing and lucid manner. Cryptonomicon did an excellent job of weaving the past and present together. In Quicksilver, we get large chunks of uninterrupted narration, but there's very little context switching. This left me a little bored at times.
It really felt rushed, like there was a great book in there that needed more time to be distilled.
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to read the next two volumes, I was just a little disappointed that Quicksilver didn't live up to the high standards Stephenson has set himself in previous books.
> there weren't any lane markers on half the roads
Dude, that's because they're variable width. If there are smaller cars, you can make two lanes. I bet you've never passed anybody on the right in parking spaces, either.
The XML part comes in when you are extracting content from an existing data store. You can use a relational database for a backend store, but when you're going through the step of mapping existing content to the info your indexing engine wants (the normalization step), XML is very handy.
You can use stemmers, term frequencies and relative location in a document to provide some general gist of what a document is about. The whole point of creating advanced information retrieval tools is to make information processing a more automated task.
The problem isn't that the information can't be modeled in a relational manner, you could easily use a relational database for your data store.
The problem is retrieving information to index. You pull information from existing data sources that have never heard of your data model and don't care. XML provides a simple way to map your existing content to some standard design that you come up with. That's the "normalization" step, and one of the harder parts of indexing.
SQL dbs might come with full-text indexing, but the power of information retrieval really comes into play when you can start clustering, using stemmers to find people/places, etc. Db full-text indexing feels more like a feature checkbox than a real information retrieval system.
XML can be useful because you can take data from disparate sources (an Exchange server, SQL db, etc.) and normalize the meta data (the document author, date the document was created, etc.).
I agree there's an overwhelming "silver-bullet" feel about XML sometimes, but it can definitely help in this case.
There was a time during the dot com boom when K-Tel Records issued stock and it was trading at close to fifty (historical pricing here). This, for me, was an indicator that we had entered some kind of alternate universe...it was also about the peak of that bubble.
I think if K-Tel offers a successful online music service and the stock goes over $20, we're at the peak of a micro-bubble.
Of course, as with all bubbles, if you can ride the sucker and make some cash, then go for it.
In '97 I was using a 1x burner...god it was slow. It made a lot of coasters. Adaptec had drivers available then to do what this patent describes...but I don't know how long they had been around. It didn't work really well.
> Unlike Windows, Mac OS X requires an administrator > password to change certain configurations, run the > system updater, and when installing new software.
He's even more mis-informed than I thought. Windows can deny users the ability to "change certain configurations, run the system updater, and...install new software."
In a controlled environment, Windows admins can install trusted packages onto user's machines remotely, removing the need for regular users to do so.
Having been through the pain of using Authenticode to sign ActiveX controls and creating Windows Install packages, I can tell you the security built into Windows can work if you configure it correctly. Having been hit with seven virii on my home machine, I can tell you the security built into Windows can work IF YOU CONFIGURE it correctly.:)
Windows Updates shouldn't reset security settings, that's obvious. But I've seen Linux defended with comments like "well, the default settings on that distro start all services known to man," etc. If you don't use a preview window in Outlook, you're halfway there. Don't run with admin privs.
Granted, the author did more work than the article he was rebutting...the author of the original article really sounds like a jackass. But it comes down to the same thing: Google for Windows security tips and you can have a secure system.
Think for a second. Saddam has always been about one person: Saddam. His hatred for the US stems from the fact that we prevented him from getting at the Kuwaiti oil fields. Giving away his WMD gets him NOWHERE, because he still loses. If he had them, he would have used them.
You're confusing al Qaida and religious hatred with the secular warmongering of Saddam. They're not the same, which is why this argument doesn't hold true.
Exactly! I think remote voting is a great idea. I can do it now with a paper ballot, which somebody has to count by hand. In fact, if I steal a bunch of ballots from my neighbors mailboxes, I can vote a bunch of times. Why not let me vote from my house?
I'm surprised Slashdot readers don't support tech voting solutions. It's digital vs. analog - even if you have people marking a piece of paper a la the Canucks, what if the voter has marks in two places? You've still got a "hanging chad situation."
Plus, as long as you require paper counts, you've got a redundant backup PLUS an instant total accessible via computer.
Until we actually experiment with digital/computer-based voting, we won't know there's more fraud than analog. It doesn't make sense not to use technology in this case.
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Why are you wary? You probably use gcc all the time. There's no real equivalent of Sun-as-language-parent in C/C++ land.
IBM's jikes compiler generates bytecode that is incorrect. But that's because their implementation doesn't hold true to the spec, not because they don't have access to compiler source.
Called IBM Rational tech support 'cause the site didn't explain how to upgrade from older Purify to latest Purify. Get shunted to India. "Open a browser and go to h t t p colon slash slash..."
I was punted (RTFA) to the same freakin' website I came from...what a joke. Eventually I found a more specific number, mostly by randomly jabbing at my phone with a dialing wand while in phone menu hell.
Classic is a simpler interface for simpler times.
I think the dock is great, with the exception of the stuff disappear when you drag it off...that just makes no sense whatsoever. Other than that, why would you want to wade through your drive to get to applications? Or create a lot of aliases on your desktop?
Will these GM carp have optional OnStar? Oh wait, I'm confusing threads...
Second that...Perforce is great. Used Visual Source Safe (now with more repository corruption!), MKS (sweet jebus), StarTeam, CVS and Perforce...Perforce is the best out of those. Very simple but powerful command-line syntax. Good Windows client and VC++ integration. Works the way you would expect it to.
It doesn't get any better than Jumpman and the various Summer/Winter Olympics titles on the C64.
Awesome series of books about the Royal Navy during the 1800's. Highly recommended.
Oh, and I'll get flamed for this, but I really liked Matrix: Revolution and ROTK..."Master and Commander" was good as well.
Quicksilver was a cool book. However, IMHO it wasn't nearly as good as Cryptonomicon. Here's why:
* The characters feel similar to those in Cryptonomicon (another crazy Shaftoe, Daniel Waterhouse is akin to the main character from Crypto).
* One of the hardest things to do right when there are parallel plotlines is connect them in a flowing and lucid manner. Cryptonomicon did an excellent job of weaving the past and present together. In Quicksilver, we get large chunks of uninterrupted narration, but there's very little context switching. This left me a little bored at times.
It really felt rushed, like there was a great book in there that needed more time to be distilled.
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to read the next two volumes, I was just a little disappointed that Quicksilver didn't live up to the high standards Stephenson has set himself in previous books.
> there weren't any lane markers on half the roads
Dude, that's because they're variable width. If there are smaller cars, you can make two lanes. I bet you've never passed anybody on the right in parking spaces, either.
> Boston is a whole different story ;)
What, did you have a bad experience there? "You know how I feel about hell holes!" "That's when the chuds came at me..."
The XML part comes in when you are extracting content from an existing data store. You can use a relational database for a backend store, but when you're going through the step of mapping existing content to the info your indexing engine wants (the normalization step), XML is very handy.
You can use stemmers, term frequencies and relative location in a document to provide some general gist of what a document is about. The whole point of creating advanced information retrieval tools is to make information processing a more automated task.
The problem isn't that the information can't be modeled in a relational manner, you could easily use a relational database for your data store.
The problem is retrieving information to index. You pull information from existing data sources that have never heard of your data model and don't care. XML provides a simple way to map your existing content to some standard design that you come up with. That's the "normalization" step, and one of the harder parts of indexing.
SQL dbs might come with full-text indexing, but the power of information retrieval really comes into play when you can start clustering, using stemmers to find people/places, etc. Db full-text indexing feels more like a feature checkbox than a real information retrieval system.
XML can be useful because you can take data from disparate sources (an Exchange server, SQL db, etc.) and normalize the meta data (the document author, date the document was created, etc.).
I agree there's an overwhelming "silver-bullet" feel about XML sometimes, but it can definitely help in this case.
> Another person confusing copyright infringement
> and theft. *sigh*.
Another justification for copyright infringement. *sigh*.
So...if you write some code/a book/content that I find valuable/enjoyable, you don't mind if I take it and don't pay for it? Sweet dude.
Come on...REACH for that rationalization that makes it ok to get stuff for free and feel massively indignant when asked to pay for it!
There was a time during the dot com boom when K-Tel Records issued stock and it was trading at close to fifty (historical pricing here). This, for me, was an indicator that we had entered some kind of alternate universe...it was also about the peak of that bubble.
I think if K-Tel offers a successful online music service and the stock goes over $20, we're at the peak of a micro-bubble.
Of course, as with all bubbles, if you can ride the sucker and make some cash, then go for it.
In '97 I was using a 1x burner...god it was slow. It made a lot of coasters. Adaptec had drivers available then to do what this patent describes...but I don't know how long they had been around. It didn't work really well.
> Unlike Windows, Mac OS X requires an administrator
> password to change certain configurations, run the
> system updater, and when installing new software.
He's even more mis-informed than I thought. Windows can deny users the ability to "change certain configurations, run the system updater, and...install new software."
In a controlled environment, Windows admins can install trusted packages onto user's machines remotely, removing the need for regular users to do so.
Having been through the pain of using Authenticode to sign ActiveX controls and creating Windows Install packages, I can tell you the security built into Windows can work if you configure it correctly. Having been hit with seven virii on my home machine, I can tell you the security built into Windows can work IF YOU CONFIGURE it correctly. :)
Windows Updates shouldn't reset security settings, that's obvious. But I've seen Linux defended with comments like "well, the default settings on that distro start all services known to man," etc. If you don't use a preview window in Outlook, you're halfway there. Don't run with admin privs.
Granted, the author did more work than the article he was rebutting...the author of the original article really sounds like a jackass. But it comes down to the same thing: Google for Windows security tips and you can have a secure system.
Think for a second. Saddam has always been about one person: Saddam. His hatred for the US stems from the fact that we prevented him from getting at the Kuwaiti oil fields. Giving away his WMD gets him NOWHERE, because he still loses. If he had them, he would have used them.
You're confusing al Qaida and religious hatred with the secular warmongering of Saddam. They're not the same, which is why this argument doesn't hold true.
Damn, I didn't read close enough...I think a lot more people would vote if they could do it from home.
Exactly! I think remote voting is a great idea. I can do it now with a paper ballot, which somebody has to count by hand. In fact, if I steal a bunch of ballots from my neighbors mailboxes, I can vote a bunch of times. Why not let me vote from my house?
I'm surprised Slashdot readers don't support tech voting solutions. It's digital vs. analog - even if you have people marking a piece of paper a la the Canucks, what if the voter has marks in two places? You've still got a "hanging chad situation."
Plus, as long as you require paper counts, you've got a redundant backup PLUS an instant total accessible via computer.
Until we actually experiment with digital/computer-based voting, we won't know there's more fraud than analog. It doesn't make sense not to use technology in this case.
According to a recent issue of Scientific American, DNA doesn't matter as much as we thought it did. Minute differences in RNA decide eye color, etc.
If you're going to clone, why wouldn't you check for vulnerabilities in the first place?
Very nice of them, isn't it.