What this will in terms of 'cell phone' porn proliferation between mates, or even more so, the kind of boost it will give to the quality of escorts... "Excuse me ma'am, but could you move the phone away from you at least a few feet and show me what is the offer we have 'on the table'?":)
this kind of offtopic - but is there any effort to converge on a single X based GUI - call it Knome or something, rather than have large teams of people in some 'competition' against one another. What we should be competing against is Microsoft - divisiveness in the Linux community makes it weaker in this regard. I love Linux and have run it forever - however I'd much prefer we all come to a consensus on a single distribution and a single X windows GUI - once that is accomplished - sky's the limit, and application developers will be more inclined to write for something they know wont have to be ported 100 different ways (think JavaScript...).
Common sense today is to use a firewallson all home connections (e.g. Zonealarm). That would have prevented the NetBios 'hack' you experienced through the netbios port.
If I record songs from radio and digitize them into MP3's, would that be called "unauthorized copying", akin to downloading them from the internet? Or is it the frequency and choice that limits the radio which make it an acceptable way of illegally copying/digitizing music?
BRAVO! For what you said. And for having some MAJOR balls to tell it like it is. This piece of shit litigious world we live in is what is eventually going to bring about the demise of this country. If I knew you personally, you'd definitely be someone I'd have a drink with every week or as often as it pleases us. People like you are a rare gem.
This means that the BSD folk have a lot of class, perhaps too much for everyone's good.. whereas the GPL folk are probably just as classy, but expect others to inherit that class, rather than savagely curtail it...
If you're of such high relevance, they can just sit outside your home in some van and monitor all your keystrokes... so unless you purchased as an option Tempest shielding of your home, you're SOL...
People can never get this through their heads. OOP is _not_ about what language you use or what tool you use that more or less will or can facilitate OO programming. OOA&D (e.g. object oriented analysis and design) is not about mastering Java or C++, it is about mastering a new style, a new paradigm of thinking. This is precisely when Java or C++ is taught by "old skool" K&R C people who hate the thought of anything resembling OO (and I wont mention how many are of those out there... too many, rest assured) it looks like Java or C++ is C wrapped in objects. The usefulness of the paradigm is reduced and de-emphasized if the proper train of thought is not employed when analyzing solutions in an object oriented fashion.
One has to be able to perceive problems in terms of objects. This may at a glance seem easy - our world is composed of objects, but when you start getting into more abstract concepts, e.g. trying to write OS's in a fully OO manner (akin to what BeOS was) , or other more complex applications like the entire JFC (for instance), then OOA&D does not seem so easy!
Designing, or better yet, THINKING in OO terms is not something that happens overnight. This is precisely also the reason as to why 90% of large, pure OO projects either fail or start to degenerate into something that needs revamping every so often, only because the programmers who built the application did not take the time to properly analyze the problem and come up with the most natural solution possible. A natural solution is possible, but only at the hands of professionals, who understand what OO is all about (and it is least about WHAT LANGUAGE you use), who have experience in 'seeing' the world, or higher concepts through OO eyes and who are able to delimit, with crisp boundaries every concept/object available to them or as stated in the specifications by the customer and MOST importantly establish the PROPER relationships between those objects!
Design patterns and such go a LONG way toward getting this objective, but one cannot fathom using or applying design patterns if he doesn't understand what OO design and analysis means, and without a shitload of experience to use toward this goal. True OO thinking is almost like a lithmus test of how good a programmer, or better said, an ANALYST, an ANALYTICAL person, or your ANALYTICAL skills are... In OO, 80% of the time or thereabouts is spend on analysis and design, 20% on the mechanics of writing the code. Then, and only then, will you be able to pull OO projects successfully through completion.
And no, I'm not talking about your school/academic projects, I'm talking about large scale projects with possibly millions of lines of code where understanding the ESSENCE of the OO paradigm will either make or break a project and make it usable and extendable for a long time or make it a piece of crap that will never see the light of day...
Most people shy away from OO or misunderstand it because they've never even read a book about OO either, such as the OO 'bible' by Rumbaugh/Premerlani "OO modeling and design using OMT", or some of Fowler's books on analysis, patterns, or Gamma's book on design patterns...
Someone once said - pimpin' ain't E-Z! Well, neither is OO!
Does anyone know if Sun has made any significant changes to the Linux kernel for their new distribution? It would be interesting to see how the wits of the programmers of 'closed-source-turned-open' companies such as Sun stack up against people who belong to the open-source community since Linux's inception. I for one have had the myth that "closed source" is better rubbed in my face a 100 times at least - so I am only naturally curious to see what that (probably misplaced) brilliance is all about. Did the programmers at Sun study from a different set of computer science text books than the ones who aren't from Sun, e.g. are opensource?:) Or does that even matter anyway?
You're forgetting routing protocols use his algorithm too to find the shortest length for a packet to travel. Everyone ever using the internet owes a debt of gratitutde to him.
Show filenames in the case they were created in (e.g. if you created a file 'Letter.txt', it would be shows in Explorer as 'Letter.txt'), however, for usage purposes, you can eliminate the uppercase/lowercase nomenclature of the file (e.g. 'Letter.txt' = 'letter.txt' = 'LETTER.txt' etc.). At least M$ is smart about something;).
as I do on my private Linux box, and you don't get this type of crap, nor the last security hole related to OpenSSH, which never did exist in the non-commercial SSH.com version which is free for all to use for non-profit(evaluation) purposes. It is freely available for download through SSH.com (source or binary I believe). One too many goofs with OpenSSH recently...as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I'm paranoid... but so what? So is everyone else.
Yes, but just in case it does pass (by way of the greenbacks), you should also know that the precedent will have been set, and that you CAN do DoS attacks to anyone whom you think might be "harming" your business. You should not play nice, if the RIAA plays evil. Don't be so religious - turning the other cheek won't help.
And you know, long long time ago, few years back, I said it here on/. - if Microsoft by some Act of God or what not decides to port their Office suite to Linux (unlikely it's ever going to happen, of course) - this thread would be probably 1/3 its length. Your Rasterman is right about that one bloody thing - APPS. If I have the APPS for Linux, I dont care if I'm Joe Schmoe, totally fuckin computer illiterate dumbshit who only knows how to do one thing on the computer and that's it - I'll learn how to start up my app, through ANY means, whether it be command line, X Windows, WHATEVER.. My mom's a travel agent. She does her work through a dumb terminal on a leased line connected to some mainframe miles away in another city on the Amadeus network (for flight bookings, etc). She does not know anything past starting this dumb terminal program (smilar to a nice telnet GUI, e.g. securecrt), logging on to it, and using a shitload of commands which I find cryptic enough for her, or some other average schmoe... But dont underestimate the Dumb Joe - he can learn how to use the computer in a manner that is suited for him to do his job - regardless of the GUI,UI, or whatever... Kind of like my mom - she may not know how to use a web browser, but she can use the application she needs, as cryptic as it is througha totally command line drive interface....
Build more apps for Linux, and _they_ (whoever you want them to be), will come. (did that sound like Jim Morrison?:)
Don't bash Dr. Kevorkian. The man's a one of a kind humanist, and someone made reference above that Apple has balls - well, if Apple has balls, then Kevorkian has had them earth sized for the last 10-15 years.
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..for heaven's sake people, remove it from your bedroom :).
can they also port MS Office and everything else that Microsoft ever wrote? :)
communists are at it again!
What this will in terms of 'cell phone' porn proliferation between mates, or even more so, the kind of boost it will give to the quality of escorts... "Excuse me ma'am, but could you move the phone away from you at least a few feet and show me what is the offer we have 'on the table'?" :)
It is "Manuel Noriega", not Noreiga :). (just FYI).
this kind of offtopic - but is there any effort to converge on a single X based GUI - call it Knome or something, rather than have large teams of people in some 'competition' against one another. What we should be competing against is Microsoft - divisiveness in the Linux community makes it weaker in this regard. I love Linux and have run it forever - however I'd much prefer we all come to a consensus on a single distribution and a single X windows GUI - once that is accomplished - sky's the limit, and application developers will be more inclined to write for something they know wont have to be ported 100 different ways (think JavaScript...).
Just my 2 cents.
Common sense today is to use a firewallson all home connections (e.g. Zonealarm). That would have prevented the NetBios 'hack' you experienced through the netbios port.
NO SLUSHIE FOR YOU!!!
If I record songs from radio and digitize them into MP3's, would that be called "unauthorized copying", akin to downloading them from the internet? Or is it the frequency and choice that limits the radio which make it an acceptable way of illegally copying/digitizing music?
You mean to say this person is from DeVry? Shut your hole, please...
BRAVO! For what you said. And for having some MAJOR balls to tell it like it is. This piece of shit litigious world we live in is what is eventually going to bring about the demise of this country. If I knew you personally, you'd definitely be someone I'd have a drink with every week or as often as it pleases us. People like you are a rare gem.
This means that the BSD folk have a lot of class, perhaps too much for everyone's good.. whereas the GPL folk are probably just as classy, but expect others to inherit that class, rather than savagely curtail it...
You know, I'm willing that 95% of Qualcomm's ASICs division would beg to differ with you on this one.
If you're of such high relevance, they can just sit outside your home in some van and monitor all your keystrokes... so unless you purchased as an option Tempest shielding of your home, you're SOL...
People can never get this through their heads. OOP is _not_ about what language you use or what tool you use that more or less will or can facilitate OO programming. OOA&D (e.g. object oriented analysis and design) is not about mastering Java or C++, it is about mastering a new style, a new paradigm of thinking. This is precisely when Java or C++ is taught by "old skool" K&R C people who hate the thought of anything resembling OO (and I wont mention how many are of those out there... too many, rest assured) it looks like Java or C++ is C wrapped in objects. The usefulness of the paradigm is reduced and de-emphasized if the proper train of thought is not employed when analyzing solutions in an object oriented fashion.
One has to be able to perceive problems in terms of objects. This may at a glance seem easy - our world is composed of objects, but when you start getting into more abstract concepts, e.g. trying to write OS's in a fully OO manner (akin to what BeOS was) , or other more complex applications like the entire JFC (for instance), then OOA&D does not seem so easy!
Designing, or better yet, THINKING in OO terms is not something that happens overnight. This is precisely also the reason as to why 90% of large, pure OO projects either fail or start to degenerate into something that needs revamping every so often, only because the programmers who built the application did not take the time to properly analyze the problem and come up with the most natural solution possible. A natural solution is possible, but only at the hands of professionals, who understand what OO is all about (and it is least about WHAT LANGUAGE you use), who have experience in 'seeing' the world, or higher concepts through OO eyes and who are able to delimit, with crisp boundaries every concept/object available to them or as stated in the specifications by the customer and MOST importantly establish the PROPER relationships between those objects!
Design patterns and such go a LONG way toward getting this objective, but one cannot fathom using or applying design patterns if he doesn't understand what OO design and analysis means, and without a shitload of experience to use toward this goal. True OO thinking is almost like a lithmus test of how good a programmer, or better said, an ANALYST, an ANALYTICAL person, or your ANALYTICAL skills are... In OO, 80% of the time or thereabouts is spend on analysis and design, 20% on the mechanics of writing the code. Then, and only then, will you be able to pull OO projects successfully through completion.
And no, I'm not talking about your school/academic projects, I'm talking about large scale projects with possibly millions of lines of code where understanding the ESSENCE of the OO paradigm will either make or break a project and make it usable and extendable for a long time or make it a piece of crap that will never see the light of day...
Most people shy away from OO or misunderstand it because they've never even read a book about OO either, such as the OO 'bible' by Rumbaugh/Premerlani "OO modeling and design using OMT", or some of Fowler's books on analysis, patterns, or Gamma's book on design patterns...
Someone once said - pimpin' ain't E-Z! Well, neither is OO!
Does anyone know if Sun has made any significant changes to the Linux kernel for their new distribution? It would be interesting to see how the wits of the programmers of 'closed-source-turned-open' companies such as Sun stack up against people who belong to the open-source community since Linux's inception. I for one have had the myth that "closed source" is better rubbed in my face a 100 times at least - so I am only naturally curious to see what that (probably misplaced) brilliance is all about. Did the programmers at Sun study from a different set of computer science text books than the ones who aren't from Sun, e.g. are opensource? :) Or does that even matter anyway?
Here is the second one. Is today flame baiting contest on /.? :)
You're forgetting routing protocols use his algorithm too to find the shortest length for a packet to travel. Everyone ever using the internet owes a debt of gratitutde to him.
Show filenames in the case they were created in (e.g. if you created a file 'Letter.txt', it would be shows in Explorer as 'Letter.txt'), however, for usage purposes, you can eliminate the uppercase/lowercase nomenclature of the file (e.g. 'Letter.txt' = 'letter.txt' = 'LETTER.txt' etc.). At least M$ is smart about something ;).
as I do on my private Linux box, and you don't get this type of crap, nor the last security hole related to OpenSSH, which never did exist in the non-commercial SSH.com version which is free for all to use for non-profit(evaluation) purposes. It is freely available for download through SSH.com (source or binary I believe). One too many goofs with OpenSSH recently...as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I'm paranoid... but so what? So is everyone else.
Yes, but just in case it does pass (by way of the greenbacks), you should also know that the precedent will have been set, and that you CAN do DoS attacks to anyone whom you think might be "harming" your business. You should not play nice, if the RIAA plays evil. Don't be so religious - turning the other cheek won't help.
And you know, long long time ago, few years back, I said it here on /. - if Microsoft by some Act of God or what not decides to port their Office suite to Linux (unlikely it's ever going to happen, of course) - this thread would be probably 1/3 its length. Your Rasterman is right about that one bloody thing - APPS. If I have the APPS for Linux, I dont care if I'm Joe Schmoe, totally fuckin computer illiterate dumbshit who only knows how to do one thing on the computer and that's it - I'll learn how to start up my app, through ANY means, whether it be command line, X Windows, WHATEVER.. My mom's a travel agent. She does her work through a dumb terminal on a leased line connected to some mainframe miles away in another city on the Amadeus network (for flight bookings, etc). She does not know anything past starting this dumb terminal program (smilar to a nice telnet GUI, e.g. securecrt), logging on to it, and using a shitload of commands which I find cryptic enough for her, or some other average schmoe... But dont underestimate the Dumb Joe - he can learn how to use the computer in a manner that is suited for him to do his job - regardless of the GUI,UI, or whatever... Kind of like my mom - she may not know how to use a web browser, but she can use the application she needs, as cryptic as it is througha totally command line drive interface....
:)
Build more apps for Linux, and _they_ (whoever you want them to be), will come. (did that sound like Jim Morrison?
Damn, looks like the war's already started ... :)
Don't bash Dr. Kevorkian. The man's a one of a kind humanist, and someone made reference above that Apple has balls - well, if Apple has balls, then Kevorkian has had them earth sized for the last 10-15 years.
Actually it is Vinton Cerf rather than Vincent...