One interesting application of this might be zero reflectivity materials
now how would that work anyway... if you painted a basketball with "zero reflectivity" paint, you would no longer see the ball, because no light would bounce from it to your eyes, but you would also not be able to see anything behind it... so what would you see...or perceive??
During World War II some of the top military code-breakers in America tried to decipher it, but failed.
A professor at the University of Pennsylvania seems to have gone insane trying to figure it out.
you're forgetting the 4th type of consumer: The consumer who bought a CD they never would have, but for the fact that they heard it on napster.... There's an author who gives away his books online... his sales have increased since he started, ergo (always wanted to use that word) piracy INCREASES sales.... but, as you so succinctly point out, piracy can also decrease sales. Now, the question is, CD sales started climbing a FULL YEAR after I had even heard of napster, is this because of napster, or in spite of it? and now napster has been around for a while, but people have noticed a lot of draconian policies come to light. Was it these policies or napster that has caused the decline in sales?... or was it just the economy and really neither of the previous two... either way, your statement is at LEAST as full of shit as it's parent comment.
it works in the other direction though; A good security guy *SHOULD* be a good cracker... or at least familiar with the methods. I would think that most are... I know how to secure systems (except my current one... since you can't layer security over windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinsecurity) but it's much more fun to break systems;)
I'll give you an example of what I mean: If you take Internet Explorer, highlight a section of a web page, then paste it into Front Page, all of the HTML remains in tact. So if you're copying and pasting formatted text, you're not losing the formatting in the process. That's a good example of usability because it goes a little farther to give the user what they probably want.
such usability, however, comes at a high price. It is based on message passing. Message passing is at the heart of how the OS works; any poor bastard who has had to program in Windows has seen this loop
while (GetMessage(&lpMsg,0,0,0)) {
TranslateMessage(&lpMsg);
DispatchMessage(&lpMsg);
}
EVERY windows program (that uses the GUI) must use messages this way, and must handle any message that is passed to it. You have no way, however, of determining where the message came from. This is a DESIGN DECISION, a feature (not "feature") of the O/S. And the source of one of the biggest vulnerabilities in windows... so be careful what you ask for... you just might get it
I find it kind of funny that people can paint a group with the label "freedom fighter" and then paint an identical group with the label "terrorist".... get over it folks, war is war; people die (civies too), and, last I heard, you are at war...
why not go down a level and parse the html? you know that you're going to have a max of say 20 chars followed by a (Score:X) by Y on DATE etc... parsing that wouldn't be hard in any language I know of... I've written a few nets in C and that was a hella lot harder than simply trying to parse out fields...
LUGs attract people to Linux... usually just out of shee curiosity... I imagine that Micro$oft et al. are trying to accomplish much the same thing with their DNUG in terms of attracting people to.NET... even if only out of sheer curiosity...I mean, after all, how many install nights has your LUG had??
Mach 7.6 would be a bit too much for your average passenger. Fighter jet pilots train for hours on how to keep concious, they are also in excellent physical shape and have a lot of equipment to help them.
here's a little lesson from Einstein k?
if I am going nearly the speed of light in one direction and you are going nearly the speed of light in the other direction, who dies because their body can't handle the speed?? NEITHER OF US DIPSHIT!! it's the accel that fscks up the body... and not the velocity... so as long as you aren't pulling more than a G or two in the acceleration process, you're golden...
you want a ring that says "DAMN!!!" to her and to all her friends and doesn't need a diamond... and you'll feel good about cause you blew a small fortune... then simple...
!!!!!!!PLATINUM!!!!!!
Plat looks amazing and is expensive as all hell... you'll feel good about it, she'll love it, and her friends will drool over it... win win
What percentage of marijuana is imported to the US from Islamic nations?
Now what percentage of petroleum is imported from those nations?...erm.... last I checked, Canada supplied the US with the most crude oil...... does that make Canadians terrorists??... right on... pass da toke....
what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc
to all those preaching right tool for the right job, I agree wholeheartedly. I have a single boot linux machine for EVERYTHING I do; my computer is used for work only. I play games on my PS2....
or at least I did until Neverwinter nights came out.... sigh... time to reboot:(
I'm curious what impact the demand for such a creature in the software industry could have
we'd be right back facing the reason why MLS and the corresponding orange book stds went out of vogue... by the time the accreditation is done, sure you've got a stable/secure product... but you're 3-4 years behind the product that whatever market doesn't subscribe to your stds is using.
someone has to say it...
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you can tell me that the real Unix Power is in the Command Line and in VI (or Emacs).... .....With this kind of tool, you can realy incress the number of Unix Boxes managed by one Unix Admin!
whihc isa good thin gcuz we kan'tsp el werth a damn!!:)
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now how would that work anyway... if you painted a basketball with "zero reflectivity" paint, you would no longer see the ball, because no light would bounce from it to your eyes, but you would also not be able to see anything behind it... so what would you see.. .or perceive??
...this quote:
you're forgetting the 4th type of consumer: The consumer who bought a CD they never would have, but for the fact that they heard it on napster....
There's an author who gives away his books online... his sales have increased since he started, ergo (always wanted to use that word) piracy INCREASES sales....
but, as you so succinctly point out, piracy can also decrease sales. Now, the question is, CD sales started climbing a FULL YEAR after I had even heard of napster, is this because of napster, or in spite of it? and now napster has been around for a while, but people have noticed a lot of draconian policies come to light. Was it these policies or napster that has caused the decline in sales?... or was it just the economy and really neither of the previous two... either way, your statement is at LEAST as full of shit as it's parent comment.
The first foo is a pointer to void. The second foo is a pointer to a function which takes no arguments and has no return value.
<MR T.>
I PITY THE FOO!!!!
</MR T.>
sorry... had to...
it works in the other direction though; A good security guy *SHOULD* be a good cracker... or at least familiar with the methods. I would think that most are... I know how to secure systems (except my current one... since you can't layer security over windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinsecurity) but it's much more fun to break systems ;)
"What's the difference between void *foo and void (*foo)()?"
void *foo - a pointer to void (or maybe you meant void *foo(), in which case it's a function call that returns a pointer to void...)
void (*foo)() - foo is a pointer to a function that returns void and you just called it....
do I get the job??
I'll give you an example of what I mean: If you take Internet Explorer, highlight a section of a web page, then paste it into Front Page, all of the HTML remains in tact. So if you're copying and pasting formatted text, you're not losing the formatting in the process. That's a good example of usability because it goes a little farther to give the user what they probably want.
such usability, however, comes at a high price. It is based on message passing. Message passing is at the heart of how the OS works; any poor bastard who has had to program in Windows has seen this loop
while (GetMessage(&lpMsg,0,0,0)) { TranslateMessage(&lpMsg); DispatchMessage(&lpMsg); }
EVERY windows program (that uses the GUI) must use messages this way, and must handle any message that is passed to it. You have no way, however, of determining where the message came from. This is a DESIGN DECISION, a feature (not "feature") of the O/S. And the source of one of the biggest vulnerabilities in windows ... so be careful what you ask for... you just might get it
is a paid announcement from Bill Gates and Microsoft:
ALL YOUR GOVERNMENT ARE BELONG TO US....
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE... MAKE YOUR TIME
reminds me of those windows error message haikus here
I find it kind of funny that people can paint a group with the label "freedom fighter" and then paint an identical group with the label "terrorist".... get over it folks, war is war; people die (civies too), and, last I heard, you are at war...
why not go down a level and parse the html? you know that you're going to have a max of say 20 chars followed by a (Score:X) by Y on DATE etc... parsing that wouldn't be hard in any language I know of... I've written a few nets in C and that was a hella lot harder than simply trying to parse out fields...
What a stupid idea.
but it would look sooooo cool!!... think of the sheer cool factor here!!!
a modern atlantis...
LUGs attract people to Linux... usually just out of shee curiosity... I imagine that Micro$oft et al. are trying to accomplish much the same thing with their DNUG in terms of attracting people to .NET... even if only out of sheer curiosity...I mean, after all, how many install nights has your LUG had??
Mach 7.6 would be a bit too much for your average passenger. Fighter jet pilots train for hours on how to keep concious, they are also in excellent physical shape and have a lot of equipment to help them.
here's a little lesson from Einstein k?
if I am going nearly the speed of light in one direction and you are going nearly the speed of light in the other direction, who dies because their body can't handle the speed?? NEITHER OF US DIPSHIT!! it's the accel that fscks up the body... and not the velocity... so as long as you aren't pulling more than a G or two in the acceleration process, you're golden...
you want a ring that says "DAMN!!!" to her and to all her friends and doesn't need a diamond... and you'll feel good about cause you blew a small fortune... then simple...
!!!!!!!PLATINUM!!!!!!
Plat looks amazing and is expensive as all hell... you'll feel good about it, she'll love it, and her friends will drool over it... win win
What percentage of marijuana is imported to the US from Islamic nations?
... does that make Canadians terrorists??... right on... pass da toke....
Now what percentage of petroleum is imported from those nations?...erm.... last I checked, Canada supplied the US with the most crude oil...
what will happen to all the people like the background characters, costume makers, construction, caterers, cameramen, model makers, casting companies, etc
;)
simple... they'll have to get real jobs
I've been without a TV for about 8 years now and it's been really nice...
....
;)
The best part is that after coming home from work I actually have to find something constructive to do with my time
like posting to slashdot....
BEST. POST. EVER.
to all those preaching right tool for the right job, I agree wholeheartedly. I have a single boot linux machine for EVERYTHING I do; my computer is used for work only. I play games on my PS2....
:(
or at least I did until Neverwinter nights came out.... sigh... time to reboot
I'm curious what impact the demand for such a creature in the software industry could have
we'd be right back facing the reason why MLS and the corresponding orange book stds went out of vogue... by the time the accreditation is done, sure you've got a stable/secure product... but you're 3-4 years behind the product that whatever market doesn't subscribe to your stds is using.
< sarcasm > As if you could write a virus in Perl! < /sarcasm >
;)
PERL IS a virus!
fuck it... why don't we put it in terms that EVERY geek can understand ;)
This technology is so advanced it would hold two-hundred-THOUSAND copies of every porno Jenna Jameson has ever made!!!
TO HAVE YOUR ADVICE.... heheheh
/. to kickstart our design... THANKS!! :)
or better yet... HI, I'm from Handspring; our R&D budget is so pov. (poverty) that I think I'll ask
you can tell me that the real Unix Power is in the Command Line and in VI (or Emacs)....
:)
.....With this kind of tool, you can realy incress the number of Unix Boxes managed by one Unix Admin!
whihc isa good thin gcuz we kan'tsp el werth a damn!!