By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws.
Hm, not necessarily. They might have some code that they, for some reason, decide they must follow. Maybe, to them, killing people for their cause is ok, but violating software licenses is not.
Of course, that would make things easy, just add "this software may not be used by, or in the direct aid of, terrorists" to the license. Problem solved.
why not just pick another name if it's becoming such a big deal?
Like what?
Be sure to post your full name and address with any suggestions, so anyone who finds a project that this would conflict with (or who just thinks the name is incredibly lame) can come and beat you over the head with nerf for a week solid, then call you a jerk for the rest of your life.
Seriously, if you think it's that easy, actually try it.
If I were in their place, I'd quit the project altogether. The name is a no-win situation, and what's the point of continuing volunteer work if there's constant abuse? Choose a good name, you get flamed by whoever's already using it. Choose a bad name, the project's supporters will hate you. Try to compromise, both happen.
Who cares about the name, I'll have a lot of respect for 'em if they just keep developing it.
The fallacy comes in the notion that something can be perfectly engineered.
It doesn't have to be that. Every time you rewrite, you make mistakes. Later, you find them and learn so that the next rewrite will have less significant mistakes.
If the internet were to be redesigned, I'd recommend designing it so that the underlying protocols could be changed again later as easily as possible. (while staying secure, of course)
What I still find amazing is that they've managed to get similar performance... at drastically reduced clockrates.
Yeah, compared to Intel, where almost every generation is slower at the same clock speed. It looks like most of that is due to increased memory bandwidth, but that's what Athlons where lacking anyway. It's all good:)
i'll have to look for other groups of 4 numbers on different things.
Keep in mind that there's often several different numbers, and it's possible that none of them are date codes (or dates in some other format):P
The one that I'm looking at is 0301 (2nd line of numbers/letters) which I will guess to be 1st week 2003.
Exactly, date codes on chips, which tell you the date of manufacture, are usually 4 digits: two digits for the year, then two digits for the week in that year.
If you RTFA (as opposed to just looking at the pretty pictures), they say, right under that image: "The production date in the next line of the marking indicates the beginning of this year."
This is pretty standard, I can pull out my old 8088 MB and read the date code off the processor: 8937 (1989, 37th week) You can find similar date codes on most chips and PCBs. (eg, that 8088 MB has 8945 printed on the back)
What I wanna know is, how can a website named IBPhoenix be complaining?
And you all know they should have renamed it "The Evil Browser from Hell that will Eat Your Children!" With a name like that, how could you not use it?
Maybe with Genetic Engineering we'll be able to eliminate the stupid gene.
Once again, I believe there was an episode of The Outer Limits that dealt with this.
Genetically enginieered/modified children were illegal (because it wasn't pretty when things went wrong), but because of the benefit that the children born with improved genes, people were driven to order black-market modifications, because otherwise they feared their "normal" children would have a very grim future.
If there's any correlation between economic prosperity and intelligence, the stupid gene will survive, perhaps the species will eventually split.
I think the uathor expects Lisp to remain a vital evolutionary branch because of its mathemtical roots.
I think he expects it to remain a vital branch because recent languages have been more and more like lisp. If lisp doesn't directly beget new, highly popular languages, lisp's features will be (and have been) absorbed into whatever does become popular.
The first "real" printer I ever bought was an Epson FX-286 wide carriage dot matrix printer, 17 or 18 years ago. The print quality is typical crappy dot matrix, but the printer still works (although I haven't re-inked the ribbon now for several years), and it never missed a dot.
Bwahahaha!/me prints a few pages off his KX-P1191 for show.
I've been using this thing to print homework assignments in various programming classes. Recently, someone took a look at a page and said it looked "professional"! That's standard quality from an old 9-pin dot matrix printer.
One who administers affairs; one who directs, manages, executes, or dispenses, whether in civil, judicial, political, or ecclesiastical affairs; a manager.
Thus, a "System Administrator" is one who directs or manages a system. Usually that's understood to be a computer system, so I think the resulting "person who directs or manages a computer system" is fairly accurate.
The said part is there are all of these people out there that think dragging and dropping in some supped up IDE is coding and they get hired.
Absolutely, and I'd rather those people went back to their jobs at McDonald's.:6
If a person HAS TO HAVE some super IDE to code then they are not a coder.
If it's an absolute necessity, sure. OTOH, sometimes it's like travelling from New York to LA. Walking that far would take so much more time and effort that very few people who actually could would be willing to.
There are other things that can serve a similar purpose, like print copies of all your interfaces, but instant cross referencing in an IDE is really wonderful.
If you depend upon the IDE to determine what is a good language then please stay with MS. Real programmers dont need you.
Ok, this is somewhat true, but a good IDE is like having power tools instead of having to use the manual versions. Yes, you can cut wood with a hand saw, you can drive screws with a manual screwdriver, you can install a roof without a nail gun, but why would you want to?
A sufficiently better IDE can make language differences irrelevant. I'd be willing to drive 30 minutes out of my way, to an inferior location, to cut 100 boards with a chop saw instead of slaving away for weeks with a hand saw. Similarly, I'm willing to use a slightly inferior language if it has an excellent IDE.
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the pretty graphs at the IPCC that show that the climate is warmer than it has ever been.
There aren't any of those. The IPCC graphs just don't go back far enough to see the periods hotter than right now.
Looks like the longest one goes back 1000 years. You have to go back about 80,000 to get to the next peak near the current levels.
It might be useful to have a link to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Some of their pretty pictures (graphs, whatever) are hard to ignore.
are we to stop selling hammers
to weed out terrorism?
Yes.
We should sell those weed-pulling tools to weed out terrorism, a hammer just isn't the right tool.
(I guess everything looks like a nail...)
By nature, terrorists obviously aren't going to obey any laws.
Hm, not necessarily. They might have some code that they, for some reason, decide they must follow. Maybe, to them, killing people for their cause is ok, but violating software licenses is not.
Of course, that would make things easy, just add "this software may not be used by, or in the direct aid of, terrorists" to the license. Problem solved.
why not just pick another name if it's becoming such a big deal?
Like what?
Be sure to post your full name and address with any suggestions, so anyone who finds a project that this would conflict with (or who just thinks the name is incredibly lame) can come and beat you over the head with nerf for a week solid, then call you a jerk for the rest of your life.
Seriously, if you think it's that easy, actually try it.
If I were in their place, I'd quit the project altogether. The name is a no-win situation, and what's the point of continuing volunteer work if there's constant abuse? Choose a good name, you get flamed by whoever's already using it. Choose a bad name, the project's supporters will hate you. Try to compromise, both happen.
Who cares about the name, I'll have a lot of respect for 'em if they just keep developing it.
The fallacy comes in the notion that something can be perfectly engineered.
It doesn't have to be that. Every time you rewrite, you make mistakes. Later, you find them and learn so that the next rewrite will have less significant mistakes.
If the internet were to be redesigned, I'd recommend designing it so that the underlying protocols could be changed again later as easily as possible. (while staying secure, of course)
The trick is doing that perfectly...
Thanks :) last I heard they were working on it, but there was no guarantee they could make it work on the NEX II.
BTW, I'm been using Mozilla v1.3+ (currently running a 1.4b build) and the site hasn't been giving me any problems.
Ah, maybe I should upgrade then, I'm still using 1.2...
But will they offer a flash upgrade for the older ones? (like my NEX II)
:(
I'd check their website, but it doesn't work on Mozilla.
I did RTFA, but I didn't read that closely.
:)
... at drastically reduced clockrates.
:)
:P
Heh, sorry then
What I still find amazing is that they've managed to get similar performance
Yeah, compared to Intel, where almost every generation is slower at the same clock speed. It looks like most of that is due to increased memory bandwidth, but that's what Athlons where lacking anyway. It's all good
i'll have to look for other groups of 4 numbers on different things.
Keep in mind that there's often several different numbers, and it's possible that none of them are date codes (or dates in some other format)
The one that I'm looking at is 0301 (2nd line of numbers/letters) which I will guess to be 1st week 2003.
Exactly, date codes on chips, which tell you the date of manufacture, are usually 4 digits: two digits for the year, then two digits for the week in that year.
If you RTFA (as opposed to just looking at the pretty pictures), they say, right under that image: "The production date in the next line of the marking indicates the beginning of this year."
This is pretty standard, I can pull out my old 8088 MB and read the date code off the processor: 8937 (1989, 37th week) You can find similar date codes on most chips and PCBs. (eg, that 8088 MB has 8945 printed on the back)
Grub is mainly interested in your excess bandwidth.
Unfortunately, so is my ISP. In fact, they've already sold it to other customers.
What I wanna know is, how can a website named IBPhoenix be complaining?
And you all know they should have renamed it "The Evil Browser from Hell that will Eat Your Children!" With a name like that, how could you not use it?
Maybe with Genetic Engineering we'll be able to eliminate the stupid gene.
Once again, I believe there was an episode of The Outer Limits that dealt with this.
Genetically enginieered/modified children were illegal (because it wasn't pretty when things went wrong), but because of the benefit that the children born with improved genes, people were driven to order black-market modifications, because otherwise they feared their "normal" children would have a very grim future.
If there's any correlation between economic prosperity and intelligence, the stupid gene will survive, perhaps the species will eventually split.
This really depends on the exact wording involved.
There's a difference between a "2GHz P4" and a "P4 running at 2GHz." One is rated to run at 2GHz, one may not be.
I think the uathor expects Lisp to remain a vital evolutionary branch because of its mathemtical roots.
I think he expects it to remain a vital branch because recent languages have been more and more like lisp. If lisp doesn't directly beget new, highly popular languages, lisp's features will be (and have been) absorbed into whatever does become popular.
The first "real" printer I ever bought was an Epson FX-286 wide carriage dot matrix printer, 17 or 18 years ago. The print quality is typical crappy dot matrix, but the printer still works (although I haven't re-inked the ribbon now for several years), and it never missed a dot.
/me prints a few pages off his KX-P1191 for show.
Bwahahaha!
I've been using this thing to print homework assignments in various programming classes. Recently, someone took a look at a page and said it looked "professional"! That's standard quality from an old 9-pin dot matrix printer.
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The said part is there are all of these people out there that think dragging and dropping in some supped up IDE is coding and they get hired.
:6
Absolutely, and I'd rather those people went back to their jobs at McDonald's.
If a person HAS TO HAVE some super IDE to code then they are not a coder.
If it's an absolute necessity, sure. OTOH, sometimes it's like travelling from New York to LA. Walking that far would take so much more time and effort that very few people who actually could would be willing to.
There are other things that can serve a similar purpose, like print copies of all your interfaces, but instant cross referencing in an IDE is really wonderful.
IRQ sharing that is supposed to work, for some reason doesn't a lot of the time.
15 IRQ lines is also a legacy feature, left over from when there were two 8-line irq controllers that had to be chained. They should add more...
What is so wrong with having a dedicated port for your keyboard anyways?
The only problem I have is the old "mouse and keyboard connecters are identical but incompatible."
What a coincidence, Apogee also has it as the first story on their homepage. ;)
or, go buy it from 3d realms, but $19.95 for a game that old seems just wrong.
So stop seeing all software as a personal editor. It aint.
I take it you don't use emacs.
No big deal, I've seen movies that have had me considering that anyway.
If you depend upon the IDE to determine what is a good language then please stay with MS. Real programmers dont need you.
Ok, this is somewhat true, but a good IDE is like having power tools instead of having to use the manual versions. Yes, you can cut wood with a hand saw, you can drive screws with a manual screwdriver, you can install a roof without a nail gun, but why would you want to?
A sufficiently better IDE can make language differences irrelevant. I'd be willing to drive 30 minutes out of my way, to an inferior location, to cut 100 boards with a chop saw instead of slaving away for weeks with a hand saw. Similarly, I'm willing to use a slightly inferior language if it has an excellent IDE.