This document states that when 1.4 is released, it will be the new "stable" branch in the same way that 1.0 is now. This means a fixed API. Why not call this the 2.0 release?
Windows-specific doesn't imply warez-kiddie. I bought a DVD-ROM drive, and a DVD movie ("Pleasantville", if you want to know), and was surprised when I couldn't easily find free (as in beer) DVD playing software for Windows. No, the DVD drive didn't come with player software.
In the end I just booted into Linux and used Xine. I could have payed for player software, but since I'd paid for the DVD drive and paid for the DVD itself (not to mention paying for the rest of the computer), I didn't see why I should pay again to be able to use them together.
When I bought a CD-ROM drive, I could play my CDs in it fine. If I buy a DVD drive, I want to play my DVDs in it, no matter what OS I'm running.
Yeah, in a way there's no real point researching laser weapons for combat - Sectoids and Floaters can be easily wasted with standard rifles (especially if you've got a few strong troopers with auto-cannons as back up), and by the time you get to deal with Mutons you'll have researched Heavy Plasma.
One of the things that made that game too easy was the number of recovered plasma clips... and the Heavy Laser sucked, for not having autofire.
journalists must not be deliberately targeted, detained, or otherwise mistreated any more than any other civilian.
If our missiles aren't smart enough to tell a civilian journalist from a military target, then they shouldn't be used. Just like landmines shouldn't be used for their failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets. Just like cluster bombs shouldn't be used for the same reason.
I think it would be far better to have a computerized tap station where you swipe your smartcard or iButton and get your drink and get billed at the same time
That would be appaling for the quality of the beer. Better off having a waitress system whereby you can order drinks from your table (perhaps with 10% service charge) and have them brought to you...
Who the fuck modded you up like your "emphasis" means anything? Perl is big. Everybody knows this. It's got a lot of "core" modules that help it do its job, a common base that other modules can build against safely. Its size is one reason that FreeBSD has been looking to remove any dependency on it in the base install, though it'll still be available as a port.
Your "emphasis" seems like pointless perl bashing to me.
What do you do if you buy some weed from a dealer and it turns out to be catnip and oregano?
If a dealer's selling bad product, people will go to other dealers. People who consume weed know other people who consume weed. There's probably only two or three degrees of separation between most of a dope dealer's customers. Reputation matters.
What's the dealer going to do when word gets around that he's ripping people off? Shoot people? That's not going to get his customers back. The only way for him to stay in business is not to rip people off in the first place.
Dealers that can get away with stuff like that are the ones who have sufficient passing trade and one-off deals, and they're the kind of dealer that only stupid people buy from.
At least the US is trying to clean up one of the worst offenders.
The US is going to depose the tyrant Bush, a man with weapons of mass destruction and no democratic mandate?
How about the Shah of Iran? Definitely a non-democratic man, with a pretty awful record for human rights. Seems to have a lot of weapons lying around too. Wasn't he put in power by the US when they deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran? Funny that!
When I learned to code, I learned C and C++. I was very good at it. I interviewed for a position as a Pascal coder, and stated that I'd never touched the language before. So at interview, I was asked questions on programming methodologies and algorithms, and asked to give answers in pseudocode. I got the job.
Same with Visual Basic. Same with Oracle and MS SQL Server (I learned DBA on MySQL). It's not important what you use to learn, what's important is that you understand what it is you're learning. My personal opinion is that Open Source is better for this, precisely because it is less polished and more hackish.
A University without Microsoft will be no worse off, provided its lecturers are good and its students are smart. Monkeys who study to learn which buttons to press will fail their courses, but given the present and projected saturation of the IT market, they would fail in the marketplace as well. Their mentality has been out-evolved, leaving room for those who share the mindset of the old-school hackers to return.
(check out Cryptonomicon by Stephenson for a fictional account)
Oh, come on. There are hundreds of non-fictional books on Enigma, and most of them are worth reading. The Enigma operation was one of the best examples of pure science - information theory and pure mathematics - interacting with social sciences - psychology and sociology - to have a directly measurable effect.
For a general view of cryptography, then Simon Singh's "The Code Book" is well worth a read. A personal favorite for the military operations behind Enigma (capture and coverup) is Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's "Enigma: The Battle for the Code". For an eyewitness account, check out RV Jones' "Most Secret War".
Not in a significant way, no. If people are performing "process X" (say, shopping on Tha Intarweb) and I patent "process Y" (say, a free cream bun with every delivery over $50), then process Y is sufficiently different from process X for it to be patentable, but it's pretty obvious to all concerned that it's not really anything new, and that it hasn't actually required me to do anything to think it up.
On the other hand, since I didn't patent process Y, I now have a big pile of cream buns. Mmmmmm...
Also, Im sorry, but Apache still gets hacked. I remember before IIS was out pages were getting hacked all over the place. Free Kevin, anyone?
While I'm not denying that there have been security holes in Apache, it's worth pointing out that many "web server hacks" don't go through the web server. If the machine is also running a more readily exploitable daemon (say an FTP server or old Telnet) then the attacker can gain access that way, and demonstrate their 0wn3r5h1p by defacing the web site...
In other news, FBI chiefs today issued a press release concerning a Christian-hating, bestiality-practicing hacker called "Satanic Puppy" who allegedly used a hacker website called "Slashdot" to disseminate plans for creating explosives to terrorist agents...
This is true - the main problem with OO is that it is a bit of a memory hog. Hopefully this will change over time.
Doesn't support the macros in my Excel sheets
That would require a full VBA runtime for OpenOffice, which as well as being insecure (where do you think those Office document macro viruses come from) is undocumented, propriatery and probably patented / copyrighted to litigation hell should somebody try to reimplement it.
any Plans for DRM in OpenOffice
I bloody hope not. At the end of the day, DRM as a technology is plain broken. Yes, it's nice to think that we can use DRM to specify what people can do with our data (You can read this for the next week, but not distribute it or print it off), but DRM is an attempt to solve a social / legal problem by technical means. Since it can never be made to work, even in theory, I don't see the point in trying, given all we stand to lose, like the concept of fair use.
Still, kudos to you for wanting to contribute. The OpenOffice site has plenty of documentation on submitting bugs and patches.
Nah, you just get one of those l33t TCP-KVM things. Plug in PS/2 keyboard and mouse, and VGA, then VNC into it:) It's the best way to turn commodity PC hardware into something resembling a serious server.
Sounds perfect for London now the Congestion Charge is stopping most people using cars in the City...
My buddy left his office window open for the first time in two years yesterday, because of the lack of traffic smoke and noise. Apparently fresh air in the City is a rare thing indeed.
So what if the buses suck, the tubes suck, the taxis are too expensive? Just Segway your way around London!
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Gah, I'm in conflict too... I support ID cards but dislike Java!
This document states that when 1.4 is released, it will be the new "stable" branch in the same way that 1.0 is now. This means a fixed API. Why not call this the 2.0 release?
Windows-specific doesn't imply warez-kiddie. I bought a DVD-ROM drive, and a DVD movie ("Pleasantville", if you want to know), and was surprised when I couldn't easily find free (as in beer) DVD playing software for Windows. No, the DVD drive didn't come with player software.
In the end I just booted into Linux and used Xine. I could have payed for player software, but since I'd paid for the DVD drive and paid for the DVD itself (not to mention paying for the rest of the computer), I didn't see why I should pay again to be able to use them together.
When I bought a CD-ROM drive, I could play my CDs in it fine. If I buy a DVD drive, I want to play my DVDs in it, no matter what OS I'm running.
Yeah, in a way there's no real point researching laser weapons for combat - Sectoids and Floaters can be easily wasted with standard rifles (especially if you've got a few strong troopers with auto-cannons as back up), and by the time you get to deal with Mutons you'll have researched Heavy Plasma.
One of the things that made that game too easy was the number of recovered plasma clips... and the Heavy Laser sucked, for not having autofire.
Does this make Windows the SUV of computing? Bloated, inefficient, and lacking regulation because of "donations" to the Government?
Getting your 3.5" to 5.25" is the first puzzle in a Leisure Suit Larry game...
It's a violation of the Geneva Convention, for starters.
From here:
journalists must not be deliberately targeted, detained, or otherwise mistreated any more than any other civilian.
If our missiles aren't smart enough to tell a civilian journalist from a military target, then they shouldn't be used. Just like landmines shouldn't be used for their failure to discriminate between military and civilian targets. Just like cluster bombs shouldn't be used for the same reason.
I think it would be far better to have a computerized tap station where you swipe your smartcard or iButton and get your drink and get billed at the same time
That would be appaling for the quality of the beer. Better off having a waitress system whereby you can order drinks from your table (perhaps with 10% service charge) and have them brought to you...
Who the fuck modded you up like your "emphasis" means anything? Perl is big. Everybody knows this. It's got a lot of "core" modules that help it do its job, a common base that other modules can build against safely. Its size is one reason that FreeBSD has been looking to remove any dependency on it in the base install, though it'll still be available as a port.
Your "emphasis" seems like pointless perl bashing to me.
What do you do if you buy some weed from a dealer and it turns out to be catnip and oregano?
If a dealer's selling bad product, people will go to other dealers. People who consume weed know other people who consume weed. There's probably only two or three degrees of separation between most of a dope dealer's customers. Reputation matters.
What's the dealer going to do when word gets around that he's ripping people off? Shoot people? That's not going to get his customers back. The only way for him to stay in business is not to rip people off in the first place.
Dealers that can get away with stuff like that are the ones who have sufficient passing trade and one-off deals, and they're the kind of dealer that only stupid people buy from.
At least the US is trying to clean up one of the worst offenders.
The US is going to depose the tyrant Bush, a man with weapons of mass destruction and no democratic mandate?
How about the Shah of Iran? Definitely a non-democratic man, with a pretty awful record for human rights. Seems to have a lot of weapons lying around too. Wasn't he put in power by the US when they deposed the democratically elected leader of Iran? Funny that!
"a person who uses or favors terrorizing methods"
Touch
AMANDA uses a FAQ-O-Matic which seems to work very well for their purposes. Cetainly something I've considered implementing myself.
When I learned to code, I learned C and C++. I was very good at it. I interviewed for a position as a Pascal coder, and stated that I'd never touched the language before. So at interview, I was asked questions on programming methodologies and algorithms, and asked to give answers in pseudocode. I got the job.
Same with Visual Basic. Same with Oracle and MS SQL Server (I learned DBA on MySQL). It's not important what you use to learn, what's important is that you understand what it is you're learning. My personal opinion is that Open Source is better for this, precisely because it is less polished and more hackish.
A University without Microsoft will be no worse off, provided its lecturers are good and its students are smart. Monkeys who study to learn which buttons to press will fail their courses, but given the present and projected saturation of the IT market, they would fail in the marketplace as well. Their mentality has been out-evolved, leaving room for those who share the mindset of the old-school hackers to return.
(check out Cryptonomicon by Stephenson for a fictional account)
Oh, come on. There are hundreds of non-fictional books on Enigma, and most of them are worth reading. The Enigma operation was one of the best examples of pure science - information theory and pure mathematics - interacting with social sciences - psychology and sociology - to have a directly measurable effect.
For a general view of cryptography, then Simon Singh's "The Code Book" is well worth a read. A personal favorite for the military operations behind Enigma (capture and coverup) is Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's "Enigma: The Battle for the Code". For an eyewitness account, check out RV Jones' "Most Secret War".
What, like Amaya?
The first time I played GTA I ended up with some chick going down on me to try and distract me from the game.
Of course it didn't work. If it had, she might have stopped!!!
Not in a significant way, no. If people are performing "process X" (say, shopping on Tha Intarweb) and I patent "process Y" (say, a free cream bun with every delivery over $50), then process Y is sufficiently different from process X for it to be patentable, but it's pretty obvious to all concerned that it's not really anything new, and that it hasn't actually required me to do anything to think it up.
On the other hand, since I didn't patent process Y, I now have a big pile of cream buns. Mmmmmm...
Also, Im sorry, but Apache still gets hacked. I remember before IIS was out pages were getting hacked all over the place. Free Kevin, anyone?
While I'm not denying that there have been security holes in Apache, it's worth pointing out that many "web server hacks" don't go through the web server. If the machine is also running a more readily exploitable daemon (say an FTP server or old Telnet) then the attacker can gain access that way, and demonstrate their 0wn3r5h1p by defacing the web site...
In other news, FBI chiefs today issued a press release concerning a Christian-hating, bestiality-practicing hacker called "Satanic Puppy" who allegedly used a hacker website called "Slashdot" to disseminate plans for creating explosives to terrorist agents...
I thought that mixing "loose" and "lose" and related typographical no-nos were just common amongst /. editors?
Memory usage seems worse then Excel
This is true - the main problem with OO is that it is a bit of a memory hog. Hopefully this will change over time.
Doesn't support the macros in my Excel sheets
That would require a full VBA runtime for OpenOffice, which as well as being insecure (where do you think those Office document macro viruses come from) is undocumented, propriatery and probably patented / copyrighted to litigation hell should somebody try to reimplement it.
any Plans for DRM in OpenOffice
I bloody hope not. At the end of the day, DRM as a technology is plain broken. Yes, it's nice to think that we can use DRM to specify what people can do with our data (You can read this for the next week, but not distribute it or print it off), but DRM is an attempt to solve a social / legal problem by technical means. Since it can never be made to work, even in theory, I don't see the point in trying, given all we stand to lose, like the concept of fair use.
Still, kudos to you for wanting to contribute. The OpenOffice site has plenty of documentation on submitting bugs and patches.
Nah, you just get one of those l33t TCP-KVM things. Plug in PS/2 keyboard and mouse, and VGA, then VNC into it :) It's the best way to turn commodity PC hardware into something resembling a serious server.
Sounds perfect for London now the Congestion Charge is stopping most people using cars in the City...
My buddy left his office window open for the first time in two years yesterday, because of the lack of traffic smoke and noise. Apparently fresh air in the City is a rare thing indeed.
So what if the buses suck, the tubes suck, the taxis are too expensive? Just Segway your way around London!
It strikes me as funny that in a community of "non-comformists" you can be ostracized for not conforming
Just because you're not in the biggest flock, doesn't mean you're not a sheep...
I generally don't need mommy and daddy government to tuck me in bed at night
Man, did I misread the "tuck" in that sentence...