That's true for many companies. Don't fix it if it ain't broken.
The problem then becomes: if it breaks, how do you fix it?
What if one of those 386's breaks down? It's not like you can run down the store and buy a replacement CPU or RAM. Somehow they'll have to upgrade in the future, if only because of the lack of available spare parts. Incrementally upgrading might be painful, but not upgrading at all might be many times more costly when stuff starts to break.
Think about all the COBOL in the world. Nowadays it's next to impossible to find someone who willingly does COBOL (rightfully so, I might add). Maintaining one of those programs eventually becomes more costly than rewritting the bugger.
What came before the big bang? That question is meaningless, as time did not exist. So you have a few options, only one of them feasible.
The first is that the universe is infinitely old and had no beginning. Once a view of atheists, this is no longer scientifically plausible.
Sorry, you are incorrect. There wasn't any time before the big bang, thus nothing could have come before it as you yourself stated. Not even time, as the big bang was the beginning of time. However one alternative view is that the universe oscillates between a big bang and a big crunch, thus from a timeless point-of-view the universe would be infinite.
What I really find worrying (hello, 1500's are calling) is the method of reasoning by creationists, like yourself. A: There was a big bang. B: We currently don't know what was the cause of this. C: There must be 'some higher being' that created the universe.
Now A and B do not lead to C, no matter how you reason. If you want to have a drop of credibility, you'll have to support your claims. However, you can not, thus your logic is flawed. What created the 'entity' you speak of? What came before it? Why did it create the universe? If you want to play the science game, you should be answering those questions. Science allows questions to be left open, but tries to answer as many as possible by using facts. Creationism is not, and is unlikely to ever be, scientific or logical. You are allowed to believe in the toothfairy for all I care, but unless you have evidence that a mystical entity is willing to pay for your teeth: keep your belief to yourself.
If we take the upper-limit of 5% Linux-marketshare usage, a hundred thousand copies would mean at least 2M sold. That's $100M revenue what we're talking about. These types of PC games aren't just decent, they're the top (Quake, UT, WoW, NWN). Some of those have cross-platform engines, others don't.
The question then arises what is more costly: Supporting multiple platforms directly, or supporting Transgaming occasionally to do all the hard work. Perhaps the executives think that even if a reduced number of Linux gamers buy and play their game via Cedega, then it's not cost-effective to support Linux directly.
Transgaming is a major problem with current Linux porting. If you have a popular game, you can let Transgaming do all the work to get your game running under Linux. Those Linux gamers still buy your game, and you don't have to put in the effort directly. Transgaming wins, developer wins, Linux gamer pays twice for a poor substitute.
According to xe.com, 6M yen is about $51600. Still a nice sum for a student, but not even near $1M.
According to TFA, the student is _suspected_ to have earned 150M yen, which translates to $1.29M. This is what the police suspect, and has not been admitted by the student in question nor has this claim been supported by any other evidence.
Editors, even though this is Slashdot please try to do your work. This isn't Digg.
But India has always put tight controls on sexually-related material. I don't know if they have a decency/obscenity code that webmasters need to follow. But certainly there is next to no production of porn-related material
The strong shift to both extremes was indicated by polls before the introduction of the many online tests. As a result, we can conclude that the online tests didn't have a significant influence.
The reason for this shift is simply because large parts of the population aren't happy with the current government.
Don't think that you're safe in your chroot'ed jail. If your website for example uses mod_php and you run an old package of Mambo, then you will be exploited despite your jail.
Yes, you are correct that such a setup will save you from certain attacks, however this isn't an alternative for proper, secure coding. Besides, anyone still using system() via a webserver (be it Apache or LightTPD) should be shot, regardless.
I don't use a password to get into my home, I don't start my car with a password, I don't use a password to get into my work. In fact, I don't even have a key for my work, server room, nothing (RFID).
Locks get picked. Cars get stolen. RFID can be disrupted, tampered with or your card can get stolen (I'm assuming you don't have RFID tags in your arm). Likewise, passwords can be sniffed. Hell, it doesn't matter how good your encryption is, all it takes is a videocamera pointed at your keyboard.
How far you go, it doesn't matter. There will always be a trade-off between security and convenience. Personally, I trust a good lock more than I trust RFID. But even if you go all the way to biometrics, there will always be way a to hack the system.
Even so, this Firefox security flaw is a nasty one.
Thanks. I was already packing my bags when I calculated that a teacher would earn $12000/month. Hell, I'd even learn to use chopsticks for that kind of cash...
Getting 17.5% (or 19% over here) off of prices is worth it, in my opinion. Consider VAT on new PC's, broadband charges or even office supplies, it all adds up. Registering might take some time, but the paperwork should be done in an hour, tops. If in that hour you save 500+ a year, you've got quite a good hourly rate.
Then again, I went the lazy way and got myself an accountant. Netto it still saves me a nice sum of cash, and you don't have to worry about the messy details. Thankfully my accountant is pretty good, he even got my university fees deducted. A tip is to think with every purchase: could I get the VAT off of this? Business diners, lunches, books... it all adds up.
If a piece of open source software is used as a component often enough, people will turn it into a component (through an API, plugins, software packages, modules etc). This improves the overall design of the software and allows better code reuse, but more importantly reduces maintainance issues by allowing developers to upgrade components with relative ease. I see this as a "Good Thing(tm)".
Grandparent probably still lives in academia and probably never has had a real job. Parent is right on.
Lisp is fun to play around with, but Paul Graham's Viaweb wasn't aquired by Yahoo because of it. The idea behind Viaweb was new, and during the dot-com bubble it didn't matter if you wrote in C, Lisp or punch-card machine code: you'd make insane amounts of venture capital anyway.
Amsterdam is a city, not a country. It's the capital of the Netherlands, and even tourists coming here don't know the difference.
I think mistakes like these show the problem with most 'mericuns: clueless when it comes to anything outside the States. No offense, but your president thinks Africa is a country. We don't call Miami a state, or Florida a city. Get your facts straight before you come over here. That's all.
Comments about game servers? Larger disk quotas? Email accounts?! What in deity's name is slashdot becoming?
Over here at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam we have 'computation servers'. Any CS/AI student can log in and use the 4-way SMP machines for their studies (and let me say that this is a real help when running CPU-intensive algorithms that otherwise would take weeks to complete). Bigger iron like the old DAS cluster with it's 200 nodes is used for parallel-programming, distributed systems courses and more serious applications.
If you don't know what to do with it, hand it to graduate students that need the cycles.
You're correct. By measuring the emissions from the LCD-screen they have shown how one could figure out what someone was voting for. Although relatively low-tech (they detected that the LCD screen would refresh slower when non-ASCII characters were used), they measured this from a distance of 20 meters.
I'm sure that, with some work, they could read the display using 'Van Eck', as in Cryptonomicon. So long for being able to keep your vote hidden.
In fact, what any of these completely unrelated points has to do with each other is not at all clear to me.
Exactly what I was thinking. "They pull out OBL? On an article on the Chinese blinding satelites?". It reeks of a red herring/chewbacca defense: It does not make sense!
You are correct that the US sees 'unemployed' as more than just those receiving benefits (namely, everyone without a job and looking for a job), however we're still comparing apples and oranges here. From your URL:
For example, people are considered employed if they did any work at all for pay or profit during the survey week.
This isn't the same method used in said European countries, where part-timers who are looking for a job are also seen as unemployed. Thus, the OP still is correct on this point: if you are flipping burgers while looking for a job, you are employed in the US and unemployed in Europe. The methodology is correct, however the definitions differ.
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What if one of those 386's breaks down? It's not like you can run down the store and buy a replacement CPU or RAM. Somehow they'll have to upgrade in the future, if only because of the lack of available spare parts. Incrementally upgrading might be painful, but not upgrading at all might be many times more costly when stuff starts to break.
Think about all the COBOL in the world. Nowadays it's next to impossible to find someone who willingly does COBOL (rightfully so, I might add). Maintaining one of those programs eventually becomes more costly than rewritting the bugger.
What I really find worrying (hello, 1500's are calling) is the method of reasoning by creationists, like yourself.
A: There was a big bang.
B: We currently don't know what was the cause of this.
C: There must be 'some higher being' that created the universe.
Now A and B do not lead to C, no matter how you reason. If you want to have a drop of credibility, you'll have to support your claims. However, you can not, thus your logic is flawed. What created the 'entity' you speak of? What came before it? Why did it create the universe? If you want to play the science game, you should be answering those questions. Science allows questions to be left open, but tries to answer as many as possible by using facts. Creationism is not, and is unlikely to ever be, scientific or logical. You are allowed to believe in the toothfairy for all I care, but unless you have evidence that a mystical entity is willing to pay for your teeth: keep your belief to yourself.
If we take the upper-limit of 5% Linux-marketshare usage, a hundred thousand copies would mean at least 2M sold. That's $100M revenue what we're talking about. These types of PC games aren't just decent, they're the top (Quake, UT, WoW, NWN). Some of those have cross-platform engines, others don't.
The question then arises what is more costly: Supporting multiple platforms directly, or supporting Transgaming occasionally to do all the hard work. Perhaps the executives think that even if a reduced number of Linux gamers buy and play their game via Cedega, then it's not cost-effective to support Linux directly.
Transgaming is a major problem with current Linux porting. If you have a popular game, you can let Transgaming do all the work to get your game running under Linux. Those Linux gamers still buy your game, and you don't have to put in the effort directly. Transgaming wins, developer wins, Linux gamer pays twice for a poor substitute.
According to xe.com, 6M yen is about $51600. Still a nice sum for a student, but not even near $1M.
According to TFA, the student is _suspected_ to have earned 150M yen, which translates to $1.29M. This is what the police suspect, and has not been admitted by the student in question nor has this claim been supported by any other evidence.
Editors, even though this is Slashdot please try to do your work. This isn't Digg.
The strong shift to both extremes was indicated by polls before the introduction of the many online tests. As a result, we can conclude that the online tests didn't have a significant influence.
The reason for this shift is simply because large parts of the population aren't happy with the current government.
Yes, you are correct that such a setup will save you from certain attacks, however this isn't an alternative for proper, secure coding. Besides, anyone still using system() via a webserver (be it Apache or LightTPD) should be shot, regardless.
How far you go, it doesn't matter. There will always be a trade-off between security and convenience. Personally, I trust a good lock more than I trust RFID. But even if you go all the way to biometrics, there will always be way a to hack the system.
Even so, this Firefox security flaw is a nasty one.
Lamport's LaTeX User Guide (1994) is good enough for me. Doesn't expire either. Now get off my lawn!
Kids these days with their new flashy toys. Now get off my lawn!
Thanks. I was already packing my bags when I calculated that a teacher would earn $12000/month. Hell, I'd even learn to use chopsticks for that kind of cash...
Having shunned away from Java due to its license for years, I look forward to another good free-as-in-speech tool under my belt.
Getting 17.5% (or 19% over here) off of prices is worth it, in my opinion. Consider VAT on new PC's, broadband charges or even office supplies, it all adds up. Registering might take some time, but the paperwork should be done in an hour, tops. If in that hour you save 500+ a year, you've got quite a good hourly rate.
Then again, I went the lazy way and got myself an accountant. Netto it still saves me a nice sum of cash, and you don't have to worry about the messy details. Thankfully my accountant is pretty good, he even got my university fees deducted. A tip is to think with every purchase: could I get the VAT off of this? Business diners, lunches, books... it all adds up.
If a piece of open source software is used as a component often enough, people will turn it into a component (through an API, plugins, software packages, modules etc). This improves the overall design of the software and allows better code reuse, but more importantly reduces maintainance issues by allowing developers to upgrade components with relative ease. I see this as a "Good Thing(tm)".
Why don't they just call it Iceweasel and be done with it?
Oh, Firefly. Nevermind, do carry on.
Lisp is fun to play around with, but Paul Graham's Viaweb wasn't aquired by Yahoo because of it. The idea behind Viaweb was new, and during the dot-com bubble it didn't matter if you wrote in C, Lisp or punch-card machine code: you'd make insane amounts of venture capital anyway.
I think mistakes like these show the problem with most 'mericuns: clueless when it comes to anything outside the States. No offense, but your president thinks Africa is a country. We don't call Miami a state, or Florida a city. Get your facts straight before you come over here. That's all.
I've been using Clusty for the last 18 months. A meta-searchengine combined with a Wikipedia-search, the best of both worlds!
Over here at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam we have 'computation servers'. Any CS/AI student can log in and use the 4-way SMP machines for their studies (and let me say that this is a real help when running CPU-intensive algorithms that otherwise would take weeks to complete). Bigger iron like the old DAS cluster with it's 200 nodes is used for parallel-programming, distributed systems courses and more serious applications.
If you don't know what to do with it, hand it to graduate students that need the cycles.
Besides, as the OP commented: SL is dull, boring old crap. They are definitely plugging SL here.
You're correct. By measuring the emissions from the LCD-screen they have shown how one could figure out what someone was voting for. Although relatively low-tech (they detected that the LCD screen would refresh slower when non-ASCII characters were used), they measured this from a distance of 20 meters.
I'm sure that, with some work, they could read the display using 'Van Eck', as in Cryptonomicon. So long for being able to keep your vote hidden.
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Lies, damn lies and statistics.