since the Labour party took a hard swing to the right a few years ago, they're just trying to redress the balance. As I recall, that's part of their remit - if only the government were that responsible. What is it about democracy and capitalism that doesn't mix - like snake-oil on water.
I doubt it is within RIAA remit to create "... a feasible distribution method". They are a wathdog organisation to potect the rights of the recording industry.
It is up to individual record companies,the artists and/or their management to do that.
the big endian/little endian issue only arises if you are passing binary numeric fields - COMP in COBOL, int or integer in C, Pascal etc.
So the first rule of portability is don't use binary or packed formats - use character based ones. This approach also means you can easily translate ASCII into EBCDIC into Unicode...
Moz current build has a major bug from my standpoint - 'refresh' does not work if you are going through a caching proxy, it just gets the cached version, which means I get to see a Slashdot main page from a couple of months ago.
Crazy Browser does what I need (tabbed browsing) without that ugly skin that Avant has. Moz is fast though, but still too buggy.
Ha - gotta agree, although I think it applies to the reviewer and the author too.
Java + Database = dumb idea.
There is no best practice for a dumb idea. Sure, paint your pretty GUI with some inefficient Java on the client side, where the user is used to slow response. But keep it away from the production server database, where speed is of the essence.
I far as I can tell, if the Company does not have offices inside the EU, there will be no way of enforcing this. And most companies that do have offices in the EU run independent EU specific websites, and would include VAT in the price anyway. This probably just some Euro politico's way of raising American ire for the fun of it.
I came to programming after years of painting (this guy did it the other way around), and have to agree with many of the analogies he draws, i.e. learning by experience rather than intensive studying; designing by code rather than specification; empathising with the user as part of the design process; &c.
Some folks ask me why I don't paint anymore, and I tell them I get my creative kicks writing software. Nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks this way (because you know the management won't understand!).
...a journalistic responsibility to report things with integrity... due diligence... verify... accurately reflects... carry this responsibility... rebrand itself as a rumor mill...
I dont think they need to rebrand - it's always been a rumor mill. If you want "jounalistic integrity" then I suggest you pay for it. Or maybe look elsewhere...
Not sure where you get your facts, but there have been plenty of wars within England. Not a whole bunch is known before the Romans showed up, due to the lack of written language.
After the Romans left, there were plenty of wars - the Kingdom of Mercia (Celts/Britons) in the West, allied with the Welsh, against the Danish/Viking invaders/settlers in the North East, Angles/Saxons in the East, and of course the Normans showing up in the South East and subduing the lot. Since then of course there were ongoing attempts to subdue the remaining Celts in Scotland and Ireland, with varying degrees of sucess.
The roots of the parlimentary system are similary tangled - starting with the Magna Carta establishing the House of Lords. I'm not sure when the House of Commons (i.e. Landowners) was established, but I suspect Cromwell (leader of the Puritan revolt against the Royalist who decapitated Charles I) was involved...
That rather depends on the licensing & support agreement for the software. Need to make the software available to an extra 100 users? Need a bug fixed? Need an enhancement? While these last two could cause additional expense with Open Source, the extra users probably would not.
I suspect the rot set in when you had to start peeing in a bottle to get a job. Since nobody raised a stink about that, they figured that po' merkins aint got no self-respect, and they can put any invasive conditions of employment they like.
As backwards as yorpeons are in some respects, that kind of thing just doesn't fly.
I clicked on the Xupiter link too, and closed the window immidiatly, then noticed anotherwindow on the task bar which linked to a window just off the bottom of the screen - hopefully I killed it before it did any damage.
This kind of behavior HAS to be illegal, and if not why not?
Turn on all the error checking you possibly can in your development environment and pay attention to every last warning.
If there is something trivial causing a warning in your code--fix it so it doesn't warn, even though it wasn't a "bug".
Rather depend on how good the compiler/language is - for instance I got a compiler warning about an empty perform loop - when the function of the loop was to set the value of the index iterating the loop! I just ignored the warning. A later programmer put a redundant "move A to A" statement in to make the warning go away... which is precisely the kind of garbage these guys are looking for!
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you should get yourself a userid - I usually ignore ACs, but you have something of interest to offer this discussion.
The only applications that would currently require this are fairly high-end scientific/business processing.
Until the FPS/MMORG games start requiring it that is...
since the Labour party took a hard swing to the right a few years ago, they're just trying to redress the balance. As I recall, that's part of their remit - if only the government were that responsible. What is it about democracy and capitalism that doesn't mix - like snake-oil on water.
Perhaps she assumed the start 'button' was on the keyboard. Perhaps you assume too much - when you mentioned the magic word 'screen' she got it...
Just like that darned 'any' key - one of the worst user instructions ever written.
much as RIAA might like to, I don't think they hand out jail time in civil cases. Even if they bunkrupt you...
I am posting this information on the Internet to make it true. - James "Kibo" Parry
I doubt it is within RIAA remit to create "... a feasible distribution method". They are a wathdog organisation to potect the rights of the recording industry.
It is up to individual record companies,the artists and/or their management to do that.
the big endian/little endian issue only arises if you are passing binary numeric fields - COMP in COBOL, int or integer in C, Pascal etc.
So the first rule of portability is don't use binary or packed formats - use character based ones. This approach also means you can easily translate ASCII into EBCDIC into Unicode...
hell yeah - if you had set up Alt & Ctrl as your Quake side-step keys as I had, it turned a frag-fest into a nightmare...
Moz current build has a major bug from my standpoint - 'refresh' does not work if you are going through a caching proxy, it just gets the cached version, which means I get to see a Slashdot main page from a couple of months ago.
Crazy Browser does what I need (tabbed browsing) without that ugly skin that Avant has. Moz is fast though, but still too buggy.
Ha - gotta agree, although I think it applies to the reviewer and the author too.
Java + Database = dumb idea.
There is no best practice for a dumb idea. Sure, paint your pretty GUI with some inefficient Java on the client side, where the user is used to slow response. But keep it away from the production server database, where speed is of the essence.
I far as I can tell, if the Company does not have offices inside the EU, there will be no way of enforcing this. And most companies that do have offices in the EU run independent EU specific websites, and would include VAT in the price anyway. This probably just some Euro politico's way of raising American ire for the fun of it.
Nothing to see here people, move along...
"Tunnels and Trolls" vaporware? Sounds like that project finally came to fruition right here on Slashdot ;)
yeah but how do you filter out MCSEs?
--Eagle said of Edelman "He's only touching a part of the elephant."
I came to programming after years of painting (this guy did it the other way around), and have to agree with many of the analogies he draws, i.e. learning by experience rather than intensive studying; designing by code rather than specification; empathising with the user as part of the design process; &c.
Some folks ask me why I don't paint anymore, and I tell them I get my creative kicks writing software. Nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks this way (because you know the management won't understand!).
...a journalistic responsibility to report things with integrity... due diligence... verify... accurately reflects... carry this responsibility... rebrand itself as a rumor mill...
I dont think they need to rebrand - it's always been a rumor mill. If you want "jounalistic integrity" then I suggest you pay for it. Or maybe look elsewhere...
Its okay guys, I don't want Luddites visiting my homepage anyway...
--Slashdot Janitors are fascist demon children bent on destroying the world - CmdrTaco
Not sure where you get your facts, but there have been plenty of wars within England. Not a whole bunch is known before the Romans showed up, due to the lack of written language.
After the Romans left, there were plenty of wars - the Kingdom of Mercia (Celts/Britons) in the West, allied with the Welsh, against the Danish/Viking invaders/settlers in the North East, Angles/Saxons in the East, and of course the Normans showing up in the South East and subduing the lot. Since then of course there were ongoing attempts to subdue the remaining Celts in Scotland and Ireland, with varying degrees of sucess.
The roots of the parlimentary system are similary tangled - starting with the Magna Carta establishing the House of Lords. I'm not sure when the House of Commons (i.e. Landowners) was established, but I suspect Cromwell (leader of the Puritan revolt against the Royalist who decapitated Charles I) was involved...
Michael Keaton just is Batman... NOT!
Adam West IS Batman - Michael Keaton is Beetlejuice (the only role he's excelled in, IMHO).
That rather depends on the licensing & support agreement for the software. Need to make the software available to an extra 100 users? Need a bug fixed? Need an enhancement? While these last two could cause additional expense with Open Source, the extra users probably would not.
I suspect the rot set in when you had to start peeing in a bottle to get a job. Since nobody raised a stink about that, they figured that po' merkins aint got no self-respect, and they can put any invasive conditions of employment they like.
As backwards as yorpeons are in some respects, that kind of thing just doesn't fly.
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a page full of commercial links? I nver realised I was surrounded by so much irony...
I clicked on the Xupiter link too, and closed the window immidiatly, then noticed anotherwindow on the task bar which linked to a window just off the bottom of the screen - hopefully I killed it before it did any damage.
This kind of behavior HAS to be illegal, and if not why not?
Dear Dr. Pascal, Different language, different compiler! I thought the "move a to a" might be a give-away... Yours, Mr. Cobol P.S. Delphi rocks!
Turn on all the error checking you possibly can in your development environment and pay attention to every last warning. If there is something trivial causing a warning in your code--fix it so it doesn't warn, even though it wasn't a "bug".
Rather depend on how good the compiler/language is - for instance I got a compiler warning about an empty perform loop - when the function of the loop was to set the value of the index iterating the loop! I just ignored the warning. A later programmer put a redundant "move A to A" statement in to make the warning go away... which is precisely the kind of garbage these guys are looking for!
Yes thanks - I tried putting it thru Adobe's PDF->HTML converter and it came back with garbage...