Is this a step in the direction to making Linux the defacto standard on which to build all future software? Such a platform will be needed one day, as security and reliability become all the more important, reinventing the wheel at this level will be no more.
I dont get it. WTF do tags do? On the main slashdot page, there seems to be tags associated with each story. They seem to be keywords. And all they do is point to another page, which lists storys in the category of the tag you clicked on.... Is that the basic idea?
What ever happened to the good ol' link? Pffft - I love some of the web2 technology, i was playing around with that stuff when it was called DHTML. I'm begining to hate web2 people though!
You've gota be fucking kidding! What about speeds around corners? - I use these as a great measure of how faster i should be going. I usually go a little faster, but i use that as an indication of what is safe. If there where no signs, i'd probably wouldn't be able to tell its a tight corner until it was too late.
Why dont they just team up with China who are planning a moon walker sooner? And Indian and Chinese can do it at the same time. Better yet get both nations to team up with NASA and perhaps they could do it around 2010?
Better yet, forget about moon walks, orbits etc and team up with NASA and a host of other nations and help the human race advance as one!
In 2000 i gained a traineeship in Software Engineering. The traineeship was terminated three years later which left me with out a job and although i had completed two TAFE courses (Cert III & IV info tech) i had only a half completed three year uni course.
I looked for work for 6 months, applying for upto 6-10 jobs a fortnight. I didn't get a job, so i went back to uni. Only a month after finishing my computer science course i was well on my way to obtaining my current job as Software Engineer with BAE Systems Australia.
I have the thought that it depends on what your looking for. If you want to purley a coder/programmer/analysis, then you dont need a university or graduate education - although having one will no doubt attract larger corporations to you. With out a higher education, you are more than likely to get jobs as Web developer, application developer, mobile developer etc. Look for where technical skills are more important than say, engineering. Engineering requires a lot of over head to gaureentee a product is of some quality... So look for smaller firms in who have a focus on bringing technology to individual consumers.
But I'm worried that open source projects arn't analysing their code themselves. Perhaps its better to have this stuff out sourced to professionals? But surley theres professionals that wouldn't mind do this in their free time to benifit a project, like it seems someone has done here.
Also, cant this process be automated. Like testing. Why is some type of automatic analysis done on every Release candidate.
Would it be that hard to do? Why dont they do it already? Are they afraid of the work it will create?
Along with this type of analysis, programs should be put through regular profiling so as to be able to spot potential bottle necks.
But over here (Australia) its Jam, not Jelly and when i tell people about my secret love, they look at me very funny. I havn't had it in ages, because i dont eat a lot of sugary fatty stuff anymore, appart from the 12 donuts, 2 blocks of chockolate and box of musli fruity things i ate over thursday, friday and saterday!
Before veiwing any text documents, editors should have a optional transformation on startup, ripping away anything that doesn't conform to a users preference. For example, on c source files, the editor could run the text through a source formatter, presenting it to the user exactly the way he/she likes it to be set.
Then, who cares how things really are, we have our preference automatically assured!
This could perhaps be extended to changing between different spellings, I.e. Americanish => English.
I love this site. When I was younger I used to download music or get it off friends. At the time I used to try and justify this by saying a lot of the music I was copying I had never heard and I would buy future albums of those artists.
Now I've started downloading music again, although in not really huge quantities through this website. I download a lot of what I've never heard. One instance, I heard a track at the end of a movie that a really liked. I looked into it and I bought the entire album and the previous album by the same artist.
The pricing structure is good. In fact I'd say fantastic. You pay for what you get and because the prices are so reasonable, you perhaps buy what you wouldn't normally as you don't necessarily care if you don't like it... each song is only 10-20 cents (Australian).
I hope Allofmp3 get to keep their licence and artists and recording labels alike see the advantages in such a flexible pricing structure. You've got a love the fact you can also choose your codec as well as bit rate.
Has anyone thought of that the fact this very conversation may go down in the history of computer science? In 30 more or less years, lecturers will be telling their students about this argument! We're witnessing a more interesting slice of history than our normal mundane day lives:)
I'm learning a lot from my experiences from wikipedia. I think it would be a great idea to give assignments out to students of the form "go and create an article of topic ###### for wikipedia".
Give them the usual policies and then at the end, mark all the assignments and combine them into a better article for ######.
What a tool of a boss. wait no... tool of a human! Seriously, why kinda of person does this? In my previous job, as trainee software engineer, it was recommended regular breaks where neccessary for eye sight reasons and others. I think the guy who got fired is lucky... if his boss is this tight, he's probably been holding out on a lot more than just break time!
I've been using Game for a while. Previously i used some icq clone... But now so many stupid people use MSN, so now i should too:|
I like to be able to chat using text in my IM clients and not a whole lot more. I think file sharing could be implemented via a simple call to the email client, either manualy, or placed with-in the client. I guess for that, it might help to have a common interface to email functions? Is there even a standard for that?
I remember on the Amiga, AREX could be used for accessing parts of applications... that is, each application had an AREX interface. Is there anything standard proposed for posix Apps that would see such functionality... Such a feature would surely create a massive reuse of code.
I guess i like my IMs to be simple is what I'm trying to say... not that the AREX stuff is all that simple, but it certain would make the implementation of components that accross different applications easier. Why use an IM client to send a file when we've also go the protocols and libraries implemented else where to do that?:|
This is an exceptionally interesting topic. Many dont perhaps know just how bad Australias Water supplies have been in the last few years. Very bad. Many people think Australias population could not sustain any more growth. Many other people think we should start working towards reducing our population.
Most of the nations main water supplies during the last 3 years have been bellow 20%. Some, including the largest have been well bellow this, in to the single figure percentile range.
Anything that saves water is worth while considering. There are now perminite water restrictions in the state of victoria (i believe), such as watering during the day (prohibited, perhaps with other conditions). This sounds like a good idea.
Open irrigation seems to be the largest talking point on saving water and i'd think that may be a better area to focuss on now, whilst its a problem. If its ever fixed, i'd recommend coming back to the to flush vs not to flush topic.
The largest species of crocodile in the world is Crocodylus porosus, the saltwater or estuarine crocodile. In fact, this is the largest living reptile in the world, bar nil. Snake afficionados may argue that there are longer snakes, but none combine both length (over 6 metres) and body mass (over 1.5 tonnes) to reach such large overall sizes like the saltwater crocodile can.
Burt, in the photograph above, is a captive crocodile in Darwin, Australia. He's over 16 feet (4.9 m) long, which is close to the average maximum size for saltwater crocodiles.
Would you believe the largest saltwater crocodile ever reported was 10.1 m (33.1 feet)?
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So in wrapping up... ooowww lets all tremble with fear at the might ancient crocodile. The croc's of today would eat him for breakfast!
Slashdot Mirror
Is this a step in the direction to making Linux the defacto standard on which to build all future software? Such a platform will be needed one day, as security and reliability become all the more important, reinventing the wheel at this level will be no more.
Linux is the Foundation Software of the future.
I dont get it. WTF do tags do? On the main slashdot page, there seems to be tags associated with each story. They seem to be keywords. And all they do is point to another page, which lists storys in the category of the tag you clicked on.... Is that the basic idea?
What ever happened to the good ol' link? Pffft - I love some of the web2 technology, i was playing around with that stuff when it was called DHTML. I'm begining to hate web2 people though!
I'm sick of web2, bring on web3!
You've gota be fucking kidding! What about speeds around corners? - I use these as a great measure of how faster i should be going. I usually go a little faster, but i use that as an indication of what is safe. If there where no signs, i'd probably wouldn't be able to tell its a tight corner until it was too late.
Sounds completely stupid to me.
Good luck!
And just to show off, they're now using wireless technology in their WIS (Wearable Instrument Shirt). Its the shirt every air guitarist wants.
Orbit!
Why dont they just team up with China who are planning a moon walker sooner? And Indian and Chinese can do it at the same time. Better yet get both nations to team up with NASA and perhaps they could do it around 2010?
Better yet, forget about moon walks, orbits etc and team up with NASA and a host of other nations and help the human race advance as one!
In 2000 i gained a traineeship in Software Engineering. The traineeship was terminated three years later which left me with out a job and although i had completed two TAFE courses (Cert III & IV info tech) i had only a half completed three year uni course.
I looked for work for 6 months, applying for upto 6-10 jobs a fortnight. I didn't get a job, so i went back to uni. Only a month after finishing my computer science course i was well on my way to obtaining my current job as Software Engineer with BAE Systems Australia.
I have the thought that it depends on what your looking for. If you want to purley a coder/programmer/analysis, then you dont need a university or graduate education - although having one will no doubt attract larger corporations to you. With out a higher education, you are more than likely to get jobs as Web developer, application developer, mobile developer etc. Look for where technical skills are more important than say, engineering. Engineering requires a lot of over head to gaureentee a product is of some quality... So look for smaller firms in who have a focus on bringing technology to individual consumers.
1) Is anyone really surprised?
2) who cares? - Is this really news worthy?
I think this type of analysis is great.
But I'm worried that open source projects arn't analysing their code themselves. Perhaps its better to have this stuff out sourced to professionals? But surley theres professionals that wouldn't mind do this in their free time to benifit a project, like it seems someone has done here.
Also, cant this process be automated. Like testing. Why is some type of automatic analysis done on every Release candidate.
Would it be that hard to do? Why dont they do it already? Are they afraid of the work it will create?
Along with this type of analysis, programs should be put through regular profiling so as to be able to spot potential bottle necks.
But over here (Australia) its Jam, not Jelly and when i tell people about my secret love, they look at me very funny. I havn't had it in ages, because i dont eat a lot of sugary fatty stuff anymore, appart from the 12 donuts, 2 blocks of chockolate and box of musli fruity things i ate over thursday, friday and saterday!
PB&J rules!
Stargate SG-1 will follow suit
Before veiwing any text documents, editors should have a optional transformation on startup, ripping away anything that doesn't conform to a users preference. For example, on c source files, the editor could run the text through a source formatter, presenting it to the user exactly the way he/she likes it to be set.
Then, who cares how things really are, we have our preference automatically assured!
This could perhaps be extended to changing between different spellings, I.e. Americanish => English.
I love this site. When I was younger I used to download music or get it off friends. At the time I used to try and justify this by saying a lot of the music I was copying I had never heard and I would buy future albums of those artists.
Now I've started downloading music again, although in not really huge quantities through this website. I download a lot of what I've never heard. One instance, I heard a track at the end of a movie that a really liked. I looked into it and I bought the entire album and the previous album by the same artist.
The pricing structure is good. In fact I'd say fantastic. You pay for what you get and because the prices are so reasonable, you perhaps buy what you wouldn't normally as you don't necessarily care if you don't like it... each song is only 10-20 cents (Australian).
I hope Allofmp3 get to keep their licence and artists and recording labels alike see the advantages in such a flexible pricing structure. You've got a love the fact you can also choose your codec as well as bit rate.
Cheers AllOfMp3!
Has anyone thought of that the fact this very conversation may go down in the history of computer science? In 30 more or less years, lecturers will be telling their students about this argument! We're witnessing a more interesting slice of history than our normal mundane day lives :)
Check your sources
I'm learning a lot from my experiences from wikipedia. I think it would be a great idea to give assignments out to students of the form "go and create an article of topic ###### for wikipedia".
Give them the usual policies and then at the end, mark all the assignments and combine them into a better article for ######.
What a tool of a boss. wait no... tool of a human! Seriously, why kinda of person does this? In my previous job, as trainee software engineer, it was recommended regular breaks where neccessary for eye sight reasons and others. I think the guy who got fired is lucky... if his boss is this tight, he's probably been holding out on a lot more than just break time!
That sounds scary! You'd hope during driving a glitch doesn't switch from real driving mode the Xbox mode... :}
That is truely big. Honestly, I dont think any one would believe they could get that big unless someone saw it for them selves.
This is basicly a ferral demostic cat big enough to eat a human!!!
Hackers working on theoretical virus to defeat theoretical 'honey pot' virus stoper.
Virri with mime types?
I've been using Game for a while. Previously i used some icq clone... But now so many stupid people use MSN, so now i should too :|
:|
I like to be able to chat using text in my IM clients and not a whole lot more. I think file sharing could be implemented via a simple call to the email client, either manualy, or placed with-in the client. I guess for that, it might help to have a common interface to email functions? Is there even a standard for that?
I remember on the Amiga, AREX could be used for accessing parts of applications... that is, each application had an AREX interface. Is there anything standard proposed for posix Apps that would see such functionality... Such a feature would surely create a massive reuse of code.
I guess i like my IMs to be simple is what I'm trying to say... not that the AREX stuff is all that simple, but it certain would make the implementation of components that accross different applications easier. Why use an IM client to send a file when we've also go the protocols and libraries implemented else where to do that?
This is an exceptionally interesting topic. Many dont perhaps know just how bad Australias Water supplies have been in the last few years. Very bad. Many people think Australias population could not sustain any more growth. Many other people think we should start working towards reducing our population.
Most of the nations main water supplies during the last 3 years have been bellow 20%. Some, including the largest have been well bellow this, in to the single figure percentile range.
Anything that saves water is worth while considering. There are now perminite water restrictions in the state of victoria (i believe), such as watering during the day (prohibited, perhaps with other conditions). This sounds like a good idea.
Open irrigation seems to be the largest talking point on saving water and i'd think that may be a better area to focuss on now, whilst its a problem. If its ever fixed, i'd recommend coming back to the to flush vs not to flush topic.
Wikipedia now include templates that state certain articles have been linked to slashdot, and thus require extra attention :|
C rocodile
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This article has recently been linked from Slashdot (backlink).
Please keep an eye on the page history for errors or vandalism.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuarine/Saltwater_
In fact...
The largest species of crocodile in the world is Crocodylus porosus, the saltwater or estuarine crocodile. In fact, this is the largest living reptile in the world, bar nil. Snake afficionados may argue that there are longer snakes, but none combine both length (over 6 metres) and body mass (over 1.5 tonnes) to reach such large overall sizes like the saltwater crocodile can.
Big Croc
Burt, in the photograph above, is a captive crocodile in Darwin, Australia. He's over 16 feet (4.9 m) long, which is close to the average maximum size for saltwater crocodiles.
Would you believe the largest saltwater crocodile ever reported was 10.1 m (33.1 feet)?
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So in wrapping up... ooowww lets all tremble with fear at the might ancient crocodile. The croc's of today would eat him for breakfast!
Go you modern day crocs!!!
I wouldnt be surprised to see a 4 meter salty up round North NT or QLD, Australia. 3 meters is probably average. 4 Meters should be attainable.