Now that I think about it, the number of people entering the coding job market shows all the symptoms of being a damped, driven harmonic oscillator:
Restoring force: If coding is a "hot" job, more people will want to start. Likewise, if there are too many coders, people will be less likely to start learning.
Driving force: New people becoming interested in programming through e.g. TI BASIC.
Damping: The lag time between people becoming interested in programming and entering the job market.
It would be interesting to see a plot of the number of people entering CS-related jobs vs. time. The gradual disappearence of a default programming language just removes some of the driving force. Hopefully the system is not critically damped...
What, just because fair use isn't explicitly mentioned in the First Amendment, that means it's theft of private property? I certainly don't know for sure, but I would venture to say that Professor Lessig of the Stanford School of Law has a better grasp of case law and the application of the First Amendment to copyright law than you do, Mr. Coward.
I take issue with your assertion that cursive is as valuable as Shakespeare's works. It's a matter of form vs. function that most people seem to ignore. In Shakespeare's case, the function is to convey emotions, in which case the form directly fulfills the function. Cursive, on the other hand, sacrifices its function (communication) in exchange for form (it looks pretty). If the purpose of writing is to create a work of art (in the calligraphic sense, not the literary sense), then go ahead and use cursive, but if your goal is to communicate an idea, use something that people can actually read.
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If you have a hard upload rate cap (common on cable modems), BitTorrent will often max out your upstream bandwidth. This SEVERLY limits your maximum download rate for TCP connections because ACK packets are being rate-limited along with everything else. Try getting a bittorrent client that allows upload rate limiting and limit it to about 1-2 K/sec below your ISP's hard limit, and you will probably see a dramatic improvement in download rates.
For about the fifty-billionth time, NAT is not the same as a firewall. While firewalls and NATs often go hand-in-hand, they are by no means equivalent.
Yes, yes, you're absolutely correct. It seems like no matter what you do, there's a tradeoff, because the current system doesn't give much assurance that your ballot is actually being counted.
in an electronic voting system is a printout that gives the time and date of the vote, which candidate I voted for, and a cryptographic signature from the machine. Then the votes are revealed after the election and anyone with a computer can verify the signatures, and I can grep for my vote in the list. Then if everyone checks his own vote, he can raise a big stink if his vote isn't in the list, and he has a printout with a signed vote on it that gives proof of his claim.
Because if I connect to your computer and say "hi, I'd like all your mp3s, please," and it gives them to me, I'm not really trespassing. The correct analogy would be if your house was controlled by an AI which just gives your personal belongings to anyone who asks.
Just set your crappy onboard sound chip (which nothing is plugged into, I hope) as your default sound device, and then configure things that you want to have access to the sound card to use/dev/dsp2 or whatever.
Automated responses to whitelist queries will not guarantee that the Reply-To address is valid. Somebody can create an address dedicated to responding to e.g. TMDA queries, and then everyone and his brother can use that as the sender. Bounces, flames, and whitelist queries would go to that address and be promptly ignored.
Just make Microsoft release their internal Office document format, which they obviously must have lying around somewhere.
Not necessarily! I could honestly believe that nobody really knows completely how the Office document format works due to its kludge-like nature. If your document format is a big mess of COM object state, then Dave Codemonkey can write Microsoft Word Text Widget 2000 and have it dump its data into a.doc file in a format that nobody else has bothered to look at or document. Why else would.doc files be 90% binary garbage?
#3 is redundant, and #4 can be shown as ridiculous, since how any technology gets used depends solely on the motives of the user, and not even remotely on the motives of its creator.
Yeah, in a similar vein, the Windows version of Descent 3 prompts you for the CD when you try to start it, but the Loki port only prompts if you have it set to play the intro movie, and even then it gives you a cancel button that skips the movie and goes straight into the game. Yay Loki!
you could simply code it and and do it and not have to go through a major die-off/selection process the way it has worked since life began, you can skip that part and go right to fix.
That doesn't work if everybody dies at the same time in an epidemic. You need the genetic diversity before the disaster strikes.
"No, that's not how you hold the fork! Look, don't make me tell you how to curtsy properly again! Wow, your sex technique really sucks. Let me get my copy of the Kama Sutra so you can see how you're supposed to do it."
Yeah, but that's for programs that circumvent access controls. This is about search engines, which aren't (at least I think they aren't) covered by the DMCA. (IANAL).
Slashdot Mirror
And the Descent 3 v1.5 patch that fixes many long-standing and well-known issues! Hooray!
Now that I think about it, the number of people entering the coding job market shows all the symptoms of being a damped, driven harmonic oscillator:
Restoring force: If coding is a "hot" job, more people will want to start. Likewise, if there are too many coders, people will be less likely to start learning.
Driving force: New people becoming interested in programming through e.g. TI BASIC.
Damping: The lag time between people becoming interested in programming and entering the job market.
It would be interesting to see a plot of the number of people entering CS-related jobs vs. time. The gradual disappearence of a default programming language just removes some of the driving force. Hopefully the system is not critically damped...
What, just because fair use isn't explicitly mentioned in the First Amendment, that means it's theft of private property? I certainly don't know for sure, but I would venture to say that Professor Lessig of the Stanford School of Law has a better grasp of case law and the application of the First Amendment to copyright law than you do, Mr. Coward.
No, that's "to cop a feel".
I take issue with your assertion that cursive is as valuable as Shakespeare's works. It's a matter of form vs. function that most people seem to ignore. In Shakespeare's case, the function is to convey emotions, in which case the form directly fulfills the function. Cursive, on the other hand, sacrifices its function (communication) in exchange for form (it looks pretty). If the purpose of writing is to create a work of art (in the calligraphic sense, not the literary sense), then go ahead and use cursive, but if your goal is to communicate an idea, use something that people can actually read.
Actually, I usually say "new line" instead.
If you have a hard upload rate cap (common on cable modems), BitTorrent will often max out your upstream bandwidth. This SEVERLY limits your maximum download rate for TCP connections because ACK packets are being rate-limited along with everything else. Try getting a bittorrent client that allows upload rate limiting and limit it to about 1-2 K/sec below your ISP's hard limit, and you will probably see a dramatic improvement in download rates.
Actually, I find it more likely that either
a) He doesn't know what a NAT box does or
b) He doesn't know what a firewall does.
A NAT box = one of those small DSL router boxes or some sort of program like SyGate or Linux's NAT support.
A "poor man's firewall" = something like ZoneAlarm or iptables.
For about the fifty-billionth time, NAT is not the same as a firewall. While firewalls and NATs often go hand-in-hand, they are by no means equivalent.
Yes, yes, you're absolutely correct. It seems like no matter what you do, there's a tradeoff, because the current system doesn't give much assurance that your ballot is actually being counted.
in an electronic voting system is a printout that gives the time and date of the vote, which candidate I voted for, and a cryptographic signature from the machine. Then the votes are revealed after the election and anyone with a computer can verify the signatures, and I can grep for my vote in the list. Then if everyone checks his own vote, he can raise a big stink if his vote isn't in the list, and he has a printout with a signed vote on it that gives proof of his claim.
You can't pause and rewind a movie on the big screen.
Because if I connect to your computer and say "hi, I'd like all your mp3s, please," and it gives them to me, I'm not really trespassing. The correct analogy would be if your house was controlled by an AI which just gives your personal belongings to anyone who asks.
Just set your crappy onboard sound chip (which nothing is plugged into, I hope) as your default sound device, and then configure things that you want to have access to the sound card to use /dev/dsp2 or whatever.
Automated responses to whitelist queries will not guarantee that the Reply-To address is valid. Somebody can create an address dedicated to responding to e.g. TMDA queries, and then everyone and his brother can use that as the sender. Bounces, flames, and whitelist queries would go to that address and be promptly ignored.
Just make Microsoft release their internal Office document format, which they obviously must have lying around somewhere.
.doc file in a format that nobody else has bothered to look at or document. Why else would .doc files be 90% binary garbage?
Not necessarily! I could honestly believe that nobody really knows completely how the Office document format works due to its kludge-like nature. If your document format is a big mess of COM object state, then Dave Codemonkey can write Microsoft Word Text Widget 2000 and have it dump its data into a
Girlfriend, what girlfriend? (This is Caltech, after all)
here. Go easy on me, please!
#3 is redundant, and #4 can be shown as ridiculous, since how any technology gets used depends solely on the motives of the user, and not even remotely on the motives of its creator.
*Ahem* DeCSS?
Yeah, in a similar vein, the Windows version of Descent 3 prompts you for the CD when you try to start it, but the Loki port only prompts if you have it set to play the intro movie, and even then it gives you a cancel button that skips the movie and goes straight into the game. Yay Loki!
you could simply code it and and do it and not have to go through a major die-off/selection process the way it has worked since life began, you can skip that part and go right to fix.
That doesn't work if everybody dies at the same time in an epidemic. You need the genetic diversity before the disaster strikes.
Correct, and apparently we do.
I'll bet you don't get a whole lot of dates.
"No, that's not how you hold the fork! Look, don't make me tell you how to curtsy properly again! Wow, your sex technique really sucks. Let me get my copy of the Kama Sutra so you can see how you're supposed to do it."
Yeah, but that's for programs that circumvent access controls. This is about search engines, which aren't (at least I think they aren't) covered by the DMCA. (IANAL).
They're already cracking down on search engines. That's what this whole issue is about.