It's fucking sad, we have a bunch of government agencies that are incapable of doing their jobs, a group of CEO's that are incapable of comprenending morality, moms and dads that get their info from the twisted mass media, sisters and brothers that are too twisted on X, MTV, religion, whatever, to see or even care about the asteroid that almost hit the earth a couple of days ago.... Let alone understand the problems with patent law.
I say it's time for us all to give up. There's no point to talk about this kind of shit. The only people who are capable of making a judgement on this kind of stuff are high court judges. No one else cares. Most are incapable of even understanding.
After having my ass kicked multiple times on Battle.net by Koreans, soon rhesus monkeys will be kicking my ass, too. I wonder how "For great justice!" sounds in monkey, anyway?
When I was a student beginning CS at NCSU in 1994, the profs and TAs were using a similar program to check for cheating. It checked source code, parse trees, assembler, and machine code to flag possible cheaters. I think it was based on GCC, but I could be wrong.
I must say that this is pretty old news to me, but anyone studing CS should be aware of the fact that similarities in source code are not the only way to get caught cheating.
I have not read the discussion yet, so i'm sure this is a redundant reply, but you have legal remedys (if you are willing to go that route). You can destroy your documentation and leave. OR (what I would do is) talk to HIS boss - that is probably the least risky thing you could do. Regardless, warm up our resume.
I had a very Unix-centric education at NCSU, which has helped me out a lot, but most of what I know comes from a decent fundamental understanding of operating systems and C/C++. If you want to be a unix admin, forget about certs, find a job as an NT admin where you can get some hands-on with Unix. Read A LOT - Think Unix, Unix power tools, Unix System Administration Handboot, and Essential System Administration, for starters. Perl will also help you understand a lot of the philosopy behind Unix. Hack around with Linux/BSD. Pay close attention to people that know Unix. Keep a command cheat-sheet. Ask questions, don't be afraid to be borderline annoying.
One day, a lot of the Unix philosopy will just "click" with you, out of the blue, it's strange that way. Don't think of it as a destination, like you would think of a Certification... It's a journey. It's a gearhead thing, either it's for you or it's not.
OpenBSD lacks SMP support. So although OpenBSD's performance may be fine on your desktop, Linux, FreeBSD, or W2K are better choices on a mid-size server.
I work with DEC/Compaq Tru64 development and support on quite a regular basis (many of them old farts). I can tell you that many of them are just as excited about developments in Linux as the whipper-snappers are. Most of these old farts have more knowledge and experience with high-availability OS features (LSM, ADVFS, Clustering, Failover) and Niche buisness applications than anyone else on the planet... Things that need to be ported and supported. If linux pushes it's way onto the mission-critical big iron, these people will be there (if they aren't playing bingo and shuffleboard by then).
This idea has already been implemented. We are hearing market-man speak. Custom-queueing in a Cisco router can be done on a very granular level. At the core level (i.e Auton. Sys.), however, this will become more of an issue, as we have seen in the discussion about BGP routing protocols and their sheer memory requirements. BTW, most of the world ain't getting their data via ATM. Most of or WAN infrastructure is still Frame Relay, which has fewer built-in QOS features. In a nutshell, if we were talking about a revolutionary idea, Cisco would have done it already. To truly improve the perfomance of broadcast-type apps, we need caching, not queing.
At my old university (NCSU), students had to be very careful about these kinds of practices (e.g. decompiling or copying source and changing variable names) because work was checked at EVERY phase of compilation to catch possible cheaters.
Not only that, but the way the problem is stated, it fails to mention that the "higher power" told all of the villagers that at least one person was marked. The answer to this riddle lies in this very important truth.
this sucks ass. A week ago, we get some stupid crap about a student that wants to form a multicst lab with an athalon cluster that makes the front page. Now we get a new story that means something to the real world, in the back section, with no discussion. Slashdot needs a larger and more attentive leadership. Place this on the front page, you pussies.
It works for realaudio, also. Besides, it is possible to cache these streams if synconized delivery is not desired (which happens to be something else cisco is selling). People will find uses for it if the technology is available. Market rules, just give it time.
OK, it's funny that I just read this while taking a break from fixing a friend of mine's parents computer problems. I am so sick of people who are so lazy that they would rather claim that they're too old to learn than to actually TRY to fix the problem for themselves. It is really starting to bother me (expecially since I will turn 30 in a couple of years). I don't want people thinking that I am too old to learn soon because lazy morons like this won't get off their asses to read an instruction manual or README.
When present is retrospect, you may realize that these are some of the most important questions that crop up in IT. Soon, you will become part of the answer or, (as many, and I'm sure many here) part of the problem. Slashdot makes me laugh sometimes. So many pretend that they are so far away from the power to change what they read about. Remain fair to yourself first, then to the world around you. The world will not run without people. Soon you will have more power than most.
I can say that to some extent I agree with you. Anyone who says that exposing a child to any kind of violence is good for the child or for society as a whole is lying (or a moron). However, the alternative is a much more disturbing idea. I think that things should remain the same for a while so that people will collectively reach some sort of understanding of it and it's affects. A knee-jerk reaction to this sort of thing is dangerous.
Besides, how on earth could the creation and distribution of violent video games be stopped without an unreasonable amount of force? Some slashdotters would be able to build such a game, if they had an extensible wrapper around some 3d engine.
Society should approach this problem slowly and carefully.
It's good to know that the british gas taxes (that happen to be driving our gas prices through the roof). Are doing some real good by creating such a complex/expensive and intrusive system. Why in the hell are they not improving mass transit or something?
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It's fucking sad, we have a bunch of government agencies that are incapable of doing their jobs, a group of CEO's that are incapable of comprenending morality, moms and dads that get their info from the twisted mass media, sisters and brothers that are too twisted on X, MTV, religion, whatever, to see or even care about the asteroid that almost hit the earth a couple of days ago.... Let alone understand the problems with patent law.
I say it's time for us all to give up. There's no point to talk about this kind of shit. The only people who are capable of making a judgement on this kind of stuff are high court judges. No one else cares. Most are incapable of even understanding.
After having my ass kicked multiple times on Battle.net by Koreans, soon rhesus monkeys will be kicking my ass, too. I wonder how "For great justice!" sounds in monkey, anyway?
When I was a student beginning CS at NCSU in 1994, the profs and TAs were using a similar program to check for cheating. It checked source code, parse trees, assembler, and machine code to flag possible cheaters. I think it was based on GCC, but I could be wrong.
I must say that this is pretty old news to me, but anyone studing CS should be aware of the fact that similarities in source code are not the only way to get caught cheating.
I have not read the discussion yet, so i'm sure this is a redundant reply, but you have legal remedys (if you are willing to go that route). You can destroy your documentation and leave. OR (what I would do is) talk to HIS boss - that is probably the least risky thing you could do. Regardless, warm up our resume.
It used to stand for "Microwave Communications Incorporated", but now, it's just still there because of the marketing $$ spent on the name.
You don't work with Tru64/Digital Unix, do you?
I had a very Unix-centric education at NCSU, which has helped me out a lot, but most of what I know comes from a decent fundamental understanding of operating systems and C/C++. If you want to be a unix admin, forget about certs, find a job as an NT admin where you can get some hands-on with Unix. Read A LOT - Think Unix, Unix power tools, Unix System Administration Handboot, and Essential System Administration, for starters. Perl will also help you understand a lot of the philosopy behind Unix. Hack around with Linux/BSD. Pay close attention to people that know Unix. Keep a command cheat-sheet. Ask questions, don't be afraid to be borderline annoying.
One day, a lot of the Unix philosopy will just "click" with you, out of the blue, it's strange that way. Don't think of it as a destination, like you would think of a Certification... It's a journey. It's a gearhead thing, either it's for you or it's not.
OpenBSD lacks SMP support. So although OpenBSD's performance may be fine on your desktop, Linux, FreeBSD, or W2K are better choices on a mid-size server.
I am almost positive that Swing was released in 1997.
I don't think this is the American school system at work here, it's the american cinema and adolescent delusions of grandeur.
No, it is a logical ring. Just as ethernet is a logical "bus", but uses a hub or switch (usually), TR uses a "MAU", which is a sort of hub.
Somehow I doubt you would be taking this stance if your family was aboard one of these airplanes.
I work with DEC/Compaq Tru64 development and support on quite a regular basis (many of them old farts). I can tell you that many of them are just as excited about developments in Linux as the whipper-snappers are. Most of these old farts have more knowledge and experience with high-availability OS features (LSM, ADVFS, Clustering, Failover) and Niche buisness applications than anyone else on the planet... Things that need to be ported and supported. If linux pushes it's way onto the mission-critical big iron, these people will be there (if they aren't playing bingo and shuffleboard by then).
Yes, you can... For fractions. The number 1/10th, fo example, cannot be exactly expressed in a binary floating-point number.
I hear ya..
This idea has already been implemented. We are hearing market-man speak. Custom-queueing in a Cisco router can be done on a very granular level. At the core level (i.e Auton. Sys.), however, this will become more of an issue, as we have seen in the discussion about BGP routing protocols and their sheer memory requirements. BTW, most of the world ain't getting their data via ATM. Most of or WAN infrastructure is still Frame Relay, which has fewer built-in QOS features. In a nutshell, if we were talking about a revolutionary idea, Cisco would have done it already. To truly improve the perfomance of broadcast-type apps, we need caching, not queing.
Umm, that's criminal law, not civil law.
At my old university (NCSU), students had to be very careful about these kinds of practices (e.g. decompiling or copying source and changing variable names) because work was checked at EVERY phase of compilation to catch possible cheaters.
Not only that, but the way the problem is stated, it fails to mention that the "higher power" told all of the villagers that at least one person was marked. The answer to this riddle lies in this very important truth.
Ok,
this sucks ass. A week ago, we get some stupid crap about a student that wants to form a multicst lab with an athalon cluster that makes the front page. Now we get a new story that means something to the real world, in the back section, with no discussion. Slashdot needs a larger and more attentive leadership. Place this on the front page, you pussies.
Thanks,
Mr. Consumer
It works for realaudio, also. Besides, it is possible to cache these streams if synconized delivery is not desired (which happens to be something else cisco is selling). People will find uses for it if the technology is available. Market rules, just give it time.
The ten commandments appear in Genesis (or are you referring to eye-for-an-eye?).
OK, it's funny that I just read this while taking a break from fixing a friend of mine's parents computer problems. I am so sick of people who are so lazy that they would rather claim that they're too old to learn than to actually TRY to fix the problem for themselves. It is really starting to bother me (expecially since I will turn 30 in a couple of years). I don't want people thinking that I am too old to learn soon because lazy morons like this won't get off their asses to read an instruction manual or README.
When present is retrospect, you may realize that these are some of the most important questions that crop up in IT. Soon, you will become part of the answer or, (as many, and I'm sure many here) part of the problem. Slashdot makes me laugh sometimes. So many pretend that they are so far away from the power to change what they read about. Remain fair to yourself first, then to the world around you. The world will not run without people. Soon you will have more power than most.
I can say that to some extent I agree with you. Anyone who says that exposing a child to any kind of violence is good for the child or for society as a whole is lying (or a moron). However, the alternative is a much more disturbing idea. I think that things should remain the same for a while so that people will collectively reach some sort of understanding of it and it's affects. A knee-jerk reaction to this sort of thing is dangerous.
Besides, how on earth could the creation and distribution of violent video games be stopped without an unreasonable amount of force? Some slashdotters would be able to build such a game, if they had an extensible wrapper around some 3d engine.
Society should approach this problem slowly and carefully.
It's good to know that the british gas taxes (that happen to be driving our gas prices through the roof). Are doing some real good by creating such a complex/expensive and intrusive system. Why in the hell are they not improving mass transit or something?