Actually, the correct answer is either 100% (the answer does end in '13') or 0% (the answer does not end in '13'). Of course, it all depends on how you express the probability, what base you choose, etc, etc.
Assuming no particular knowledge of the outcome, there's a one in a hundred chance. (Assuming, of course the traditional base 10).
The "100%" or "0%" approach is silly because it doesn't actually _get_ you anywhere. You could argue in the same way that the roll of a die has a 100% or 0% chance of being a six and you'll just have to roll it to find out which. It is true in a pedantically truthful way, but totally fails to deal with the uncertainty created by your ignorance of the exact make up of hand, die, table, etc. in any sort of a useful manner.
Perl and C++ are both horribly designed languages, but neither PHP nor Java are particularly well designed languages themselves. Although Java is a lot better designed than PHP, it doesn't hold a candle to Lisp, which was designed decades before Java.
I've done quite a bit of Lisp (and in fact taught it for a semester), and for most practical projects I'd take _any_ of the above named languages over Lisp. Lisp solves a subset of problems pretty well, but as a general purpose programming language you're going to find most people are just trading memory leaks and buffer overflows for stack overflows.
Define "failed." They failed to find holes? Or they failed the course? I seriously doubt a prof would fail an A average student for not being able to find a hole for an assignment. Extra credit, maybe, but an F? I mean, WTF?
DJB has a reputation for being a bit of an asshole, and when you've managed to acquire that sort of an reputation across the internet as a whole, you usually have to work for it.
Since the dot-com bust, all the fiber became unlit and hence dark fiber.
This isn't the only source of unused fiber - The majority of the fiber in the ground has never been lit. It costs almost as much to lay one strand as a hundred, so everybody laid a hundred, plus empty conduit it could be blown through later. The stuff on the ends however, is expensive, so they don't light it till they need it.
If I can just sort out this little Holy War I've been waging with IRIX 6.2's DHCP client (and its networking set-up in general), the workstation could very well end up being a computer that I use for real work.
Irix 6.2's DHCP client (Proclaim I believe it's called?) sucks. If you install all of the patches, I believe it will function correctly, but as it installs off the disk, it will happily retreive all of your network setup data and store it in a file in/var/somethingorother, but only set the IP - no netmask, nameservers, default gateway, etc. Otherwise, I've been mostly pleased with IRIX.
Unlike a real parasite, malware's goal isn't just to survive and reproduce - it goal is to generate revenue. I don't see how a company can generate revenue by secretly installing truely benign software on your system.
They need to gather their information and pop up their ads without annoying the user enough to do anything about it. For instance, if they could monitor all your web traffic without accidentally fubaring your TCP/IP Stack...
I don't need to google for economics of scale, as this isn't about economics but altruism. I guess that's just white noise to you.
Unless AMD is losing money on these, buying one isn't depriving anyone of squat - They'll just _MAKE MORE_, thus making this a more rewarding venture for them. In other words, unless this is being subsidized out of some pool or charity funds, buying one of these isn't depriving anyone of anything. To put it another way, when dell runs a back to school special, thats intended for students. If I buy a cheap desktop and use it as a cheap server, I haven't deprived some poor students somewhere of a desktop. It's not that he's ignoring altruism in favor of economics - He's saying that lots of well understood economics principles say that what you're saying makes no sense.
Now, if they _are_ losing money on them, doing this as a charity thing as opposed to a business venture with humanitarian overtones, then they probably won't sell them to us.
Incidentally, assuming that manufacturing costs are lower than the purchase price, every one a first worlder buys makes it more likely that the venture will be profitable as opposed to charity, as the design costs can be amortized over a larger number of units.
I do support for a big pile of student laptops...I keep hearing
"I need a new laptop."
"Well, what do you do on it?"
"Oh, just surf the web and word processing"
I look at their 1.5 ghz machine with 256 Meg of Ram..."Tell you what, if you can arrange to leave it here for a couple hours, we'll make it run like a new machine.."
Frequently the combination of Adaware, Spybot, HiJackThis and occasionally SpySweeper will remove well over 1000 non-trivial items (files'n'Reg keys). Makes a _huge_ difference.
I should mention that photoshop was rather cool, and once it came out on PC, I had no reason to ever look back at Macs.
My take now is that it's all just a pretty face on a mountain of code. The more stable the code is the better. I'm not very happy with certain aspects of XP, but I'm stuck due to the availability of certain apps which are ONLY available on PC.
I had the same experience with Macs prior to OS X. Now I've got one for work, and support about 50/50 Macs and PC's and love the Macs. I find that from the POV of getting over my prior loathing of the platform, it helps to think of it as just being NextStep 5. It's easy to do when you program in Cocoa and everything derives from NSObject.
There's got to be more to it besides your browser. If you're getting 80-160 pieces of spyware you must be visiting some pretty sketchy sites and have your security settings set to minimal. I use IE almost exclusively and the worst I get is a couple of tracking cookies when I run AdAware.
/me laughs maniacally. Oh, the naivette...I do desktop support in an University setting for students and faculty. Amongst my duties is supporting the students XP laptops (we don't technically support other windows versions). I've seen Adaware remove well over a 1000 items from laptops, and my supervisor has seen over 3000. One laptop brought in (by somebody who I'll guarantee wasn't searching for warez and pr0n) had 256MB of Ram and was using an additional 350 MB of swap by the time it finished booting. The hard drive light wasn't flashing. It was just _on_. These people don't do anything but browse the web and use office. It's all comin in through IE.:) Just as dangerous as the w4r3z and pr0n is that inspirational link Mom sent you that requries you turn all your additional browser crap...
I didn't know about the tab set bookmarks. However everything else sounds like it should be incorporated into the window manager/task bar functionality. I know XP will group programs in a similar manner (although I don't know specifics since I don't run XP).
XP will happily group them all into a single item on the Task Bar, yes. This doesn't actually provide most of the functionality I'm interested in. If I got a bunch of IE windows open, closing it takes me to some program, not nessecarily my next open news storing. Closing a tab takes me to my next tab. Tabs in multiple windows allow multiple groups, which having the window manager doesn't, and really can't without knowing a bunch of things about which window opened which window. Not to mention that I can't _see_ all of those additional little window titles the way I can with tabbed browsing, and there really isn't a way to make to work well. When on my work window, I want to see my work tabs. That doesn't exist in the window manager.
I think this is a major plus - you can have several browser windows open, each with multiple tabs. Right now I have a couple of windows open. One contains 4 tabs with corporate monitoring tools running, and I can see on each tab that the overall page state of each is green, without having to flip through them. The other browser window has the Slashdot front page in the first tab and some articles in other tabs.
Same here. One window has ticketing system and project management tool, one window has research relevant to the first window, and one has comics and slashdot at the moment. The Ability to bookmark a set of tabs really speeds my morning web comic browsing...
Will someone puleeese explain what's so great about tabbed browsing? Do I really need another mini window manager inside of my application?
Serious browsing without cluttering my start bar. I open Slashdot. I look at the stories, I middle-click to open them tabbed in the background. I've now got maybe 10 tabs open. Do the same for Google News. Now probably 25. Read. ctrl-w. Read. ctrl-w. read. ctrl-w. If I did that with IE I'd have to open new windows for each, they'd want to take the foreground, and I'd clutter my start bar beyond useability. Not to mention not having to share space with the other browser window I've got open for work purposes. Tabbed browsing is _much_ superior, in my extremely non-humble opinion.
but at least Democrats are smart enough to hide the pain behind an artifical bubble propped up by government surplus, as opposed to running deficits as far as the eye can see and robbing the future from the under-18 crowd.
Whaaa? The good economy of the 90's had jack shit to do with the Clinton years. It had to do with computer producing improvements in worker productivity every year for years on end. The good economy in turn created the budget surplus. While I don't think that Bush has done much for the economy, the current bad one isn't totally his fault either - it was turning sour already.
So its the same guys that stated "hell yeah it stands after a plane hits it, it was built that way"
Assuming you're talking about the World Trade Center, it should be kept in mind that the design assumption when the buildings was built was that they would sustain an impact from a plane lost, looking for the airport and flying around 100-150 MPH, not deliberately crashed at 5-600.
They've been constantly considering the viability of the Shuttle program since it began in the 70s, and it's always been under the threat of having the plug pulled at any moment.
If Nasa had been up front about the shuttle's limitations, it probably never would have been approved
I don't know why it's so "hip" to hate the shuttle program around here. If you look past the cost,
The cost is why we hate it. It's expensive as hell, and frankly doesn't deliver much that couldn't be done better and more cheaply in other ways. The International Space Station is rapidly becoming another of these projects - the cost has been cut to the point that the thing is nearly useless, but it still costs a fortune.
the shuttles are pretty damned cool, and have a better safety record than any commercial passenger jet.
Really. I wasn't aware commercial passenger jets crashed once every 57 flights, killing all passengers aboard. I'd challenge you to find a commercial jet with a _worse_ safety record.
Hello, have you actually read Indymedia? Yeah, sure, it's not political. I also hear there's a lovely bargain on a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.
Offer some actual evidence, please. Just because they're opposed to the people currently in power doens't mean they're incapable of doing wrong. There very well could have been information on the disks that was relevent to a criminal investigation.
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Assuming no particular knowledge of the outcome, there's a one in a hundred chance. (Assuming, of course the traditional base 10).
The "100%" or "0%" approach is silly because it doesn't actually _get_ you anywhere. You could argue in the same way that the roll of a die has a 100% or 0% chance of being a six and you'll just have to roll it to find out which. It is true in a pedantically truthful way, but totally fails to deal with the uncertainty created by your ignorance of the exact make up of hand, die, table, etc. in any sort of a useful manner.
There are 100 two digit combinations, so 1/100.
I doubt it. Have you ever tried to run VirtualPC? It's more usable than pear, but still..
I've done quite a bit of Lisp (and in fact taught it for a semester), and for most practical projects I'd take _any_ of the above named languages over Lisp. Lisp solves a subset of problems pretty well, but as a general purpose programming language you're going to find most people are just trading memory leaks and buffer overflows for stack overflows.
Well, there was this guy named Ted Kozinski(sp), and not too long after 9/11 somebody was mailing Anthrax to government offices, so I'd say "A lot".
Define "failed." They failed to find holes? Or they failed the course?
I seriously doubt a prof would fail an A average student for not being able to find a hole for an assignment. Extra credit, maybe, but an F? I mean, WTF?
DJB has a reputation for being a bit of an asshole, and when you've managed to acquire that sort of an reputation across the internet as a whole, you usually have to work for it.
See .biz
This isn't the only source of unused fiber - The majority of the fiber in the ground has never been lit. It costs almost as much to lay one strand as a hundred, so everybody laid a hundred, plus empty conduit it could be blown through later. The stuff on the ends however, is expensive, so they don't light it till they need it.
Irix 6.2's DHCP client (Proclaim I believe it's called?) sucks. If you install all of the patches, I believe it will function correctly, but as it installs off the disk, it will happily retreive all of your network setup data and store it in a file in /var/somethingorother, but only set the IP - no netmask, nameservers, default gateway, etc. Otherwise, I've been mostly pleased with IRIX.
Oracle and Peoplesoft compete directly to provide ERP systems. Are in fact numbers 2 and 3 in this space. How is this arguably vertical?
They need to gather their information and pop up their ads without annoying the user enough to do anything about it. For instance, if they could monitor all your web traffic without accidentally fubaring your TCP/IP Stack...
Unless AMD is losing money on these, buying one isn't depriving anyone of squat - They'll just _MAKE MORE_, thus making this a more rewarding venture for them. In other words, unless this is being subsidized out of some pool or charity funds, buying one of these isn't depriving anyone of anything. To put it another way, when dell runs a back to school special, thats intended for students. If I buy a cheap desktop and use it as a cheap server, I haven't deprived some poor students somewhere of a desktop. It's not that he's ignoring altruism in favor of economics - He's saying that lots of well understood economics principles say that what you're saying makes no sense.
Now, if they _are_ losing money on them, doing this as a charity thing as opposed to a business venture with humanitarian overtones, then they probably won't sell them to us.
Incidentally, assuming that manufacturing costs are lower than the purchase price, every one a first worlder buys makes it more likely that the venture will be profitable as opposed to charity, as the design costs can be amortized over a larger number of units.
I believe the spyware distributors are already doing this.
"I need a new laptop."
"Well, what do you do on it?"
"Oh, just surf the web and word processing"
I look at their 1.5 ghz machine with 256 Meg of Ram..."Tell you what, if you can arrange to leave it here for a couple hours, we'll make it run like a new machine.."
Frequently the combination of Adaware, Spybot, HiJackThis and occasionally SpySweeper will remove well over 1000 non-trivial items (files'n'Reg keys). Makes a _huge_ difference.
I should mention that photoshop was rather cool, and once it came out on PC, I had no reason to ever look back at Macs.
My take now is that it's all just a pretty face on a mountain of code. The more stable the code is the better. I'm not very happy with certain aspects of XP, but I'm stuck due to the availability of certain apps which are ONLY available on PC.
I had the same experience with Macs prior to OS X. Now I've got one for work, and support about 50/50 Macs and PC's and love the Macs. I find that from the POV of getting over my prior loathing of the platform, it helps to think of it as just being NextStep 5. It's easy to do when you program in Cocoa and everything derives from NSObject.
/me laughs maniacally. Oh, the naivette...I do desktop support in an University setting for students and faculty. Amongst my duties is supporting the students XP laptops (we don't technically support other windows versions). I've seen Adaware remove well over a 1000 items from laptops, and my supervisor has seen over 3000. One laptop brought in (by somebody who I'll guarantee wasn't searching for warez and pr0n) had 256MB of Ram and was using an additional 350 MB of swap by the time it finished booting. The hard drive light wasn't flashing. It was just _on_. :) Just as dangerous as the w4r3z and pr0n is that inspirational link Mom sent you that requries you turn all your additional browser crap...
These people don't do anything but browse the web and use office. It's all comin in through IE.
XP will happily group them all into a single item on the Task Bar, yes. This doesn't actually provide most of the functionality I'm interested in. If I got a bunch of IE windows open, closing it takes me to some program, not nessecarily my next open news storing. Closing a tab takes me to my next tab. Tabs in multiple windows allow multiple groups, which having the window manager doesn't, and really can't without knowing a bunch of things about which window opened which window. Not to mention that I can't _see_ all of those additional little window titles the way I can with tabbed browsing, and there really isn't a way to make to work well. When on my work window, I want to see my work tabs. That doesn't exist in the window manager.
Same here. One window has ticketing system and project management tool, one window has research relevant to the first window, and one has comics and slashdot at the moment. The Ability to bookmark a set of tabs really speeds my morning web comic browsing...
Serious browsing without cluttering my start bar. I open Slashdot. I look at the stories, I middle-click to open them tabbed in the background. I've now got maybe 10 tabs open. Do the same for Google News. Now probably 25. Read. ctrl-w. Read. ctrl-w. read. ctrl-w. If I did that with IE I'd have to open new windows for each, they'd want to take the foreground, and I'd clutter my start bar beyond useability. Not to mention not having to share space with the other browser window I've got open for work purposes. Tabbed browsing is _much_ superior, in my extremely non-humble opinion.
Whaaa? The good economy of the 90's had jack shit to do with the Clinton years. It had to do with computer producing improvements in worker productivity every year for years on end. The good economy in turn created the budget surplus. While I don't think that Bush has done much for the economy, the current bad one isn't totally his fault either - it was turning sour already.
Assuming you're talking about the World Trade Center, it should be kept in mind that the design assumption when the buildings was built was that they would sustain an impact from a plane lost, looking for the airport and flying around 100-150 MPH, not deliberately crashed at 5-600.
Do you actually believe that bullshit? The Japanese companies are turning a blind eye, but they haven't given permission either, have they?
Actually, I believe due to a quirk of Japanese Copyright Law, translations of works are fair game if the original producer doesn't provide one.
They've been constantly considering the viability of the Shuttle program since it began in the 70s, and it's always been under the threat of having the plug pulled at any moment.
If Nasa had been up front about the shuttle's limitations, it probably never would have been approved
I don't know why it's so "hip" to hate the shuttle program around here. If you look past the cost,
The cost is why we hate it. It's expensive as hell, and frankly doesn't deliver much that couldn't be done better and more cheaply in other ways. The International Space Station is rapidly becoming another of these projects - the cost has been cut to the point that the thing is nearly useless, but it still costs a fortune.
the shuttles are pretty damned cool, and have a better safety record than any commercial passenger jet.
Really. I wasn't aware commercial passenger jets crashed once every 57 flights, killing all passengers aboard. I'd challenge you to find a commercial jet with a _worse_ safety record.
True once upon a time, no longer so. Most laptops I see these days will do it. My powerbook certainly does (and is, at the moment).
Offer some actual evidence, please. Just because they're opposed to the people currently in power doens't mean they're incapable of doing wrong. There very well could have been information on the disks that was relevent to a criminal investigation.