"$3 a gallon is about 96 cents a litre in canada which is not cheap but it's not considered ridiculously expensive"
Yes, 96 cents/litre is most certainly ridiculously expensive. I paid 92.3 this afternoon and am pissed off about it. Ten years ago it was 49.9 and I remember by dad complaining about that.
Smart cars are just as safe as any other small car. They are sold in Ontario, Canada, which has emissions laws similar to California and safety laws tougher than the US (which is why Mitsubishi can't sell the Evo here, but is changing it in 2007).
I bet you guys don't get Smart cars for the same reason you don't get a lot of hatchbacks and other cars sold in Canada: auto companies don't think they'll sell. So you get the stupid looking Toyota Echo sedan while we get the awesome looking Echo Hatchback (it really does look cool).
and I'll say it again: Apple wants OS X to be pirated. First, you pirate OS X and start to like it, then next time you go to buy a computer you choose an Apple because, hey, you get some advantages to running a legit copy and you can still dual boot Windows or Linux if you want.
Apple should start sending out OS X on CD AOL-style. If they really are a hardware company, that will sell them a lot of hardware later on. If they're really smart, they'll send out Panther on CD to everyone. People will pirate Tiger anyway, but that would at least get OS X onto computers that would otherwise have never pirated it, then those people can buy Apple hardware in a year or two when they upgrade.
I can explain: story submitters are unable to link to the correct patents. Don't worry, some Slashdotter with time to search will post a link to the correct one. It will then be revealed that the patent is not at all similar to the Slashdot blurb, but is very stupid anyhow.
If you ever watch golf on TV you've seen all the ads for the new technology. If you've ever seen anybody golf with the latest equipment you'll know it doesn't make any difference at all. I think gaming equipment is exactly the same.
Except for perimiter weighted irons, metal woods and graphite shafts, golf technology hasn't really progressed very much since Arnold Palmer first began playing professionally. New balls and club technology will maybe gain you a few yards off the tee.
With computer mice, scroll wheels and optical sensors were the huge breakthroughs. Laser is nice, but is not nearly as much better than optical as optical is better than a ball mouse. More buttons are ok, but often hard to reach at critical times. Tilt wheels are more gimmick than anything except for people with very wide documents. Wireless is not usually particularly useful, but some people like it.
So what is it that these new Logitech mice bring to the table that will revolutionize gaming? Would you gladly trade your scroll wheel for any one of these features? Probably not. Will you get more kills in FPS games? More items in MMOGs? More 'coffee' in GTA:SA? No, no and no.
The next revolution in pointer control may be when you don't need to use an imprecise limb for movement. Maybe contact lenses that point the cursor to where you focus your eyes. For mice, once you get it tracking well (optical/laser) and you cramp all the useful buttons where they are easily reachable (LMB, wheel, RMB), you have pretty much hit the limit.
You assume that space exploration and the revolution of personal and mass transit as well as civil engineering, not to mention the upheaval of our understanding of physics and the universe, are more important than Counter-Strike. I beg to differ.
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The reason why PHP is *not* a disaster are:
1. It has mechanisms to allow you to program extremely tight web apps in one of several frameworks and programming models. This includes very Java-like MVC if you want or the very awesome Prado.
2. PHP does not tie you down to an OO paradigm, but lets programmers choose to implement an app using structured code, OO code or a hybrid of the two. This lets programmers code the way they feel comfortable.
By the way, PEAR is not a strong point for PHP. It's a useful programming library for beginners, but advanced programmers use it very sparingly since it's not laid out well, not documented well and in many cases does not perform well (especially the database classes). There are very well-written task-specific libraries such as Adodb that do a far better job and are becoming the defacto standard for PHP programmers.
Java filters are little more than a trick which Java (and other languages) programmers have been doing for ages. All they do is make programming a bit easier, which is great, but considering how much quicker PHP programming already is than Java programming, you can understand why Sun keeps trying to find ways to do all the hard work for Java programmers... they have to compete with better RAD languages.
PHP5's (and 4's) objects are certainly not as true OO as Java's, but that mostly stems from the fact that PHP isn't trying to be another Java. C++ isn't as OO as Java either, but it's still a useful language. PHP's objects are there to modularize and reuse code. They help improve the overall application design and move the business code away from the flow control code. The rest of PHP's design allows for its objects to not support everything that Java does. Sure, there are times this is a shortcoming, but its one of PHP's quirks that PHP programmers design their apps around. All languages are like that... it's very difficult to design and pseudocode a program without knowing which language it will be written in. That's like designing a database without knowing if it will be for Oracle, DB2 or MySQL... sure it can be done, but by not tailoring to the platform you can't workaround a platform's weaknesses or design for its strengths.
PHP is a great choice as a high-performance and flexible language. As one of the very few languages designed specifically with web apps as its primary goal, PHP is tailored to do exactly what web programmers need. Most of the limitations in the language are at the crossover point between traditional client apps and web apps and nearly all have simple workarounds, such as serializing an object when storing it in the session.
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He was talking about applets, which suck except for special purposes. In those cases, only Java will do.
I had to turn Xinerama off to get it to run with Ubuntu and Wine.
Actually, I change between Xinerama on and off quite frequently because I can never figure out which I like better: big desktop (on) or dual desktop (off).
You fail to understand that most of us choose to steer with our left hand about half the time even when we're driving automatics. We've been doing it our whole lives, so our left hand is not weaker at steering.
The reason I chose an automatic is because when I bought my car I was commuting into a large city from 45Km away. The 35 minute trip would take at least 1.5 hours each way during rush hour. Manual transmissions aren't nice in stop and go (mostly stop) traffic for that long.
99.99% of web site defacements have nothing to do with the OS. It's the web app that is compromised by a SQL injection attack or password workaround.
One of the problems is that there are a ton of badly written PHP apps that get installed on Linux mass hosting servers so some script kiddie just googles a string to find the vulnerable sites and uses their script to deface them.
They want to criminalize what software writers create if it's used for an illegal activity, but only for a single type of software.
Virus writers do more damage than copyright infringers, but you don't see the people that create software development tools going to jail, do you? That's because lawmakers aren't being pressured by the industry to do so, so we end up with crooked laws that don't make sense... they punish a very small subset of people while other people who are essentially doing the same thing (writing software) aren't punished.
For justice to be served you should punish the people who actually do the crime. Putting software writers in jail is absurd. This law would make Bram Cohen (author of Bittorrent) a criminal even though his software is used legitimately by countless companies to distribute large files, such as Linux ISOs.
"why limit it to software for file sharing? Why not say any software that's used illegaly."
Because the recording and movie industries have deep pockets to get laws made for them. Nobody with deep pockets is trying to get rid of all operating systems because they are used to write worms.
You have to understand that these laws aren't being made because they're the "right" thing to do, these laws are bing made to appease an industry.
No, it's just that every little lesser-known thing gets called a hack nowadays.
In this case, most of the "hacks" look like normal VS features that many people are unaware of. These sorts of things are better described as "tips", but that hardly draws any attention now, does it?
If it was called How To Boot Your Walkman With Emacs, now that would be a hack.
I wonder how long before some company comes out with an identity proxy service. You sign up for, say $10/month, and create your virtual identity complete with a real credit card number that's mapped to yours through the service, then sign up to eBay, PayPal, etc using the virtual identity. If it gets compromised, you get a free switch to a new identity.
You'd end up having to trust that one company, but a single company could quite easily put in place policy and technology to keep your identity safe... that would be their primary focus. That's unlike eBay and others who really just want to do business with you and happen to also have your personal information. Their policies aren't as good as they need to be.
Besides, with your info only at one place it'd make spear phishing much harder: no relying on little bits of info from many places as a hacker would need to get all your personal info from one place.
I think you misunderstood what Kubuntu is about. It uses a 6 month release cycle and only does security fixes (some bug fixes) between releases. When (k)ubuntu releases it is the newest it can be.
However, you do not need to compile anything for MP3 support or anything else for that matter. The Ubuntu Guide covers all that stuff. You might have wanted to enable the non-free repository.
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If they say it's planned it means nobody is actively working on it.
"$3 a gallon is about 96 cents a litre in canada which is not cheap but it's not considered ridiculously expensive"
Yes, 96 cents/litre is most certainly ridiculously expensive. I paid 92.3 this afternoon and am pissed off about it. Ten years ago it was 49.9 and I remember by dad complaining about that.
B.S.
Smart cars are just as safe as any other small car. They are sold in Ontario, Canada, which has emissions laws similar to California and safety laws tougher than the US (which is why Mitsubishi can't sell the Evo here, but is changing it in 2007).
I bet you guys don't get Smart cars for the same reason you don't get a lot of hatchbacks and other cars sold in Canada: auto companies don't think they'll sell. So you get the stupid looking Toyota Echo sedan while we get the awesome looking Echo Hatchback (it really does look cool).
and I'll say it again: Apple wants OS X to be pirated. First, you pirate OS X and start to like it, then next time you go to buy a computer you choose an Apple because, hey, you get some advantages to running a legit copy and you can still dual boot Windows or Linux if you want.
Apple should start sending out OS X on CD AOL-style. If they really are a hardware company, that will sell them a lot of hardware later on. If they're really smart, they'll send out Panther on CD to everyone. People will pirate Tiger anyway, but that would at least get OS X onto computers that would otherwise have never pirated it, then those people can buy Apple hardware in a year or two when they upgrade.
Patents are supposed to give you the right to exclusively use, market, sell, ignore, etc your invention.
This is not a ball game and you shouldn't require a defensive strategy. The patent system is seriously broken.
I can explain: story submitters are unable to link to the correct patents. Don't worry, some Slashdotter with time to search will post a link to the correct one. It will then be revealed that the patent is not at all similar to the Slashdot blurb, but is very stupid anyhow.
If you ever watch golf on TV you've seen all the ads for the new technology. If you've ever seen anybody golf with the latest equipment you'll know it doesn't make any difference at all. I think gaming equipment is exactly the same.
Except for perimiter weighted irons, metal woods and graphite shafts, golf technology hasn't really progressed very much since Arnold Palmer first began playing professionally. New balls and club technology will maybe gain you a few yards off the tee.
With computer mice, scroll wheels and optical sensors were the huge breakthroughs. Laser is nice, but is not nearly as much better than optical as optical is better than a ball mouse. More buttons are ok, but often hard to reach at critical times. Tilt wheels are more gimmick than anything except for people with very wide documents. Wireless is not usually particularly useful, but some people like it.
So what is it that these new Logitech mice bring to the table that will revolutionize gaming? Would you gladly trade your scroll wheel for any one of these features? Probably not. Will you get more kills in FPS games? More items in MMOGs? More 'coffee' in GTA:SA? No, no and no.
The next revolution in pointer control may be when you don't need to use an imprecise limb for movement. Maybe contact lenses that point the cursor to where you focus your eyes. For mice, once you get it tracking well (optical/laser) and you cramp all the useful buttons where they are easily reachable (LMB, wheel, RMB), you have pretty much hit the limit.
You assume that space exploration and the revolution of personal and mass transit as well as civil engineering, not to mention the upheaval of our understanding of physics and the universe, are more important than Counter-Strike. I beg to differ.
The reason why PHP is *not* a disaster are:
1. It has mechanisms to allow you to program extremely tight web apps in one of several frameworks and programming models. This includes very Java-like MVC if you want or the very awesome Prado.
2. PHP does not tie you down to an OO paradigm, but lets programmers choose to implement an app using structured code, OO code or a hybrid of the two. This lets programmers code the way they feel comfortable.
By the way, PEAR is not a strong point for PHP. It's a useful programming library for beginners, but advanced programmers use it very sparingly since it's not laid out well, not documented well and in many cases does not perform well (especially the database classes). There are very well-written task-specific libraries such as Adodb that do a far better job and are becoming the defacto standard for PHP programmers.
Java filters are little more than a trick which Java (and other languages) programmers have been doing for ages. All they do is make programming a bit easier, which is great, but considering how much quicker PHP programming already is than Java programming, you can understand why Sun keeps trying to find ways to do all the hard work for Java programmers... they have to compete with better RAD languages.
PHP5's (and 4's) objects are certainly not as true OO as Java's, but that mostly stems from the fact that PHP isn't trying to be another Java. C++ isn't as OO as Java either, but it's still a useful language. PHP's objects are there to modularize and reuse code. They help improve the overall application design and move the business code away from the flow control code. The rest of PHP's design allows for its objects to not support everything that Java does. Sure, there are times this is a shortcoming, but its one of PHP's quirks that PHP programmers design their apps around. All languages are like that... it's very difficult to design and pseudocode a program without knowing which language it will be written in. That's like designing a database without knowing if it will be for Oracle, DB2 or MySQL... sure it can be done, but by not tailoring to the platform you can't workaround a platform's weaknesses or design for its strengths.
PHP is a great choice as a high-performance and flexible language. As one of the very few languages designed specifically with web apps as its primary goal, PHP is tailored to do exactly what web programmers need. Most of the limitations in the language are at the crossover point between traditional client apps and web apps and nearly all have simple workarounds, such as serializing an object when storing it in the session.
He was talking about applets, which suck except for special purposes. In those cases, only Java will do.
I had to turn Xinerama off to get it to run with Ubuntu and Wine.
Actually, I change between Xinerama on and off quite frequently because I can never figure out which I like better: big desktop (on) or dual desktop (off).
"Seems to me that is simply stating that they felt everything he wrote afterwards wasn't worthy of the title 'professional.'"
More like he didn't write anything afterwards. As the CEO of Microsoft, his job wasn't to program anything.
You fail to understand that most of us choose to steer with our left hand about half the time even when we're driving automatics. We've been doing it our whole lives, so our left hand is not weaker at steering.
The reason I chose an automatic is because when I bought my car I was commuting into a large city from 45Km away. The 35 minute trip would take at least 1.5 hours each way during rush hour. Manual transmissions aren't nice in stop and go (mostly stop) traffic for that long.
99.99% of web site defacements have nothing to do with the OS. It's the web app that is compromised by a SQL injection attack or password workaround.
One of the problems is that there are a ton of badly written PHP apps that get installed on Linux mass hosting servers so some script kiddie just googles a string to find the vulnerable sites and uses their script to deface them.
Yes, but they just announced it had to be scrapped in order to make the 2010 release date.
"surprised to hear that people even left their doors unlocked (he tested several)"
:)
Incidentally, those particular people now lock their doors
You missed the point entirely.
They want to criminalize what software writers create if it's used for an illegal activity, but only for a single type of software.
Virus writers do more damage than copyright infringers, but you don't see the people that create software development tools going to jail, do you? That's because lawmakers aren't being pressured by the industry to do so, so we end up with crooked laws that don't make sense... they punish a very small subset of people while other people who are essentially doing the same thing (writing software) aren't punished.
For justice to be served you should punish the people who actually do the crime. Putting software writers in jail is absurd. This law would make Bram Cohen (author of Bittorrent) a criminal even though his software is used legitimately by countless companies to distribute large files, such as Linux ISOs.
"why limit it to software for file sharing? Why not say any software that's used illegaly."
Because the recording and movie industries have deep pockets to get laws made for them. Nobody with deep pockets is trying to get rid of all operating systems because they are used to write worms.
You have to understand that these laws aren't being made because they're the "right" thing to do, these laws are bing made to appease an industry.
No, it's just that every little lesser-known thing gets called a hack nowadays.
In this case, most of the "hacks" look like normal VS features that many people are unaware of. These sorts of things are better described as "tips", but that hardly draws any attention now, does it?
If it was called How To Boot Your Walkman With Emacs, now that would be a hack.
I wonder how long before some company comes out with an identity proxy service. You sign up for, say $10/month, and create your virtual identity complete with a real credit card number that's mapped to yours through the service, then sign up to eBay, PayPal, etc using the virtual identity. If it gets compromised, you get a free switch to a new identity.
You'd end up having to trust that one company, but a single company could quite easily put in place policy and technology to keep your identity safe... that would be their primary focus. That's unlike eBay and others who really just want to do business with you and happen to also have your personal information. Their policies aren't as good as they need to be.
Besides, with your info only at one place it'd make spear phishing much harder: no relying on little bits of info from many places as a hacker would need to get all your personal info from one place.
I think you misunderstood what Kubuntu is about. It uses a 6 month release cycle and only does security fixes (some bug fixes) between releases. When (k)ubuntu releases it is the newest it can be.
However, you do not need to compile anything for MP3 support or anything else for that matter. The Ubuntu Guide covers all that stuff. You might have wanted to enable the non-free repository.
http://yast4debian.alioth.debian.org/
Maybe you should reserve the right to read the article so you know what it's about before making an irrelevant comment.
The cancer rate in men is nearly 50% and in women it's over 40%. Within 50 years cancer will be controllable like diabetes.
The trip to Mars radiation doesn't seem insurmountable.
Turn Javascript off and look at the start.com/3 page. Now *that* is what a search engine should look like.