When is somebody going to stand up and say enough is enough?
Timothy McVeigh did. I seriously doubt another WACO will happen again because of it. It takes drastic measures and someone with the balls to die and take other innocent ones with them for the govn't to listen.
With the advent of laws like this, I would anticipate more domestic terrorism like the Oklahoma City bombing. Its sad that people have to die for the government to listen, but maybe the govnernment has just set precedent through example.
I know of no society in history that was ever "drug free". None, not even for a period of time.
Also, it has been theorized by some sociologists that "modern" society actually came together from hunting and gathering societies because of alcohol (a drug). Alcohol needs a steady crop and promoted social cohesion when drinking it.
From the civil rights aspect, sure, let people get all the drugs they want... it's their choice, it's their life.. right? Well, what happens when they overdose? Leave them in the streets because they dont have health insurance? Or do we hospitalize them... give them medicine... rehab them... ??? With who's money.. this would costs tens of thousands of dollars per person every time they're found in the street? With my money? I think not!
This is ludicrous. How will the legality of the drug change the answer to "What happens when they overdose?"? The same thing that would happen now when drugs are illegal, the same thing that happens to alcohol addicts now.
Also, you have been brainwashed into thinking that people that do drugs besides alcohol and tobacco are all addicts that don't have insurance, live on welfare, etc. I have a white collar job, I have health insurance, retirement fund, college educated and I smoked marijuana last night.
You would not be able to successfully tax illicit drug sales in order to defray the cost of hospital care, and even if you could, you'd be selling it for more than it could be bought on the streets.
You do realize that the DEA's budget is about the same as NASA's right? It costs you and me already between $20 to $50k a year per innmate to keep non violent drug offender. Wow, imagine if they, were, like, working instead of sitting in jail.
The second issue is the known crime caused by drug addicts. Because of the addiciton caused by stuff like heroin, addicts will do anything they can to obtain the drug. This includes theft, prostitution, or in the worst cases assault and murder for hire. In fact, a murder can occur simply because someone was attempted to get $20 for his next high. This is a public safety issue in general.
1st, drug addicts will exist wether or not drugs are legal. Addiction does not "cause" theft. I havn't heard of people prostituting themselves for a cigarette or a beer (although I'm sure it has happened, but you get my point). Also, most drug crime is directly related to the fact that the drug is illegal.
The third issue is the quality of the work force. Legalizing drugs which impair judgement would eventually mean companies could not screen individuals (although, at first drug screening would hold up, it wouldnt be long before the ACLU challenged the privacy legality of the tests). The cause would be an ineffective work force, forcing companies to go out of business. This could also cause hostilities in a work place.
Brainwashed again. I made it to work this morning. Doing alcohol on the job is prohibited by my employer and is subject to dismissal. Alcohol is legal, impairs judgement, but its legality based on the quality of the workforce is not questioned. Some companies even have parties where alcohol is served.
Drug testing is an invasion of privacy right up there with looking into one's medical records. If I were tested positive because of antibodies caused by legal drugs prescribed by a doctor for a medical condition, I would have to "prove" my innocence to a prospective employer or whatever. Thats not right.
The fourth point, is that sentences for selling to minors would be just as lax as they are now with alcohol and cigarettes. Society's view would be one of "well he's just acting more grown up" because drug usage would be considered an "adult act".
I cannot explain nor justify the sentences for specific "crimes". That is what started this discussion in the 1st place.
The fifth and final point, do we want more corporations like "big tobacco" running our lives? Would they be required to state the inevitable side effects of the usage of their product? Would they be responsible for crimes being commited by those addicted to their drug? Would they be civilly sued for not disclosing that their drug was harmful? (etc etc, you get my point). What we will have is another company "attacking our children" as some li
When features for 10% of the users represent 90% of the bloat, you have a problem.
bloat is a non issue until it hurts performance. I often hear about new features being the key ingredients to a new release of software, I've very rarely heard of removing bloat as something significant for a new software release.
Same for OpenOffice, Mozilla, and other large, feature rich programs out there.
Yup, and these apps are the backbone of the opensource, freesoftware, (insert other I want more for less advocacy group here). Don't expect bloat reduction or feature reduction in these apps for years to come.
Microsoft is a little different in that they add in features to satisfy marketing people as much as for power users.
Microwho? I'm not that familiar with their products, so no comment. I thought this was about getting basic 20 year old GUI features in XFree86, not an attempt to question the 90/10 rule or the 80/20 rule variant.
I would be willing to wager that >75% of those of us who run a Linux desktop don't need hardly *any* of the advanced features in the X Windows server.
I would wager that >75% of all software users don't need *any* of the advanced features of the software they use on a daily basis. I would also wager that those in the 25% range drive over 95% of the innovation and development, and that those users _need_ (as much as anyone can need anything) those advanced features.
Doesn't anyone know about the 10/90 or the 20/80 rule anymore? (If no, look it up).
I would like to see a completely modular, X-windows core-compatible windowing system for Linux. Want to use some of the advanced features? Add in the module, recompile, and go!
1st, to me, modular means you don't need to recompile. 2nd, who really cares how modular X is? That surely wouldn't help me get cut and paste working (by this I mean between all X apps and beyond text data). That surely wouldn't help me get drag and drop working. These little features that are over 20 years old are welcomed!
Until these basic needs are met, I don't want to hear another "Is Linux ready for the desktop?" questions.
Having it installed as a desktop icon on a Windows default install couldn't hurt either. However, most people don't know that Mozilla is out there, nor do they know that popup/ under/howeverelsetheywanttomakemoneybyannoyingme thingies don't need to exist.
I've been popup free for almost 2 years, I have forgotten about them and when I see someone else use a browser that lets them through, I cringe.
Apple zealots love any product that Apple releases, regardless of how good or bad it is.
s/Apple/Harley Davidson/g s/zealots/bikers/g
Let me know when you have a free Friday or Saturday night and I'll come pick you up and go to a biker bar and we can get the Harley Reality Distortion Field straight.
Efficiency is the percentage of theoretical output compared to the measured output. If the theoretical and measured output were the same, then the efficiency would be 100%. Efficiency beyond 100% is a perpetual motion machine, and even the US Patent Office won't let you submit a patent for one of these guys anymore.
In the supercomputer context there are 2 measurements of compting power in terms of FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations Per Second) on 64bit "double precision" numbers, Rmax, and Rpeak. Rpeak is the theoretical potential of the machine, it is estimated by taking the number of floating point ops/cycle * the clockrate of each processor * the number of processors. Rmax is measured FLOPS by running the High Performance Linpack benchmark.
I once bought a pirated CD in a pub, can the landlord be sued?
Yes, if the landlord knowingly had a corner of the pub designated for the selling of pirated CDs.
Actually, thinking further... if I didn't work then I couldn't afford to buy the pirate CD so surely my employer is ultimately responsible, after all they gave me the money to commit this foul act... I'm going to sue my employer for making me a criminal!!!
And the government printed the money, so all crimes that involve the exchange of money are caused by the government.
Or, should I quit my job, become unemployed, claim state benefits, buy a pirate CD and then sue the government?!?!?
Sounds like a plan!
When will people learn, the internet is neither inherently good nor evil... it's just a new medium... if kids weren't inside on their PC's pirating CD's they'd be out in the playground trading CDR's stuffed full of music... you gonna sue the school at that point?
I've never found anything that is inherently evil. Many say that everything is good and that evil is just "less good" just like darkness is the absense of light, there really isn't darkness.
Wouldn't you sue an ISP that was hosting some of your copyrighted material without your consent? For example, Tom's hardware sight was being ripped off as someone else's original work, Tom went to the ISP and took down the site. If the ISP didn't behave this way, I would imagine that Tom would have taken them to court. I would have.
And the drug dealers are not on the auto manufacturer's property. The drug dealers did not agree to some kind of EULA or TOS saying that they would not deal drugs. The auto manufacturer did not have full knowledge that the drug dealers were using their cars for dealing drugs. The drug dealer can pick any car to deal drugs from, there is nothing special about any particular car.
There is a big difference between your examples and the ISP. And as far as the fertilizer goes, that is a controlled product, and yeah if the seller of the fertilizer had any idea of what the fertilizer was to be used for, like the ISP knew what was being hosted from their company, the seller of the fertilizer would have faced many federal charges.
Well, the CBO did not report what was being exported and how many times. A friend of mine fishes and he got a fishing lure for his birthday. On the lure, it said "Assembled in Mexico... parts made in USA". Now, I'm not sure if anyone is too familiar with fishing lures, but they typically have between 3 to 10 parts, including the packaging that they come in. Something like a hook, a body, and maybe some string twirled around it, and the box. When I asked him about why the hell the parts were exported to Mexico, assembled, and sent back here, he said that it was a benefit to the company to do it that way because they got tax breaks based on doing NAFTA a favor by 1) exporting the raw parts to Mexico and 2) by importing the finished good back to USof$.
Free trade is not about free trade. Free trade is the natural state of existance. Contries put tarifs, trade embargos, and other laws, taxes, and regulations to restrict trade. I don't see the significance of calling reducing/repealing these restrictions as "Free Trade". They are for the multinational corporations (see this link that describes how mulitnational corps are the top 51 of 100 economies in the world, and growing.)
This groundbreaking study on height being correlated with salary does not suprise me. For men it is seen that height is "more attractive" (see above). Interesting thing is that more attractive people are seen as brighter and more "one of us", even if the sexes are the same. No, men don't typically say "My thats a good looking guy!", but they do behave more positively towards better looking men.
Its an operating system. Many people think its useful.
4) Why can't you run multple Linux VMs on a single Solaris O/S?
See number 2.
Sun provides many things that are *good* - such as Java, and Open Office. It just really, truly blows to see this power blown in such an incredible display of marketing ineptitude...
Sun is primarily a hardware company, their software makes their hardware work. Java and Open Office are mostly free pieces of software, I doubt their stockholders are expecting their stock to go up from Java and/or OO.
Marketing ineptitude? Yes, some people can sell crap iced over with nice frosting (not to mention any names), but Sun has decent hardware (good quality, reasonable performance) but people aren't buying the equipment. I don't see how a change in marketing will significantly change this, maybe a change in their product will. This could work for the RIAA too if they care.
Otherwise, you will have insurance companies that simple select the people they know will not ever get sick and reject all the rest.
If I knew that I would never be sick, I certainly wouldn't pay for insurance in the event that I would get sick. If thats their business model, then they are going down the tubes pretty quickly.
Also, aren't people already directly impacted by their DNA without testing? Typically, don't bright (DNA gifted) have more positive oportunities based purely on that fact? Aren't the less DNA gifted "biggie-sizing", etc?
FWIW, Centrino is not a processor, its a mobile technology "suite", I guess you could call it. Its a bundling of the MB, the Pentium M processor, wireless networking, etc.
PCRE stands for Perl Compatable Regular Expressions, its an implementation of Perl's regular expressions that is separate from Perl proper. Also, I doubt that python's.beginswith.endswidth string methods are any more efficient than Perl's $string =~/^text/; or $string =~/text$/; regular expressions. Anchored searches are the quickest.
Still Perl is such a beautiful thing you should buy ALL O'Reilley Perl books.
The O'reilley books are excellent. They are written by some of the major coders for perl like Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and David Swartz (I think thats his name).
They are informative and fun to read because of the humor and relevant info that are in the books. I have a copy of the 1st edition of the Perl Cookbook, and it is probably my favorite programming book that I own, and I would imagine that I'll be getting the 2nd edition shortly.
I think I'll just clarify that. In four or five years, what changes would you like to see happening to the language, and how realistic it is to be able to achieve those goals in that time period?
Wrong question. Being that there is no (AFAIK) compiler that even conforms to the existing standards, the only change in the language in the next 4 or 5 years would be to make this happen.
C++ is a neat language to study & learn, but I've found little use for it in the real world. Granted, I'm not a fulltime programmer anymore, and I've never worked on a huge (say the size of mozilla) project, so you can take my suggestions based on my experience with a grain of salt.
However, when programming in C++, I've found that debugging, even a compile problem at the syntax level to be a pain in the but. I can't tell you how many times I've seen pages and pages of error messages saying that a header that I did'nt know even existed was screwed up, simply because I missed a ';' in my code somewhere. Inheritance, as sexy as it seems, adds a layer of abstraction and complexity, especially if there is a bug somewhere in one of the middle classes. I cannot find a reasonable way to create a reusable class in C++. Because I can do so much with the language with overloaded functions and operators, I don't know when to stop. How many 'new's do we need? What about operators? etc, etc.
Templates are the best and worst thing about C++. I would never suggest making a typo when using templated classes. The syntax is ugly with templates, but the idea of being able to apply any arbitrary datatpe to predetermined routines is really cool, however, there seems to be a disparity between theory and reality. Templates is another thing that different compilers have problems with.
I would believe that the best place to use C++, would be on the microsoft platform. M$ has MFC and is relatively stable between platforms and releases. I cannot think of another platform where C++ would be as stable. But this too is changing with.NET and c#, but I do not see any reduction in support for C++ by M$.
This is my random rambling about C++ for the day. I really like that C++ has pass by reference, and that its a little more anal about prototypes and datatypes than C. Heck, I can use a c++ compiler to compile C code and get this. For portable code, the best thing I've seen is mozillas portable c++ guide, which kinda says, don't use many features of the language.
But still the plain is carrying it fuel (photaic cell aka solar panel) on board...
Yes, but difference is that the plane's fuel does not ever change. Most of a rocket's fuel is fuel to carry the weight of the fuel, this kind of vehicle does not have that limitation.
If they are using laser beams to power a generator in the plane, why don't they use this to solve our energy distribution problem? In blackouts, just beam power to cities by laser.
Or cities could just use that big natural free radiation source called the Sun.
Um, why would you want to put squid on a journaled file system?
If you're looking to restart quickly after a power failure you can always set a partition to ignore file system checks at startup, "0 0" options in/etc/fstab./var/spool/squid (or whatever) is on its own partition right? Perhaps on it's own disk?
You have never waited over an hour to fsck 3 harddisks while over 100 people have no "internet".
The most common password vulnerabilities are: (a) user accounts that have weak or nonexistent passwords; (b) users accounts with widely known or openly displayed passwords; (c) system or software created administrative level accounts with widely known, weak, or nonexistent passwords; and (d) weak or well known password hashing algorithms and/or user password hashes that are stored with weak security and are visible to anyone.
The best defense against all of these vulnerabilities is a well developed password policy that includes: detailed instructions for users to create strong passwords; explicit rules for users to ensure their passwords remain secure; a process in place for IT staff to promptly replace weak/insecure/default or widely known passwords and to promptly lock down inactive or close down unused accounts; and a proactive and regular process of checking all passwords for strength and complexity.
Is this entirely true? Nonexistant passwds, yes. Stupid passwords, yes (eg, root:root). Default passwords, yes.
Can someone give me an example of a compromise based on a weak password? It seems that there are so many other ways to break into a system, that resorting to brute force password attacks would be the absolute last thing someone would use. Also, if the system is that important, don't ppl set up a max number of failed attempts?
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When is somebody going to stand up and say enough is enough?
Timothy McVeigh did. I seriously doubt another WACO will happen again because of it. It takes drastic measures and someone with the balls to die and take other innocent ones with them for the govn't to listen.
With the advent of laws like this, I would anticipate more domestic terrorism like the Oklahoma City bombing. Its sad that people have to die for the government to listen, but maybe the govnernment has just set precedent through example.
What communities are "Drug free"?
I know of no society in history that was ever "drug free". None, not even for a period of time.
Also, it has been theorized by some sociologists that "modern" society actually came together from hunting and gathering societies because of alcohol (a drug). Alcohol needs a steady crop and promoted social cohesion when drinking it.
From the civil rights aspect, sure, let people get all the drugs they want... it's their choice, it's their life.. right? Well, what happens when they overdose? Leave them in the streets because they dont have health insurance? Or do we hospitalize them... give them medicine... rehab them... ??? With who's money.. this would costs tens of thousands of dollars per person every time they're found in the street? With my money? I think not!
This is ludicrous. How will the legality of the drug change the answer to "What happens when they overdose?"? The same thing that would happen now when drugs are illegal, the same thing that happens to alcohol addicts now.
Also, you have been brainwashed into thinking that people that do drugs besides alcohol and tobacco are all addicts that don't have insurance, live on welfare, etc. I have a white collar job, I have health insurance, retirement fund, college educated and I smoked marijuana last night.
You would not be able to successfully tax illicit drug sales in order to defray the cost of hospital care, and even if you could, you'd be selling it for more than it could be bought on the streets.
You do realize that the DEA's budget is about the same as NASA's right? It costs you and me already between $20 to $50k a year per innmate to keep non violent drug offender. Wow, imagine if they, were, like, working instead of sitting in jail.
The second issue is the known crime caused by drug addicts. Because of the addiciton caused by stuff like heroin, addicts will do anything they can to obtain the drug. This includes theft, prostitution, or in the worst cases assault and murder for hire. In fact, a murder can occur simply because someone was attempted to get $20 for his next high. This is a public safety issue in general.
1st, drug addicts will exist wether or not drugs are legal. Addiction does not "cause" theft. I havn't heard of people prostituting themselves for a cigarette or a beer (although I'm sure it has happened, but you get my point). Also, most drug crime is directly related to the fact that the drug is illegal.
The third issue is the quality of the work force. Legalizing drugs which impair judgement would eventually mean companies could not screen individuals (although, at first drug screening would hold up, it wouldnt be long before the ACLU challenged the privacy legality of the tests). The cause would be an ineffective work force, forcing companies to go out of business. This could also cause hostilities in a work place.
Brainwashed again. I made it to work this morning. Doing alcohol on the job is prohibited by my employer and is subject to dismissal. Alcohol is legal, impairs judgement, but its legality based on the quality of the workforce is not questioned. Some companies even have parties where alcohol is served.
Drug testing is an invasion of privacy right up there with looking into one's medical records. If I were tested positive because of antibodies caused by legal drugs prescribed by a doctor for a medical condition, I would have to "prove" my innocence to a prospective employer or whatever. Thats not right.
The fourth point, is that sentences for selling to minors would be just as lax as they are now with alcohol and cigarettes. Society's view would be one of "well he's just acting more grown up" because drug usage would be considered an "adult act".
I cannot explain nor justify the sentences for specific "crimes". That is what started this discussion in the 1st place.
The fifth and final point, do we want more corporations like "big tobacco" running our lives? Would they be required to state the inevitable side effects of the usage of their product? Would they be responsible for crimes being commited by those addicted to their drug? Would they be civilly sued for not disclosing that their drug was harmful? (etc etc, you get my point). What we will have is another company "attacking our children" as some li
When features for 10% of the users represent 90% of the bloat, you have a problem.
bloat is a non issue until it hurts performance. I often hear about new features being the key ingredients to a new release of software, I've very rarely heard of removing bloat as something significant for a new software release.
Same for OpenOffice, Mozilla, and other large, feature rich programs out there.
Yup, and these apps are the backbone of the opensource, freesoftware, (insert other I want more for less advocacy group here). Don't expect bloat reduction or feature reduction in these apps for years to come.
Microsoft is a little different in that they add in features to satisfy marketing people as much as for power users.
Microwho? I'm not that familiar with their products, so no comment. I thought this was about getting basic 20 year old GUI features in XFree86, not an attempt to question the 90/10 rule or the 80/20 rule variant.
I would be willing to wager that >75% of those of us who run a Linux desktop don't need hardly *any* of the advanced features in the X Windows server.
I would wager that >75% of all software users don't need *any* of the advanced features of the software they use on a daily basis. I would also wager that those in the 25% range drive over 95% of the innovation and development, and that those users _need_ (as much as anyone can need anything) those advanced features.
Doesn't anyone know about the 10/90 or the 20/80 rule anymore? (If no, look it up).
I would like to see a completely modular, X-windows core-compatible windowing system for Linux. Want to use some of the advanced features? Add in the module, recompile, and go!
1st, to me, modular means you don't need to recompile. 2nd, who really cares how modular X is? That surely wouldn't help me get cut and paste working (by this I mean between all X apps and beyond text data). That surely wouldn't help me get drag and drop working. These little features that are over 20 years old are welcomed!
Until these basic needs are met, I don't want to hear another "Is Linux ready for the desktop?" questions.
Dunno, where do you think velcro came from?
Having it installed as a desktop icon on a Windows default install couldn't hurt either. However, most people don't know that Mozilla is out there, nor do they know that popup/ under/howeverelsetheywanttomakemoneybyannoyingme thingies don't need to exist.
I've been popup free for almost 2 years, I have forgotten about them and when I see someone else use a browser that lets them through, I cringe.
Apple zealots love any product that Apple releases, regardless of how good or bad it is.
s/Apple/Harley Davidson/g
s/zealots/bikers/g
Let me know when you have a free Friday or Saturday night and I'll come pick you up and go to a biker bar and we can get the Harley Reality Distortion Field straight.
It should not take more than 20 minutes or so.
Efficiency is the percentage of theoretical output compared to the measured output. If the theoretical and measured output were the same, then the efficiency would be 100%. Efficiency beyond 100% is a perpetual motion machine, and even the US Patent Office won't let you submit a patent for one of these guys anymore.
In the supercomputer context there are 2 measurements of compting power in terms of FLOPS (Floating-Point Operations Per Second) on 64bit "double precision" numbers, Rmax, and Rpeak. Rpeak is the theoretical potential of the machine, it is estimated by taking the number of floating point ops/cycle * the clockrate of each processor * the number of processors. Rmax is measured FLOPS by running the High Performance Linpack benchmark.
FWIW here are the efficiencies for the top 10 on www.top500.org:
87.5 NEC Earth-Simulator
67.8 Hewlett-Packard ASCI Q
69.0 Linux Networx MCR Linux Cluster Xeon
59.4 IBM ASCI White
73.2 IBM SP Power3
71.5 IBM xSeries Cluster
45.1 Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER HPC2500
79.2 Hewlett-Packard rx2600
72.0 Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer SC
77.7 Hewlett-Packard AlphaServer SC
I once bought a pirated CD in a pub, can the landlord be sued?
Yes, if the landlord knowingly had a corner of the pub designated for the selling of pirated CDs.
Actually, thinking further... if I didn't work then I couldn't afford to buy the pirate CD so surely my employer is ultimately responsible, after all they gave me the money to commit this foul act... I'm going to sue my employer for making me a criminal!!!
And the government printed the money, so all crimes that involve the exchange of money are caused by the government.
Or, should I quit my job, become unemployed, claim state benefits, buy a pirate CD and then sue the government?!?!?
Sounds like a plan!
When will people learn, the internet is neither inherently good nor evil... it's just a new medium... if kids weren't inside on their PC's pirating CD's they'd be out in the playground trading CDR's stuffed full of music... you gonna sue the school at that point?
I've never found anything that is inherently evil. Many say that everything is good and that evil is just "less good" just like darkness is the absense of light, there really isn't darkness.
Wouldn't you sue an ISP that was hosting some of your copyrighted material without your consent? For example, Tom's hardware sight was being ripped off as someone else's original work, Tom went to the ISP and took down the site. If the ISP didn't behave this way, I would imagine that Tom would have taken them to court. I would have.
And the drug dealers are not on the auto manufacturer's property. The drug dealers did not agree to some kind of EULA or TOS saying that they would not deal drugs. The auto manufacturer did not have full knowledge that the drug dealers were using their cars for dealing drugs. The drug dealer can pick any car to deal drugs from, there is nothing special about any particular car.
There is a big difference between your examples and the ISP. And as far as the fertilizer goes, that is a controlled product, and yeah if the seller of the fertilizer had any idea of what the fertilizer was to be used for, like the ISP knew what was being hosted from their company, the seller of the fertilizer would have faced many federal charges.
Well, the CBO did not report what was being exported and how many times. A friend of mine fishes and he got a fishing lure for his birthday. On the lure, it said "Assembled in Mexico ... parts made in USA". Now, I'm not sure if anyone is too familiar with fishing lures, but they typically have between 3 to 10 parts, including the packaging that they come in. Something like a hook, a body, and maybe some string twirled around it, and the box. When I asked him about why the hell the parts were exported to Mexico, assembled, and sent back here, he said that it was a benefit to the company to do it that way because they got tax breaks based on doing NAFTA a favor by 1) exporting the raw parts to Mexico and 2) by importing the finished good back to USof$.
Free trade is not about free trade. Free trade is the natural state of existance. Contries put tarifs, trade embargos, and other laws, taxes, and regulations to restrict trade. I don't see the significance of calling reducing/repealing these restrictions as "Free Trade". They are for the multinational corporations (see this link that describes how mulitnational corps are the top 51 of 100 economies in the world, and growing.)
Because both are unoptimized, these are suddenly comparable differences?
Yes, both are what you would get "out of the box".
Fat people make less than thin. Better looking people make more money than uglier ones. More educated/bright people make more money, etc, etc.
This groundbreaking study on height being correlated with salary does not suprise me. For men it is seen that height is "more attractive" (see above). Interesting thing is that more attractive people are seen as brighter and more "one of us", even if the sexes are the same. No, men don't typically say "My thats a good looking guy!", but they do behave more positively towards better looking men.
1) Does Sun support x86 for Solaris?
Yes
2) Does Sun support Linux on Sparc?
No
3) Is Linux good, or bad?
Its an operating system. Many people think its useful.
4) Why can't you run multple Linux VMs on a single Solaris O/S?
See number 2.
Sun provides many things that are *good* - such as Java, and Open Office. It just really, truly blows to see this power blown in such an incredible display of marketing ineptitude...
Sun is primarily a hardware company, their software makes their hardware work. Java and Open Office are mostly free pieces of software, I doubt their stockholders are expecting their stock to go up from Java and/or OO.
Marketing ineptitude? Yes, some people can sell crap iced over with nice frosting (not to mention any names), but Sun has decent hardware (good quality, reasonable performance) but people aren't buying the equipment. I don't see how a change in marketing will significantly change this, maybe a change in their product will. This could work for the RIAA too if they care.
Otherwise, you will have insurance companies that simple select the people they know will not ever get sick and reject all the rest.
If I knew that I would never be sick, I certainly wouldn't pay for insurance in the event that I would get sick. If thats their business model, then they are going down the tubes pretty quickly.
Also, aren't people already directly impacted by their DNA without testing? Typically, don't bright (DNA gifted) have more positive oportunities based purely on that fact? Aren't the less DNA gifted "biggie-sizing", etc?
FWIW, Centrino is not a processor, its a mobile technology "suite", I guess you could call it. Its a bundling of the MB, the Pentium M processor, wireless networking, etc.
PCRE stands for Perl Compatable Regular Expressions, its an implementation of Perl's regular expressions that is separate from Perl proper. Also, I doubt that python's .beginswith .endswidth string methods are any more efficient than Perl's $string =~ /^text/; or $string =~ /text$/; regular expressions. Anchored searches are the quickest.
I don't do lisp, so
Correction:
Still Perl is such a beautiful thing you should buy ALL O'Reilley Perl books.
The O'reilley books are excellent. They are written by some of the major coders for perl like Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and David Swartz (I think thats his name).
They are informative and fun to read because of the humor and relevant info that are in the books. I have a copy of the 1st edition of the Perl Cookbook, and it is probably my favorite programming book that I own, and I would imagine that I'll be getting the 2nd edition shortly.
I think I'll just clarify that. In four or five years, what changes would you like to see happening to the language, and how realistic it is to be able to achieve those goals in that time period?
.NET and c#, but I do not see any reduction in support for C++ by M$.
Wrong question. Being that there is no (AFAIK) compiler that even conforms to the existing standards, the only change in the language in the next 4 or 5 years would be to make this happen.
C++ is a neat language to study & learn, but I've found little use for it in the real world. Granted, I'm not a fulltime programmer anymore, and I've never worked on a huge (say the size of mozilla) project, so you can take my suggestions based on my experience with a grain of salt.
However, when programming in C++, I've found that debugging, even a compile problem at the syntax level to be a pain in the but. I can't tell you how many times I've seen pages and pages of error messages saying that a header that I did'nt know even existed was screwed up, simply because I missed a ';' in my code somewhere. Inheritance, as sexy as it seems, adds a layer of abstraction and complexity, especially if there is a bug somewhere in one of the middle classes. I cannot find a reasonable way to create a reusable class in C++. Because I can do so much with the language with overloaded functions and operators, I don't know when to stop. How many 'new's do we need? What about operators? etc, etc.
Templates are the best and worst thing about C++. I would never suggest making a typo when using templated classes. The syntax is ugly with templates, but the idea of being able to apply any arbitrary datatpe to predetermined routines is really cool, however, there seems to be a disparity between theory and reality. Templates is another thing that different compilers have problems with.
I would believe that the best place to use C++, would be on the microsoft platform. M$ has MFC and is relatively stable between platforms and releases. I cannot think of another platform where C++ would be as stable. But this too is changing with
This is my random rambling about C++ for the day. I really like that C++ has pass by reference, and that its a little more anal about prototypes and datatypes than C. Heck, I can use a c++ compiler to compile C code and get this. For portable code, the best thing I've seen is mozillas portable c++ guide, which kinda says, don't use many features of the language.
But still the plain is carrying it fuel (photaic cell aka solar panel) on board...
Yes, but difference is that the plane's fuel does not ever change. Most of a rocket's fuel is fuel to carry the weight of the fuel, this kind of vehicle does not have that limitation.
If they are using laser beams to power a generator in the plane, why don't they use this to solve our energy distribution problem? In blackouts, just beam power to cities by laser.
Or cities could just use that big natural free radiation source called the Sun.
Um, why would you want to put squid on a journaled file system?
/etc/fstab. /var/spool/squid (or whatever) is on its own partition right? Perhaps on it's own disk?
If you're looking to restart quickly after a power failure you can always set a partition to ignore file system checks at startup, "0 0" options in
You have never waited over an hour to fsck 3 harddisks while over 100 people have no "internet".
Is this entirely true? Nonexistant passwds, yes. Stupid passwords, yes (eg, root:root). Default passwords, yes.
Can someone give me an example of a compromise based on a weak password? It seems that there are so many other ways to break into a system, that resorting to brute force password attacks would be the absolute last thing someone would use. Also, if the system is that important, don't ppl set up a max number of failed attempts?