The information needed to provide the updates is freely available, so cannot someone else provide the updates ? Just get tzupdater to download from a different place. I am not a Java programmer, so forgive me if I have got the wrong end of the stick.
Even better change the Java functions to get the information operating system, on Linux the tzdata, then Java is kept up to date as the OS is kept up to date.
I changed ISP a couple of years ago because of that. Going IPv6 at home was not hard but needed some work and some duplication (firewall, DHCP range,...). Hosted servers that I look after have had IPv6 addresses for several years.
It doesn't matter where they are, many survive on advertising. Upset the government and it either grabs your advertising income directly or tells your advertisers that if they continue to advertise with you that they will be ''leant on''; either way: kills your advertising income.
No. We are not talking about the same thing. You are talking about line by line comments that say what actions the code is doing; in general someone competent in the language should be able to read/understand the actions[**].
The more important comments are about why the code is doing something, ie the purpose - you need comments like that in whatever language you use.
[**]: but there will sometimes be occasions where a complicated RegEx, or something, needs explaining.
Comments lie, code doesn't. Someone is going to update the code and not bother with the comments.
True - there are many crap programmers around; but that is what things like code reviews should be for. If you find a programmer who does that sort of thing do you want to continue to employ him ?
Most of the pointy haired types and politicians who will be shown the BSA study will never read past the Executive Summary on page 1, many will not even do that and will just look at the difference in height of the blue and brown bars labeled $53 Billion Additional Value. There are a few pages with impressive phrases like Macroeconomic Analysis and tables with lots of numbers -- so it must all be well researched and thus true.
Glyn Moody -- who is he ? Do they read technical articles ?
The important readers are the politicians; protecting against piracy is obviously the right thing to do... and for those not convinced a donation to a favoured cause will help convince that the guys showing the report are sincere.
My point is that if you think that a detailed deconstruction of the study is the right way to expose this: then you are deluded. Properly presented reports showing the other case is a better way - but much harder since OSS does not have the money to ensure that the correct message is understood. Not impossible: just harder.
Today the list of incompatabilities is small and unimportant. I wonder if one will make a really useful difference that would encourage developers choose one or the other; then users would really need to choose. At the moment which you use doesn't really matter.
I remember it in the 1960s. Robots (or machines) have certainly replaced some jobs, or changed them - we no longer have the office typing pool for instance. However for some jobs it is going to be hard to replace humans: hospital nurses, kindergarten teachers for instance.
So I'll probably just pay the $48, there's no way it makes sense to appeal a parking ticket for a rental car from the other side of the world whilst on vacation.
Somewhat like the rationale behind many patent trolls: ''Just pay the £20,000 license fee, it is not worth a £1,000,000 legal fight''. I wonder if these guys are related ?
They might have only sold 15,000 units but for those that bought them it is their 'phone and many of them will be locked into a 2 year contract. So they will want the 'phone supported by HTC & Facebook for at least 2 years, preferably 4 -- OS upgrades, security/bug fixes, etc.
However I suspect that HTC will not bother. I bought an HTC 'phone, I got one OS upgrade and then they refused to do any more. They had my money so why bother to spend money supporting me ? It would not bring them any more income and might result that I might delay buying a new 'phone. Well: they are right on that last point, but as a result of the derisory way that they have treated me I will not buy another HTC 'phone, so (long term) they loose - plonkers.
/* This * comment * is * part * of * the * corporate * edict * to * reduce * the * defect * rate * reported * by * Coverity */ printf("hello world\n");
Why on earth do they choose 2 colours that are hard to tell apart in that graph ? They were black & dark blue. It took me several seconds to work out which was which. Many other reports/... seem to do similar.
Not that I have noticed. I will not pretend that I deliberately look at what is on other people's screens, but I have not seen anything. So if someone is looking at smut in public, but no one knows, what harm is being done ?
Is Cameron going to announce that people must not read playboy in a public place ? What would be the point, it is not a problem, so why fix it ?
Oh: I see, this will appeal to those Torygraph & Daily Fail readers who have not yet come to terms with their own sexuality or have their minds infected with religious memes, so he will garner a few more votes. Others, like me, will soon forget this stupidity. On that basis I doubt that it will become law.
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The information needed to provide the updates is freely available, so cannot someone else provide the updates ? Just get tzupdater to download from a different place. I am not a Java programmer, so forgive me if I have got the wrong end of the stick.
Even better change the Java functions to get the information operating system, on Linux the tzdata, then Java is kept up to date as the OS is kept up to date.
That ought to learn the oil & gas companies a lesson!
I changed ISP a couple of years ago because of that. Going IPv6 at home was not hard but needed some work and some duplication (firewall, DHCP range, ...). Hosted servers that I look after have had IPv6 addresses for several years.
For once the UK leads the USA in the long, slow slide to a police state. They take them from kids a lot
It doesn't matter where they are, many survive on advertising. Upset the government and it either grabs your advertising income directly or tells your advertisers that if they continue to advertise with you that they will be ''leant on''; either way: kills your advertising income.
No. We are not talking about the same thing. You are talking about line by line comments that say what actions the code is doing; in general someone competent in the language should be able to read/understand the actions[**]. The more important comments are about why the code is doing something, ie the purpose - you need comments like that in whatever language you use.
[**]: but there will sometimes be occasions where a complicated RegEx, or something, needs explaining.
Comments lie, code doesn't. Someone is going to update the code and not bother with the comments.
True - there are many crap programmers around; but that is what things like code reviews should be for. If you find a programmer who does that sort of thing do you want to continue to employ him ?
That is what comments are for.
Most of the pointy haired types and politicians who will be shown the BSA study will never read past the Executive Summary on page 1, many will not even do that and will just look at the difference in height of the blue and brown bars labeled $53 Billion Additional Value. There are a few pages with impressive phrases like Macroeconomic Analysis and tables with lots of numbers -- so it must all be well researched and thus true.
Glyn Moody -- who is he ? Do they read technical articles ?
The important readers are the politicians; protecting against piracy is obviously the right thing to do ... and for those not convinced a donation to a favoured cause will help convince that the guys showing the report are sincere.
My point is that if you think that a detailed deconstruction of the study is the right way to expose this: then you are deluded. Properly presented reports showing the other case is a better way - but much harder since OSS does not have the money to ensure that the correct message is understood. Not impossible: just harder.
If he is too young to receive money for finding a bug, is he also too young to be criminally prosecuted for exploiting a bug ?
Why do soldiers need to fire rifles? They aren't new weapons, they have been operational for decades.
The rifles might have been around for decades but the soldiers have not; even if they had humans need practice to remain skilled.
Today the list of incompatabilities is small and unimportant. I wonder if one will make a really useful difference that would encourage developers choose one or the other; then users would really need to choose. At the moment which you use doesn't really matter.
I remember it in the 1960s. Robots (or machines) have certainly replaced some jobs, or changed them - we no longer have the office typing pool for instance. However for some jobs it is going to be hard to replace humans: hospital nurses, kindergarten teachers for instance.
So I'll probably just pay the $48, there's no way it makes sense to appeal a parking ticket for a rental car from the other side of the world whilst on vacation.
Somewhat like the rationale behind many patent trolls: ''Just pay the £20,000 license fee, it is not worth a £1,000,000 legal fight''. I wonder if these guys are related ?
They might have only sold 15,000 units but for those that bought them it is their 'phone and many of them will be locked into a 2 year contract. So they will want the 'phone supported by HTC & Facebook for at least 2 years, preferably 4 -- OS upgrades, security/bug fixes, etc.
However I suspect that HTC will not bother. I bought an HTC 'phone, I got one OS upgrade and then they refused to do any more. They had my money so why bother to spend money supporting me ? It would not bring them any more income and might result that I might delay buying a new 'phone. Well: they are right on that last point, but as a result of the derisory way that they have treated me I will not buy another HTC 'phone, so (long term) they loose - plonkers.
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* is
* part
* of
* the
* corporate
* edict
* to
* reduce
* the
* defect
* rate
* reported
* by
* Coverity
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printf("hello world\n");
Why on earth do they choose 2 colours that are hard to tell apart in that graph ? They were black & dark blue. It took me several seconds to work out which was which. Many other reports/... seem to do similar.
It is about the account owner forgetting his/her password.
+1. I wish that I had mod points!
How boring, maybe you could have said: ''fyrsta færslan'' :-)
(and yes, my dear English /. readers, I know you will mod this down as well)
I'm English and I used the last of my mod points yesterday; I would have modded you up. I don't like the spy cameras either.
I suspect that we will never meet:: I won't go to the USA since I don't want to be finger printed (& the rest of it) by the TSA, also it is unsafe to visit the USA since I might be arrested for doing something in my own country that is legal in my country.
Shhh! -- don't tell his wife! :-)
Not that I have noticed. I will not pretend that I deliberately look at what is on other people's screens, but I have not seen anything. So if someone is looking at smut in public, but no one knows, what harm is being done ?
Is Cameron going to announce that people must not read playboy in a public place ? What would be the point, it is not a problem, so why fix it ? Oh: I see, this will appeal to those Torygraph & Daily Fail readers who have not yet come to terms with their own sexuality or have their minds infected with religious memes, so he will garner a few more votes. Others, like me, will soon forget this stupidity. On that basis I doubt that it will become law.
Lots of entropy here, more than most! Does that mean that I am super intelligent ?
They will only get hit by costly law suits if they are misusing the data. This is a measure that will keep them honest.
Tell your AssemblyCritter to: +1 - vote for this.