takes down 90% of Linux installs and toasts most of the internet
Maybe when Linux comes anywhere astronomically close to the share that Windows computers have they might (a) do some serious damage and (b) be worth crackers' time to use.
My pet OS has never had an exploit and has never caused any massive Internet interruptions. That doesn't make it more secure than Windows.
The README says you need to compile it with gcc 2.95.3. Are there any plans on when the 3.x series will be either supported or just switched to? Since I focus on C++, I know 3.x has a lot of improvements in the C++ compiler, but maybe for C it's not such a compelling switch.
Has this free site been useful to you? If so, why not make a donation of 1 using PayPal?
Why would I pay to be advertised to? I usually give donations because I either think someone deserves it or a cause needs it. This guy does not deserve a pound for telling me about his invention.
There are countless plans to go to Mars. I remember the talk about Bush saying we would go to Mars by 2015 or 2020 and the ensuing discussion about if it was possible. I think it would be if we put the same amount of effort in to it as the Apollo missions. But when we go to Mars, I want us to go to colonize, not visit once and leave. In order for that to happen we need to make it cheap enough to send tens of thousands of people to Mars with the equipment to survive there their entire lives. I don't know of any plans to do that in my life time, but I'm keeping my eye out for it.
This month's Discover Magazine has an amazing article about building our first starship. It starts out saying we'll probably detect our first Earth-like planet as soon as 2007 or definitely by 2015. By then we could have technologies like hot fusion or even anti-matter engines (not holding my breath), but even if we don't we could probably get to Alpha Centauri in my lifetime with a laser sail. Back here in the Sol system we'd set up a big solar collector that would focus a laser at the ship, pushing and powering it all the way to nearby stars. This to me is a lot more exciting and probable than Mars colonization.
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You are arguing that the brain is more than the sum of its synapses. This is one of the core questions in the fields of psychology and AI, and is being pursued by the top minds in each field. We will probably not know the answer until we can simulate the human brain and see what happens.
To back up your argument, you should probably know what the soul is and how it interacts with the physical brain, otherwise how can you say it's not a behavior of the brain?
Yes, please instruct Linux weenies everywhere to go over and change the configuration of "non-geek"'s computers. Please, oh Linux gods, save us impoverished Windows users from the horrors you speak of by messing with our personal boxes. Or wait, I have a better idea:
I can't believe there are all these comments and no one's said that Slashdot is making us do the work so they can make money. They could actually pay someone to do professional art work, but they're asking the unemployed masses to pour their creativity in to something that might make significant money for them.
And don't tell me $75 is anywhere near what they'll rake in. How about $1k or more.
Of course with the totalitarian mods here Rob will probably change my karma from excellent to -1000 now. Heck maybe this is the tenth post on this topic but they've all been deleted.
Sorry if this is OT, but it's hard finding discussion on this. Is anyone here using an IPv6 tunnel broker that can successfully IRC and listen to the mp3 streams in the previous Slashdot story? I've tried Hurrican Electric and freenet6 with no luck. I'm using XP SP1.
That sounds like a perfect case to use music in. I wonder, if you listened to music that you actually liked, would that distract you from your work? If not it would be great to listen to so much music that you enjoy.
There's an argument that listening to any type of music occupies the creative side of your brain, leaving only the logical side to do work. The logical side on its own can only do things it's done before or use things to build new ones in old ways. You need your creative side to do new things, including writing, coding, engineering, learning, etc. Peopleware has an experiment that tests this, and comes to this conclusion. I'm still looking for a more scientific study.
I listen to long, looping tracks of natural sounds like ocean waves, rain, and thunderstorms. They're pretty close to white noise, which blocks out most environmental noise like fans, traffic, and human speech. It doesn't block out bass though; distance is about the only thing that attenuates bass.
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Thanks, that page is great. I just read the entire thing.
I'm willing to work in this economy for minimum wage if I could do some real programming and work with other intelligent programmers. But the prevailing wages are so high that instead of hiring me, companies just go without. If they hired me at even $15/hr and I messed up, whoever hired me would get chewed out for hiring "cheap" labor. If I was hired at $30/hr and messed up, my being "cheap" would not be an issue. They paid good money for me and I didn't produce results. It's my fault.
Maybe soon I can find a job in my chosen industry at the wage I'm worth in this economy. I might've been worth $20/hr four years ago, but I'm not right now.
I'm still parent-supported, stuck in the midwest because of parents, and piling up the debt. I really hope to get to Seattle within the next few years; it's my favorite place in the world, the place I want to live most of my life. I've thought about moving there with my debt and no family support, but my logical side tells me that's suicide. I'm wondering if you moved there before or after finding a job?
I visited Seattle during a paid interview with Amazon.com. It was so perfect. My favorite parts were the safe feeling I had on the streets, the location (West coast, on the ocean, and near Canada and Vancouver), and the culture. I can see why Microsoft keeps its headquarters there. My favorite part was that the Asian market was across the street from Amazon's building. It's hard not to dwell on not getting that job.
In other words, I'd take your job in a heartbeat. But good luck with finding a $15/hr job.
I've been looking for jobs that are better than fast food jobs but that are actually available. Something where I can use my intelligence and CS degree (or just the fact that I finished undergrad at a good university) to get the job. The only one I can think of is secretary/personal assistant. Can anyone think of others?
Wow what are you doing for $10/hour? I'm a UIUC CS grad, C++ programmer, about to take a minimum wage job as long as I don't have to do anything physical like flip burgers, lift boxes, or sell anything. I know if I wanted $15/hour I could drive trucks or work in a factory, but I hope you're not doing anything like that.
Do you shower and bring a change of clothes afterwards? I couldn't go back to work in the afternoon after being in a gym for 45 minutes.
I also couldn't spend the time to take two showers a day and do laundry twice as often, so I always exercise first thing in the morning. Then I walk the dog in the early afternoon. Some day when I work at a large company again I'll go back to walking around the building or park if they have one after lunch.
Do you know of any articles that try to guess what we could accomplish if we gave up on manned missions? Could we have built a Mars base using only robots by now? Or at least done significantly more science? Maybe we'd have a working space elevator or space-based power station?
I'd be very interested in seeing an article on either what we could've done or potential future timelines.
I agree that it's technically good but the story is slow. Slow stories are okay if there are things happening to think about or pay attention to. But this animation could be compressed to a third of its length and lose nothing.
This seems typical of the pace at which language standardization moves.
Of course. Standardization should only happen on things that are widely agreed upon.
How long have standard, free, C (useable in C++) regex implementations been available for those who really want them?
Boost, a C++-specific library, has a great regex module.
So, if any of this stuff ever makes it into the standard, that will just add the extra work of having to write a wrapper around the current solution to make your code "standard compliant". Why bother?
If your library works on the platforms you're developing for, adding a wrapper won't make it any more standard compliant. However, rewriting it to use the new standard will.
In COM, once you publish an interface, you can plug in any object that supports it and it will work. The COM runtime will find the function pointers each time it loads the object so you can interchange them at will. And COM was made to be used with C++, though you want to use a template library to help you out like ATL. On UNIX you have XPCOM, and of course there's CORBA but I don't know anyone that uses that.
.NET solves this problem too. I'm sure Java has something similar; I think JavaBeans are analagous to COM objects.
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takes down 90% of Linux installs and toasts most of the internet
Maybe when Linux comes anywhere astronomically close to the share that Windows computers have they might (a) do some serious damage and (b) be worth crackers' time to use.
My pet OS has never had an exploit and has never caused any massive Internet interruptions. That doesn't make it more secure than Windows.
The README says you need to compile it with gcc 2.95.3. Are there any plans on when the 3.x series will be either supported or just switched to? Since I focus on C++, I know 3.x has a lot of improvements in the C++ compiler, but maybe for C it's not such a compelling switch.
I remember the one time we had one someone with like #17 posted.
When I started reading your review I thought this might be a book on surviving unemployment. I'll be glad when I need a book like that again.
Has this free site been useful to you? If so, why not make a donation of 1 using PayPal?
Why would I pay to be advertised to? I usually give donations because I either think someone deserves it or a cause needs it. This guy does not deserve a pound for telling me about his invention.
There are countless plans to go to Mars. I remember the talk about Bush saying we would go to Mars by 2015 or 2020 and the ensuing discussion about if it was possible. I think it would be if we put the same amount of effort in to it as the Apollo missions. But when we go to Mars, I want us to go to colonize, not visit once and leave. In order for that to happen we need to make it cheap enough to send tens of thousands of people to Mars with the equipment to survive there their entire lives. I don't know of any plans to do that in my life time, but I'm keeping my eye out for it.
This month's Discover Magazine has an amazing article about building our first starship. It starts out saying we'll probably detect our first Earth-like planet as soon as 2007 or definitely by 2015. By then we could have technologies like hot fusion or even anti-matter engines (not holding my breath), but even if we don't we could probably get to Alpha Centauri in my lifetime with a laser sail. Back here in the Sol system we'd set up a big solar collector that would focus a laser at the ship, pushing and powering it all the way to nearby stars. This to me is a lot more exciting and probable than Mars colonization.
You are arguing that the brain is more than the sum of its synapses. This is one of the core questions in the fields of psychology and AI, and is being pursued by the top minds in each field. We will probably not know the answer until we can simulate the human brain and see what happens.
To back up your argument, you should probably know what the soul is and how it interacts with the physical brain, otherwise how can you say it's not a behavior of the brain?
Yes, please instruct Linux weenies everywhere to go over and change the configuration of "non-geek"'s computers. Please, oh Linux gods, save us impoverished Windows users from the horrors you speak of by messing with our personal boxes. Or wait, I have a better idea:
KEEP THE F*CK AWAY FROM MY MACHINE.
I can't believe there are all these comments and no one's said that Slashdot is making us do the work so they can make money. They could actually pay someone to do professional art work, but they're asking the unemployed masses to pour their creativity in to something that might make significant money for them.
And don't tell me $75 is anywhere near what they'll rake in. How about $1k or more.
Of course with the totalitarian mods here Rob will probably change my karma from excellent to -1000 now. Heck maybe this is the tenth post on this topic but they've all been deleted.
Sorry if this is OT, but it's hard finding discussion on this. Is anyone here using an IPv6 tunnel broker that can successfully IRC and listen to the mp3 streams in the previous Slashdot story? I've tried Hurrican Electric and freenet6 with no luck. I'm using XP SP1.
That sounds like a perfect case to use music in. I wonder, if you listened to music that you actually liked, would that distract you from your work? If not it would be great to listen to so much music that you enjoy.
There's an argument that listening to any type of music occupies the creative side of your brain, leaving only the logical side to do work. The logical side on its own can only do things it's done before or use things to build new ones in old ways. You need your creative side to do new things, including writing, coding, engineering, learning, etc. Peopleware has an experiment that tests this, and comes to this conclusion. I'm still looking for a more scientific study.
I listen to long, looping tracks of natural sounds like ocean waves, rain, and thunderstorms. They're pretty close to white noise, which blocks out most environmental noise like fans, traffic, and human speech. It doesn't block out bass though; distance is about the only thing that attenuates bass.
Thanks, that page is great. I just read the entire thing.
I'm willing to work in this economy for minimum wage if I could do some real programming and work with other intelligent programmers. But the prevailing wages are so high that instead of hiring me, companies just go without. If they hired me at even $15/hr and I messed up, whoever hired me would get chewed out for hiring "cheap" labor. If I was hired at $30/hr and messed up, my being "cheap" would not be an issue. They paid good money for me and I didn't produce results. It's my fault.
Maybe soon I can find a job in my chosen industry at the wage I'm worth in this economy. I might've been worth $20/hr four years ago, but I'm not right now.
I'm still parent-supported, stuck in the midwest because of parents, and piling up the debt. I really hope to get to Seattle within the next few years; it's my favorite place in the world, the place I want to live most of my life. I've thought about moving there with my debt and no family support, but my logical side tells me that's suicide. I'm wondering if you moved there before or after finding a job?
I visited Seattle during a paid interview with Amazon.com. It was so perfect. My favorite parts were the safe feeling I had on the streets, the location (West coast, on the ocean, and near Canada and Vancouver), and the culture. I can see why Microsoft keeps its headquarters there. My favorite part was that the Asian market was across the street from Amazon's building. It's hard not to dwell on not getting that job.
In other words, I'd take your job in a heartbeat. But good luck with finding a $15/hr job.
I've been looking for jobs that are better than fast food jobs but that are actually available. Something where I can use my intelligence and CS degree (or just the fact that I finished undergrad at a good university) to get the job. The only one I can think of is secretary/personal assistant. Can anyone think of others?
Wow what are you doing for $10/hour? I'm a UIUC CS grad, C++ programmer, about to take a minimum wage job as long as I don't have to do anything physical like flip burgers, lift boxes, or sell anything. I know if I wanted $15/hour I could drive trucks or work in a factory, but I hope you're not doing anything like that.
Do you shower and bring a change of clothes afterwards? I couldn't go back to work in the afternoon after being in a gym for 45 minutes.
I also couldn't spend the time to take two showers a day and do laundry twice as often, so I always exercise first thing in the morning. Then I walk the dog in the early afternoon. Some day when I work at a large company again I'll go back to walking around the building or park if they have one after lunch.
No thanks, I'll stick with my iMac and iTunes store, thanks...
Damn those Microsoft-loving bastards, making their music site only support one platform.
If anyone has links to more details on these stories I'd be really interested. Specifically how the Viking accident happened.
Do you know of any articles that try to guess what we could accomplish if we gave up on manned missions? Could we have built a Mars base using only robots by now? Or at least done significantly more science? Maybe we'd have a working space elevator or space-based power station?
I'd be very interested in seeing an article on either what we could've done or potential future timelines.
Here's the article:
Scientific American: Highways of Light by Leik N. Myrabo
I agree that it's technically good but the story is slow. Slow stories are okay if there are things happening to think about or pay attention to. But this animation could be compressed to a third of its length and lose nothing.
This seems typical of the pace at which language standardization moves.
Of course. Standardization should only happen on things that are widely agreed upon.
How long have standard, free, C (useable in C++) regex implementations been available for those who really want them?
Boost, a C++-specific library, has a great regex module.
So, if any of this stuff ever makes it into the standard, that will just add the extra work of having to write a wrapper around the current solution to make your code "standard compliant". Why bother?
If your library works on the platforms you're developing for, adding a wrapper won't make it any more standard compliant. However, rewriting it to use the new standard will.
Yaaaaaawn!
Nope, standardization is not that exciting.
In COM, once you publish an interface, you can plug in any object that supports it and it will work. The COM runtime will find the function pointers each time it loads the object so you can interchange them at will. And COM was made to be used with C++, though you want to use a template library to help you out like ATL. On UNIX you have XPCOM, and of course there's CORBA but I don't know anyone that uses that.
.NET solves this problem too. I'm sure Java has something similar; I think JavaBeans are analagous to COM objects.