...and that's why it should be done in a shielded room, not why every other device on the planet should be off/shielded. What happens if someone walks by outside the window with an unshielded device?
(I had friends at uni who got interference from cars 200m away. They ran their experiment at 3am instead. My point being, there is always interference. You shouldn't try to legislate against it.)
From Wikipedia, because I can be arsed to hit Google for 5 seconds...
"On February 1, 2007, the DigitalGlobe satellite did a scan of the area, generating thousands of images.[9] The images were posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk in order to distribute the work of searching through them, in hopes of spotting his boat.
"On February 16, 2007, the Friends of Jim Gray Group suspended their search,[10] but continue to follow any important leads. The family ended its search May 31, 2007. The massive high-tech effort did not reveal any new clues.
I have a real problem with coders who can't spell (even in code review, either Eyeball Mk1 is fallible or neither coder can spell). Functions called "markOrderRecieved" (for example) are just harder to find when I'm looking for some functionality that I know is there, and are a bump on the road when reading.
I'm primarily a java coder these days, so (1) there's no need to abbreviate for the language (2) All decent IDEs offer auto-complete, so there's no "but I hate typing long names" excuse.
An Eclipse plugin which checks all function and variable names for camel-case delimited real words would be a Good Idea.
That said, I've never heard of such a thing. Anyone not currently with a deadline (although reading/. counts as R&R;-) care to write one?
Actually all spiders are ten legged. Eight ones that it walks on and two that have become adapted to spin webs.
There's loads of evidence for this, ranging from the discovery that the spinarets move in sync with the actual legs, and that the other legs also produce sticky stuff at the feet. However, I'm only typing this while I wait for my wife to finish her phone call before we go back to watching telly, so I can't be arsed to find references.
Absolutely. In fact, it's just like going to the flicks in my house, because we put the DVD on, then wander around talking and getting drinks and snacks ready till the fucking annoying adverts and shorts telling me not to 'steal a movie' have finished.
After that, of course, we get to watch the flick without some git talking six rows behind me.
Me? God no. I gave up on all that when the contents of the bonnet turned to plastic boxes instead of hoses and belts and hunks of metal. (Prior to that I did).
However, I did understand that it was a *lot* more common 'over there'. Perhaps I've seen too many films/episodes of My Name is Earl;-)
That 'declare by variable' bit completely blows the idea of a POSIX userland in/usr/bin/, whether links or compiled.
In the case of my current script, it should work on HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, even Cygwin (although actually it needs a single 'ln -s' done first to work), in fact any POSIX environment. If I build to POSIX standards, then I should always be able to specify (the sysadmin's choice in)/usr/bin/.
If I have to make a different call for Solaris, then I just threw my cross platform code in the bin.
OP: the built-in make, vi, grep, etc. are still basically unmodified from the early 1990s
You: You simply need to adjust your PATH accordingly if you want the GNU tools to be found first.
I think that's really his point... why are the default tools the ones that date from circa the ark?
For the record, that's what pisses me off most about Solaris too. Because I build for real servers for real deployments, so I can't just 'adjust my PATH' because my code will be run (when we go live) by an operator. It means I have to build for ancient grep etc, and it's a pain.
As has been discussed here before, the problem is that tabs/windows (including pop-ups) sharing a common server will need to share a common thread. This is surprisingly hard to implement correctly, which is why the delay in delivery. I understand the Moz guys would love to deliver it, but...
The 'super' classes wouldn't be abstract, sure, but you would implement an IVehicle interface, then wrapper any IVehicle object (presumably Vehicle) as a private member object in a Car class, forwarding all the methods you wished to forward. Car would implement both ICar and IVehicle of course.
The forwarding could be done manually; automagically through an IDE; via a keyword to be interpreted by the compiler (such as 'private forward IVehicle myVehicle = new Vehicle()') on the member variable object; even assumed(!) such that if one and only one private member object implements the same interface it would implicitly receive forwarded calls, rather like the way the compiler adds implicit super constructor calls for null constructors.
A Mustang class would contain a private member declared as ICar, but would not necessarily have an IMustang interface as it would be redundant.
This takes nothing away. All objects simply define what interfaces they support, and can then be treated as such in each processing context. We would not have two different methods for defining typing of objects, leading to a 'strong type' for objects.
As a bonus, it would provide polymorphism. CarBoat for example would have private member variable objects declared as ICar and IBoat, and CarBoat would implement ICar, IBoat and IVehicle. Forwarding of IVehicle methods would of course have to explicit as both the ICar and IBoat objects would be eligible targets as they both implement IVehicle. A compiler error would occur if this explicit forwarding was not provided.
Simple and elegant. Perhaps we should fork Java as described and call it Kava;-)
Firstly, perhaps you should try "apt-get install package_i_want";-)
Secondly, you can do what you ask: it's a.deb file. You just download it (see openoffice.org for one, for example) and then install with dpkg (which is actually what apt-get calls).
In fact, Ubuntu may even be clever enough to open.deb files with dpkg for you by clicking, which would be exactly analogous to downloading an installshield packaged file or similar.
What was your most recent problem package_i_want? Perhaps the programs you want aren't made available as.deb files? Please give me an example and I'll try and point you in the right direction.
I wasted three whole minutes of my life in Excel. I'll know in future that someone out there must have decided this should be available on a web site and has spent many many minutes doing so.
there is not such thing as an unhackable site/host
This is tosh.
If you are seriously claiming that you could 'hack' any host running any software to get arbitrary permissions, or a shell session, or access an arbitrary file then you are just mad. On what basis do you say this? It's connected to a network therefore it can be hacked? Whuh?
(I can't believe you were modded informative of all things. Insightful I might have laughed off, but informative?!)
I don't know which is sadder... that he posted it, that you worked it out or that I trust/.ers so little that I had to do it too to check you weren't winding me up.
Where in the world did you get the idea that if a solution is only valid for 95% of cases then it's no good for anything?
Windows is NFU for a few percent of cases (like me) because it doesn't come with certain software... does that mean Microsoft should give up and go home? Of course not.
Only last week, some poster here complained that there was no 'open in docs' link for.doc file attachments in gmail. All of three days later (IIRC) it appeared, and I've been using it with pleasure. I hadn't realised I wanted it till it was pointed out.
So someone there is prolly surfing/. and you may get your wish.
I think Viacom owns MTV which owns CMT which owns the back catalog of one Jimmy Somerville. The video was entitled "Sunday nite dinner at Redbones in Somerville, Mass".
This suggests they think they own any video labelled with any one word matching any one word in their artist name and work list, irrespective of content or any other words present which might provide a clue to a human.
Clearly they are (a) incompetent, (b) fools, and (c) arseholes. So, normal for a record company then.
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...and that's why it should be done in a shielded room, not why every other device on the planet should be off/shielded. What happens if someone walks by outside the window with an unshielded device?
(I had friends at uni who got interference from cars 200m away. They ran their experiment at 3am instead. My point being, there is always interference. You shouldn't try to legislate against it.)
J.
From Wikipedia, because I can be arsed to hit Google for 5 seconds...
"On February 1, 2007, the DigitalGlobe satellite did a scan of the area, generating thousands of images.[9] The images were posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk in order to distribute the work of searching through them, in hopes of spotting his boat.
"On February 16, 2007, the Friends of Jim Gray Group suspended their search,[10] but continue to follow any important leads. The family ended its search May 31, 2007. The massive high-tech effort did not reveal any new clues.
Justin.
Seriously, I think this is a terrific idea.
/. counts as R&R ;-) care to write one?
I have a real problem with coders who can't spell (even in code review, either Eyeball Mk1 is fallible or neither coder can spell). Functions called "markOrderRecieved" (for example) are just harder to find when I'm looking for some functionality that I know is there, and are a bump on the road when reading.
I'm primarily a java coder these days, so (1) there's no need to abbreviate for the language (2) All decent IDEs offer auto-complete, so there's no "but I hate typing long names" excuse.
An Eclipse plugin which checks all function and variable names for camel-case delimited real words would be a Good Idea.
That said, I've never heard of such a thing. Anyone not currently with a deadline (although reading
Justin.
Actually all spiders are ten legged. Eight ones that it walks on and two that have become adapted to spin webs.
There's loads of evidence for this, ranging from the discovery that the spinarets move in sync with the actual legs, and that the other legs also produce sticky stuff at the feet. However, I'm only typing this while I wait for my wife to finish her phone call before we go back to watching telly, so I can't be arsed to find references.
Justin.
Absolutely. In fact, it's just like going to the flicks in my house, because we put the DVD on, then wander around talking and getting drinks and snacks ready till the fucking annoying adverts and shorts telling me not to 'steal a movie' have finished.
After that, of course, we get to watch the flick without some git talking six rows behind me.
Justin.
Me? God no. I gave up on all that when the contents of the bonnet turned to plastic boxes instead of hoses and belts and hunks of metal. (Prior to that I did).
;-)
However, I did understand that it was a *lot* more common 'over there'. Perhaps I've seen too many films/episodes of My Name is Earl
J.
Simple: because that would skew the sample towards mileage of people who either pay to have their oil changed or have it changed more regularly.
;-)
Estimation is intended to produce a balanced result. Heavy on the 'intended', of course
J.
"Cult" isn't quite the right word eh? I know what you're getting at ;-)
J.
That 'declare by variable' bit completely blows the idea of a POSIX userland in /usr/bin/, whether links or compiled.
/usr/bin/.
In the case of my current script, it should work on HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, even Cygwin (although actually it needs a single 'ln -s' done first to work), in fact any POSIX environment. If I build to POSIX standards, then I should always be able to specify (the sysadmin's choice in)
If I have to make a different call for Solaris, then I just threw my cross platform code in the bin.
J.
I think that's really his point... why are the default tools the ones that date from circa the ark?
For the record, that's what pisses me off most about Solaris too. Because I build for real servers for real deployments, so I can't just 'adjust my PATH' because my code will be run (when we go live) by an operator. It means I have to build for ancient grep etc, and it's a pain.
Justin.
...on August 24th. ;-)
I think you are recalling SplashPower.
J.
The reviewer keeps commenting 'but Ubuntu 6.10 doesn't do this'.
I'm getting the impression he cut and pasted his review of U6.10 vs Vista rc 1 from late last year...
Justin.
As has been discussed here before, the problem is that tabs/windows (including pop-ups) sharing a common server will need to share a common thread. This is surprisingly hard to implement correctly, which is why the delay in delivery. I understand the Moz guys would love to deliver it, but...
Justin.
It's more fun annoying the spelling nazis than the grammer nazis.
J.
Not so...
;-)
The 'super' classes wouldn't be abstract, sure, but you would implement an IVehicle interface, then wrapper any IVehicle object (presumably Vehicle) as a private member object in a Car class, forwarding all the methods you wished to forward. Car would implement both ICar and IVehicle of course.
The forwarding could be done manually; automagically through an IDE; via a keyword to be interpreted by the compiler (such as 'private forward IVehicle myVehicle = new Vehicle()') on the member variable object; even assumed(!) such that if one and only one private member object implements the same interface it would implicitly receive forwarded calls, rather like the way the compiler adds implicit super constructor calls for null constructors.
A Mustang class would contain a private member declared as ICar, but would not necessarily have an IMustang interface as it would be redundant.
This takes nothing away. All objects simply define what interfaces they support, and can then be treated as such in each processing context. We would not have two different methods for defining typing of objects, leading to a 'strong type' for objects.
As a bonus, it would provide polymorphism. CarBoat for example would have private member variable objects declared as ICar and IBoat, and CarBoat would implement ICar, IBoat and IVehicle. Forwarding of IVehicle methods would of course have to explicit as both the ICar and IBoat objects would be eligible targets as they both implement IVehicle. A compiler error would occur if this explicit forwarding was not provided.
Simple and elegant. Perhaps we should fork Java as described and call it Kava
Justin.
Secondly, you can do what you ask: it's a .deb file. You just download it (see openoffice.org for one, for example) and then install with dpkg (which is actually what apt-get calls).
In fact, Ubuntu may even be clever enough to open .deb files with dpkg for you by clicking, which would be exactly analogous to downloading an installshield packaged file or similar.
What was your most recent problem package_i_want? Perhaps the programs you want aren't made available as .deb files? Please give me an example and I'll try and point you in the right direction.
Justin.
I wasted three whole minutes of my life in Excel. I'll know in future that someone out there must have decided this should be available on a web site and has spent many many minutes doing so.
J.
This is tosh.
If you are seriously claiming that you could 'hack' any host running any software to get arbitrary permissions, or a shell session, or access an arbitrary file then you are just mad. On what basis do you say this? It's connected to a network therefore it can be hacked? Whuh?
(I can't believe you were modded informative of all things. Insightful I might have laughed off, but informative?!)
Justin.
Sorry, but sticking with the traditional alphabet it's clearly going to be Gobbling Girlfriend next.
;-)
Ubuntu adoption will go through the roof
J.
I don't know which is sadder... that he posted it, that you worked it out or that I trust /.ers so little that I had to do it too to check you weren't winding me up.
Justin.
So they can install key-loggers of course.
Justin.
Where in the world did you get the idea that if a solution is only valid for 95% of cases then it's no good for anything?
Windows is NFU for a few percent of cases (like me) because it doesn't come with certain software... does that mean Microsoft should give up and go home? Of course not.
Justin.
Watch and see.
.doc file attachments in gmail. All of three days later (IIRC) it appeared, and I've been using it with pleasure. I hadn't realised I wanted it till it was pointed out.
/. and you may get your wish.
Only last week, some poster here complained that there was no 'open in docs' link for
So someone there is prolly surfing
Justin.
This suggests they think they own any video labelled with any one word matching any one word in their artist name and work list, irrespective of content or any other words present which might provide a clue to a human.
Clearly they are (a) incompetent, (b) fools, and (c) arseholes. So, normal for a record company then.
Justin.