Evolution is taught as a theory, not a law, so nobody is actually saying that it is absolutely correct. It is one of many scientific theories that is taught in science classes.
Creationism is not a scientific theory at all, and thus doesn't belong. I could absolutely see speaking of it in the context of a history class or, obviously, a class about religion.
If I direct people to mail..com via http it forwards them to the insecure version after login. Unfortunately you can't hit mail..com with https and as a result to be secure people who use my Google Apps mail have to type the long drawn out mail.google.com/a/ to connect to it. I can't seem to find a setting anywhere to force security.... I first submitted the https->http thing to Google when I started using it in like 2004.... about damn time they started doing something about it.
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I'm not sure which is closer to the comic really...
I would say that Ledgers version was brilliantly mad however. Right down to the stories he told about how he got to look the way he got, he was a manipulative psychopath the whole way through.
I've left two jobs in my life where I had administrative type access to high importance parts of the system. Company A when I gave my notice (three weeks in this case) said thanks, but told me to take the three weeks off with pay and disabled my access immediately. I have had great recommendations from my manager at that company which has helped me get other jobs, so I'm pretty sure it isn't a person issue.
Company B, which I left a couple months ago, let me work my entire 4 weeks notice with full access.
I don't know how big a firm your talking about here, but a lot of companies have a pretty firm HR policy on asset access for short timer employees. Before you get too upset, check into the policy and see if your being singled out or if that is just the way the organization works. It certainly sounds to me based on your snippet the latter is much more likely.
"Whereas a garbage collected language like Java gives you absolutely no control over when (if ever) an object is destructed."
That is the single biggest miss-conception that hurts java programs everywhere. The fact is, to write large high performance java programs you still have to be conscious of what is actually going on. That is why some JVM's have tuning parameters for the types of garbage collection as well as other aspects of the JVM your code is running in.
Garage collection happening automatically in no way, shape, or form implies any level of performance, good or bad.
Signing over the patent rights is not really the issue. I'm totally ok with RAMBUS having a technology patented and collecting license fees on it. What I'm not ok with is them deceiving folks into standardizing on there technology. Perhaps if it was known by the others at the time of the meetings that RAMBUS was patenting the tech they would have still chosen it, perhaps not, but at least give them the choice knowing all the facts.
Honestly, I'd like to see those patents surrendered to JEDEC or the IEEE at this point. Something of that nature is certainly the only way RAMBUS will ever get themselves back into one of those meetings again.
I couldn't agree more. It is somewhat understandable that a 3rd party would have trouble with drivers, it is well less to stomach when the Creator has those problems.
That being said... in the graphics world there are effectively 3 main players, nVidia, ATI, and Intel. I think it would be a good idea in the future for Microsoft to ensure those companies have everything they need to get there cards working properly pre-launch of a new OS... particularly pre-launch of a new OS that includes heavy use of graphics cards...
I'm not being an Apple proponent here or anything... but from a security prospective, you must assume users are stupid. Half the viruses/phishing/scams that get propagated pray on the general willingness of the generic user to do stupid things.
Given the increasing amount of usage smart phones get it won't surprised me if I a lot of folks start imposing restrictions like Symbian's latest code signing policy and Apple's unwillingness to let you do certain things with there SDK.
Like it or not, there is a cost for openness... so give me a virus scanner/firewall on my phone, an SDK that can use the full API, and lets move on.
It isn't just DVD that is attempting to compete here, though I agree it the biggest competitor currently. I really think the major battle Bluray will ultimately face is with the likes of Apple iTunes, Amazon UnBox, and on-demand from the likes of DirecTV (which just enabled on-demand via eithernet on my HD DVR box) and cable companies (which largely have had on-demand for a long time).
I'm always surprised to see Apple listed as a Bluray backer... particularly considering I don't believe I've ever seen an Apple device with Bluray built in.
I do development for UNIX at my office too. We have a bunch of development servers of different flavors and a Mac Pro sits on my desk. As far as UNIX development goes, it is wonderful.
Basically all they are doing is blaming Apple for putting in too many nice features in the device. It is just stupid.
Many of us wear watches on our wrist that make the iPhone's price tag look meaningless. If I were a mugger I'd much rather steal them. The black market for expensive watches has to be better then the black market for a device in which you can't use one of its main features (the phone part) and of which is easily to track if you turn it on and let it connect to the cell network (which phones do even without a sim card installed so they can dial 911). It isn't like you could just swap out the sim card and use it as your phone... Cingular would be able to tell the handsets IMEI number and thus catch you in the act of using a stolen phone.
I once sent an e-mail to one of there "journalists" pointing out an error. I got perhaps the most childish response imaginable back. They have zero integrity and don't even appear to give two shits about the validity of the information they put out.
Regardless of what I might think about Sony and the PS3, I certainly am not going to believe something just because it comes from those jokers.
You never tried hard enough... If you call up Cingular or Tmobile and tell them all the numbers they need off the phone they will activate it. I've bought several phones from straight from the manufacturer and done this with them. Key is to never tell them what they don't need/want to know.
According to Apple's site the Might Mouse Wireless can fit two AA batteries but only requires one for opperation. So if you want to save the wieght you can run with one, but you loose out on battery life.
Most compilers and interpreters these days are pretty darn good at optimizing, making the drawback of using a higher-level language less and less important.
In the past, most compilers were dreadful at optimizations. Now, they are just horrible. I guess that is an improvement, but I still believe there is a lot of good research to come here.
I do agree that the playing field has become pretty even. For example, with the right VM and the right code you can get pretty good performance out of Java. Problem is "the right VM" depends greatly on the task the program is doing.. certainly not a one vm fits all out of the box solution (ok.. perhaps you could always use the same VM, but app specific tuning is often neccesary for really high performance).
At any rate.. people just need to learn to use the best tool for the job. Most apps don't actually need to be bleedingly fast, so developing them in something that makes the development go faster is probably more important then developing them in something to eek out that tiny performance gain nobody will probably notice anyway.
If CleanFlix actually had permission from the studio whom owns the film then there would be nothing wrong with this service. They would, in essence, be operating just like TV stations do when they get permission to air a rated R moved with edits on TV. However, based on the lawsuit, this permission was never granted and thus CleanFlix and company are clearly in violation of copyright law.
You are certainly correct that the revenue isn't altered by this editing, but I can guarantee that a director/writer/producer would disagree that this does not hurt them. It is there media and they should have the right to control how it is altered. If they aren't given this right then it will not take long before other people use this precedence in other areas that may not be so seemingly harmless.
It is CleanFlix you should blame, because they should have had the due diligence to seek permission in the first place.
Price fixing, in a nutshell, is when competitors join forces to set prices in such a way to inflate the market value of a product. Price fixing is illegal, but it isn't what is going on here.
What is going on here is Intel decided that it can afford to lower its margins in order to either take back the market it lost, or squeeze its competitors because they cannot afford to operate on lower margins.
There is nothing illegal about operating this way (though some might find it immoral). AMD employed a very similar strategy in the late 90's, early 00's in order to position themselves where they are today in the market.
Sweet! So 17 beers helps prevent prostate cancer and coffee prevents cirrhosis...
Besides the 30 trips to the bathroom a day from drinking a pot of coffee and 17 beers I'm all set!!!
If you look at the agreements you make when you sign up for DSL or Cable it will pretty much always say something to the effect of "actual speed may vary". Fact is, particularly with DSL, depending on the line quality and distance from the C/O it can be impossible to get the full speed (even factoring in the typical network overhead).
Where I used to live the lines were so poor I was basically told there was no way I'd get 6Mbit when the Speakeasy team did there install. They did a bunch of tests and told me the best they could do was 1.5Mbit so that is what I ended up paying for. The part I find annoying is many less customer service orriented DSL providers (Bellsouth, Earthlink, Verizon, SBC to name some I've had) would never bother to do the tests and happily charge you extra for the faster product even if your line quality is too poor to have a chance of using it.
At my new place when Speakeay moved my service they did the same tests and the tech basically said "I see you originally wanted 6Mbit service, you are now able to get it, should we upgrade your plan?". Of course I said yes.
The SLR's being refered to are the agreements business make with the telco companies that say things to the effect of "we will guarentee no dropped packets if bandwidth doesn't exceed X, we will guarentee speeds of Y, we will guarntee a maximum downtime of Z". It is these agreements that push the cost of the solutions so high.
I've currently got two boxes in a rack here at the office.. an HP DL 580 and an HP DL 585. Both have four dual core CPUs (580 has 4 DC Xeon's, 585 has 4 DC Opteron's) for a grand total of 8 procs per box. So yes, both AMD and Intel have this technology already... only thing different here seams to be marketing it to a home desktop environment instead of a server environment.
Honestly, I've never heard of anyone being hacked through sendmail either.. but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
What I have witnessed a lot is people who run sendmail as an open relay because they don't know any better. Not to say you can't also configure qmail or postfix to be an open relay.
The biggest reason I switched away from sendmail was I did lose data because of mbox file corruption on two occasions. Maildir is much better at protecting against that.
Qmail/Qmail-Scanner/Qmail-SPP have been doing a great job for me for the last few years.
I don't know exactly how this encrypted FS works in Vista but I imagine it won't be much more different then cryptfs in Linux or FileVault in OSX. When I boot into Linux on my Mac I can't get into the home directories for any of my users but I can certainly still share files....
Anyway, most dual booters that go between Windows and Linux already have dealt with these issues due to the unfriendly nature of NTFS.
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Evolution is taught as a theory, not a law, so nobody is actually saying that it is absolutely correct. It is one of many scientific theories that is taught in science classes.
Creationism is not a scientific theory at all, and thus doesn't belong. I could absolutely see speaking of it in the context of a history class or, obviously, a class about religion.
That is why you have to have coding standards...
I'd also hope you never have 1 person in charge of 3M lines of code.
by W. Richard Stevens (1st) edition and added to by Stephen Rago (2nd edition).
If you need to program in *nix this is a must have reference.
If I direct people to mail..com via http it forwards them to the insecure version after login. Unfortunately you can't hit mail..com with https and as a result to be secure people who use my Google Apps mail have to type the long drawn out mail.google.com/a/ to connect to it. I can't seem to find a setting anywhere to force security.... I first submitted the https->http thing to Google when I started using it in like 2004.... about damn time they started doing something about it.
I'm not sure which is closer to the comic really...
I would say that Ledgers version was brilliantly mad however. Right down to the stories he told about how he got to look the way he got, he was a manipulative psychopath the whole way through.
I've left two jobs in my life where I had administrative type access to high importance parts of the system. Company A when I gave my notice (three weeks in this case) said thanks, but told me to take the three weeks off with pay and disabled my access immediately. I have had great recommendations from my manager at that company which has helped me get other jobs, so I'm pretty sure it isn't a person issue.
Company B, which I left a couple months ago, let me work my entire 4 weeks notice with full access.
I don't know how big a firm your talking about here, but a lot of companies have a pretty firm HR policy on asset access for short timer employees. Before you get too upset, check into the policy and see if your being singled out or if that is just the way the organization works. It certainly sounds to me based on your snippet the latter is much more likely.
"Whereas a garbage collected language like Java gives you absolutely no control over when (if ever) an object is destructed."
That is the single biggest miss-conception that hurts java programs everywhere. The fact is, to write large high performance java programs you still have to be conscious of what is actually going on. That is why some JVM's have tuning parameters for the types of garbage collection as well as other aspects of the JVM your code is running in.
Garage collection happening automatically in no way, shape, or form implies any level of performance, good or bad.
http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/tuning.html
Signing over the patent rights is not really the issue. I'm totally ok with RAMBUS having a technology patented and collecting license fees on it. What I'm not ok with is them deceiving folks into standardizing on there technology. Perhaps if it was known by the others at the time of the meetings that RAMBUS was patenting the tech they would have still chosen it, perhaps not, but at least give them the choice knowing all the facts.
Honestly, I'd like to see those patents surrendered to JEDEC or the IEEE at this point. Something of that nature is certainly the only way RAMBUS will ever get themselves back into one of those meetings again.
I couldn't agree more. It is somewhat understandable that a 3rd party would have trouble with drivers, it is well less to stomach when the Creator has those problems.
That being said... in the graphics world there are effectively 3 main players, nVidia, ATI, and Intel. I think it would be a good idea in the future for Microsoft to ensure those companies have everything they need to get there cards working properly pre-launch of a new OS... particularly pre-launch of a new OS that includes heavy use of graphics cards...
I'm not being an Apple proponent here or anything... but from a security prospective, you must assume users are stupid. Half the viruses/phishing/scams that get propagated pray on the general willingness of the generic user to do stupid things.
Given the increasing amount of usage smart phones get it won't surprised me if I a lot of folks start imposing restrictions like Symbian's latest code signing policy and Apple's unwillingness to let you do certain things with there SDK.
Like it or not, there is a cost for openness... so give me a virus scanner/firewall on my phone, an SDK that can use the full API, and lets move on.
It isn't just DVD that is attempting to compete here, though I agree it the biggest competitor currently. I really think the major battle Bluray will ultimately face is with the likes of Apple iTunes, Amazon UnBox, and on-demand from the likes of DirecTV (which just enabled on-demand via eithernet on my HD DVR box) and cable companies (which largely have had on-demand for a long time).
I'm always surprised to see Apple listed as a Bluray backer... particularly considering I don't believe I've ever seen an Apple device with Bluray built in.
I do development for UNIX at my office too. We have a bunch of development servers of different flavors and a Mac Pro sits on my desk. As far as UNIX development goes, it is wonderful.
This is totally incorrect. The IEEE standards are just fine... using them when you shouldn't be is when bugs happen.
Basically all they are doing is blaming Apple for putting in too many nice features in the device. It is just stupid.
Many of us wear watches on our wrist that make the iPhone's price tag look meaningless. If I were a mugger I'd much rather steal them. The black market for expensive watches has to be better then the black market for a device in which you can't use one of its main features (the phone part) and of which is easily to track if you turn it on and let it connect to the cell network (which phones do even without a sim card installed so they can dial 911). It isn't like you could just swap out the sim card and use it as your phone... Cingular would be able to tell the handsets IMEI number and thus catch you in the act of using a stolen phone.
I once sent an e-mail to one of there "journalists" pointing out an error. I got perhaps the most childish response imaginable back. They have zero integrity and don't even appear to give two shits about the validity of the information they put out.
Regardless of what I might think about Sony and the PS3, I certainly am not going to believe something just because it comes from those jokers.
You never tried hard enough... If you call up Cingular or Tmobile and tell them all the numbers they need off the phone they will activate it. I've bought several phones from straight from the manufacturer and done this with them. Key is to never tell them what they don't need/want to know.
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According to Apple's site the Might Mouse Wireless can fit two AA batteries but only requires one for opperation. So if you want to save the wieght you can run with one, but you loose out on battery life.
In the past, most compilers were dreadful at optimizations. Now, they are just horrible. I guess that is an improvement, but I still believe there is a lot of good research to come here.
I do agree that the playing field has become pretty even. For example, with the right VM and the right code you can get pretty good performance out of Java. Problem is "the right VM" depends greatly on the task the program is doing.. certainly not a one vm fits all out of the box solution (ok.. perhaps you could always use the same VM, but app specific tuning is often neccesary for really high performance).
At any rate.. people just need to learn to use the best tool for the job. Most apps don't actually need to be bleedingly fast, so developing them in something that makes the development go faster is probably more important then developing them in something to eek out that tiny performance gain nobody will probably notice anyway.
If CleanFlix actually had permission from the studio whom owns the film then there would be nothing wrong with this service. They would, in essence, be operating just like TV stations do when they get permission to air a rated R moved with edits on TV. However, based on the lawsuit, this permission was never granted and thus CleanFlix and company are clearly in violation of copyright law.
You are certainly correct that the revenue isn't altered by this editing, but I can guarantee that a director/writer/producer would disagree that this does not hurt them. It is there media and they should have the right to control how it is altered. If they aren't given this right then it will not take long before other people use this precedence in other areas that may not be so seemingly harmless.
It is CleanFlix you should blame, because they should have had the due diligence to seek permission in the first place.
Price fixing, in a nutshell, is when competitors join forces to set prices in such a way to inflate the market value of a product. Price fixing is illegal, but it isn't what is going on here.
What is going on here is Intel decided that it can afford to lower its margins in order to either take back the market it lost, or squeeze its competitors because they cannot afford to operate on lower margins.
There is nothing illegal about operating this way (though some might find it immoral). AMD employed a very similar strategy in the late 90's, early 00's in order to position themselves where they are today in the market.
Sweet! So 17 beers helps prevent prostate cancer and coffee prevents cirrhosis... Besides the 30 trips to the bathroom a day from drinking a pot of coffee and 17 beers I'm all set!!!
If you look at the agreements you make when you sign up for DSL or Cable it will pretty much always say something to the effect of "actual speed may vary". Fact is, particularly with DSL, depending on the line quality and distance from the C/O it can be impossible to get the full speed (even factoring in the typical network overhead).
Where I used to live the lines were so poor I was basically told there was no way I'd get 6Mbit when the Speakeasy team did there install. They did a bunch of tests and told me the best they could do was 1.5Mbit so that is what I ended up paying for. The part I find annoying is many less customer service orriented DSL providers (Bellsouth, Earthlink, Verizon, SBC to name some I've had) would never bother to do the tests and happily charge you extra for the faster product even if your line quality is too poor to have a chance of using it.
At my new place when Speakeay moved my service they did the same tests and the tech basically said "I see you originally wanted 6Mbit service, you are now able to get it, should we upgrade your plan?". Of course I said yes.
The SLR's being refered to are the agreements business make with the telco companies that say things to the effect of "we will guarentee no dropped packets if bandwidth doesn't exceed X, we will guarentee speeds of Y, we will guarntee a maximum downtime of Z". It is these agreements that push the cost of the solutions so high.
I've currently got two boxes in a rack here at the office.. an HP DL 580 and an HP DL 585. Both have four dual core CPUs (580 has 4 DC Xeon's, 585 has 4 DC Opteron's) for a grand total of 8 procs per box. So yes, both AMD and Intel have this technology already... only thing different here seams to be marketing it to a home desktop environment instead of a server environment.
Honestly, I've never heard of anyone being hacked through sendmail either.. but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
What I have witnessed a lot is people who run sendmail as an open relay because they don't know any better. Not to say you can't also configure qmail or postfix to be an open relay.
The biggest reason I switched away from sendmail was I did lose data because of mbox file corruption on two occasions. Maildir is much better at protecting against that.
Qmail/Qmail-Scanner/Qmail-SPP have been doing a great job for me for the last few years.
I don't know exactly how this encrypted FS works in Vista but I imagine it won't be much more different then cryptfs in Linux or FileVault in OSX. When I boot into Linux on my Mac I can't get into the home directories for any of my users but I can certainly still share files....
Anyway, most dual booters that go between Windows and Linux already have dealt with these issues due to the unfriendly nature of NTFS.