So in fact, it is quite possible that a dinosaur-killer could hit New York tomorrow and wipe us all out, and we would have NO warning.
You definition of "quite possible" is a little different than mine. One of these things hits the earth aproximately once ever 70 million years (if that). So the chance of one hitting us tommorow is about 1 in 25,550,000,000. If that is "quite possible" then it's also quite possible that monkeys will fly out of my butt.
I, on the other hand, am considering projects like Linux, or most other large open source projects, where multiple developers work on the same source code, and even the same parts of the same source code. This is what I believe RMS was saying would be very difficult to coordinate. Of course, to be certain of this, one would have to ask RMS himself.
Was this before CVS and other versioning systems had been developed or matured fully? I can see how it would be very difficult without those tools.
Why the f*ck is this insightful? The parent poster just said that if he doesn't like a product for a given price he won't buy it. People have been doing this since money was invented. This whore is ugly fat and charges too much! I'm taking my business elsewhere. Just because he is pissing all over the RIAA doesn't make the comment insightful. Fuck downloading copywrited music is immoral and unethical but we all do it anyway. Stop grasping at straws to rationalize your behaviour. Accept that you are doing something wrong and your mom isn't going to spank you for it.
It just seems like the solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Perfect. They can sell it on late night infomercials.
Ron: Are you tired of turning on your own TV? Bimbo: Oh, Ron I hate that! Ron: How many times has this happened to you? [Actor on screen drops remote under the sofa and fumbles around while showing copious amounts of crack] Bimbo: Constantly! That is quality time out of your life that you will never get back! Ron: Then you need the Lay-Z-Homer 3000*
It is possible to write piss poor spaghetti code in any language if you are a piss poor programmer.
I maintain and develop a 600,000 (yes six hundred thousand) line PHP web application. Through the use of very strict APIs and coding standards with strong emphasis on encapsulation it works out pretty well. For our specific application PHP is a better choice than JAVA.
PHP has many problems, however, we can overcome many of these by consistently applying simple coding standards. Some problems and their solutions are listed below.
Problem: PHP doesn't support private class variables or private methods. Solution: prefix variable/method name with an _ to indicate its status as private. (Ex. $_foobar) Additionally require the use of accessor functions to access variables.
Problem: PHP (and most other languages) encourages UI code to be interspersed with application logic. Solution: Enforce a separation between UI, application code and external data sources (i.e. three tiered application design).
Problem: No strongly typed vars Solution: Public class vars and global vars must have their type appended to their name (ex $memberNameStr).
The list is actually quite a bit longer however includes nothing major (sure abstract classes would be nice but not critical). Admittedly it is incredibly easily to write horribly bad code using PHP. The language doesn't enforce any sort of structure to the code whatsoever. It can be pain when a new developer is hired. In a relatively short amount of time they can write some significantly bad code and generally trash the code base. (something that is not as easy to do in stricter languages). However, most new developer's check-ins are scrutinized and the resulting beating they receive generally solves this problem.
There's a great movie "Gizmos", which has dozens of film sequences of early flight failures. But the best is at the end, when, in a grainy black and white clip, someone with a wing strapped to their back runs down a hill and leaps over a cliff - and flies perfectly. The scene changes to high-resolution color and you see the hang glider flying around for quite a while, and finally touching down softly.
Thanks for ruining the movie. [Throws movie into the wasebasket and walks away]
As the radiation approaches a star, it would have an effect on the star even before it got to the star
Dude, no such thing exists whose effects can be noticed faster that the speed of light. Nothing. Not even the effects of gravity, magnetism, electricity... nothing. At least not in standard physics and not in anyway that we know about or that we can measure.
Just accept it. The scientist involved are not stupid because they were unable to detect the event sooner and you are not smarter than them.
You can make up your own version of the laws of physics and use them to insult people of a noble profession. However, your the one who comes across as an idiot.
Yes, I understand the physics behind it, but I imagine that there would have been some precursors to its arrival. 45,000 light years is still a long time, and there should have been ripples beforehand.
What are you babbling about son? If you understand the physics of it then why are you asking such stupid questions?
There are no ripples because (as far as we know) nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. There is no way ripples or anything else can get here before light does.
Let me put it another way, hopefully in terms that you can understand. If I leave here, to kick your ass for asking such stupid questions, when would you first find out that I have left my house? When you opened your door and got my foot in your ass.
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I could swear most of us take part in that model at least once a week. Well at least those I presume are capable of typing. It is called shopping.
Nonsense. You can get all your basic necessities from mother nature. Out here in the forest you can hunt and grow your own food, build your own house and even Access/. by generating your own electr..... Error detected on squirrel_running_wheel_generator1. Phase mistmatch. Shutting down power grid in 10..9..8..7... Ahhh help! Squirrels flying everywhe... @^&#% NO CARRIER
Second, Apple gets 35% off the top of each sale. The rest goes to the RIAA, which it diffuses through its normal chain of profit sucking. This has the net effect of the artists themselves getting 35% less (and possibly worse than that, if portions of the standard breakdown include a flat fee per sale rather than a percentage of the gross). Yay Apple! Screw the artists (the only ones I feel sympathy for in the current war against IP) even harder!.
How do you think HMV and the like make their money? I'm sure they get ~35% (maybe more) of the top of CD sales. Somebody has to distribute the music and that somebody wants to make money.
If a segway can go 12.5mph up a 12-18% grade then it must have enough power to go considerably faster that it's advertised 12.5 mph top speed on flat ground.
How long until people start hacking their segways to achieve maximum speed?
It's not an odd view at all. It's reality. I know on slashdot everyone pulls prior out of their ass but that's not how things happen in real life.
I know because I own a software company and we have had many patent issues come up in the past. They are insidious evil and retarted. Using defensive patents is the preferred action.
Take a look at Redhat's stance on software patents. Redhat has a considerable number of patents; all of them used for defensive (i.e. Cross licensing) purposes.
In the future you will not be allowed to discuss items (read stuff) on the internet. All your discussions must be limited to non stuff (read old woman gossip).
Infact most of the ideas in this thread are patented or pending a patent (which, we all know, will be granted)...
>>Really? Do you know anyone who owns their home? I don't.
Last November I just bought a decent sized house with 1/2 acre of land in the suburbs in a very un-competitive (i.e. expensive) market. I could own it 100% (but why anybody would want to right now with interest rates so low is beyond me). I also own my car 100%. BTW I'm 20.
It can be done, even in this economy.
Back on topic, I shred everything and then recycle it. Occasionally I will even bleach some documents before tossing them in the garbage and some go into the fire pit.
It is incredibly easy with a good shredder. I had a hole cut into an exterior wall and had 3 ducts installed each leading to a seperate recycling bin. One for cans and glass, one for plastic and one for paper. The paper duct has a shredder mounted at the top. Everything (excluding newspapers/magazines etc) goes through the shredder before ending up in the recycling bin.
Just make sure you don't get a cheapo 4 page shredder. You won't use it. You need something that you can stuff a reasonable amount of paper into and walk away.
Yes, I can see him now... in his 50 million dollar mansion fistfulls of $1000 bills in each hand nervously cowering under his bed. Can't sleep the penguins will eat me. Can't sleep the penguins will eat me.
penguins... penguins... penguins... can't sleep.
But don't worry tommorow he has a swim in his money vault planned -- to take his mind of things.
This is probably a publicity stunt for them although a good one
This entire evaluation is one big piece of well crafted flaimbait specifically designed to get the publishing company a lot of attention.
Come on, walking through source code with an automated program counting every "possible" NULL point dereference is a joke. Laughable at best.
Essentially we have a software program analyzing a very small part (i.e. chucks of code) of a large application that it doesn't understand. (In fact understanding is beyond the scope of the program; that is why we still have programmers)
That would be like me walking into the center of a huge factory thought a maze of machinery with my screw driver and testing every screw. Writing a report as I go. Aaa Ha! That screw is loose.
Obviously I can't begin to test a factory for defects until I understand what the factory does and how it is supposed to do that. (That screw was supposed to be loose! Tightening it will restrict the flow of coolant and the entire plant will explode!)
In conclusion: Who ever came up with this methodology has a few screws loose.
Trademarks and copywrights are entirely different things. Why do people perpetualy get them confused?
On Slashdot it is a chronic problem. I often see nonsensical/stupid posts (like the parent) modded to +5.
To set the record straight: (This is by no means an accurate leagal definition but you get the idea...)
TRADEMARK [trademark]. 1. A word, slogan, design, picture, or other symbol used to identify and distinguish goods. 2. Any identifying symbol, including a word, design, or shape of a product or container, that qualifies for legal status as a trademark, service mark, collective mark, certification mark, trade name, or trade dress. Trademarks identify one seller's goods and distinguish them from goods sold by others. They signify that all goods bearing the mark come from or are controlled by a single source and are of an equal level of quality. And they advertise, promote, and generally assist in selling goods. A trademark is infringed by another if the second use causes confusion of source, affiliation, connection, or sponsorship.
COPYRIGHT [copyright]. An exclusive right conferred by the government on the creator of a work to exclude others from reproducing it, adapting it, distributing it to the public, performing it in public, or displaying it in public. Copyright does not protect an abstract idea; it protects only the concrete expression of an idea. To be valid, a copyrighted work must have originality and some modicum of creativity.
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So in fact, it is quite possible that a dinosaur-killer could hit New York tomorrow and wipe us all out, and we would have NO warning.
You definition of "quite possible" is a little different than mine. One of these things hits the earth aproximately once ever 70 million years (if that). So the chance of one hitting us tommorow is about 1 in 25,550,000,000. If that is "quite possible" then it's also quite possible that monkeys will fly out of my butt.
I, on the other hand, am considering projects like Linux, or most other large open source projects, where multiple developers work on the same source code, and even the same parts of the same source code. This is what I believe RMS was saying would be very difficult to coordinate. Of course, to be certain of this, one would have to ask RMS himself.
Was this before CVS and other versioning systems had been developed or matured fully? I can see how it would be very difficult without those tools.
Why the f*ck is this insightful? The parent poster just said that if he doesn't like a product for a given price he won't buy it. People have been doing this since money was invented. This whore is ugly fat and charges too much! I'm taking my business elsewhere. Just because he is pissing all over the RIAA doesn't make the comment insightful. Fuck downloading copywrited music is immoral and unethical but we all do it anyway. Stop grasping at straws to rationalize your behaviour. Accept that you are doing something wrong and your mom isn't going to spank you for it.
It just seems like the solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
Perfect. They can sell it on late night infomercials.
Ron: Are you tired of turning on your own TV?
Bimbo: Oh, Ron I hate that!
Ron: How many times has this happened to you? [Actor on screen drops remote under the sofa and fumbles around while showing copious amounts of crack]
Bimbo: Constantly! That is quality time out of your life that you will never get back!
Ron: Then you need the Lay-Z-Homer 3000*
and so on...
*Borrowed from above.
Mod the parent up.
It is possible to write piss poor spaghetti code in any language if you are a piss poor programmer.
I maintain and develop a 600,000 (yes six hundred thousand) line PHP web application. Through the use of very strict APIs and coding standards with strong emphasis on encapsulation it works out pretty well. For our specific application PHP is a better choice than JAVA.
PHP has many problems, however, we can overcome many of these by consistently applying simple coding standards. Some problems and their solutions are listed below.
Problem: PHP doesn't support private class variables or private methods.
Solution: prefix variable/method name with an _ to indicate its status as private. (Ex. $_foobar) Additionally require the use of accessor functions to access variables.
Problem: PHP (and most other languages) encourages UI code to be interspersed with application logic.
Solution: Enforce a separation between UI, application code and external data sources (i.e. three tiered application design).
Problem: No strongly typed vars
Solution: Public class vars and global vars must have their type appended to their name (ex $memberNameStr).
The list is actually quite a bit longer however includes nothing major (sure abstract classes would be nice but not critical). Admittedly it is incredibly easily to write horribly bad code using PHP. The language doesn't enforce any sort of structure to the code whatsoever. It can be pain when a new developer is hired. In a relatively short amount of time they can write some significantly bad code and generally trash the code base. (something that is not as easy to do in stricter languages). However, most new developer's check-ins are scrutinized and the resulting beating they receive generally solves this problem.
There's a great movie "Gizmos", which has dozens of film sequences of early flight failures. But the best is at the end, when, in a grainy black and white clip, someone with a wing strapped to their back runs down a hill and leaps over a cliff - and flies perfectly. The scene changes to high-resolution color and you see the hang glider flying around for quite a while, and finally touching down softly.
Thanks for ruining the movie. [Throws movie into the wasebasket and walks away]
This is the patch that I used on the 3.2.3p1 code. I didn't want to upgrade all the way to 3.7
/* Increase the size of the buffer and retry. */ /* NOTREACHED */
It seems pretty straight forward and the changes are pretty obvious. Is there somehting else?
--- buffer.c
+++ buffer.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
void *
buffer_append_space(Buffer *buffer, u_int len)
{
+ u_int newlen;
void *p;
if (len > 0x100000)
@@ -96,11 +97,13 @@
goto restart;
}
- buffer->alloc += len + 32768;
- if (buffer->alloc > 0xa00000)
+
+ newlen = buffer->alloc + len + 32768;
+ if (newlen > 0xa00000)
fatal("buffer_append_space: alloc %u not supported",
- buffer->alloc);
- buffer->buf = xrealloc(buffer->buf, buffer->alloc);
+ newlen);
+ buffer->buf = xrealloc(buffer->buf, newlen);
+ buffer->alloc = newlen;
goto restart;
}
As the radiation approaches a star, it would have an effect on the star even before it got to the star
Dude, no such thing exists whose effects can be noticed faster that the speed of light. Nothing. Not even the effects of gravity, magnetism, electricity... nothing. At least not in standard physics and not in anyway that we know about or that we can measure.
Just accept it. The scientist involved are not stupid because they were unable to detect the event sooner and you are not smarter than them.
You can make up your own version of the laws of physics and use them to insult people of a noble profession. However, your the one who comes across as an idiot.
Yes, I understand the physics behind it, but I imagine that there would have been some precursors to its arrival. 45,000 light years is still a long time, and there should have been ripples beforehand.
What are you babbling about son? If you understand the physics of it then why are you asking such stupid questions?
There are no ripples because (as far as we know) nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. There is no way ripples or anything else can get here before light does.
Let me put it another way, hopefully in terms that you can understand. If I leave here, to kick your ass for asking such stupid questions, when would you first find out that I have left my house? When you opened your door and got my foot in your ass.
I could swear most of us take part in that model at least once a week. Well at least those I presume are capable of typing. It is called shopping.
/. by generating your own electr..... Error detected on squirrel_running_wheel_generator1. Phase mistmatch. Shutting down power grid in 10..9..8..7... Ahhh help! Squirrels flying everywhe... @^&#% NO CARRIER
Nonsense. You can get all your basic necessities from mother nature. Out here in the forest you can hunt and grow your own food, build your own house and even Access
The day is coming... when the human is their to make sure the computer is being alert.
That day is already here. What do you think NOC monkeys do all night? They sit around all night just incase a computer goes down.
Yes, even in NOCs that run linux.
Second, Apple gets 35% off the top of each sale. The rest goes to the RIAA, which it diffuses through its normal chain of profit sucking. This has the net effect of the artists themselves getting 35% less (and possibly worse than that, if portions of the standard breakdown include a flat fee per sale rather than a percentage of the gross). Yay Apple! Screw the artists (the only ones I feel sympathy for in the current war against IP) even harder!.
How do you think HMV and the like make their money? I'm sure they get ~35% (maybe more) of the top of CD sales. Somebody has to distribute the music and that somebody wants to make money.
If a segway can go 12.5mph up a 12-18% grade then it must have enough power to go considerably faster that it's advertised 12.5 mph top speed on flat ground.
How long until people start hacking their segways to achieve maximum speed?
Did you email them from an IP in your blocked class C? Maybe they are using their own block list and never recieved your email.
Now that would be some mighty fine irony.
Dude, read the parent post again. He said identical. Repeat after me "i-den-ti-cal"
It's not an odd view at all. It's reality. I know on slashdot everyone pulls prior out of their ass but that's not how things happen in real life.
I know because I own a software company and we have had many patent issues come up in the past. They are insidious evil and retarted. Using defensive patents is the preferred action.
Take a look at Redhat's stance on software patents. Redhat has a considerable number of patents; all of them used for defensive (i.e. Cross licensing) purposes.
It's too bad Amazon has already applied for a patent on this... (along with the rest of the internet)
Method and system for conducting a discussion relating to an item
In the future you will not be allowed to discuss items (read stuff) on the internet. All your discussions must be limited to non stuff (read old woman gossip).
Infact most of the ideas in this thread are patented or pending a patent (which, we all know, will be granted)...
>>Really? Do you know anyone who owns their home? I don't.
Last November I just bought a decent sized house with 1/2 acre of land in the suburbs in a very un-competitive (i.e. expensive) market. I could own it 100% (but why anybody would want to right now with interest rates so low is beyond me). I also own my car 100%. BTW I'm 20.
It can be done, even in this economy.
Back on topic, I shred everything and then recycle it. Occasionally I will even bleach some documents before tossing them in the garbage and some go into the fire pit.
It is incredibly easy with a good shredder. I had a hole cut into an exterior wall and had 3 ducts installed each leading to a seperate recycling bin. One for cans and glass, one for plastic and one for paper. The paper duct has a shredder mounted at the top. Everything (excluding newspapers/magazines etc) goes through the shredder before ending up in the recycling bin.
Just make sure you don't get a cheapo 4 page shredder. You won't use it. You need something that you can stuff a reasonable amount of paper into and walk away.
Mod the parent up.
And please mod the parent's parent down.
Thanks you made my day ...
I have Linux, LVS, Heartbeat, apache, php, mysql, bind etc etc @ just under 20,000,000 page views a day. (no not a typo 20 million)
And btw it's a site that nobody has heard of.. (well besides our customers)
P.S. what is the url of you site?
That must keep Bill up at night.
Yes, I can see him now... in his 50 million dollar mansion fistfulls of $1000 bills in each hand nervously cowering under his bed. Can't sleep the penguins will eat me. Can't sleep the penguins will eat me.
penguins... penguins... penguins... can't sleep.
But don't worry tommorow he has a swim in his money vault planned -- to take his mind of things.
This is probably a publicity stunt for them although a good one
This entire evaluation is one big piece of well crafted flaimbait specifically designed to get the publishing company a lot of attention.
Come on, walking through source code with an automated program counting every "possible" NULL point dereference is a joke. Laughable at best.
Essentially we have a software program analyzing a very small part (i.e. chucks of code) of a large application that it doesn't understand. (In fact understanding is beyond the scope of the program; that is why we still have programmers)
That would be like me walking into the center of a huge factory thought a maze of machinery with my screw driver and testing every screw. Writing a report as I go. Aaa Ha! That screw is loose.
Obviously I can't begin to test a factory for defects until I understand what the factory does and how it is supposed to do that. (That screw was supposed to be loose! Tightening it will restrict the flow of coolant and the entire plant will explode!)
In conclusion:
Who ever came up with this methodology has a few screws loose.
Trademarks and copywrights are entirely different things. Why do people perpetualy get them confused?
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On Slashdot it is a chronic problem. I often see nonsensical/stupid posts (like the parent) modded to +5.
To set the record straight:
(This is by no means an accurate leagal definition but you get the idea
TRADEMARK [trademark]. 1. A word, slogan, design, picture, or other symbol used to identify and distinguish goods. 2. Any identifying symbol, including a word, design, or shape of a product or container, that qualifies for legal status as a trademark, service mark, collective mark, certification mark, trade name, or trade dress. Trademarks identify one seller's goods and distinguish them from goods sold by others. They signify that all goods bearing the mark come from or are controlled by a single source and are of an equal level of quality. And they advertise, promote, and generally assist in selling goods. A trademark is infringed by another if the second use causes confusion of source, affiliation, connection, or sponsorship.
COPYRIGHT [copyright]. An exclusive right conferred by the government on the creator of a work to exclude others from reproducing it, adapting it, distributing it to the public, performing it in public, or displaying it in public. Copyright does not protect an abstract idea; it protects only the concrete expression of an idea. To be valid, a copyrighted work must have originality and some modicum of creativity.
(FROM: http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/intelprp/gl
It would be better if you could point it at hot girls and it would search the Internet for pictures of them without any clothes on.
How about this radical idea -- you could introduce yourself, bring out your inner player and maybe get the real thing.
No No. Wait, never mind. This is slashdot. Yeah the image search thing is a really good idea! good luck with that...
so you would rather add in a bunch of BLOAT, then pay the 2 grand? ;)
i would rather pay for efficiency.
You would pay more for less code? huh?
The shockwave from that statement just tore through the whole java industry.
But cudos are in order, you are way more efficient than all those people who waste energy pressing the SHIFT key.