Re:His name is Guido?
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Guido Goes Google
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I dont think that the name Guido will give you any guarantees on the language quality...
However, could this be Google's move against Sun and Microsoft ?
Sun has Java Microsoft has C#
It would be pretty logical that google would like to control something that is comparable to sun and microsoft's bigtime server languages. Python has moderately fast bytecode (google stuff could improve a lot here) and it's got a decent oop model and a threading api. i/o is also usable. i think zope fans can hype their favourite thing in the responding posts too.
i can't wait for the first version of GPython or Gython !
indeed, this is not self awareness, just optical tricks.
anyway, i really seem to miss the point how this self recognition from the mirror will save the world ?
a) i understand that big robots are good for building me cars b) i understand that medium robots are good for producing regular electronics c) i udnerstand that possible nano robots could operate on my body where people just cant.
d) i cant understand why would anyone need a robot that is stearing at mirrors.
There are alot of potential benifits on both sides
That may be true for Google and AOL, but what about the users ? Competitive market is good, because it creates better software (everybody wants to be better than the alternatives). But if everything is owned by Google after 10 years, we'll have a new M$ on our hands, which we hoorayd for ourselves.
I've been a google 'adopter' for quite some time now, i love their search engine, i user their gmail, i visit orkut and i even have a gtalk user online most of the time.
But if Google is turning into another We-Own-You-And-Are-The-Only-Choice-You-Can-Make, then i'm not so sure it's so good anymore. Google came as a fascinating alternative, but alternatives that became mainstreams in the history haven't had such a good history. Remember that microsoft and x86 were the 'new and amazing alternative' 20 years ago.
I hope Google will learn from the mistakes of others and become a good mainstream but the chances are quite slim, even this gmail/gtalk/orkut symbiose that we have already seems to be an attempt to grab it all for themselves.
What do yo think, how will this whole G[all stuff] end ?
I have exactly the opposite feelings, i have had ata seagates around here for a few years now, the barracuda 7-s , they all work like a charm. but maxtor-s and hitachi-s have failed a lot around here, so i just keep away from them. death stars from ibm aren't even worth mentioning. i think it depends a lot on distributors too, one ships the lucky series and the others just ship the unlucky ones.
i don't think there's a "golden and bulletproof" hardrive anywhere here, but the barracudas have served me well.
the scsi drives obviously are quite a different story and i have no experience on them. but if you can afford scsi, you probably can afford backups too.
anyway, i think that the "age of hardrives" is coming to an end, we need something that works better, faster and is more "foolproof". a quite ideal device in my vision would work like a flash memory, without any moving parts. it would have excellent access times and at the same time no danger to destroy the data because of a failure in the mechanics side.
what do you think, is it time for some revolutinary new storage devices ?
java is the only thing that works safely through any web browser.
you can't run C or Fortran by clicking on a web link, such an alternative would be a great boost to the distributed computing stuff (it is meant as an alternative to C and Fortran, not as a replacement). Besides, if java's algebra is even 10 times faster then 10 000 users on te web still mean an extra 1000 machine power. And you'll have more than 10 000 users running this.
I never claimed java is that one-does-it-all, but it's the only thing that you can run in a webbrowser and has sufficient portability and performance (flash is a no-no and javascript isn't even worth mentioning). Currently that is just an unused resource.
It is meant to be an applet language not a high-performance computing language.
Applet language ? Are you sure ? Because i'd rather think it's an ideal platform that has the almost perfect OOP implementation and the most stable threading system i've ever seen. Not to mention the independance from the server operating system and hardware. I must warn all the banks and other big server owners around in my country that their J2EE applications are actually running it all in an "applet language":p
If i were you, i'd forget that applet sentence and get a book to read about what you really can do with Java:p
Their computers can calculate a prime number with 10,000,000 digits, but they can't even serve a webpage? Jeez... where are your priorities?
Next slashdot news will be how slashdotters managed to wreck the hard disk in the server that contained the 10 million digit prime:p Now that would be real./ing power.
I think it's kindof annoying to install that distributed computing software everywhere where you'd like to use the spare cpu time. My homies mess up their windows machine so often that i've stopped trying to keep anything running there (a machine online 24/7 that shows a web browser and msn for 3-4 hours a day, what a waste).
Can't they put it in applets that i can run from their webpages ? Surely Java is a bit slower than C in algebra (not really as much as you think, on very simple math tests the difference was about 10-20% last time i measured), so a C client should be available, but a web based client which i can just run in any java enabled browser would definitely increase the userbase.
ofcourse isp's can record the leases, but do they hold the records for leases for years after they were given ? doubtful. but this is the time by which they will get the issue into the courthouse to get a warrant for getting information from my isp's:)
no isp is giving away such information just like that.
another way to do it would be live near a cafe/hotel/any-other-public-facility with an open wifi network so they'd get the blame. with today's "inventions" of parabol wifi antennas, you can go a few miles away from the AP:p
flashblock needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled when you upgraded to 1.5 some time ago, now they claim that it should work automagically. i did uninstall/install and my flashblock works just fine. i wish they'd have this thing built in instead of a hack addon. it still flickers and does some weird tricks from time to time.
about the bookmarks... i guess i'm not that much a fan of bookmarking, i bookmark only rare stuff and use my memory and google for everything else.
the only bad thing from the "rise of the firefox" is that they lost the speed that phoenix had. i loved phoenix because of it's gui speed. firefox is just damn slow.
He just offered the people knowledge how to break copyright, he didn't break it himself. It's the same with gun companies, they don't shoot people, they sell you a weapon to do it.
However i'm still concerned about the ip tracking issues. I luckily sit on a dynamic ip address, so yearz old ip records will not trace back to my computer which did download the movies. But for static ip address users, this is quite a punch. They can come and knock on your door any time now, they know that you fetched the illegal copies of music and movies and they have copies of server data records that proves it.
I guess we just need a decentralized system which makes it practically impossible to track down what was downloaded from who and when. Bittorrent will have to change to protect it's users from RIAA & Co. If Bittorrent won't change, it will be replaced by a program that will.
i haven't noticed any kind of spam in my mailbox because of the gmail invitation...
i think you're a bit overreacting, there are zillions of ways to find out your email, mostly just massive spamming on random addresses (i see that in my server log every day, mails coming in on god knows who's name, but there have definitely never been users like that in my server).
get a decent spam filter. spamassassin works fine for me, it blocks bogus senders from turkey and all other sorts of spamm 'homies' from which i don't want e-mails anyway:)
*microsoft gave IE for mac for free *microsoft sell their office software to mac users
nobody will discontinue pure profit, however very many companies do discontinue free software. if they could sell IE to all mac users, they would. but not many mac users would buy it.
Thus patents DO protect small inventors albeit imperfectly.
Imperfectly or not, after 25 years it's usually useless to have that "protection". In some cases it will probably cheaper not to sue since you hardly can make profit after 25 years of lawyer bills:(
Instead we should get all the boxes that we have manufacured in this world and pile them up, by the end, we'll have a mountain large enough that it's tip will reach space. So we can just drive there on usual cars once we get the boxes covered with tarmac.
Idea number 2 would be using a cannon to shoot us into space but someone said it could have it's downsides, so i stick with the boxes...
yup, filter and transform everything live all the time. caching transformations in the first place is for complete losers.
real programmers use no data caching or invocation/processing caching, they just waste cpu power everywhere they can!
are you really that mad at you cpu's that you want to transform them each time a dummy client makes a request ? there are much better ideas out there for a while already, take a good look around;-)
for a man that obviously is limited to 1 language you seem to have a big mouth.
there are hundred of languages in the world and you obviously think that my nickname is in any way related to the single language that you posess ?
just to make it clear, the nick came from my nape capitals M.R. , when you write it comfortably it often seems like MoRo , and i added 666 because just 'moro' was already taken when i registered. and moro has lots of meanings in other languages than english, the fact that you can rape the 'n' into the end of it and think you're a damn comedian right now doesn't make you seem any smarter.
i didnt spectate on your beliefs on global warming, i just thought that having a discussion about someone's stupid degree (can someone really be worth any degree if you consider 1 language world-wide spoken ?) while the damn planet is going down is kind of weird...
it just seems like it's kinda s.t.u.p.i.d. to argue about one's shirt colour when a nuke is exploding over your head, don't you think ?
As a geologist, you aren't particularly qualified to make judgements about cause and effect in climate models. Just curious. What sort of background exactly do you think a paleoclimatologist should have?
I wouldn't even care if your middle name would be Einstein or Nobel.
Everyone who can clash at least 2 braincells randomly together can figure out:
1) we're are speeding up the climate changes. 2) polar bears are dying because if it right now 3) we're going to die because of it sooner than we should...
Who gives a shiny damn ass about what degree someone got from where if we're going to extinct ?
Maybe cutting back on some CO2 emissions and replacing the tech we use today with something more economical could give your grandchild a f*cking chance to see the f*cking sun ? Gee i thought someone would teach you people something useful at universities but it seems like planning more than 1 tiny year forward didn't fit into your schoolplan.
I don't know about you dudes, but i want to teach my grandson how to shoot a bow and teach what animals live in the forest after 50 years from now, not be some damn Waterworld hero who drinks his own... (you can fill the gap if you saw the movie) to get anything not saltie to drink at all.
The whole f*cking planet is going down and you dudes fight about some damn uni degree...
ps. people that really attended the lessons at uni, remember that we have no freaking idea what the planet can look like after 25 years from now.
on a *nix machine, cdparanoia is pretty good for getting data out of damaged cd's. it does pretty good work at it if you launch it with correct command line params.
however you still have to write a new cd with the restored data. there's no toothpaste or anything else in the world that can help you to repair a piece of plastic at your own home. actually there are toothpastes with granules in them that can damage the disc even more, so don't try just "anything" on the cd-s:p
Re:i want conference mode and pocketpc voice clien
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Google, Jabber, and Jingle
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last time i checked they didn't have a voip client for linux either. you can use jabber'over'gaim to use gtalk itself but you're unable to make the calls. let's hope this library makes it possible.
until then, i stay with the hype-skype which works rather well (if you don't mind the cpu and network overheads...)
hmmm... not to be a complete troll but most applications that have security exploits exposed are also used in other distros:p
and ubuntu is the only one brave enough who gives out warnings and security updates at the same time to keep you safe. other distros just leave you in darkness or provide you with packages that are safe, but sadly older than my grandma. if you compare the number of codelines in package sources to the number of ubuntu/debian developers/packagers, you will find out that there developers and packagers are always and forever hopelessly outnumbered. it's impossible for them to create distro from opensource packages which is 100% secure, but unlike redhat and it's colleagues, debian/ubuntu people have the guts to tell you that "hey, there's a bug or a security flaw here".
if one company in redmond doesn't have the staff to check it's 100 applications for flaws, how do you suppose a bunch of opensource workers or a few hundred redhat people can pull the security checks off for thousands of applications ? it's pretty clear that they just can't. you are no safer with any other linux distro.
i use ubuntu on my laptop because i'm a fan of debian, but a raw debian on a laptop is hardly as nice as ubuntu. so this is the "gui version" of debian for me. i know how to keep it safe and i know how to keep it clean. most commercial distro users have no idea about any of this on their machines. and this successfully nullifies their idea to go on linux for better security. ignorance may be bliss, but it won't protect your files.
nothing can protect the computer from the ignorance and stupidity of the end user, not even the "supermegabest distro".
actually it would be funny on a rainy day to leave the cars behind you into a thick cloud of fog. you can use the steam whistle (they had these on steamtrains at least) to express your 'pity' for them having just normal gasoline cars..
but i'd rather have a steam engined harley davidson, imagine that woosh-woosh sound when you leave the central square of the city:)
that 'woosh woosh' also makes you remember your deadlines at work which just wooshed by...
indeed, nobody will record your phone calls, they will just note down that you called joe at 14:00 and that you commented slashdot 15:19. they won't record any word you say or write.
besides, the telecom companies admitted that it will take quite a while before they are up to the task. it's not like they had thousans of servers waiting in their offices to record such huge amounts of data for half a year (in tv they said that for half of the year the data must be saved).
i voted yes for european union, and i'd still do. it may be a pita when you look at the privacy side, but it is much better for the economy to be in here than to be out there.
the comission isn't a bunch of fools, they know that real h4x0rs can make "phone calls" via computers with such hops and routes that nobody in the freaking hell can track them down. they know that they are always one step back in encryption and that obfuscation methods make the phone calls of "real devils" untrackable.
the law is mostly made to calm nervous people down, not to prevent or really track anything..
i have firefox 1.5 with macromedia flash && mozdev flashblock. some pages just need flash for you to pass through some pages, so you really can't live without it.
the flash stuff wont start, thank god:) and i see regular fonted text which i can select.
ps. this it the most terrible idea i have ever heard how to display non standard fonts.
Re:The real 90s versus outdated 00s software
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Java Is So 90s
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indeed, java is much more than just a language.
and anyone who claims that java is 90's, should call themselves so lampish.
java is a multithreaded platform that runs across most servers that you can meet todays. it runs on windows,linux,os x, solaris, bsd so it has most of the parts covered. it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be aware of what the platform actually does beneath. people that have done lots of cross platform stuff in C know that this is a living hell from some point on.
perl/php are no real competitors to java, they have never been... but python is a different story, there's something usable coming out from there:) python isn't really a platform, but it's much closer. it has pretty fast bytecode, it has threads, it has most the usual platform things builtin. it has quite strict syntax too, which makes it less error prone.
as a programming language the java language is quite superior to any other platform independent languages today, it doesnt need #define's in the code to compile everywhere nor does it need you to keep count on bits and bytes of the cpu architecture. again the only competition is coming from python.
php doesn't have threads, perl has clunky ithreads (hopefully we see something better in perl6). how can you even call a forced singlethreaded script a "php platform" ? yeah sure you can make the script complicated, or even fork it and use flock's and shared memory between the things... but this is like stoneage or smth... if you have a massive 5-class deep extension tree on your oop layer , php needs to parse (or use the cached version, but still rerun) all the classes each time a php page is loaded in apache. perl has had some ways to overcome that issue including fastcgi & counterparts. but this is still stoneage compared to the rockstable persistancy provided by python or java.
java and python are the ones that are fighting for the throne of opensource application servers and services. php is dying and perl is... well perl is perl. for now... but i have really big hopes on perl6...
and somehow i forgot ruby altogether... but i haven't investigated it that much, so i'll better keep my mouth shut.
from my point of view :
perl : yay, my swiss army knife, my love, my favourite tool php : easy way to do dirty stuff quickly, good for little servers python : a well start dudes, keep the pressure on, good almost everywhere. java : i only wish it had a smaller memory footprint, great for real servers, overkill for little ones
if there's anything in the opensource world that can obsolete java then it's python and it's compiled bytecode.
perl & php without proper persistance and threading models are so 90's. and using php scripts that are 4-5 times slower than the according in java or python analogues is so 90's too.
MySQL has supported transactions in SEVERAL YEARS worth of production releases
sry dude, that was the transaction engine of innodb itself, myisam tables had no transactions until this 5.x. if the mysql people didn't directly copy off the innodb people's invention in the transaction layer, then this is a fresh system, meaning that innodb's experience just doesn't count.
the character set example was just an example that mysql people can make really serious mistakes. if they make it in simple stuff like character handling, what confidence can i have in their transaction engine ?
ps. innodb was a lot bigger on the disk and slower than myisam tables right next to it. and without any real support for stored procedures and proper pointers the transaction support is often quite useless.
Slashdot Mirror
I dont think that the name Guido will give you any guarantees on the language quality ...
However, could this be Google's move against Sun and Microsoft ?
Sun has Java
Microsoft has C#
It would be pretty logical that google would like to control something that is comparable to sun and microsoft's bigtime server languages. Python has moderately fast bytecode (google stuff could improve a lot here) and it's got a decent oop model and a threading api. i/o is also usable. i think zope fans can hype their favourite thing in the responding posts too.
i can't wait for the first version of GPython or Gython !
indeed, this is not self awareness, just optical tricks.
anyway, i really seem to miss the point how this self recognition from the mirror will save the world ?
a) i understand that big robots are good for building me cars
b) i understand that medium robots are good for producing regular electronics
c) i udnerstand that possible nano robots could operate on my body where people just cant.
d) i cant understand why would anyone need a robot that is stearing at mirrors.
There are alot of potential benifits on both sides
That may be true for Google and AOL, but what about the users ? Competitive market is good, because it creates better software (everybody wants to be better than the alternatives). But if everything is owned by Google after 10 years, we'll have a new M$ on our hands, which we hoorayd for ourselves.
I've been a google 'adopter' for quite some time now, i love their search engine, i user their gmail, i visit orkut and i even have a gtalk user online most of the time.
But if Google is turning into another We-Own-You-And-Are-The-Only-Choice-You-Can-Make, then i'm not so sure it's so good anymore. Google came as a fascinating alternative, but alternatives that became mainstreams in the history haven't had such a good history. Remember that microsoft and x86 were the 'new and amazing alternative' 20 years ago.
I hope Google will learn from the mistakes of others and become a good mainstream but the chances are quite slim, even this gmail/gtalk/orkut symbiose that we have already seems to be an attempt to grab it all for themselves.
What do yo think, how will this whole G[all stuff] end ?
I have exactly the opposite feelings, i have had ata seagates around here for a few years now, the barracuda 7-s , they all work like a charm. but maxtor-s and hitachi-s have failed a lot around here, so i just keep away from them. death stars from ibm aren't even worth mentioning. i think it depends a lot on distributors too, one ships the lucky series and the others just ship the unlucky ones.
i don't think there's a "golden and bulletproof" hardrive anywhere here, but the barracudas have served me well.
the scsi drives obviously are quite a different story and i have no experience on them. but if you can afford scsi, you probably can afford backups too.
anyway, i think that the "age of hardrives" is coming to an end, we need something that works better, faster and is more "foolproof". a quite ideal device in my vision would work like a flash memory, without any moving parts. it would have excellent access times and at the same time no danger to destroy the data because of a failure in the mechanics side.
what do you think, is it time for some revolutinary new storage devices ?
java is the only thing that works safely through any web browser.
:p
:p
you can't run C or Fortran by clicking on a web link, such an alternative would be a great boost to the distributed computing stuff (it is meant as an alternative to C and Fortran, not as a replacement). Besides, if java's algebra is even 10 times faster then 10 000 users on te web still mean an extra 1000 machine power. And you'll have more than 10 000 users running this.
I never claimed java is that one-does-it-all, but it's the only thing that you can run in a webbrowser and has sufficient portability and performance (flash is a no-no and javascript isn't even worth mentioning). Currently that is just an unused resource.
It is meant to be an applet language not a high-performance computing language.
Applet language ? Are you sure ? Because i'd rather think it's an ideal platform that has the almost perfect OOP implementation and the most stable threading system i've ever seen. Not to mention the independance from the server operating system and hardware. I must warn all the banks and other big server owners around in my country that their J2EE applications are actually running it all in an "applet language"
If i were you, i'd forget that applet sentence and get a book to read about what you really can do with Java
Their computers can calculate a prime number with 10,000,000 digits, but they can't even serve a webpage? Jeez... where are your priorities?
Next slashdot news will be how slashdotters managed to wreck the hard disk in the server that contained the 10 million digit prime
Now that would be real
I think it's kindof annoying to install that distributed computing software everywhere where you'd like to use the spare cpu time. My homies mess up their windows machine so often that i've stopped trying to keep anything running there (a machine online 24/7 that shows a web browser and msn for 3-4 hours a day, what a waste).
Can't they put it in applets that i can run from their webpages ? Surely Java is a bit slower than C in algebra (not really as much as you think, on very simple math tests the difference was about 10-20% last time i measured), so a C client should be available, but a web based client which i can just run in any java enabled browser would definitely increase the userbase.
ofcourse isp's can record the leases, but do they hold the records for leases for years after they were given ? doubtful. but this is the time by which they will get the issue into the courthouse to get a warrant for getting information from my isp's :)
:p
no isp is giving away such information just like that.
another way to do it would be live near a cafe/hotel/any-other-public-facility with an open wifi network so they'd get the blame. with today's "inventions" of parabol wifi antennas, you can go a few miles away from the AP
flashblock needed to be uninstalled and reinstalled when you upgraded to 1.5 some time ago, now they claim that it should work automagically. i did uninstall/install and my flashblock works just fine. i wish they'd have this thing built in instead of a hack addon. it still flickers and does some weird tricks from time to time.
... i guess i'm not that much a fan of bookmarking, i bookmark only rare stuff and use my memory and google for everything else.
see the details on http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
about the bookmarks
the only bad thing from the "rise of the firefox" is that they lost the speed that phoenix had. i loved phoenix because of it's gui speed. firefox is just damn slow.
I see it pretty much the same way.
He just offered the people knowledge how to break copyright, he didn't break it himself. It's the same with gun companies, they don't shoot people, they sell you a weapon to do it.
However i'm still concerned about the ip tracking issues. I luckily sit on a dynamic ip address, so yearz old ip records will not trace back to my computer which did download the movies. But for static ip address users, this is quite a punch. They can come and knock on your door any time now, they know that you fetched the illegal copies of music and movies and they have copies of server data records that proves it.
I guess we just need a decentralized system which makes it practically impossible to track down what was downloaded from who and when. Bittorrent will have to change to protect it's users from RIAA & Co. If Bittorrent won't change, it will be replaced by a program that will.
i haven't noticed any kind of spam in my mailbox because of the gmail invitation ...
:)
i think you're a bit overreacting, there are zillions of ways to find out your email, mostly just massive spamming on random addresses (i see that in my server log every day, mails coming in on god knows who's name, but there have definitely never been users like that in my server).
get a decent spam filter. spamassassin works fine for me, it blocks bogus senders from turkey and all other sorts of spamm 'homies' from which i don't want e-mails anyway
afaik
*microsoft gave IE for mac for free
*microsoft sell their office software to mac users
nobody will discontinue pure profit, however very many companies do discontinue free software.
if they could sell IE to all mac users, they would. but not many mac users would buy it.
Thus patents DO protect small inventors albeit imperfectly.
Imperfectly or not, after 25 years it's usually useless to have that "protection".
In some cases it will probably cheaper not to sue since you hardly can make profit after 25 years of lawyer bills
Exactly, no shuttles.
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Instead we should get all the boxes that we have manufacured in this world and pile them up, by the end, we'll have a mountain large enough that it's tip will reach space. So we can just drive there on usual cars once we get the boxes covered with tarmac.
Idea number 2 would be using a cannon to shoot us into space but someone said it could have it's downsides, so i stick with the boxes
yup, filter and transform everything live all the time. caching transformations in the first place is for complete losers.
;-)
real programmers use no data caching or invocation/processing caching, they just waste cpu power everywhere they can!
are you really that mad at you cpu's that you want to transform them each time a dummy client makes a request ? there are much better ideas out there for a while already, take a good look around
for a man that obviously is limited to 1 language you seem to have a big mouth.
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there are hundred of languages in the world and you obviously think that my nickname is in any way related to the single language that you posess ?
just to make it clear, the nick came from my nape capitals M.R. , when you write it comfortably it often seems like MoRo , and i added 666 because just 'moro' was already taken when i registered. and moro has lots of meanings in other languages than english, the fact that you can rape the 'n' into the end of it and think you're a damn comedian right now doesn't make you seem any smarter.
i didnt spectate on your beliefs on global warming, i just thought that having a discussion about someone's stupid degree (can someone really be worth any degree if you consider 1 language world-wide spoken ?) while the damn planet is going down is kind of weird
it just seems like it's kinda s.t.u.p.i.d. to argue about one's shirt colour when a nuke is exploding over your head, don't you think ?
As a geologist, you aren't particularly qualified to make judgements about cause and effect in climate models.
Just curious. What sort of background exactly do you think a paleoclimatologist should have?
I wouldn't even care if your middle name would be Einstein or Nobel.
Everyone who can clash at least 2 braincells randomly together can figure out:
1) we're are speeding up the climate changes.
2) polar bears are dying because if it right now
3) we're going to die because of it sooner than we should
Who gives a shiny damn ass about what degree someone got from where if we're going to extinct ?
Maybe cutting back on some CO2 emissions and replacing the tech we use today with something more economical could give your grandchild a f*cking chance to see the f*cking sun ? Gee i thought someone would teach you people something useful at universities but it seems like planning more than 1 tiny year forward didn't fit into your schoolplan.
I don't know about you dudes, but i want to teach my grandson how to shoot a bow and teach what animals live in the forest after 50 years from now, not be some damn Waterworld hero who drinks his own
The whole f*cking planet is going down and you dudes fight about some damn uni degree...
ps. people that really attended the lessons at uni, remember that we have no freaking idea what the planet can look like after 25 years from now.
Are the dudes that dig in your trash.
Thats what knowing COBOL brings you in the long run !!!
on a *nix machine, cdparanoia is pretty good for getting data out of damaged cd's. it does pretty good work at it if you launch it with correct command line params.
:p
however you still have to write a new cd with the restored data. there's no toothpaste or anything else in the world that can help you to repair a piece of plastic at your own home. actually there are toothpastes with granules in them that can damage the disc even more, so don't try just "anything" on the cd-s
last time i checked they didn't have a voip client for linux either. you can use jabber'over'gaim to use gtalk itself but you're unable to make the calls. let's hope this library makes it possible.
...)
until then, i stay with the hype-skype which works rather well (if you don't mind the cpu and network overheads
hmmm ... :p
not to be a complete troll but most applications that have security exploits exposed are also used in other distros
and ubuntu is the only one brave enough who gives out warnings and security updates at the same time to keep you safe. other distros just leave you in darkness or provide you with packages that are safe, but sadly older than my grandma. if you compare the number of codelines in package sources to the number of ubuntu/debian developers/packagers, you will find out that there developers and packagers are always and forever hopelessly outnumbered. it's impossible for them to create distro from opensource packages which is 100% secure, but unlike redhat and it's colleagues, debian/ubuntu people have the guts to tell you that "hey, there's a bug or a security flaw here".
if one company in redmond doesn't have the staff to check it's 100 applications for flaws, how do you suppose a bunch of opensource workers or a few hundred redhat people can pull the security checks off for thousands of applications ? it's pretty clear that they just can't. you are no safer with any other linux distro.
i use ubuntu on my laptop because i'm a fan of debian, but a raw debian on a laptop is hardly as nice as ubuntu. so this is the "gui version" of debian for me. i know how to keep it safe and i know how to keep it clean. most commercial distro users have no idea about any of this on their machines. and this successfully nullifies their idea to go on linux for better security. ignorance may be bliss, but it won't protect your files.
nothing can protect the computer from the ignorance and stupidity of the end user, not even the "supermegabest distro".
actually it would be funny on a rainy day to leave the cars behind you into a thick cloud of fog. you can use the steam whistle (they had these on steamtrains at least) to express your 'pity' for them having just normal gasoline cars ..
:) ...
but i'd rather have a steam engined harley davidson, imagine that woosh-woosh sound when you leave the central square of the city
that 'woosh woosh' also makes you remember your deadlines at work which just wooshed by
indeed, nobody will record your phone calls, they will just note down that you called joe at 14:00 and that you commented slashdot 15:19. they won't record any word you say or write.
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besides, the telecom companies admitted that it will take quite a while before they are up to the task. it's not like they had thousans of servers waiting in their offices to record such huge amounts of data for half a year (in tv they said that for half of the year the data must be saved).
i voted yes for european union, and i'd still do. it may be a pita when you look at the privacy side, but it is much better for the economy to be in here than to be out there.
the comission isn't a bunch of fools, they know that real h4x0rs can make "phone calls" via computers with such hops and routes that nobody in the freaking hell can track them down. they know that they are always one step back in encryption and that obfuscation methods make the phone calls of "real devils" untrackable.
the law is mostly made to calm nervous people down, not to prevent or really track anything
i have firefox 1.5 with macromedia flash && mozdev flashblock. some pages just need flash for you to pass through some pages, so you really can't live without it.
:) and i see regular fonted text which i can select.
the flash stuff wont start, thank god
ps. this it the most terrible idea i have ever heard how to display non standard fonts.
indeed, java is much more than just a language.
,linux ,os x, solaris, bsd so it has most of the parts covered. it doesn't need code recompilation nor does it need the developer to be aware of what the platform actually does beneath. people that have done lots of cross platform stuff in C know that this is a living hell from some point on.
... but python is a different story, there's something usable coming out from there :) python isn't really a platform, but it's much closer. it has pretty fast bytecode, it has threads, it has most the usual platform things builtin. it has quite strict syntax too, which makes it less error prone.
... but this is like stoneage or smth ... if you have a massive 5-class deep extension tree on your oop layer , php needs to parse (or use the cached version, but still rerun) all the classes each time a php page is loaded in apache. perl has had some ways to overcome that issue including fastcgi & counterparts. but this is still stoneage compared to the rockstable persistancy provided by python or java.
... well perl is perl. for now ... but i have really big hopes on perl6 ...
... but i haven't investigated it that much, so i'll better keep my mouth shut.
and anyone who claims that java is 90's, should call themselves so lampish.
java is a multithreaded platform that runs across most servers that you can meet todays. it runs on windows
perl/php are no real competitors to java, they have never been
as a programming language the java language is quite superior to any other platform independent languages today, it doesnt need #define's in the code to compile everywhere nor does it need you to keep count on bits and bytes of the cpu architecture. again the only competition is coming from python.
php doesn't have threads, perl has clunky ithreads (hopefully we see something better in perl6). how can you even call a forced singlethreaded script a "php platform" ? yeah sure you can make the script complicated, or even fork it and use flock's and shared memory between the things
java and python are the ones that are fighting for the throne of opensource application servers and services. php is dying and perl is
and somehow i forgot ruby altogether
from my point of view :
perl : yay, my swiss army knife, my love, my favourite tool
php : easy way to do dirty stuff quickly, good for little servers
python : a well start dudes, keep the pressure on, good almost everywhere.
java : i only wish it had a smaller memory footprint, great for real servers, overkill for little ones
if there's anything in the opensource world that can obsolete java then it's python and it's compiled bytecode.
perl & php without proper persistance and threading models are so 90's. and using php scripts that are 4-5 times slower than the according in java or python analogues is so 90's too.
MySQL has supported transactions in SEVERAL YEARS worth of production releases
sry dude, that was the transaction engine of innodb itself, myisam tables had no transactions until this 5.x. if the mysql people didn't directly copy off the innodb people's invention in the transaction layer, then this is a fresh system, meaning that innodb's experience just doesn't count.
the character set example was just an example that mysql people can make really serious mistakes. if they make it in simple stuff like character handling, what confidence can i have in their transaction engine ?
ps. innodb was a lot bigger on the disk and slower than myisam tables right next to it. and without any real support for stored procedures and proper pointers the transaction support is often quite useless.