I use C++ because I believe it is the most powerful, flexible language out there. Yes, it does require learning more for particular OSes (GUI, mutexing, threads, sockets, etc.), but if I were stranded on a desert island with only one language, there would be no other choice.
And then someday you wouldn't be able to interact with ships passing by, just because compiler ABI has sligtly changed, or because someone has added a private virtual member to a base class.
No thanks. Everybody knows what language is about primal survival.
We overcome sluggish performance of VSS over VPN/CIFS with SourceOffSite, a third-party client-server pair where a remote client sends requests via TCP/IP to the server that in turn comes as a client to the on-site VSS server. Unbelievably, it works orders of magnitude faster.
The CVS/Un*x analogy to this would be the difference between accessing to the repository on an NFS volume over S/WAN and the CVS client-server interaction. Makes me wonder over the comparison of CIFS/ActiveDirectory vs NFS on remote Internet connections.
No, this was a new.NET-based web service on their test page. Of course, Passport identification was mandatory, and everyone who used the service got (+1, Loyal) in the hidden data of their accounts.
RSBAC is Secure Linux Done Proper (or almost there).
Castle from ALT Linux Team is a Linux distribution that uses RSBAC and chroot jails. Also, recently, the tcb scheme has been adopted for secure access to system passwords without need for setuid root.
One of the promising features of Real streams is multicast, which, should multicast routing capabilities be widely employed, can offload the Internet a great deal.
Does any streaming specification exist which makes use of multicast for Ogg or MP3 streams?
What I translated as Lame Fortune is A Lame Fate. The inner story of this novel, The Ugly Swans, has been translated to English, accordingly to this bibliography.
Can you give us some specifics about the "mindboggling stuff?" Has a Russian writer come with something equal to THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY?
Hmm... How about a future Chinese-dominated sexual-diversity-laden world (mixspeak glossary a-la Burgess included) where clones of prominent writers of the past are grown to produce magnificent blue fat on their bodies in the process of writing (prolonged excerpts of writing by clones of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and others, all bearing striking resemblance in style to each of the originals). Suddenly, a yield of blue fat is hijacked in a raid over gene lab by an underground hierarchical male-only sect of earth-fuckers (warning: description of unrealistically large male genitals), to be sent in the past (which is alternative to ours), where homosexual Stalin (a hot sexual intercourse with Khruschev is included) and electric freak Hitler plan to take over the world. Nevermind several side-stories, equally bizarre. Your anime is hung out to dry.
Are there Russian novels equal to HYPERION or FIRE UPON THE DEEP, which are immense in scope and richness of ideas?
For your usual "glorious" type of SF, refer to Lukyanenko or Oldi. Yawn. I'm more interested in authors who deliver different cultures or mindsets in their writings. Sorry if you hunt for just another Heinlein epigon.
As for Hyperion, reading it gave me the exact understanding of why some people treat SF as worthless junk intended to waste one's time.
Definitely Maybe. The latter's original title is, translated: "A Billion Years to the End of the World: A manuscript discovered under unusual circumstance". It tells the story of how one day all scientific progress is suddenly threatened by, well, hedonistic distractions.
Actually, the distractions are of all kinds, some are hedonistic, some are puzzling, some are downright threatening. A group of scientific mates finds that some faceless force, perhaps a natural law, seeks to drive them away of their discoveries.
The story is perceived by many as a picture of oppression that creativity faces in a totalitarian society. Another definite must read from Strugatskys.
Yup, ABS are rad, especially their later books. The earlier ones may have too much of socialist naivete; the later ones are bitter and somewhat haunting. Roadside Picnic (the proto-story of Stalker the movie) and Lame Fortune (never translated into English, I believe) are the best IMHO. Monday Begins On Saturday is the Soviet equivalent of the HHGTTG: a geeks' delight.
Pelevin is not SF, at least not in the "science" category. But his fiction is curious and playful. Expect a lot of impenetrable jokes and references to things unfamiliar to you due to "cultural differences". You haven't heard all those funny stories about Chapaev and Petka, have you?
Another SF (this being "serious" fiction again, not "science") master is Vladimir Sorokin. Absolutely mindboggling stuff, being an excellent prose on its own.
Andrey Platonov, I think, is one of the most overlooked Russian writers of the 20th century. His stretches of Russian reality of 1920s-1930s are beautifully absurd and sarcastic -- think Kafka meets Ionesco meets Orwell.
So, if you went to Texas and were wrongly arrested for murder and sentenced to die, you wouldn't run, you'd choose to die with "dignity"?
Wrong analogy. There were pretty good chances for Sklyarov to win, and chances for Elcomsoft are good too. If he fled, he would automatically become a criminal to the US, and would receive odd looks anywhere in the world.
So, why not just skip the country? It's painfully obvious that he has no moral reason to stay and suffer punishment.
Is it a matter of difficulty?
It is a matter of dignity.
He wouldn't become the national hero he is today.
That, and I'm proud of him and his company who don't act as scum like many believed them to be.
Unforunately, we hand them a unhealthy dose of corporate greed called capitalism.
I consider the dose as pretty healthy, if not safe from some chilling side-effects. At least, no one here tries to rule what you should do with things you have fucking bought.
If only they kept the socialistic ideals with a democratic government.
We're fed up with ideals. Let's just keep that _democratic_ _government_ part.
I found out that the MSDN library section is really good at excluding Mozilla from browsing it. At first, predictably, the Mozilla's view doesn't include the ActiveScript'ed expanding TOC, displaying only the current level topic list (and IE shows a blank page there when its ActiveScripting is disabled! Ugh). But then, at some deep point in the hierarchy, there is a broken link. You are handed a cute error page with a link to the feedback form to vent. But this feedback form fails to provide one minor thing: a field to enter text! They don't want to hear from you, stinky Mozilla punk.
Come on, you want to learn about coding with MS software anyway; why not use the browser gracefully provided to you by the company?
You probably can drive away some valid messages from guys like me. Of course, you are free to live in a cave and avoid any message that is even remotely suspicious. I, for myself, would not rely my communication on overly paranoid filters.
Your gripes come from the wrong perception that it should be OK to install packages from one distro onto another. Mind you, it is not. There is no such thing as Unified RPM-based Linux Distribution Standard. Vendors are free to implement their own policies, naming standards etc. without consent with every distribution vendor on the planet. There are subtle points that package developers find important to reflect into dependencies. Of course, this can go over the edge -- I know mutt doesn't require that friggin' spell-checker to work -- but in general, I'd prefer to know what is required, and be able to bypass that, than to install packages in blissful ignorance and then figure out why it fails to function.
So if you need a package that is missing from your installed distro, but it can be found elsewhere, you cannot, generally, just bolt it in with 'rpm -ivh'. Instead, you could adapt its spec to your distro's rules, build from the modified spec, and probably upload your ported package to your distro's contrib FTP site. I did this many many times, and it's not much trouble, once you grok specfiles.
But I'd happily give up C compatibility and the C ABI standard for easier, more reliable bindings to native code.
What the "more reliable" part applies to? Certainly not to dependence on compiler version or on compile-time flags (e.g. --fno-exceptions). Face it, "easier" in one aspect often means "trickier" in another.
On the other hand, it'd be useful to have C++ bindings to the engine ABI, probably in the form of light inlined functions/classes and/or templates. This way, no linkage problems would blow you out of the blue.
Still, overall, it is disappointing to me that there is no Perl/Python/Ruby-like scripting language implemented in C++: using C++, the native code interface could be much simpler to use. Yes, there are various C++ wrappers for Python and probably the other languages, but they generally add a complex C++ layer around an already complex C interface.
I think, it's better than to lose the ability of binding to pure C (or assembly, or whatever) code.
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And then someday you wouldn't be able to interact with ships passing by, just because compiler ABI has sligtly changed, or because someone has added a private virtual member to a base class.
No thanks. Everybody knows what language is about primal survival.
We overcome sluggish performance of VSS over VPN/CIFS with SourceOffSite, a third-party client-server pair where a remote client sends requests via TCP/IP to the server that in turn comes as a client to the on-site VSS server. Unbelievably, it works orders of magnitude faster.
The CVS/Un*x analogy to this would be the difference between accessing to the repository on an NFS volume over S/WAN and the CVS client-server interaction. Makes me wonder over the comparison of CIFS/ActiveDirectory vs NFS on remote Internet connections.
Don't forget the C# Gtk+ bindings.
Any chance of Qt being available under C# in the near future?
* My name is spelled "Moffitt".
Oh, it's so handy at seeing how Mozilla renders ligatures... cool.
No, this was a new .NET-based web service on their test page. Of course, Passport identification was mandatory, and everyone who used the service got (+1, Loyal) in the hidden data of their accounts.
Somebody ought to tell these guys that the rest of the world has migrated to C++.
Oh really? Did the rest of the world settle on the ABI then?
Russia has also built its own "big iron", using Alpha CPUs from Samsung, AFAIK. And it runs Linux too...
RSBAC is Secure Linux Done Proper (or almost there).
Castle from ALT Linux Team is a Linux distribution that uses RSBAC and chroot jails. Also, recently, the tcb scheme has been adopted for secure access to system passwords without need for setuid root.
One of the promising features of Real streams is multicast, which, should multicast routing capabilities be widely employed, can offload the Internet a great deal.
Does any streaming specification exist which makes use of multicast for Ogg or MP3 streams?
What I translated as Lame Fortune is A Lame Fate. The inner story of this novel, The Ugly Swans, has been translated to English, accordingly to this bibliography.
Can you give us some specifics about the "mindboggling stuff?" Has a Russian writer come with something equal to THE FOUNDATION TRILOGY?
Hmm... How about a future Chinese-dominated sexual-diversity-laden world (mixspeak glossary a-la Burgess included) where clones of prominent writers of the past are grown to produce magnificent blue fat on their bodies in the process of writing (prolonged excerpts of writing by clones of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and others, all bearing striking resemblance in style to each of the originals). Suddenly, a yield of blue fat is hijacked in a raid over gene lab by an underground hierarchical male-only sect of earth-fuckers (warning: description of unrealistically large male genitals), to be sent in the past (which is alternative to ours), where homosexual Stalin (a hot sexual intercourse with Khruschev is included) and electric freak Hitler plan to take over the world. Nevermind several side-stories, equally bizarre. Your anime is hung out to dry.
Are there Russian novels equal to HYPERION or FIRE UPON THE DEEP, which are immense in scope and richness of ideas?
For your usual "glorious" type of SF, refer to Lukyanenko or Oldi. Yawn. I'm more interested in authors who deliver different cultures or mindsets in their writings. Sorry if you hunt for just another Heinlein epigon.
As for Hyperion, reading it gave me the exact understanding of why some people treat SF as worthless junk intended to waste one's time.
Actually, the distractions are of all kinds, some are hedonistic, some are puzzling, some are downright threatening. A group of scientific mates finds that some faceless force, perhaps a natural law, seeks to drive them away of their discoveries.
The story is perceived by many as a picture of oppression that creativity faces in a totalitarian society. Another definite must read from Strugatskys.
Yup, ABS are rad, especially their later books. The earlier ones may have too much of socialist naivete; the later ones are bitter and somewhat haunting. Roadside Picnic (the proto-story of Stalker the movie) and Lame Fortune (never translated into English, I believe) are the best IMHO. Monday Begins On Saturday is the Soviet equivalent of the HHGTTG: a geeks' delight.
Pelevin is not SF, at least not in the "science" category. But his fiction is curious and playful. Expect a lot of impenetrable jokes and references to things unfamiliar to you due to "cultural differences". You haven't heard all those funny stories about Chapaev and Petka, have you?
Another SF (this being "serious" fiction again, not "science") master is Vladimir Sorokin. Absolutely mindboggling stuff, being an excellent prose on its own.
Andrey Platonov, I think, is one of the most overlooked Russian writers of the 20th century. His stretches of Russian reality of 1920s-1930s are beautifully absurd and sarcastic -- think Kafka meets Ionesco meets Orwell.
So, if you went to Texas and were wrongly arrested for murder and sentenced to die, you wouldn't run, you'd choose to die with "dignity"?
Wrong analogy. There were pretty good chances for Sklyarov to win, and chances for Elcomsoft are good too. If he fled, he would automatically become a criminal to the US, and would receive odd looks anywhere in the world.
He's not a national hero.
Sorry, I kinda forgot to specify the nation...
Don't forget that Orthodox Christmas is Jan 7th. However, in the ex-USSR, New Year is celebrated more lively :)
So, why not just skip the country? It's painfully obvious that he has no moral reason to stay and suffer punishment.
Is it a matter of difficulty?
It is a matter of dignity.
He wouldn't become the national hero he is today.
That, and I'm proud of him and his company who don't act as scum like many believed them to be.
Unforunately, we hand them a unhealthy dose of corporate greed called capitalism.
I consider the dose as pretty healthy, if not safe from some chilling side-effects. At least, no one here tries to rule what you should do with things you have fucking bought.
If only they kept the socialistic ideals with a democratic government.
We're fed up with ideals. Let's just keep that _democratic_ _government_ part.
I found out that the MSDN library section is really good at excluding Mozilla from browsing it. At first, predictably, the Mozilla's view doesn't include the ActiveScript'ed expanding TOC, displaying only the current level topic list (and IE shows a blank page there when its ActiveScripting is disabled! Ugh). But then, at some deep point in the hierarchy, there is a broken link. You are handed a cute error page with a link to the feedback form to vent. But this feedback form fails to provide one minor thing: a field to enter text! They don't want to hear from you, stinky Mozilla punk.
Come on, you want to learn about coding with MS software anyway; why not use the browser gracefully provided to you by the company?
You probably can drive away some valid messages from guys like me. Of course, you are free to live in a cave and avoid any message that is even remotely suspicious. I, for myself, would not rely my communication on overly paranoid filters.
Oh, these dictionary folks could just hook onto E2 and saturate themselves.
1. Ever heard of 'rpm -qf' option?
2. How long is your PATH? Have you tried to mount
Your gripes come from the wrong perception that it should be OK to install packages from one distro onto another. Mind you, it is not. There is no such thing as Unified RPM-based Linux Distribution Standard. Vendors are free to implement their own policies, naming standards etc. without consent with every distribution vendor on the planet. There are subtle points that package developers find important to reflect into dependencies. Of course, this can go over the edge -- I know mutt doesn't require that friggin' spell-checker to work -- but in general, I'd prefer to know what is required, and be able to bypass that, than to install packages in blissful ignorance and then figure out why it fails to function.
So if you need a package that is missing from your installed distro, but it can be found elsewhere, you cannot, generally, just bolt it in with 'rpm -ivh'. Instead, you could adapt its spec to your distro's rules, build from the modified spec, and probably upload your ported package to your distro's contrib FTP site. I did this many many times, and it's not much trouble, once you grok specfiles.
But I'd happily give up C compatibility and the C ABI standard for easier, more reliable bindings to native code.
What the "more reliable" part applies to? Certainly not to dependence on compiler version or on compile-time flags (e.g. --fno-exceptions). Face it, "easier" in one aspect often means "trickier" in another.
On the other hand, it'd be useful to have C++ bindings to the engine ABI, probably in the form of light inlined functions/classes and/or templates. This way, no linkage problems would blow you out of the blue.
I think, it's better than to lose the ability of binding to pure C (or assembly, or whatever) code.
it could learn from python's historical mistakes, like type vs. class and ref counting gc
On the side note, Python learns from them itself.