I was in a restaurant in Sene [near Vannes in France] and my friend got a flambe dessert. As she lit the alcohol on fire she said "careful it's hot"...
I can see "careful it's on fire" but... it's hot? hehehehe
[BTW the french know how todo dessert... much better than Canadian/American stuff].
No, if you were responsible and mature you'd know that coffee [a drink you've probably had a thousand times before] is hot. The label is just a legal thing BECAUSE someone sued.
Got burnt by coffee that you spilled on yourself? That's.... YOUR FAULT.... no one elses. It's differnet if they spill it on you... but in the case of the famous McDonalds lawsuit that's not what happend.
What probably happened in this case is they did piss-poor accounting and thought the disk was missing. Instead of owning up to the fact that they don't know what's what they just blamed the closest "non american gook" for being a spy and stealing it.
This is why the American dream is to be "rich at the expense of others"...
Must be a PhD? Oh... because we know that's gonna be a sign of an intelligent person... not like the previous "Doctors" who have basically put us in the mess we are currently.
I so hate degrees being toted as the be-all of the fucking world. From what I've heard talking with various schools my LibTomMath project [and book] would qualify as a Masters level thesis undertaking. Yet I wrote the bulk of it in a couple of months FOR FUN!!!
Not trying to put down the "educated" just saying that you can get by through school without a super breadth knowledge of the field. For example, how many wavelet experts know how to exponentiate in finite fields? You think many cryptographers know how to best use wavelets? etc, etc, etc.
So fucking stop with the "must be degree'ed" and just say "must have proven track record of 'getting shit done'."/rant
I think many "patches" aren't for actual vul's but just fixing things [e.g. making it better]. There are many "gotchas" in win32 software that we just put up with [explorer.exe being a big one...].
But shh, why let "facts" destroy an otherwise nice argument.
I'd say that depends more on your compiler than anything else. Even in windows [the OS we love to hate] once the application is in ram it can steal pretty much the entire CPU time if it wants.
Then even on the heap side [e.g. libc] is fairly standard if you use GNU libc.
Things like file performance [or network] do vary because different OSes offer different storage algorithms [e.g. JFS vs Reiser vs Ext2 vs...].
Which is why I do my part by never RTFA. Mostly cuz the articles are usually basically what the summary says, e.g. "windows teh cool, SCO rulez, linux teh bad!"...
From a practical standpoint if you rely on plaintext packets over the net for "privacy" you're not too smart. Things like SSH, SSL and GPG were invented to take care of this.
As I've maintained in my past the biggest thing that upsets me about things like this is just the incredible waste of resources for small returns.
They'll spend billions on super computers [from $INSERT_CORPORATION_HERE] so the "good ol boys" club gets fed then they'll catch 1 or 2 extra people a year for selling a drug....
Meanwhile they'll let the roads, hospitals and schools rot. So that in say 20 years when kids can read only 37% of Hamlet in school [and not contigious] and get a good 43% of their Algebra lessons they'll be safe in knowing that the government sacrificed their education for a whopping 0.0001% more security!
So really they're going to go out with your money to protect you but in the end you might as well give it up if you're relegated to a quiet life of "Welcome to walmart".
And if you think I'm talking out of my ass, I come from Canada, a more socialist country and even our text books are "old and in disrepair". Like my shakespear texts had my cousins signatures in them... They're also about 15 years older than I am...
Ends justifies the means. And that's why you had planes crashing into buildings.
Because lo and behold the ends... DON'T justify the means in EVERY single possible occasion.
And saying OSS is unamerican is funny because I believe the first admendment says otherwise... E.g. free speech [well from govt, but let's take it all the way].
I think in this case we're talking handwritten asm for the graphics/sound that is re-used in a higher level lang.
Almost like... the way PS2 programs are developed;-)
Though yeah, lack of oooe [out of order execution] means that as a general purpose CPU the thing will suck bad [because as you translate from HL to opcodes [risc in this case] there are often many cases of parallelisms and renames you can exploit].
"Theoretically, patents shouldn't be allowed to apply that broadly, but today, they do."
How true. The concept of patents isn't entirely bad. It's just that people chose to abuse it severely.
It's like the "take a penny" trays [at least those exist in North america...]. A sound business solution would be to have your traveling employees loot them. You can probably bring in upto $20 a year of free cash money. The take a penny tray is a good idea even though it can be abused.
What I love the most are "defensive patents" because IBM wouldn't sue the ass off me when I form a business by making things with their inventions.... right.... "defensive".
Dunno about you but it helps the TV medium convey information [re: news and cartoons]. Music [specially techno and classical] helps me relax and develop software as well.
I never said I don't spend money on things that give me "real" things. I said I don't spend money on things that don't have practical value. My all-in-one "tuner-receiver-amp-speakers" package cost has practical value as it's a tuner, receiver and amp all in one and now I also have speakers.
An example of impractical things I wouldn't buy are expensive clothing, jewerly, *phile anything, Microsoft PRESS anything, super expensive restaurant food [meals >15$ are too expensive for me] etc, etc, etc...
Don't get me wrong. I go through money like it's going out of style [well that and I don't get paid a lot for a full time developer... stupid freelance work] but I also generally have a good time as well because I don't spend it all at once.
That's not my point. If you like game then why cheat to get ahead? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
It's like cheating in solitaire or something. Not very productive in the grand scheme of things and if you're point was to challenge yourself you missed it...
Actually I got a receiver/amp/tuner, four satelite speakers, an amplified sub-woofer and center speakers for about 500$ [well more when you add one the cable for the room, shelf to put it on, PSP, etc...].
The point is... it sounds very clear, has a bunch of inputs [say xbox/PS2, tv tuner and then PC] and can get loud when I want it.
"shiny" would be if I got a 1000$ receiver, 1000$ amp, etc... so I could get 200dB of dynamic range from 5hz to 49Khz or something...
This does [iirc] 20hz to 22Khz [or something] and gives basically around 100dB of dynamic range [have yet to really hear it distort or fudge music].
The plan is when I move out eventually, whoa, I have a home stereo...;-)
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Somehow I don't doubt that.
... it's hot? hehehehe
I was in a restaurant in Sene [near Vannes in France] and my friend got a flambe dessert. As she lit the alcohol on fire she said "careful it's hot"...
I can see "careful it's on fire" but
[BTW the french know how todo dessert... much better than Canadian/American stuff].
Tom
Even if it was the worst coffee in the world. As long as it was within the norms of BOILING WATER I think it's safe to say it's expected to be hot.
... is 100C by definition [well average at the normal ground pressure for most places on earth...] ...
I'm sorry I don't care why they kept it hot, provided the water wasn't like >110C or so I don't see the claims.
Boiling water
That's like saying ice cream was too cold for being below zero C... I DEMAND MY ICE CREAM BE 23C like outdoors!!!
BBRRRRR cold!
Tom
No, if you were responsible and mature you'd know that coffee [a drink you've probably had a thousand times before] is hot. The label is just a legal thing BECAUSE someone sued.
.... YOUR FAULT .... no one elses. It's differnet if they spill it on you... but in the case of the famous McDonalds lawsuit that's not what happend.
Got burnt by coffee that you spilled on yourself? That's
What probably happened in this case is they did piss-poor accounting and thought the disk was missing. Instead of owning up to the fact that they don't know what's what they just blamed the closest "non american gook" for being a spy and stealing it.
This is why the American dream is to be "rich at the expense of others"...
Tom
There you go again spouting "responsibility" ...
...
...
That's been outlawed in the US.
"Caution: Coffee is hot"
"Caution: Don't drink like a fish"
"Caution: Burgers are not healthy"
"Caution: Fire is hot"
Or "Caution: Show has naughty language"
We don't watch our diets, we can't figure out that cooked things are hot and we can't raise our children.
Why should we not point random fingers at the work place?
Tom
Must be a PhD? Oh... because we know that's gonna be a sign of an intelligent person... not like the previous "Doctors" who have basically put us in the mess we are currently.
/rant
I so hate degrees being toted as the be-all of the fucking world. From what I've heard talking with various schools my LibTomMath project [and book] would qualify as a Masters level thesis undertaking. Yet I wrote the bulk of it in a couple of months FOR FUN!!!
Not trying to put down the "educated" just saying that you can get by through school without a super breadth knowledge of the field. For example, how many wavelet experts know how to exponentiate in finite fields? You think many cryptographers know how to best use wavelets? etc, etc, etc.
So fucking stop with the "must be degree'ed" and just say "must have proven track record of 'getting shit done'."
Tom
I think many "patches" aren't for actual vul's but just fixing things [e.g. making it better]. There are many "gotchas" in win32 software that we just put up with [explorer.exe being a big one...].
But shh, why let "facts" destroy an otherwise nice argument.
I'd say that depends more on your compiler than anything else. Even in windows [the OS we love to hate] once the application is in ram it can steal pretty much the entire CPU time if it wants.
...].
Then even on the heap side [e.g. libc] is fairly standard if you use GNU libc.
Things like file performance [or network] do vary because different OSes offer different storage algorithms [e.g. JFS vs Reiser vs Ext2 vs
Tom
"Slashdot, the Weapon of Mass Download. :-)"
;-)
Which is why I do my part by never RTFA. Mostly cuz the articles are usually basically what the summary says, e.g. "windows teh cool, SCO rulez, linux teh bad!"...
The comments are what I come for
Tom
15 year old paperback ... two semesters a year... 30 students have had it...
You do the math. Pages missing, foot notes, other distractions, etc...
From a practical standpoint if you rely on plaintext packets over the net for "privacy" you're not too smart. Things like SSH, SSL and GPG were invented to take care of this.
As I've maintained in my past the biggest thing that upsets me about things like this is just the incredible waste of resources for small returns.
They'll spend billions on super computers [from $INSERT_CORPORATION_HERE] so the "good ol boys" club gets fed then they'll catch 1 or 2 extra people a year for selling a drug....
Meanwhile they'll let the roads, hospitals and schools rot. So that in say 20 years when kids can read only 37% of Hamlet in school [and not contigious] and get a good 43% of their Algebra lessons they'll be safe in knowing that the government sacrificed their education for a whopping 0.0001% more security!
So really they're going to go out with your money to protect you but in the end you might as well give it up if you're relegated to a quiet life of "Welcome to walmart".
And if you think I'm talking out of my ass, I come from Canada, a more socialist country and even our text books are "old and in disrepair". Like my shakespear texts had my cousins signatures in them... They're also about 15 years older than I am...
Tom
Suppose GPS is killing lighthouses.... so?
... or the livelyhood of a few hundred who aren't doing anything productive...
Let's see, safety of the many thousands of people at see
Wow this is a toughy....
Tom
blah blah blah.
Ends justifies the means. And that's why you had planes crashing into buildings.
Because lo and behold the ends... DON'T justify the means in EVERY single possible occasion.
And saying OSS is unamerican is funny because I believe the first admendment says otherwise... E.g. free speech [well from govt, but let's take it all the way].
Tom
You'd be surprised how many college students will store a 1000 records [for say an assignment] in a linked list "because it's small".
... Bubble sort in ASM is still O(n^2) ;-)
And when I said "implementation" I mean optimizations e.g. doing it in asm.
Tom
strstr() returns a pointer within the search string....
But your code fragments are NOT equivalent.
a = "hello this is a string"
position = scan(a until [a] =" ")
b = pointer( a + position)
a = "changed"
b == ???
a = "hello this is a string"
position = scan(a until [a] =" ")
b = copy_data(from(a) starting_at(position) to lengthof(a))
a = "changed"
b == " this is a string"
Tom
I think in this case we're talking handwritten asm for the graphics/sound that is re-used in a higher level lang.
;-)
Almost like... the way PS2 programs are developed
Though yeah, lack of oooe [out of order execution] means that as a general purpose CPU the thing will suck bad [because as you translate from HL to opcodes [risc in this case] there are often many cases of parallelisms and renames you can exploit].
Tom
I'd hope not because for most problems efficient *algorithms* are more important than efficient implementation.
Tom
"Theoretically, patents shouldn't be allowed to apply that broadly, but today, they do."
How true. The concept of patents isn't entirely bad. It's just that people chose to abuse it severely.
It's like the "take a penny" trays [at least those exist in North america...]. A sound business solution would be to have your traveling employees loot them. You can probably bring in upto $20 a year of free cash money. The take a penny tray is a good idea even though it can be abused.
What I love the most are "defensive patents" because IBM wouldn't sue the ass off me when I form a business by making things with their inventions.... right.... "defensive".
Tom
mod parent up ;-)
/. for a change. Thanks now I finally got rid of that lingering xgalaga icon from my games menu!!!
Some useful info on
Tom
Ah but it is. The effects of music are very real.
... stupid freelance work] but I also generally have a good time as well because I don't spend it all at once.
Dunno about you but it helps the TV medium convey information [re: news and cartoons]. Music [specially techno and classical] helps me relax and develop software as well.
I never said I don't spend money on things that give me "real" things. I said I don't spend money on things that don't have practical value. My all-in-one "tuner-receiver-amp-speakers" package cost has practical value as it's a tuner, receiver and amp all in one and now I also have speakers.
An example of impractical things I wouldn't buy are expensive clothing, jewerly, *phile anything, Microsoft PRESS anything, super expensive restaurant food [meals >15$ are too expensive for me] etc, etc, etc...
Don't get me wrong. I go through money like it's going out of style [well that and I don't get paid a lot for a full time developer
Tom
You know what I mean... If the algorithms in your code shown are not covered by the patents than bobs your uncle.
Tom
Open the engine but maintain a license on it.
;)
Duh...
IF you're not copying them then your source will show that. If you are... then you teh sux.
Tom
Fuck you mods who gave my post +4... it's the same crap I post EVERY time Gates is in the news...
I'm really just hoping that some editor sees it and goes "oh yeah, PR isn't news... oops".
Tom
More one sided propatainment.
Get Gates to interview Torvalds [and then vice versa] and that would be worth a read.
Otherwise it's just more corporate MSFT-speak talking about "how exciting gee whiz golly!" computing is...
Tom
That's not my point. If you like game then why cheat to get ahead? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
It's like cheating in solitaire or something. Not very productive in the grand scheme of things and if you're point was to challenge yourself you missed it...
Tom
Actually I got a receiver/amp/tuner, four satelite speakers, an amplified sub-woofer and center speakers for about 500$ [well more when you add one the cable for the room, shelf to put it on, PSP, etc...].
;-)
The point is... it sounds very clear, has a bunch of inputs [say xbox/PS2, tv tuner and then PC] and can get loud when I want it.
"shiny" would be if I got a 1000$ receiver, 1000$ amp, etc... so I could get 200dB of dynamic range from 5hz to 49Khz or something...
This does [iirc] 20hz to 22Khz [or something] and gives basically around 100dB of dynamic range [have yet to really hear it distort or fudge music].
The plan is when I move out eventually, whoa, I have a home stereo...
Tom