You sure are one to be talking about other people's bad coding practices, aren't you? What with you being the maintainer of SlashCode, one of the ugliest programming projects I've ever had the displeasure to read through, it's only appropriate, I suppose.
I mean honestly, I've seen some of the potheads in my freshman CS courses write more coherent code than that. If you had been taking my class, I would have failed you.
You're wrong, of course. Water expands when it freezes. This is goes against your general rule citing the relationship between volume and temperature.
Water is at its densest at about 4 degrees celsius.
Talk about a gimmick
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Compiling it from source is almost never different from just grabbing a binary package and installing it. If it wasn't already compiled with the appropriate GCC optimizations, chances are compiling in those optimizations now will just lead to random instability. It's just an excuse for dorks in their basement with more time than brains to feel good about their l337 lunix b0x3n.
Full-text queries can only be done on four or more letter words.
You're just making that up, jackass. There is no limit to how short the text is that you query for.
This limitation has little to do with MySQL (besides general poor performance) and everything to do with SlashCode's poorly designed searching facilities.
Well, the first rule of a co-op is that everyone's property is the property of everyone. There is no "personal" property, so no one will mind if you appropriate their machine for the good of the co-op. Feel free to just walk into their dorm when they're not around and lug the box out. Don't worry, you're doing this for the betterment of the many.
Secondly, you should sell all the computing power to the university. Put all of your users processes at lower priorities, because, after all, the university is condoning your actions, so you'll need to give them something in return.
Finally, don't charge any money to anyone for the use of this facility. Just appropriate their machine when they're not looking. Make all their processes have equally low priority on all of the machines and you'll be set.
Oh, and if you have any trouble with people complaining to you about their missing machines, don't worry. You can just send them to Siberia.
from the this-story-edited-in-mozilla-on-mac-os-x dept.
That's funny, it kinda looks like you're using Internet Explorer here.
Well, they may have a point somewhere in there...
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"Another security concern is that the primary distribution channel for GPL open source is the Internet. As opposed to proprietary vendors, open source is freely downloaded. However, software in the public domain could contain a critical problem, a backdoor or worse, a dangerous virus."
It is true that open source applications, being openly available on the internet and distributed in the same manner, are susceptible to backdooring and trojaning. Just look at IRSSI or FragRoute.
This risk factor is somewhat mitigated in commercial software, where the distribution is typically through CDs and other trusted media. Of course, someone can still somehow compromise a software developer's network, but it isn't exactly hanging out a sign saying "I'm the source code, hack me!" like the open source projects.
Just imagine, for a minute, how devastating it would be if Sourceforge was hacked and malicious code was inserted into a ton of the projects without anyone noticing for long enough that it could cause real damage? The danger is clear.
Well, Richard Stallman has a good idea that eBooks are going to "solve" that problem for publishers. He was interviewed on Off The Hook, a weekly radio show in New York, a few months ago about the topic. You can find the MP3 archive of the show here.
It's not that you have underpowered hardware (or maybe you do, nobody really knows how Mac performance stacks up against PC performance). You just have shitty software.
I just finished up a semester course in digital movie making at my high school. We had a lab of machines composed exclusively of 700Mhz-ish G4s. We used Final Cut Pro, and I have to say that it's the best movie editing software that I've ever used, in terms of efficiency, usability and flexibility. Even while using OS X (a supposed resource hog) we didn't have any problems importing our film clips, applying effects and editing them. Even the final render jobs didn't take that long (maybe 40 minutes for about 40 minutes of video with all our effects added in).
I haven't personally used Premiere, but my teacher did last year (when he was working somewhere else), and he said that it's absolutely horrible for film editing. So if you're in this professionally or something, you should probably check eBay for a used G4 Tower with a good amount of RAM (most of our machines had around 1GB, which is found cheaply on PriceWatch and such) and pick up a copy of Final Cut Pro. You'll be amazed at the difference.
I could also make a statement that would be equivalent to my last: You can only define something by what it is.
This same topic came up between myself and a teacher a few years ago, and i spent the entire class hour trying to explain it to the rest of the class, but they didn't get it.
Wow, you must've made some friends in school! Everybody loves the know-it-all (especially when he's wrong).
When I buy a game, I am purchasing it. It's mine. That doesn't mean that they can come back later and take away my rights, like the right to cheat.
You can be sure that I won't be buying any games from the people mentioned in that article, and I suggest everyone else who values their freedom do the same.
Mozilla is a fine example of everything that is wrong with open-source software. Most of its problems originate from the fact that its developers are hacks (and not in the good sense) who have no experience in a real software development environment. The project has no direction and the concept of "project management" is unknown to the participants. One example of this problem is Mozilla's extremely slow development cycle -- there are no managers to say "this feature must be completed by X date" and consequently it has taken approximately fifty thousand years to produce a 1.0 product.
And Mozilla 1.0 is by no means more polished or finished than a typical closed-source OTS software package -- on the contrary, because Mozilla has no paying customer or management to answer to, the browser suffers from innumerable problems. It's a RAM hog. It's slow. Its default user interface emphasizes form over function. It's slow. It does not support the current generation of Web-related standards. It's slow. (You may have noticed that I seem fixated on Mozilla's slowness. That's because the "final straw" that caused me to vow "never to download this piece of shit again" was related to its slowness. I have a Sun workstation that cost more money than Slashdot earns in a year. On this workstation, Internet Explorer takes x seconds to load, Netscape 4 takes 2x seconds to load, and Mozilla takes 15x (!!) seconds to load. Absolutely unacceptable and proof that most Mozilla developers have never used real UNIX, and certainly can't write good software for it.)
But I think that the most laughable thing of the farse that is the Mozilla project is that no one said "no" to any feature requests. Futhermore, the project is so disorganized that basic web browser functionality was often ignored so that developers could work on their favorite "cool" features. A good example is the mail client. Now I know that Netscape browsers traditionally include a mail client, but development on such a client should not have began until the browser was finished. And by finished I mean that it supports all current-generation Web-related standards. Even today, Mozilla does not support CSS2 features that Internet Explorer had two years ago. And the CSS2 recommendation was released in 1998. I simply don't understand why Mozilla implements a completely custom widget set when it doesn't even support CSS2. If Mozilla were a proper software development project, the team would have created a working, fast, memory-conservative, standards-based browser before any other features were even thought about. The UNIX and Unix-workalike browser market is essentially non-existant, and I can tell you that those of us who use UNIX for real work (as opposed to pirating MP3s and DVDs and other Taco-esque activities) would have appreciated a fast, standards-compliant browser with the Navigator 4.08 GUI and featureset much more than we appreciate the slow, RAM hog piece of unprofessional garbage that Mozilla has taken way too long to produce.
I use Windows, too, of course. (As does everyone. Even Taco. How do you think he plays all of those "l337" Windows-only video games that he always rants about?) And Windows users have even less reason to be impressed with Mozilla, because most of its "features" seem even more unecessary in a Windows environment. For example, the mail client is absolutely useless, because almost all Windows business users use Outlook or Outlook Express. And Gecko violates Windows user interface conventions, making it look more like some college student's "intro to VB let's see all of the cool buttons and colors that I can add to my app" project than an application that is actually intended for use in the real world.
Remember that Windows users make up almost all of the world's web surfers. As a browser, Internet Explorer is superior to Mozilla. No one cares about your colorful GUI or your half-assed mail client if you can't even make a decent browser. You have lost, have a nice day.
Mozilla has also lost on the UNIX platform. Internet Explorer is faster and more standards compliant. Ironically, it's also a much better UNIX application. By the way, did you know that Microsoft includes CDE icons with the IE/UNIX distribution? That's class.
Mozilla similarly fails on Mac OS 9 and X. IE owns that market, too.
All that Mozilla has left is GNU/Linux, and the only reason that it even has that market is that IE hasn't been ported to Linux yet.
The browser is a piece of crap. The project is a failure. The "developers" are embarassments to the open source community. I only hope that, now that 1.0 has finally been released, evreyone can give up on the project and move to another browser. All of you immature hypocritical fucktards seem to think that Microsoft isn't worth supporting because its software is bloated and buggy, right? Well, you should dump Mozilla for the same reason. Mozilla doesn't have the incredible featureset that makes Microsoft products the most popular in the world despite their flaws. If you want to continue to live in your little Linux fantasy-land where I'm sure you still think that Linux is "ready for the desktop" and that any sane consumer cares about your petty philosophical beef with capitalism, move to Konqueror or Opera. Neither of those browser is very good, but they do lack the fetid stink that has followed Mozilla ever since Netscape shat out that awful 4.x source code so many years ago.
Fuck you all.
-- The_Messenger
Homer Simpsons puts it best:
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Buildings should produce more energy than they use.
In this house, we OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!
It's not about to happen in the future. This is already happening. I believe an earlier Slashdot article (or maybe I heard it somewhere else) linked to an article that described their technique for doing it, which involved bending the optical fiber in a certain way.
Interesting that it's now being reported as something that's going to happen in the future. A little revisionist history may be at work, or maybe a reporter who hasn't really done his homework.
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Are you kidding me? I'm not going to waste my valuable time improving someone else's drunken mistake! I have better things to do.
I mean honestly, I've seen some of the potheads in my freshman CS courses write more coherent code than that. If you had been taking my class, I would have failed you.
Water is at its densest at about 4 degrees celsius.
Compiling it from source is almost never different from just grabbing a binary package and installing it. If it wasn't already compiled with the appropriate GCC optimizations, chances are compiling in those optimizations now will just lead to random instability. It's just an excuse for dorks in their basement with more time than brains to feel good about their l337 lunix b0x3n.
You're just making that up, jackass. There is no limit to how short the text is that you query for.
This limitation has little to do with MySQL (besides general poor performance) and everything to do with SlashCode's poorly designed searching facilities.
I suppose viewing it as a "network" is the only way that most Slashbots will ever understand social interaction.
How could he work things out on the paino if he was deaf?
Don't forget a complete lack of stored procedures and triggers. Last I heard about it, they said they'll implement them "sometime" using Perl (!).
What's this, a new weapon in the war on drugs?
Secondly, you should sell all the computing power to the university. Put all of your users processes at lower priorities, because, after all, the university is condoning your actions, so you'll need to give them something in return.
Finally, don't charge any money to anyone for the use of this facility. Just appropriate their machine when they're not looking. Make all their processes have equally low priority on all of the machines and you'll be set.
Oh, and if you have any trouble with people complaining to you about their missing machines, don't worry. You can just send them to Siberia.
Slashdot: Speculation for Nerds, Stuff that might matter if 3 other things are true
That's funny, it kinda looks like you're using Internet Explorer here.
It is true that open source applications, being openly available on the internet and distributed in the same manner, are susceptible to backdooring and trojaning. Just look at IRSSI or FragRoute.
This risk factor is somewhat mitigated in commercial software, where the distribution is typically through CDs and other trusted media. Of course, someone can still somehow compromise a software developer's network, but it isn't exactly hanging out a sign saying "I'm the source code, hack me!" like the open source projects.
Just imagine, for a minute, how devastating it would be if Sourceforge was hacked and malicious code was inserted into a ton of the projects without anyone noticing for long enough that it could cause real damage? The danger is clear.
Well, Richard Stallman has a good idea that eBooks are going to "solve" that problem for publishers. He was interviewed on Off The Hook, a weekly radio show in New York, a few months ago about the topic. You can find the MP3 archive of the show here.
I just finished up a semester course in digital movie making at my high school. We had a lab of machines composed exclusively of 700Mhz-ish G4s. We used Final Cut Pro, and I have to say that it's the best movie editing software that I've ever used, in terms of efficiency, usability and flexibility. Even while using OS X (a supposed resource hog) we didn't have any problems importing our film clips, applying effects and editing them. Even the final render jobs didn't take that long (maybe 40 minutes for about 40 minutes of video with all our effects added in).
I haven't personally used Premiere, but my teacher did last year (when he was working somewhere else), and he said that it's absolutely horrible for film editing. So if you're in this professionally or something, you should probably check eBay for a used G4 Tower with a good amount of RAM (most of our machines had around 1GB, which is found cheaply on PriceWatch and such) and pick up a copy of Final Cut Pro. You'll be amazed at the difference.
I could also make a statement that would be equivalent to my last: You can only define something by what it is.
This same topic came up between myself and a teacher a few years ago, and i spent the entire class hour trying to explain it to the rest of the class, but they didn't get it.
Wow, you must've made some friends in school! Everybody loves the know-it-all (especially when he's wrong).
You can't define something by what it's not.
You can be sure that I won't be buying any games from the people mentioned in that article, and I suggest everyone else who values their freedom do the same.
You assholes here are just like Ashcroft et al who call anyone who disagrees with them a "terrorist".
Mozilla is a fine example of everything that is wrong with open-source software. Most of its problems originate from the fact that its developers are hacks (and not in the good sense) who have no experience in a real software development environment. The project has no direction and the concept of "project management" is unknown to the participants. One example of this problem is Mozilla's extremely slow development cycle -- there are no managers to say "this feature must be completed by X date" and consequently it has taken approximately fifty thousand years to produce a 1.0 product.
And Mozilla 1.0 is by no means more polished or finished than a typical closed-source OTS software package -- on the contrary, because Mozilla has no paying customer or management to answer to, the browser suffers from innumerable problems. It's a RAM hog. It's slow. Its default user interface emphasizes form over function. It's slow. It does not support the current generation of Web-related standards. It's slow. (You may have noticed that I seem fixated on Mozilla's slowness. That's because the "final straw" that caused me to vow "never to download this piece of shit again" was related to its slowness. I have a Sun workstation that cost more money than Slashdot earns in a year. On this workstation, Internet Explorer takes x seconds to load, Netscape 4 takes 2x seconds to load, and Mozilla takes 15x (!!) seconds to load. Absolutely unacceptable and proof that most Mozilla developers have never used real UNIX, and certainly can't write good software for it.)
But I think that the most laughable thing of the farse that is the Mozilla project is that no one said "no" to any feature requests. Futhermore, the project is so disorganized that basic web browser functionality was often ignored so that developers could work on their favorite "cool" features. A good example is the mail client. Now I know that Netscape browsers traditionally include a mail client, but development on such a client should not have began until the browser was finished. And by finished I mean that it supports all current-generation Web-related standards. Even today, Mozilla does not support CSS2 features that Internet Explorer had two years ago. And the CSS2 recommendation was released in 1998. I simply don't understand why Mozilla implements a completely custom widget set when it doesn't even support CSS2. If Mozilla were a proper software development project, the team would have created a working, fast, memory-conservative, standards-based browser before any other features were even thought about. The UNIX and Unix-workalike browser market is essentially non-existant, and I can tell you that those of us who use UNIX for real work (as opposed to pirating MP3s and DVDs and other Taco-esque activities) would have appreciated a fast, standards-compliant browser with the Navigator 4.08 GUI and featureset much more than we appreciate the slow, RAM hog piece of unprofessional garbage that Mozilla has taken way too long to produce.
I use Windows, too, of course. (As does everyone. Even Taco. How do you think he plays all of those "l337" Windows-only video games that he always rants about?) And Windows users have even less reason to be impressed with Mozilla, because most of its "features" seem even more unecessary in a Windows environment. For example, the mail client is absolutely useless, because almost all Windows business users use Outlook or Outlook Express. And Gecko violates Windows user interface conventions, making it look more like some college student's "intro to VB let's see all of the cool buttons and colors that I can add to my app" project than an application that is actually intended for use in the real world.
Remember that Windows users make up almost all of the world's web surfers. As a browser, Internet Explorer is superior to Mozilla. No one cares about your colorful GUI or your half-assed mail client if you can't even make a decent browser. You have lost, have a nice day.
Mozilla has also lost on the UNIX platform. Internet Explorer is faster and more standards compliant. Ironically, it's also a much better UNIX application. By the way, did you know that Microsoft includes CDE icons with the IE/UNIX distribution? That's class.
Mozilla similarly fails on Mac OS 9 and X. IE owns that market, too.
All that Mozilla has left is GNU/Linux, and the only reason that it even has that market is that IE hasn't been ported to Linux yet.
The browser is a piece of crap. The project is a failure. The "developers" are embarassments to the open source community. I only hope that, now that 1.0 has finally been released, evreyone can give up on the project and move to another browser. All of you immature hypocritical fucktards seem to think that Microsoft isn't worth supporting because its software is bloated and buggy, right? Well, you should dump Mozilla for the same reason. Mozilla doesn't have the incredible featureset that makes Microsoft products the most popular in the world despite their flaws. If you want to continue to live in your little Linux fantasy-land where I'm sure you still think that Linux is "ready for the desktop" and that any sane consumer cares about your petty philosophical beef with capitalism, move to Konqueror or Opera. Neither of those browser is very good, but they do lack the fetid stink that has followed Mozilla ever since Netscape shat out that awful 4.x source code so many years ago.
Fuck you all.
-- The_Messenger
In this house, we OBEY THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS!
Interesting that it's now being reported as something that's going to happen in the future. A little revisionist history may be at work, or maybe a reporter who hasn't really done his homework.
Is there any way I could do this? I currently work the fryer at McDonalds and I'm looking to move into a more profitable venture.
Pay us to do your job for you, or do your job yourself.
Holy fuck, you are dense! I nominate you for Slashdot editorship.