Always initialize your variables, period! Even in languages that automatically do it for you so that you are aware to what they are initialized.
So for example, perl initializes variables to 'undef' by default. I am already aware of this without setting the value explicitly. How do you justify setting the value to undef explicitly?
I was wondering to myself whether Ken would get out by wagering huge cash amounts on questions and just going either for broke or huge sums.
I'm not at all surprised he wanted out. Enough is enough - life goes on. You can't live it all in a game show. Plus, I have to say I wasn't too impressed with Alex T's attitude. He was getting sloppy, IMO. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.
Anyway, awesome run, Ken! I was totally amazed every time I watched.
I'm guessing you didn't vote for Bush this year.:)
The guy's a fucking idiot. Someone is pulling his strings and making him dance. It's corporations and the military. I hate to see what he does with the next 4 years.
Crashes I've seen in the PR weren't consistent. I've switched to Firefox 1.0 to try it out. Haven't used it long enough to witness any crashes yet.
Mozilla almost never ever crashed. I, too, would leave the browser open forever and only close it once in a blue moon, usually to free the memory usage that was creeping up. I'm hoping Firefox will be less memory intensive than Mozilla over the long haul.
The privacy issue is the only thing that has been preventing my complete switch over.
Really, there *is* no privacy issue
If so, why does it seem Google's Gmail doesn't want you to delete your email? It's convenient that there is no shortcut key for Delete, but there is for Archive.
What's to stop Big Brother from tapping into Gmail for their own purposes? Nothing. That is an issue with any service. BUT - Gmail has 1GB storage and they want you to keep it all. I find it a little odd.
Anyway, I'm using Gmail for non-personal stuff just to try it out and it's not bad. The free POP access is cool (have yet to try it out). However, I use Yahoo as my main mail account.
So what about Yahoo? Well I'm pretty sure they capture what information they can as well (look at their SBC DSL offering TOS), but I've only got 100MB with them, they make it easy to delete mail, and I don't use their search engine so there's no correlating searches with email.
That gives me an idea (sort of a modification of a previous idea I had).
Write a search agent to modify the search result page so that links you had previously bookmarked are shown right at the top and marked obviously. Bookmarks could be pulled from your local machine and/or from a networked location.
That way you never have to think about your actual bookmark list and you don't have to search a list which might not have the answer you want. Just use your favourite search engine as you normally do. Too easy.
Public transportation is the best place to catch up on reading. Plus it helps pass the time!
I don't subscribe to newspapers or magazines anymore. I find for one thing that they're always trying to fill their quota, so you end up with a lot of stories that aren't too important but they're in there anyway. I don't feel it has disadvantaged me not to read all that extra stuff. Sure, sometimes I'm behind on some news, but in the larger picture - big deal.
Don't read requests work on the sector level? How could you determine what bits are most likely without much detail (even reading single bytes would have the same problem, wouldn't it)?
I have to add my obligatory "iomega sucks" statement in here. Click of death is real, whether they acknowledge it or not. Proprietary removable media in general sucks anyway, especially when you have common formats like CD's and DVD's.
Google really needs a better way to filter out these pages than having users type in "-consumer, -resale -'buy now!'".
I could actually live with using keywords to eliminate bad matches, if only Google would not limit the number of keywords you can enter to a measly 10.
Make sure you aren't overwriting all your backup copies all the time, just in case the master copy you are syncing over gets corrupted. In that case you have to worry about corrupting all your backups with this bad data! Detecting when your data is corrupt might be another thing you could look at (eg. some scheme using MD5 checksums).
Ok, maybe I'm just bitter because I've had a helluva time tracking some things down lately, but I'd argue that it is far easier to build up expertise on MS products because MS has made it a priority that it be that way.
It depends on what you are doing. Do you have any examples?
The is a short supply of open source workers that will work cheap and that are truly good at it.
The unwillingness to work peanuts is probably true of *any good software developer*. Why do you think it only pertains to those who work on open source software? Sounds ridiculous to me.
I thought the terminology was kind of funny myself.
In other news, Microsoft is planning to go mainstream with its homegrown operating system, putting itself in direct competition with Linus Torvalds' basement creation, Linux.
"A new report released by the Sierra Club, the United Steel Workers, UNITE/HERE, and SEIU shows that a clean energy policy would create 1.4 million new American jobs while saving consumers an average of $1,275 on their energy bills in 2025."
When I worked retail many years ago we would finger people who returned stuff excessively and deny them any further returns.
The key point here: any *further* returns.
If a store wants to deny me the right to return an item, it needs to let me know *in advance*. This is just like clearance items. They can't sell it to you and then tell you later that you can't return it - they tell you up front as they must.
President Bush doesn't care much about the environment in comparison with American jobs.
Obviously, much of world does care about the environment. It only makes sense to care about it, since we live in, breathe in, eat and drink the environment around us.
So, will Bush ever compromise with the rest of the world, or is his way the One True Way which everyone else must follow? It seems that everyone needs to have the same set of values, hold the same things dear to them, and simply do whatever it is that President Bush thinks is important. To question him is to be part of the problem.
I hope the rest of the world holds strong and fast against this fool.
True enough, although there have been a lot of extensions to TCP/IP in recent years, and they may have IP rights over features like Explicit Congestion Notification, or maybe even the Evil Bit (has MS patented Evil? They certainly have a _lot_ of experience implementing it...)
I have a question then: how would their copyrighted feature with strings attached get into mainstream TCP/IP implementations? How can they now say they want money? It's like someone saying "Hey, I tell you how to make better paper airplanes" and then 5 years later say "now sign this and you won't be infringing my paper airplane IP rights".
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Always initialize your variables, period! Even in languages that automatically do it for you so that you are aware to what they are initialized.
So for example, perl initializes variables to 'undef' by default. I am already aware of this without setting the value explicitly. How do you justify setting the value to undef explicitly?
There are already many examples of this...
But I guess you can't think of any.
I don't believe BitTorrent's development was motivated the desire to pirate files.
The ability to share large GPL'd files is justification enough. Who cares about your IP address. Go buy the movie/game/song/whatever.
If they remove search by date, they might as well remove everything older than say 3 years. It's mostly of nostalgic value by now.
I was wondering to myself whether Ken would get out by wagering huge cash amounts on questions and just going either for broke or huge sums.
I'm not at all surprised he wanted out. Enough is enough - life goes on. You can't live it all in a game show. Plus, I have to say I wasn't too impressed with Alex T's attitude. He was getting sloppy, IMO. Familiarity breeds contempt, as they say.
Anyway, awesome run, Ken! I was totally amazed every time I watched.
I'm guessing you didn't vote for Bush this year.
The guy's a fucking idiot. Someone is pulling his strings and making him dance. It's corporations and the military.
I hate to see what he does with the next 4 years.
Crashes I've seen in the PR weren't consistent. I've switched to Firefox 1.0 to try it out. Haven't used it long enough to witness any crashes yet.
Mozilla almost never ever crashed. I, too, would leave the browser open forever and only close it once in a blue moon, usually to free the memory usage that was creeping up. I'm hoping Firefox will be less memory intensive than Mozilla over the long haul.
The privacy issue is the only thing that has been preventing my complete switch over.
Really, there *is* no privacy issue
If so, why does it seem Google's Gmail doesn't want you to delete your email? It's convenient that there is no shortcut key for Delete, but there is for Archive.
What's to stop Big Brother from tapping into Gmail for their own purposes? Nothing. That is an issue with any service. BUT - Gmail has 1GB storage and they want you to keep it all. I find it a little odd.
Anyway, I'm using Gmail for non-personal stuff just to try it out and it's not bad. The free POP access is cool (have yet to try it out). However, I use Yahoo as my main mail account.
So what about Yahoo? Well I'm pretty sure they capture what information they can as well (look at their SBC DSL offering TOS), but I've only got 100MB with them, they make it easy to delete mail, and I don't use their search engine so there's no correlating searches with email.
The Space Review ... argues that repairing Hubble with robots is both risky and expensive
Uh, anything you do in space is risky and expensive.
That gives me an idea (sort of a modification of a previous idea I had).
Write a search agent to modify the search result page so that links you had previously bookmarked are shown right at the top and marked obviously. Bookmarks could be pulled from your local machine and/or from a networked location.
That way you never have to think about your actual bookmark list and you don't have to search a list which might not have the answer you want. Just use your favourite search engine as you normally do. Too easy.
Public transportation is the best place to catch up on reading. Plus it helps pass the time!
I don't subscribe to newspapers or magazines anymore. I find for one thing that they're always trying to fill their quota, so you end up with a lot of stories that aren't too important but they're in there anyway. I don't feel it has disadvantaged me not to read all that extra stuff. Sure, sometimes I'm behind on some news, but in the larger picture - big deal.
Don't read requests work on the sector level? How could you determine what bits are most likely without much detail (even reading single bytes would have the same problem, wouldn't it)?
I have to add my obligatory "iomega sucks" statement in here. Click of death is real, whether they acknowledge it or not. Proprietary removable media in general sucks anyway, especially when you have common formats like CD's and DVD's.
Google really needs a better way to filter out these pages than having users type in "-consumer, -resale -'buy now!'".
I could actually live with using keywords to eliminate bad matches, if only Google would not limit the number of keywords you can enter to a measly 10.
Make sure you aren't overwriting all your backup copies all the time, just in case the master copy you are syncing over gets corrupted. In that case you have to worry about corrupting all your backups with this bad data! Detecting when your data is corrupt might be another thing you could look at (eg. some scheme using MD5 checksums).
Ok, maybe I'm just bitter because I've had a helluva time tracking some things down lately, but I'd argue that it is far easier to build up expertise on MS products because MS has made it a priority that it be that way.
It depends on what you are doing. Do you have any examples?
The is a short supply of open source workers that will work cheap and that are truly good at it.
The unwillingness to work peanuts is probably true of *any good software developer*. Why do you think it only pertains to those who work on open source software? Sounds ridiculous to me.
Open source developers in short supply?
How about open source developers in high demand?
Why work for it when you can pan handle for it. The pan handlers being doubleclick popup windows.
I wonder where the heck the energy goes when I PUSH on a building? I mean, it doesn't move, so I must not be expending any energy.
I'll bet he voted Bush, too. LOL
> Homegrown? Who lives at Microsoft?
I thought the terminology was kind of funny myself.
In other news, Microsoft is planning to go mainstream with its homegrown operating system, putting itself in direct competition with Linus Torvalds' basement creation, Linux.
I recently installed FC2 on my notebook alongside Windows XP and it worked with no problems.
When I worked retail many years ago we would finger people who returned stuff excessively and deny them any further returns.
The key point here: any *further* returns.
If a store wants to deny me the right to return an item, it needs to let me know *in advance*. This is just like clearance items. They can't sell it to you and then tell you later that you can't return it - they tell you up front as they must.
President Bush doesn't care much about the environment in comparison with American jobs.
Obviously, much of world does care about the environment. It only makes sense to care about it, since we live in, breathe in, eat and drink the environment around us.
So, will Bush ever compromise with the rest of the world, or is his way the One True Way which everyone else must follow? It seems that everyone needs to have the same set of values, hold the same things dear to them, and simply do whatever it is that President Bush thinks is important. To question him is to be part of the problem.
I hope the rest of the world holds strong and fast against this fool.
True enough, although there have been a lot of extensions to TCP/IP in recent years, and they may have IP rights over features like Explicit Congestion Notification, or maybe even the Evil Bit (has MS patented Evil? They certainly have a _lot_ of experience implementing it...)
I have a question then: how would their copyrighted feature with strings attached get into mainstream TCP/IP implementations? How can they now say they want money? It's like someone saying "Hey, I tell you how to make better paper airplanes" and then 5 years later say "now sign this and you won't be infringing my paper airplane IP rights".