an x alternative or a better x. an easy, working version of wine. More free games like kq. A media player that can play everything (xine and mplayer both?).
The plan would work if enough people did it (the single reply, not necessarily the form fucker), and it would work for the same reason that spam makes my inbox useless. A poor signal to noise ratio. Someone has to dig through all of those garbage e-mails and harvest the truly interested parties (both of them).
Uh. What? Microsoft has ALWAYS been an innovation-stifling, will fuck for money, back stabbing company. This whole thing started when Bill G got laughed out of the homebrew computer club for throwing a hissy fit over how people were copying his version of basic.
As long as the experience provided by the game is unique, enjoyable and has a low dollar to playable time ratio, they will do just fine, and will continue to be the choice of discriminating gamers.
Form follows function. If the functionality of enough of their proposed new games requires a hard drive, then one should be added. A hard drive should not be included, and then programmed for, merely for the sake of 'conformity.'
I don't really enjoy online gaming. I think it's cost prohibitive, not yet well enough debugged, and over hyped.
That's exactly what I thought when I read about the 250 lb weight limit. Then I realized, you can just shoe horn one unit under each overstuffed dimpled ass cheek and still be able to service nearly 3/4ths of the US's coveted "gluttonous consumer" demographic.
I read that headline and thought that we had started using a new missive for Bill Gates and his legal woes (though I guess "woes" isn't actually a synonym for "successful yet unjust proceedings/payoffs").
Actually, I think they're just re-directing attention.
Most of the patches released today address shortcomings in previous patches or new ways of exploiting old vulnerabilities. The security update released today to fix the most recent batch of Internet Explorer flaws replaces a patch that was issued last month, which was also a cumulative update.
It seems that one of this recent batch (of 9) is another IE vuln. Funny how their monopoly strategy is what's causing many of their problems. Funny like necrotic hemerhoids.
I run a phpbb based blog, for my friends and family, and it is definately a problem. So far, the only solution I've found is to block all users who register with an e-mail address from.ru and.tw. This is obviously a sub-optimal solution.
It's frustrating on so many levels. The spammer always sees a hit from your website in their logs if you do a background check on the user (you have to visit the site in order to realize it's spam), so the insentive to spam is reinforced. On the other hand, you run the risk of deleting a user who is truly interested in your site if you don't investigate their profile information.
Unfortunately, it's really easy to use google to find phpbb based sites, and it's just as easy to write a script to register yourself with all of these sites. The signal to noise ratio is making it hard for me to justify the admin time costs of running a public site.
The other (not as easy) solution is to modify your site code in some non-standard way so that their scripts fail.
These things enhance the effectiveness of the vehicle that transfers the nicotine into your blood. They're not intended to be harmful, but they just happen to be.
Obviously the FDA would shoot it down. Aspirin wouldn't be allowed by today's FDA.
Actually. That's a good question.;) If the WHOIS database violates privacy concerns, then how can the phonebook be seen as any different? You have to pay to be unlisted (in the US, not sure about elsewhere).
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So you're that asshole who's codebase I've inherited! Who the hell bothers to comment i++; ?!?!
If the server didn't support the necessary features of the JDBC driver (like the postgres jdbc driver being unable to tell you whether a column is nullable or not), he would've still been hosed. JDBC is far from perfect. Anything beyond trivially simple requirements quickly makes you the driver beta tester. Even the Oracle driver does weird stuff. In fact, I don't know a single database, driver combination that lives up to its promise.
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I have noticed Slashdot seems to be posting a lot of these clueless journalist articles lately.
Well... This story isn't valuable because it informs me that.net is better than java (or vice versa). This story is valuable because it demonstrates what my boss is reading. It demonstrates the dominant line of thought shared by the decision makers. Is it accurate? Doesn't matter. Is it an example of just the dumbed down, easy to digest, spoon fed, biased propaganda that CT/FO's glance over every day? Youbetcha.
I don't seek advice about my car from English majors, so why should I listen to them about computers?
Because your boss does.:)
Understanding that this information (valid or otherwise) is the basis for decision, is important when giving a superior advice, input or feedback. If you don't understand the premises that your boss used to choose a tool, how will you ever construct an argument? You have no premises to attack, no axioms for which to present counterproof.
Let's have more articles from sources qualified to speak on their subjects.
So an obscure article about the relative merits of.NET and Java, written by a qualified software development analyst, that for damn sure wouldn't have been linked to by any major news outlet, would have been of more interest to the Slashdot crowd? Why? Because we don't already know which language is better? Because there are so many people on this board who think.NET is wonderful and would rail venomous invectives at anyone who claimed that Bill Gates was anything but a visionary benefactor, working towards giving the world the equivalent of computing nirvana?
I guess I come to Slashdot to get informed about the state of the industry I choose to work in. An uninformed journalist's article, appearing on a large news site, about a programming language that I use to keep myself in cream, especially if it's wrong, is of great interest to me.
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Considering that windows update has never been hacked?
Does ximian have a debian port?
an x alternative or a better x.
an easy, working version of wine.
More free games like kq.
A media player that can play everything (xine and mplayer both?).
Good thing they didn't want a retinal scan.
Now what about sending them bogus email addresses and phony information? That would send them on a wild goose chase.
That would be form fucker
The plan would work if enough people did it (the single reply, not necessarily the form fucker), and it would work for the same reason that spam makes my inbox useless. A poor signal to noise ratio. Someone has to dig through all of those garbage e-mails and harvest the truly interested parties (both of them).
Uh. What? Microsoft has ALWAYS been an innovation-stifling, will fuck for money, back stabbing company. This whole thing started when Bill G got laughed out of the homebrew computer club for throwing a hissy fit over how people were copying his version of basic.
God I hope that sticks.
I respectfully disagree.
As long as the experience provided by the game is unique, enjoyable and has a low dollar to playable time ratio, they will do just fine, and will continue to be the choice of discriminating gamers.
Form follows function. If the functionality of enough of their proposed new games requires a hard drive, then one should be added. A hard drive should not be included, and then programmed for, merely for the sake of 'conformity.'
I don't really enjoy online gaming. I think it's cost prohibitive, not yet well enough debugged, and over hyped.
Do I sound curmudgeonly?
An $800 ventriloquist?
That's exactly what I thought when I read about the 250 lb weight limit. Then I realized, you can just shoe horn one unit under each overstuffed dimpled ass cheek and still be able to service nearly 3/4ths of the US's coveted "gluttonous consumer" demographic.
I read that headline and thought that we had started using a new missive for Bill Gates and his legal woes (though I guess "woes" isn't actually a synonym for "successful yet unjust proceedings/payoffs").
Actually, I think they're just re-directing attention.
Most of the patches released today address shortcomings in previous patches or new ways of exploiting old vulnerabilities. The security update released today to fix the most recent batch of Internet Explorer flaws replaces a patch that was issued last month, which was also a cumulative update.
It seems that one of this recent batch (of 9) is another IE vuln. Funny how their monopoly strategy is what's causing many of their problems. Funny like necrotic hemerhoids.
I'd like to see justice for consumers who were forced to pay for MS on OEM pc's. Of course, I'd also like to win the lottery.
I run a phpbb based blog, for my friends and family, and it is definately a problem. So far, the only solution I've found is to block all users who register with an e-mail address from .ru and .tw. This is obviously a sub-optimal solution.
It's frustrating on so many levels. The spammer always sees a hit from your website in their logs if you do a background check on the user (you have to visit the site in order to realize it's spam), so the insentive to spam is reinforced. On the other hand, you run the risk of deleting a user who is truly interested in your site if you don't investigate their profile information.
Unfortunately, it's really easy to use google to find phpbb based sites, and it's just as easy to write a script to register yourself with all of these sites. The signal to noise ratio is making it hard for me to justify the admin time costs of running a public site.
The other (not as easy) solution is to modify your site code in some non-standard way so that their scripts fail.
These things enhance the effectiveness of the vehicle that transfers the nicotine into your blood. They're not intended to be harmful, but they just happen to be.
Obviously the FDA would shoot it down. Aspirin wouldn't be allowed by today's FDA.
In Nebraska, opting out costs $.
The phone book is not local
Actually. That's a good question. ;) If the WHOIS database violates privacy concerns, then how can the phonebook be seen as any different? You have to pay to be unlisted (in the US, not sure about elsewhere).
So you're that asshole who's codebase I've inherited! Who the hell bothers to comment i++; ?!?!
Die in a fire.
If the server didn't support the necessary features of the JDBC driver (like the postgres jdbc driver being unable to tell you whether a column is nullable or not), he would've still been hosed. JDBC is far from perfect. Anything beyond trivially simple requirements quickly makes you the driver beta tester. Even the Oracle driver does weird stuff. In fact, I don't know a single database, driver combination that lives up to its promise.
I have noticed Slashdot seems to be posting a lot of these clueless journalist articles lately.
.net is better than java (or vice versa). This story is valuable because it demonstrates what my boss is reading. It demonstrates the dominant line of thought shared by the decision makers. Is it accurate? Doesn't matter. Is it an example of just the dumbed down, easy to digest, spoon fed, biased propaganda that CT/FO's glance over every day? Youbetcha.
:)
.NET and Java, written by a qualified software development analyst, that for damn sure wouldn't have been linked to by any major news outlet, would have been of more interest to the Slashdot crowd? Why? Because we don't already know which language is better? Because there are so many people on this board who think .NET is wonderful and would rail venomous invectives at anyone who claimed that Bill Gates was anything but a visionary benefactor, working towards giving the world the equivalent of computing nirvana?
Well... This story isn't valuable because it informs me that
I don't seek advice about my car from English majors, so why should I listen to them about computers?
Because your boss does.
Understanding that this information (valid or otherwise) is the basis for decision, is important when giving a superior advice, input or feedback. If you don't understand the premises that your boss used to choose a tool, how will you ever construct an argument? You have no premises to attack, no axioms for which to present counterproof.
Let's have more articles from sources qualified to speak on their subjects.
So an obscure article about the relative merits of
I guess I come to Slashdot to get informed about the state of the industry I choose to work in. An uninformed journalist's article, appearing on a large news site, about a programming language that I use to keep myself in cream, especially if it's wrong, is of great interest to me.
If your painter goes out of business, does your paint evaporate?
Off Topic? Come on! That shit's funny!
eat me mods.
8. clients using JDBC would need some mechanism of finding out what the new master is when an update/insert/delete fails.
C-JDBC may take care of this
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