When your brain is processing all this audio stimuli the majority of it will end up be treated as white noise if you're doing any work because your brain will concentrate on other things, reading, walking, talking, etc.. You would have to sit their with your eyes closed focusing on your hearing trying to detect pattern after pattern. Do you really think anyone can do this? This is why we write/use tools to automate these types of things. I think it would be really fun research to work on but absolutely zero practicality. At the end of the day the same usability could be accomplished by using a pc speaker to beep when a critical error occurs.
And what is wrong with loving windows? I've been running Linux, slackware, redhat, gentoo, BSD's, Embedded Linux on ARM and other weird platforms and I still love Windows. Linux does have it's place in todays world but it's not ready yet for the desktop in my opinion.
A large precentage of the open source community is and always will be playing catchup to MS because of how they develop. How many text editors are their in Linux that are all half assed attempts at creating one really good version? How about KDE vs Gnome vs whatever else? Both are lacking, in my opinion, when compared to Windows/Mac.
My favorite setup (something I will be hard pressed to change) is a windows desktop behind a bsd firewall.:)
Why would a software company never want to make good software? Come on....really. A visionary like Bill Gates didn't just see the software market as a quick fix for a few bucks he saw it as a chance to get himself to market first and brand Microsoft. When you have deadlines that can make/break your company you don't have the luxery to fix every bug, follow the perfect software development model, or even document. What's the sense of developing a great product if you deliver it 3 years to late?
Annoying maybe, but these ads are a much needed source of revenue for the internet. What would happen if people ended up blocking google ads? Would we have free searching on the internet?
Ads maybe annoying but I like the fact that I don't get charged for using a lot of the services on the internet that I love to use.
Now if I could only figure out how to put ads in my posts:)
I'm sorry but I think this is a foolish way to do it. It's just as bad for a person to give an assignment to someone to copy and the person who actually cheats. If it were my call both would be given zeros. THey are supposed to both be professionals, can't they say no?
I know it sounds like an after school special but if you can't say no to one of your friends then you will just get walked over in the work place. Personally I spend the time helping them with there issues and make sure they understand what they have to do and how to go about doing it.
Anyway, it's a touchy subject because in my experience the good students get lower marks on assignments than cheaters most times. It's a kick in the nuts when assignments can be upwards of 20-30% of a course.
There is no perfect way to stop spam. From a corporate stand point you can argue that it is a lot cheaper to pay for excess bandwith to spider spammers than lose the prodictivity of employees receiving spam. When I started work I was given a blackberry and it must cost my company a lot per e-mail when I get spammed. It's all about tradeoffs....
I'm typing this up right now on a multi-monitor setup. I can honestly say it is one of the best ways to organize your windows and screens. I don't nearly alt-tab as much as I used to with one monitor. It's just so handy to be able to glance with your eyes and read some documentation while your code is on the other monitor, or look at a header file while you code the cpp....you get the idea:)
Creepy would be having coke tracking all the losers of the contest. If they want to give me those prizes as far as I'm concerned they could stick a GPS unit up my ass:)
I'm not up on GPS technology but I'm sure there are ways to detect this from outside stores. Looks to me next year, once I figure out how to cheat, will be the summer of me driving accross the country with coke can winners in the back of my car. Why not have a little fun...
I'm in my last year of study in a Computer Engineering degree and one thing I can appriciate is Open Hardware projects, like LART. I am starting a project where I was going to design an embedded system but I found the majority of work to be done already thanks to the LART project. This saves me a lot of time and it can let me focus on the more important aspects of the project.
Relative to him the knowledge of the stock's going through the roof is common knowledge so is it still insider trading? Did he break any laws in obtaining the knowledge? NO! I say let the man have is 350 million dollars:) Food for thought....
Thanks to who ever submitted this story cause it made me laugh right before I left work. It's a funny piece.
Some people consider this to be a nice surpise. "Oh look! It's porn and here I thought it was something about my resume". Then their spirits are lifted for a short while!
Back in the land of reality this spammer should burn in hell:)
Thanks be to god that MS hasn't started storing registration information in "bad blocks" on the bootsector of your hard drive. No amount of registry cleaning would be able to work around that solution. It would be a lot worse if MS attempted to do that. 80,000 low level format's....yeah...and then you would have 80,000 Linux installations i'm sure:)
any other excuse I can think of to get drunk. I may not be inovolved in an "official" party but I can promise you I will be drunk that night:) Saturdays are the best..
Unless the school she is going to attend doesn't have computers I woudln't be bothered with having a lap top. Sure it's a convienient thing to have but I would much rather spend my time travelling Asia than sitting at home surfing the web or posting on/. That's a lot of money that could be spent on flights or travel arrangements. The furthest I would go would be to pick up an old p-100 lap top for cheap just to check e-mail and and type up the odd document. Is their a need for anything with more power? Personally I like the seperation of school/work and home.
Blowing it out of proportion by asking if their will be any reprocussions? I understand:)
I'm not saying the source is not "in the clear" or IP of SCO but if I remember correctly the ability to handle 32 processors was a ability that was present in UNIX not Linux, right? I was just curious if anyone thought if it would affect the lawsuit in anyway at all. With that in mind did IBM contribute in any way to this project? I'm just being curious:)
Well this is great to hear in my opinon but I'm just wondering if this will add to the Law Suit that SCO has on the plate for Linux. It's pretty sad when someone put's a lot of time and work into a project and then someone, like myself, questions if it will hurt more then help Linux. I love hearing about such innovation though and I'd like to say great job by all...
One thing I notice is that participating with the Open Source community changes the way I look at corporations. It's another benifit I was surprised that wasn't mentioned in the article. Some people, myself included, see corporations in a much better light when I notice they are contribuiting to Linux development or any open source project.
I trust my windows machines with sensitive applications. I switch between windows and linux when i'm doing development at work (most time in Linux) and I use windows at home. I never had a problem with hackers getting into my computer or anything along those lines.
Maybe it's because I have a Linux firewall protecting both networks?:)
Where I'm located to in Canada I buy a lot of electronics from Futureshop and I love the idea of buying an extended warrenty on expensive hardware. I purchased a mp3 player for my car a year ago and I got an extended warrenty (3 years) for around 50 dollars (taxes in). The fact that no matter what happens to my deck it will be replaced no questions asked with minmial hassle is a good selling feature.
Personally I trust large companies to last the test of time so I can actually use the extended warrentys unlike some small operations that I'm after seeing go under. If you are going to invest say 2-3 grand into a lap top what's an extra 250 to cover it for a few extra years? I know that companies make money off extended warrenties but I frankly don't mind giving them my money. The peace of mind is more than worth it in my opinion
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater. If they are stupid enough to get into that situation you know they are one of those people who leave their cell phones on during movies.:) Excellent idea though..
I agree that Formal Methods only verfiy if the code is right but the function of the code must be defined properly. It would be useless to have thousands of lines of code verfied to work correctly and then not be able to perform the task it was created to do. Personally I find that UML is another great tool to give you a very good high level view of how everythign should interact.
We studied the cleanroom method as a semiformal method that does not use air-tight proofs for verfication, easy notation to use and because it is a lot easier to learn than a more formal option.
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When your brain is processing all this audio stimuli the majority of it will end up be treated as white noise if you're doing any work because your brain will concentrate on other things, reading, walking, talking, etc.. You would have to sit their with your eyes closed focusing on your hearing trying to detect pattern after pattern. Do you really think anyone can do this? This is why we write/use tools to automate these types of things. I think it would be really fun research to work on but absolutely zero practicality. At the end of the day the same usability could be accomplished by using a pc speaker to beep when a critical error occurs.
:)
Well that's my 2 cents
And what is wrong with loving windows? I've been running Linux, slackware, redhat, gentoo, BSD's, Embedded Linux on ARM and other weird platforms and I still love Windows. Linux does have it's place in todays world but it's not ready yet for the desktop in my opinion.
:)
A large precentage of the open source community is and always will be playing catchup to MS because of how they develop. How many text editors are their in Linux that are all half assed attempts at creating one really good version? How about KDE vs Gnome vs whatever else? Both are lacking, in my opinion, when compared to Windows/Mac.
My favorite setup (something I will be hard pressed to change) is a windows desktop behind a bsd firewall.
Why would a software company never want to make good software? Come on....really. A visionary like Bill Gates didn't just see the software market as a quick fix for a few bucks he saw it as a chance to get himself to market first and brand Microsoft. When you have deadlines that can make/break your company you don't have the luxery to fix every bug, follow the perfect software development model, or even document. What's the sense of developing a great product if you deliver it 3 years to late?
Annoying maybe, but these ads are a much needed source of revenue for the internet. What would happen if people ended up blocking google ads? Would we have free searching on the internet?
:)
Ads maybe annoying but I like the fact that I don't get charged for using a lot of the services on the internet that I love to use.
Now if I could only figure out how to put ads in my posts
I'm sorry but I think this is a foolish way to do it. It's just as bad for a person to give an assignment to someone to copy and the person who actually cheats. If it were my call both would be given zeros. THey are supposed to both be professionals, can't they say no?
I know it sounds like an after school special but if you can't say no to one of your friends then you will just get walked over in the work place. Personally I spend the time helping them with there issues and make sure they understand what they have to do and how to go about doing it.
Anyway, it's a touchy subject because in my experience the good students get lower marks on assignments than cheaters most times. It's a kick in the nuts when assignments can be upwards of 20-30% of a course.
There is no perfect way to stop spam. From a corporate stand point you can argue that it is a lot cheaper to pay for excess bandwith to spider spammers than lose the prodictivity of employees receiving spam. When I started work I was given a blackberry and it must cost my company a lot per e-mail when I get spammed. It's all about tradeoffs....
:)
I say bite the bullet and spider those bastards
if you want to track a lot of bugs try to hook it into windows :)
I'm typing this up right now on a multi-monitor setup. I can honestly say it is one of the best ways to organize your windows and screens. I don't nearly alt-tab as much as I used to with one monitor. It's just so handy to be able to glance with your eyes and read some documentation while your code is on the other monitor, or look at a header file while you code the cpp....you get the idea :)
until the IT managers use it to run W2K, Win XP and other misc MS OS's all at once! Still pretty cool though. :)
Actually webmin does have an applet for both Telnet/SSH, I found it by browsing around the screenshot section.
Creepy would be having coke tracking all the losers of the contest. If they want to give me those prizes as far as I'm concerned they could stick a GPS unit up my ass :)
I'm not up on GPS technology but I'm sure there are ways to detect this from outside stores. Looks to me next year, once I figure out how to cheat, will be the summer of me driving accross the country with coke can winners in the back of my car. Why not have a little fun...
I'm in my last year of study in a Computer Engineering degree and one thing I can appriciate is Open Hardware projects, like LART. I am starting a project where I was going to design an embedded system but I found the majority of work to be done already thanks to the LART project. This saves me a lot of time and it can let me focus on the more important aspects of the project.
Relative to him the knowledge of the stock's going through the roof is common knowledge so is it still insider trading? Did he break any laws in obtaining the knowledge? NO! I say let the man have is 350 million dollars :) Food for thought....
Thanks to who ever submitted this story cause it made me laugh right before I left work. It's a funny piece.
Some people consider this to be a nice surpise. "Oh look! It's porn and here I thought it was something about my resume". Then their spirits are lifted for a short while!
:)
Back in the land of reality this spammer should burn in hell
Thanks be to god that MS hasn't started storing registration information in "bad blocks" on the bootsector of your hard drive. No amount of registry cleaning would be able to work around that solution. It would be a lot worse if MS attempted to do that. 80,000 low level format's....yeah...and then you would have 80,000 Linux installations i'm sure :)
any other excuse I can think of to get drunk. I may not be inovolved in an "official" party but I can promise you I will be drunk that night :) Saturdays are the best..
Unless the school she is going to attend doesn't have computers I woudln't be bothered with having a lap top. Sure it's a convienient thing to have but I would much rather spend my time travelling Asia than sitting at home surfing the web or posting on /. That's a lot of money that could be spent on flights or travel arrangements. The furthest I would go would be to pick up an old p-100 lap top for cheap just to check e-mail and and type up the odd document. Is their a need for anything with more power? Personally I like the seperation of school/work and home.
Blowing it out of proportion by asking if their will be any reprocussions? I understand :)
:)
I'm not saying the source is not "in the clear" or IP of SCO but if I remember correctly the ability to handle 32 processors was a ability that was present in UNIX not Linux, right? I was just curious if anyone thought if it would affect the lawsuit in anyway at all. With that in mind did IBM contribute in any way to this project? I'm just being curious
Well this is great to hear in my opinon but I'm just wondering if this will add to the Law Suit that SCO has on the plate for Linux. It's pretty sad when someone put's a lot of time and work into a project and then someone, like myself, questions if it will hurt more then help Linux. I love hearing about such innovation though and I'd like to say great job by all...
One thing I notice is that participating with the Open Source community changes the way I look at corporations. It's another benifit I was surprised that wasn't mentioned in the article. Some people, myself included, see corporations in a much better light when I notice they are contribuiting to Linux development or any open source project.
I trust my windows machines with sensitive applications. I switch between windows and linux when i'm doing development at work (most time in Linux) and I use windows at home. I never had a problem with hackers getting into my computer or anything along those lines.
:)
Maybe it's because I have a Linux firewall protecting both networks?
Where I'm located to in Canada I buy a lot of electronics from Futureshop and I love the idea of buying an extended warrenty on expensive hardware. I purchased a mp3 player for my car a year ago and I got an extended warrenty (3 years) for around 50 dollars (taxes in). The fact that no matter what happens to my deck it will be replaced no questions asked with minmial hassle is a good selling feature.
Personally I trust large companies to last the test of time so I can actually use the extended warrentys unlike some small operations that I'm after seeing go under. If you are going to invest say 2-3 grand into a lap top what's an extra 250 to cover it for a few extra years? I know that companies make money off extended warrenties but I frankly don't mind giving them my money. The peace of mind is more than worth it in my opinion
I would be sitting behind one of those people in a movie theater. If they are stupid enough to get into that situation you know they are one of those people who leave their cell phones on during movies. :) Excellent idea though..
I agree that Formal Methods only verfiy if the code is right but the function of the code must be defined properly. It would be useless to have thousands of lines of code verfied to work correctly and then not be able to perform the task it was created to do. Personally I find that UML is another great tool to give you a very good high level view of how everythign should interact.
We studied the cleanroom method as a semiformal method that does not use air-tight proofs for verfication, easy notation to use and because it is a lot easier to learn than a more formal option.