I agree about learning how to use libraries, I would also highly encourage you to learn how to use Linux its self. Knowing how the Kernel and the shell interact, and learning to use the shell well will give you a tremendous amount of power.
Linux is tremendously well written, as is bash. Unix, and by extension Linux, has a very good design philosophy. Learning them well will teach you far more about programming Linux than learning a particular programming language.
The ADS shoots a beam of millimeters waves, which are longer in wavelength than x-rays but shorter than microwaves -- 94 GHz (= 3 mm wavelength) compared to 2.45 GHz (= 12 cm wavelength) in a standard microwave oven...
This is a bit like saying an asteroid is bigger than a pebble and smaller than the sun... microwaves and x-rays are on opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum. It would have been much more useful to say that the waves were longer than visible light, or even longer than infra-red light, but shorter than microwaves.
Sorry, Einstein got there first. E=mc^2 is only the first term of an infinite series. I don't know off hand what the generator is for the rest of the function is.
In other words, E=mc^2 is a very good approximation for the relation between energy and mass, but it's not the whole story.
I don't think that the original slashdot article was meant to be inflamitory, but as soon as I read it, it pushed my *defense of open source programmers* button. Hard.
The phraise "Let's see if open source programmers can be as generous" was, I think, urging us to give money go good causes, but on first reading, it came across as "Bill has given a metric buttload of greenbacks, and you guys haven't given anything, ergo you should hate Bill more"... which is bogus.
We all know that open source programmers *are* generous, after all, the market value of all the software that we write is in the billions, and we gave it all away on the proviso that anyone who wants to modify it has to give away their work as well.
So. Bill is generous, we're generous... but Bill has seen one thing that I haven't seen posted on Slashdot yet, namely that the vaccenes that he's giving away save a lot of lives. Bill's genious lies in finding a sweet spot, whether it be getting in on the ground floor of the PC revolution or of effectively saving lives without spending billions of dollars. Consider that the number of people who died of the Tsunami has probably already been dominated by preventable disease in Central Africa.
So... let's restate: This is a friendly game of philanthropy. Bill has made a very wise move. What's your move?
As I read it, a spammer will sit at foo.com, sending messages out through one of half a million compromised machines. Doing a DNS lookup on foo.com will, in turn, yield one of half a million IP addresses.
This makes me wonder if it would be possible to look up all half a million addresses by brute force... do a reverse DNS lookup on foo.com 5 billion times, and you should have a fairly comprehensive list of everyone who's got a compromised windows box out there... these could in turn be blacklisted.
As I understand it, photovoltaic cells only convert energy at certain wave lengths. I've often wondered whether it would be possible to set up a system of prisms or mirrors such that only light of the desired wavelength is falling on the photovoltaic cell, thus increasing the current from the cell.
Using market analysis similar to the canceled 'Policy Analysis Market', it should be possible to determine what the fair market value for these items acutally *is*.
Basicly, set up something that works like the stock market... 'buy' and 'sell' (this need not be literally buying and selling) shares coresponding to how much you think a CD (or a diamond, or any other overpriced item) should be. The market should give a fairly good idea of what everybody thinks these things should be worth.
Not to mention the problems of orbital debris once these guys get themselves into orbit... what happens if the ship blows up 500 miles up? PAVE PAWS et. al is already tracking too much junk as it is...
I was working as a C programmer on HP-UX when I did my first Linux install at home. I was absolutely blown away by the development package that installed with Linux... my first thought was "Dang, if I paid money for all of this, it would cost me tens of thousands of dollars!".
This, in a nutshell, is the power of Linux, and what makes it such threat to Microsoft. Microsoft's business has always been low end computing. They got to be a powerhouse because they get a percentage when computers became a commodity.
Microsoft's problem is that the operating system its self is going to become a commodity, and who or whatever can serve up web pages, or word processing documents or create images or whatever the cheapest wins. Linux is a pretty strong contender here; the price is hard to beat, and it does the job well.
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I agree about learning how to use libraries, I would also highly encourage you to learn how to use Linux its self. Knowing how the Kernel and the shell interact, and learning to use the shell well will give you a tremendous amount of power.
Linux is tremendously well written, as is bash. Unix, and by extension Linux, has a very good design philosophy. Learning them well will teach you far more about programming Linux than learning a particular programming language.
You know... Illinois Bill. He's related to Indiana Jones.
This is a bit like saying an asteroid is bigger than a pebble and smaller than the sun... microwaves and x-rays are on opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum. It would have been much more useful to say that the waves were longer than visible light, or even longer than infra-red light, but shorter than microwaves.
Sorry, Einstein got there first. E=mc^2 is only the first term of an infinite series. I don't know off hand what the generator is for the rest of the function is.
In other words, E=mc^2 is a very good approximation for the relation between energy and mass, but it's not the whole story.
Sorry. A bunch of random numbers made me say it.
I don't think that the original slashdot article was meant to be inflamitory, but as soon as I read it, it pushed my *defense of open source programmers* button. Hard.
The phraise "Let's see if open source programmers can be as generous" was, I think, urging us to give money go good causes, but on first reading, it came across as "Bill has given a metric buttload of greenbacks, and you guys haven't given anything, ergo you should hate Bill more"... which is bogus.
We all know that open source programmers *are* generous, after all, the market value of all the software that we write is in the billions, and we gave it all away on the proviso that anyone who wants to modify it has to give away their work as well.
So. Bill is generous, we're generous... but Bill has seen one thing that I haven't seen posted on Slashdot yet, namely that the vaccenes that he's giving away save a lot of lives. Bill's genious lies in finding a sweet spot, whether it be getting in on the ground floor of the PC revolution or of effectively saving lives without spending billions of dollars. Consider that the number of people who died of the Tsunami has probably already been dominated by preventable disease in Central Africa.
So... let's restate: This is a friendly game of philanthropy. Bill has made a very wise move. What's your move?
Ok. I'll bite.
Let's say that I've got a *really* big prime. Something, say on the order of 10^10^10^34580.
It's factors are 1 and its self.
There. I've factored it. Do I get a cookie?
Personally, I'd like to see an 'e' at the end of 'creat'.
Q: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a grape?
A: Elephant * grape * sin(theta)
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Q: What do you get when you cross a mountain climber with a misquito?
A: *Everybody* knows that you can't cross a scaler with a vector!
ahem.
for $drm_product (keys %technology){
print "With $drm_product we will eliminate $technology{$drm_product} piracy once and for all!\n ";
}
If the Vega system has a planet, is it left of center, off of the strip, in the outskirts, in the fringes, in the corner, out of the grip?
[to the tune of Little Deuce Coup]
Little loose Gnus... you don't know what I got.
As I read it, a spammer will sit at foo.com, sending messages out through one of half a million compromised machines. Doing a DNS lookup on foo.com will, in turn, yield one of half a million IP addresses.
This makes me wonder if it would be possible to look up all half a million addresses by brute force... do a reverse DNS lookup on foo.com 5 billion times, and you should have a fairly comprehensive list of everyone who's got a compromised windows box out there... these could in turn be blacklisted.
There are three control keys so you can use emacs, silly. :-)
As an interesting aside, the writer of the Sobig virus even makes it in at Number 42..."
Aha. So that's the question to which the answer is 42...
As I understand it, photovoltaic cells only convert energy at certain wave lengths. I've often wondered whether it would be possible to set up a system of prisms or mirrors such that only light of the desired wavelength is falling on the photovoltaic cell, thus increasing the current from the cell.
Using market analysis similar to the canceled 'Policy Analysis Market', it should be possible to determine what the fair market value for these items acutally *is*.
Basicly, set up something that works like the stock market... 'buy' and 'sell' (this need not be literally buying and selling) shares coresponding to how much you think a CD (or a diamond, or any other overpriced item) should be. The market should give a fairly good idea of what everybody thinks these things should be worth.
How do I moderate the Topic down as a troll?
90) PROFIT!!!
Not to mention the problems of orbital debris once these guys get themselves into orbit... what happens if the ship blows up 500 miles up? PAVE PAWS et. al is already tracking too much junk as it is...
WOW. That's a powerful concept. Create a XML document type with its own GNU license built in...
Wouldn't that give embrace and extend a kick in the teeth...
I was working as a C programmer on HP-UX when I did my first Linux install at home. I was absolutely blown away by the development package that installed with Linux... my first thought was "Dang, if I paid money for all of this, it would cost me tens of thousands of dollars!".
This, in a nutshell, is the power of Linux, and what makes it such threat to Microsoft. Microsoft's business has always been low end computing. They got to be a powerhouse because they get a percentage when computers became a commodity.
Microsoft's problem is that the operating system its self is going to become a commodity, and who or whatever can serve up web pages, or word processing documents or create images or whatever the cheapest wins. Linux is a pretty strong contender here; the price is hard to beat, and it does the job well.