To be quite honest, you seem like a lot more of a jackass then him. I'd rather go to lunch and hang out with with a 'hacker' taking advantage of an economic loophole then a thin-skinned priss like yourself.
How is copying an e-book a crime? Under what statute? (and don't say DMCA, that only applies to people distributing software, not using it)How is copying an e-book a crime? Under what statute? (and don't say DMCA, that only applies to people distributing software, not using it).
People keep saying this, but I've never seen any evidence for it.
Podcasts via the Apple iPod have given the masses something simple and recognizable, packaging a short audio message from a single person to be consumed by lots of other people, usually strangers, personally (and on their own schedule). Many of us have been doing that for many years with the Net and other technologies, but it's finally gone massive with iPods.
A friend of mine tried to sell a motorcycle online once, and got a scam relay call like that, from someone in italy. It was the first we'd heard of the service.
Anyway, we had a blast crank calling people for weeks after that. Keep up the good work!
Their most difficult task before leaving the station was the maneuvering of a huge cargo container filled with 2 1/2 years worth of trash into the shuttle's payload bay.
The billion dollar garbage truck! woohoo!
Actually I did read the summary. When hydrogen burns it combines with oxygen. Two hydrogen atoms for each oxygen atom. There's an excess of oxygen due to the oxygen dissolved in the air, probably enough for the hydrogen to burn on its own. Adding more oxygen won't do anything at all, chemically.
In other words, either the hydrogen will all oxidize, or some of it will, but I don't see how that would change the color, unless the heat is high enough to cause visible black body radiation.
Either way, you're still an idiot. I did read the summary, but it didn't make sense to me, because I had a high school education (unlike yourself, apparently).
I thought hydrogen flames were invisible?
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I was under the impression that hydrogen flames were only visible in infared. Am I wrong, or are they burning something else as well here?
A lot of times, slashdot posters are incorrect. And editors often don't even read the links they push to the front page, to be read by millions of people.
Joel was the lead developer of Excel at microsoft for a long time, and he also had a hand in the development of VBScript.
Anyway, his articles are the main reason for his fame these days. His company also has a third product, CoPilot, that lets people fix software problems remotely.
Is that if you don't know the name of a function, but know that it must exist it's very hard to get google to tell you what that name is. For example, use google to come up with a function that gets you the name of the user running a program on windows based on that programs PID (actualy, there are three functions you need to call to do this)
I think Joel is counting "speed" as well as quality as greatness. But actualy his data dosn't support that. He says bad programmers will never be able to do what great programmers can, yet those taking 77 hours on an assignment do just as well as those taking 8 or so.
IMHO, a well-written 2800 line function consisting of a bunch of very neat 20- to 40-line cases inside a SWITCH block is a heck of a lot easier to read than if each of those case statements just contained a function call with a dozen or so parameters in each direction....
I have a hard time imagining a function that would require something like. Normally if I'm going to have to discriminate between a huge number of cases, I'll write a class system and derive 'cases' from the class. That way I can add and remove cases without editing the main code.
If each of those 'cases' are somehow interdependent, then you definitely don't have anything manageable.
The only example I could think of would be to perform different commands, like command line parameters, menu items, RPC function calls, etc. For all of those things you'd clearly want them to be modular.
- Intelligence comes handy when one is 5 level deep in a nested function (which can't be simplified) and trying to add another 2 levels at once.
Even if it can't be simplifed, a good programmer will break it into smaller peices, unless the leaves are like one or two lines each.
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There were portable MP3 players on the market years before the iPod.
The iPod is just a small computer with a catchy name and good marketing. How could anyone claim to have "invented" it?
Shut down his site. Smooth move.
To be quite honest, you seem like a lot more of a jackass then him. I'd rather go to lunch and hang out with with a 'hacker' taking advantage of an economic loophole then a thin-skinned priss like yourself.
Do they want him to stop posting pictures of his work, do they want him to stop calling his site "fedexfurniture"?
The second seems like a pretty reasonable protection of trademark. He should get a domain that doesn't have "fedex" in the name. Pretty easy.
How is copying an e-book a crime? Under what statute? (and don't say DMCA, that only applies to people distributing software, not using it)How is copying an e-book a crime? Under what statute? (and don't say DMCA, that only applies to people distributing software, not using it).
People keep saying this, but I've never seen any evidence for it.
The first inventor can go out and patent the idea up to 2 years after publicizing it.
I thought Slashdot hated patents, and software patents especially? And on something as stupid as a software interface?.
But I guess the rules don't apply to Apple.
Apple may just buy the patent from Platt.
It looks cool, I suppose, but not very 'nostalgic'. And its good for about 30 seconds of fun. Hardly worth the risk of downloading an .exe file, IMO.
Podcasts via the Apple iPod have given the masses something simple and recognizable, packaging a short audio message from a single person to be consumed by lots of other people, usually strangers, personally (and on their own schedule). Many of us have been doing that for many years with the Net and other technologies, but it's finally gone massive with iPods.
"The Normals"?
You're an idiot.
Mohammed Atta for one, possessed a doctorate...in Urban Planning and Preservation.
How Ironic.
A friend of mine tried to sell a motorcycle online once, and got a scam relay call like that, from someone in italy. It was the first we'd heard of the service.
Anyway, we had a blast crank calling people for weeks after that. Keep up the good work!
Their most difficult task before leaving the station was the maneuvering of a huge cargo container filled with 2 1/2 years worth of trash into the shuttle's payload bay. The billion dollar garbage truck! woohoo!
Actually, it might save a bit of developer time for Microsoft, all their code is already written, so they'll never need to touch it again.
Meanwhile, graphics card makers will obviously include their own GL drivers along with windows.
How is it that your comment was modded 1, while this idiot got a +5.
Actually I did read the summary. When hydrogen burns it combines with oxygen. Two hydrogen atoms for each oxygen atom. There's an excess of oxygen due to the oxygen dissolved in the air, probably enough for the hydrogen to burn on its own. Adding more oxygen won't do anything at all, chemically.
In other words, either the hydrogen will all oxidize, or some of it will, but I don't see how that would change the color, unless the heat is high enough to cause visible black body radiation.
Either way, you're still an idiot. I did read the summary, but it didn't make sense to me, because I had a high school education (unlike yourself, apparently).
I was under the impression that hydrogen flames were only visible in infared. Am I wrong, or are they burning something else as well here?
Why not just use cygwin?
A lot of times, slashdot posters are incorrect. And editors often don't even read the links they push to the front page, to be read by millions of people.
It always seemed a little silly to me that anyone even without so much as a valid logon could change the content of these pages.
But I wonder what it will mean for people like me who post edits to maybe 4 or 5 articles a year, when we find an error?
I think the biggest problem is edits to 'contraversial' posts, like "Intelegent Design" or "Joseph McCarthy".
Of course the "real" trolls will simply poison the well by inserting subtle errors.
Joel was the lead developer of Excel at microsoft for a long time, and he also had a hand in the development of VBScript.
Anyway, his articles are the main reason for his fame these days. His company also has a third product, CoPilot, that lets people fix software problems remotely.
Is that if you don't know the name of a function, but know that it must exist it's very hard to get google to tell you what that name is. For example, use google to come up with a function that gets you the name of the user running a program on windows based on that programs PID (actualy, there are three functions you need to call to do this)
I think Joel is counting "speed" as well as quality as greatness. But actualy his data dosn't support that. He says bad programmers will never be able to do what great programmers can, yet those taking 77 hours on an assignment do just as well as those taking 8 or so.
IMHO, a well-written 2800 line function consisting of a bunch of very neat 20- to 40-line cases inside a SWITCH block is a heck of a lot easier to read than if each of those case statements just contained a function call with a dozen or so parameters in each direction....
I have a hard time imagining a function that would require something like. Normally if I'm going to have to discriminate between a huge number of cases, I'll write a class system and derive 'cases' from the class. That way I can add and remove cases without editing the main code.
If each of those 'cases' are somehow interdependent, then you definitely don't have anything manageable.
The only example I could think of would be to perform different commands, like command line parameters, menu items, RPC function calls, etc. For all of those things you'd clearly want them to be modular.
- Intelligence comes handy when one is 5 level deep in a nested function (which can't be simplified) and trying to add another 2 levels at once. Even if it can't be simplifed, a good programmer will break it into smaller peices, unless the leaves are like one or two lines each.