If it would have been a three year old newspaper, would it also be false advertising? Methinks the whole problem would be avoided if the pages containing the advertisements would carry a line "Page last updated: " followed by the date that the page was last updated.
I had a job where I was always being pushed into the same direction - Lotus Notes all the way baby. Database apps? Notes. WAP? Notes. Embedded stuff? Maybe we can use Pylon - a poor-mans Notes. Other architectures? What about AS/400, Notes runs on that too. In my case it was about wanting to broaden my horizon beyond Notes. I wanted to stop, stayed a year, management got changed and half the employees changed jobs, including myself.
Since then, I've professionally programmed in Delphi, C#, Perl, PHP, ASP, Java, JavaScript and PL/SQL; worked with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLserver; developed websites on both Apache and IIS, both on Linux and Windows. In general things have gotten more varied and much more interesting.
I can imagine someone being pushed into "we use visual studio and that's that" from this broader horizon would experience the opposite.
2 megs, who needs 2 megs? You youngsters had it easy! I had a CGA with 16 kilobyte. 640x200 in monochrome, or 320x200 with a palette of 4 colors (3 of which had to be either cyan-purple-white or yellow-red-green), or a semi-graphical mode of 160x100 (really text mode) capable of displaying all the 16 shiny colors at the same time!
Of course in the graphical mode, by swapping palette halfway the buildup of the screen, it was possible to display five colors at the same time. I think I saw a frogger-style game do that.
OK, so you want to rely on yourself for generating all your power? So you'd setup a single generator and refill the fuel regularly. How reliable do you think that will be compared to having the power delivered by your electricity company?
Redundancy is key for obtaining reliability. Because of this, just relying on yourself is not going to improve things but make them worse. I'm not familiar with the actual numbers of power availability in your area in the U.S., but I suspect in the past 10 years you've had less than 1% outage. How would things have looked if you'd have had to refuel your own generator all the time?
Slashdot doesn't suffer this problem because of moderators and meta-moderators. Implement something like this in Orkut and the problems will disappear. Maybe.
Actually the whole comparison is flawed because they're comparing apples with oranges. They're comparing 'Windows' with 'Linux'. Now which part of windows is compared to which part of linux?
If 'an out of the box windows' was compared to 'a fresh linux install with a comparable set of functionality' it might be fair, but as they're just counting patches, I'm sure they're comparing things that really can't be compared.
So, by current law, what the downloader should do, in order to decrease his punishment, is steal the DVD as well. Like that he can say, "i had the right to the download cause i already owned the stolen DVD". There won't be a paper trail with the purchase date of the DVD.
In my company, during the economic recession, they started saving on electricity. And printer paper. And toilet paper. At some point they actually fired the sales department, and would we programmers like to start selling? (Of course if we'd manage that we'd run our own business!) Anyway firing the sales dept was a smart move, it sure cut costs. Needless to say, no new work was getting in anymore either. Needless to say, the company went out of business. And, needless to say, I'm much better off now.
All these extra levels of indirection might be there for a purpose. In modern programming languages, it is dead easy to use a hash table rather than a sequential array for data storage. As a result, when looking for an item in that table, O(1) or at least O(log(n)) performance can be expected.
Now in some cases using a hash table might be a bit overdone, like quicksort may be overdone for sorting a list containing 10 items.
Yes, using a hash table and quicksort instead of a sequential array and bubblesort might at a bit of bloat, but the overall result is more scalable.
The whole nature of open source is based on interoperability. It is this very nature that made the Internet possible. Where standards are nonexistent, they are being created; for instance, look at the Jack Audio Connection Kit that allows all Linux audio applications (that support it) to interconnect. As a result, developers do not keep reinventing the wheel all the time; instead, they learn how to work with the provided interface, and just build what does not exist yet.
IANAL - If you do try to sue people based on those logs, isn't that officially invasion of privacy? Plus, 5 million lawsuits is a helluvalot to pay for. In a democracy, laws (should) reflect what everyone wants, which is appearantly free music. It might make it slightly hairy road to follow, trying to sue all those copying bastards, and I'm sure the RIAA knows it. I'm also sure they know not all Kazaa users are American.
"The set deliberately omits vowels to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive."
Wow, that is SO "politically correct". Still it does't prevent people from constructing URLs saying fvck 0ff. It would be better if people would simply learn to respect other peoples freedom of speech.
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...but does he run Linux?
If it would have been a three year old newspaper, would it also be false advertising? Methinks the whole problem would be avoided if the pages containing the advertisements would carry a line "Page last updated: " followed by the date that the page was last updated.
I had a job where I was always being pushed into the same direction - Lotus Notes all the way baby. Database apps? Notes. WAP? Notes. Embedded stuff? Maybe we can use Pylon - a poor-mans Notes. Other architectures? What about AS/400, Notes runs on that too. In my case it was about wanting to broaden my horizon beyond Notes. I wanted to stop, stayed a year, management got changed and half the employees changed jobs, including myself.
Since then, I've professionally programmed in Delphi, C#, Perl, PHP, ASP, Java, JavaScript and PL/SQL; worked with Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLserver; developed websites on both Apache and IIS, both on Linux and Windows. In general things have gotten more varied and much more interesting.
I can imagine someone being pushed into "we use visual studio and that's that" from this broader horizon would experience the opposite.
Actually it's a different article.
...And George W. Bush for president of the USA.
2 megs, who needs 2 megs? You youngsters had it easy! I had a CGA with 16 kilobyte. 640x200 in monochrome, or 320x200 with a palette of 4 colors (3 of which had to be either cyan-purple-white or yellow-red-green), or a semi-graphical mode of 160x100 (really text mode) capable of displaying all the 16 shiny colors at the same time! Of course in the graphical mode, by swapping palette halfway the buildup of the screen, it was possible to display five colors at the same time. I think I saw a frogger-style game do that.
OK, so you want to rely on yourself for generating all your power? So you'd setup a single generator and refill the fuel regularly. How reliable do you think that will be compared to having the power delivered by your electricity company?
Redundancy is key for obtaining reliability. Because of this, just relying on yourself is not going to improve things but make them worse. I'm not familiar with the actual numbers of power availability in your area in the U.S., but I suspect in the past 10 years you've had less than 1% outage. How would things have looked if you'd have had to refuel your own generator all the time?
Not reading TFA is one thing, but if you miss the *title* you could really use a cup of coffee.
Okay. It's still not sufficient to catalogue my porn collection.
That said, system security should have been a main concern in the design of this device from the beginning.
I take it you must be speaking out of your own experience.
Slashdot doesn't suffer this problem because of moderators and meta-moderators. Implement something like this in Orkut and the problems will disappear. Maybe.
Actually the whole comparison is flawed because they're comparing apples with oranges. They're comparing 'Windows' with 'Linux'. Now which part of windows is compared to which part of linux? If 'an out of the box windows' was compared to 'a fresh linux install with a comparable set of functionality' it might be fair, but as they're just counting patches, I'm sure they're comparing things that really can't be compared.
Me too, except they can't afford to pay that kind of money.
...let the facts speak for themselves, and keep running a virus free, spyware free, adware free system.
i'm so gonna regret that post.
no no no no no. Sex kittens are all fine and great but where's the boobies?
So, by current law, what the downloader should do, in order to decrease his punishment, is steal the DVD as well. Like that he can say, "i had the right to the download cause i already owned the stolen DVD". There won't be a paper trail with the purchase date of the DVD.
In my company, during the economic recession, they started saving on electricity. And printer paper. And toilet paper. At some point they actually fired the sales department, and would we programmers like to start selling? (Of course if we'd manage that we'd run our own business!) Anyway firing the sales dept was a smart move, it sure cut costs. Needless to say, no new work was getting in anymore either. Needless to say, the company went out of business. And, needless to say, I'm much better off now.
Actually I was wondering about this. No idea why the parent was modded down, as it seems pretty non-inflammatory and informative to me.
How many puters would be shot for 'running too slow'... "It deserved it, it was trying to get away, honestly!"
All these extra levels of indirection might be there for a purpose. In modern programming languages, it is dead easy to use a hash table rather than a sequential array for data storage. As a result, when looking for an item in that table, O(1) or at least O(log(n)) performance can be expected.
Now in some cases using a hash table might be a bit overdone, like quicksort may be overdone for sorting a list containing 10 items.
Yes, using a hash table and quicksort instead of a sequential array and bubblesort might at a bit of bloat, but the overall result is more scalable.
The whole nature of open source is based on interoperability. It is this very nature that made the Internet possible. Where standards are nonexistent, they are being created; for instance, look at the Jack Audio Connection Kit that allows all Linux audio applications (that support it) to interconnect. As a result, developers do not keep reinventing the wheel all the time; instead, they learn how to work with the provided interface, and just build what does not exist yet.
IANAL - If you do try to sue people based on those logs, isn't that officially invasion of privacy? Plus, 5 million lawsuits is a helluvalot to pay for. In a democracy, laws (should) reflect what everyone wants, which is appearantly free music. It might make it slightly hairy road to follow, trying to sue all those copying bastards, and I'm sure the RIAA knows it. I'm also sure they know not all Kazaa users are American.
"The set deliberately omits vowels to avoid the possibility of the algorithm inadvertently generating real words that could be offensive."
Wow, that is SO "politically correct". Still it does't prevent people from constructing URLs saying fvck 0ff. It would be better if people would simply learn to respect other peoples freedom of speech.