Also, for Java, everything is passed by value. (Just that for object types, the value is the reference address, not the object itself). So it will duplicate the value that the variable holds when passing it off to another method. There are no exceptions, but there are many misconceptions.
If you get bored one day, why not download the source for the entire Java Runtime, hotspot, etc etc from here. Sure that's not entirely open-source, but it's enough for me. I don't think it would help Java much by open-sourcing the Java SDK and runtime, and personally feel that C# isn't a threat to Java.
A more realistic aproach would be this: if you don't like Microsoft products, don't use them damn it.
Sounds like this special someone hasn't heard of the Microsoft Tax, which you pay on damn near any PC purchase, even if you don't use the software. It's not a myth - I dare you to pretend you're a normal consumer that doesn't mod a PC, and try and find a place that sells complete PCs without bundling a recent version of Windows (almost always XP these days), and usually a plethora of other things you probably don't want or need. Once you've done that, you go figure if boycotting the use of that software costs MS anything, since it's already payed for.
The attached documentation specifies the account or username offering this infringing material, the name and size of the file being offered, the number of repeat violations recorded at this specific location, as well as any available identifying information.
How about, just for fun (and to give these lawyers a huge headache), we have uni students plonk in a mp3 subdirectory in their public_html folder, and symbolic links everywhere to some arbitrary file, all named after Sony (or whatever company) songs... giving the appearance of thousands of mp3s all over the university. Is that breaking any laws?:-)
Can't take too long to generate some file lists based on CDDB records (or even easier, from their home machines)
Xine is pretty good too.
It has an excellent UI for playback control (the one for playlists and config isn't so hot though).
Both of them have the same problem with less-than-perfect VCD disks though. (Seg fault / crash) MPlayer handles it a lot better though. It plays one VCD that causes Xine to crash every minute or so. MPlayer only crashes every 15 minutes with that one.
I'm not sure that's what it should do though. Aren't all errors supposed to be handled gracefully?:-)
I watched this movie again recently on DVD, after seeing it a couple (like 5 or so) years ago, and they had changed all references in the movie from Taco Bell to Pizza Hutt.
It was hilarious to watch, because you could see that their lips weren't in sync with the words coming thru the stereo. Mind you, Sylvester Stallone doesn't make that task easy anyways.
For the life of me, I can't work out why they don't just burn it. It's gotta be cheaper, and faster to do it that way. Correct me if I'm wrong. The only possibility I can come up with is that they want to sell their shredded paper to a recycling company or something daft like that.
I think they were additions to 0.9.8, because I don't remember seeing them in other versions.
Under Advanced/Scripts + Windows, I can choose:
Open unrequested windows
Move or resize existing windows
Raise or Lower windows
Change status bar text
Change images
Create or Change cookies
Read cookies
The last three seem best left on, but preventing changes to status bar text lets you see the real links. Open Unrequested Windows as an "on-off" choice is really neat. Links still work when clicked to open in a new window via scripts, but not during say a page load, or unload. Having raise or lower windows off stops pop-unders.
I also make the same recommendation. When I bought this computer six months ago, it was only because I knew the manager at the store - friend of a friend - that I could get it without an OS.
The total cost for the system was NZD 2100, and the system would have cost NZD 2600 with WinME + XP Upgrade. I was lucky to be able to save that money.
I talked to 3 of the national / international retailers at the time, and their deals were terrible - and none of them allowed sales of non-Windows operating systems, or for the machine to come with no OS installed.
Don't believe me? check out the IIS curve at Netcraft [netcraft.com] . What happened after Nimda and Code Red? IIS usage INCREASED.
Firstly, statistics, even the 'raw' ones provided by Netcraft, can be read with any spin you choose to apply (as you have done)
Secondly, you're not looking at sites that are active, just ones that have a webserver running. This includes about 2/3 of machines that aren't actually active servers. Check the figures yourself. 36.7 million polled, 13-ish million active. The more relevant graph is the second one provided, showing the count and growth of active servers, not just plain numbers of them.
Personally, I don't think having the FTC involved will make any difference to the number of spam emails being sent and received.
The only solution I can imagine is somehow preventing it at the receiving end, because of the number of mail servers (something like 5%, IIRC) that allow relaying. Till that becomes 0%, there won't be much relief there.
Sadly, the chances of this happening are slim to none, since there is no registered emailing system, such that only emails from registered sources will be accepted, and all otheres routed to/dev/null. I don't see this happening in the future either.
Also, the current options are relatively easy to circumvent. Most involve checking that your email is in the "To" field of the message header. Doesn't help much to people that already have your address, and insert it in there as part of the email. Not exactly a fortress of security there.
It would be to hear some constructive solutions in this thread somewhere amongst the ways we would love to punish spammers.
As far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter. Last time I checked (I asked a guy that's done a contract law paper at the local university), any conditions like the ones in question in the Borland license (or any other) must be 'clearly stated' in the course of agreeing with the license. One of the laws here in New Zealand.
It would be simplicity to argue that clicking this little checkbox here and then that next button there while displaying the EULA in a text area does not "clearly state" the significant clauses, and could most likely sue them back for it.
I have no idea what the laws regarding this in other countries are.
Also, seeing that it 'boilerplate standard' in Enterprise licenses, it should be in the bulk license purchase agreement, not in the EULA in my opinion, because it applies to the purchase, and the company/enterprise as a whole, not the individual user(s).
Javaworld had an article on OO design recently, outlining alternatives to expensive modelling tools such as UML. Read more here.
For those that don't feel like reading the article, basically the author found that UML doesn't make life easier all the time, and the tools are painful to use efficiently.
So he decided to do away with all CASE / Modelling tools and draw things up on a whiteboard, and take photos with a digital camera. Using a software package to make the pictures clearer (correcting lighting, angle etc), the model diagram is available nearly immediately.
The costs are once-off (most software firms have whiteboards, markers already etc) for a digital camera and the whiteboard photo software.
I quite liked the mix of seemingly primitive technology used, and pretty much all costs are once-off. Sure you still have to train them up about understanding some parts of the diagrams, but it would be a lot more intuitive. Training for the software... give them an hour for a slow learner.
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Mod that one up. I laughed my head off at that part, while my girlfriend gave me a blank look.
Loved the ending too. Don't care what everyone else thinks.
Also, for Java, everything is passed by value. (Just that for object types, the value is the reference address, not the object itself). So it will duplicate the value that the variable holds when passing it off to another method. There are no exceptions, but there are many misconceptions.
If you get bored one day, why not download the source for the entire Java Runtime, hotspot, etc etc from here. Sure that's not entirely open-source, but it's enough for me. I don't think it would help Java much by open-sourcing the Java SDK and runtime, and personally feel that C# isn't a threat to Java.
Sounds like this special someone hasn't heard of the Microsoft Tax, which you pay on damn near any PC purchase, even if you don't use the software. It's not a myth - I dare you to pretend you're a normal consumer that doesn't mod a PC, and try and find a place that sells complete PCs without bundling a recent version of Windows (almost always XP these days), and usually a plethora of other things you probably don't want or need. Once you've done that, you go figure if boycotting the use of that software costs MS anything, since it's already payed for.
Can't take too long to generate some file lists based on CDDB records (or even easier, from their home machines)
Xine is pretty good too.
:-)
It has an excellent UI for playback control (the one for playlists and config isn't so hot though).
Both of them have the same problem with less-than-perfect VCD disks though. (Seg fault / crash) MPlayer handles it a lot better though. It plays one VCD that causes Xine to crash every minute or so. MPlayer only crashes every 15 minutes with that one.
I'm not sure that's what it should do though. Aren't all errors supposed to be handled gracefully?
Let's /. the phone system :-)
I watched this movie again recently on DVD, after seeing it a couple (like 5 or so) years ago, and they had changed all references in the movie from Taco Bell to Pizza Hutt.
It was hilarious to watch, because you could see that their lips weren't in sync with the words coming thru the stereo. Mind you, Sylvester Stallone doesn't make that task easy anyways.
For the life of me, I can't work out why they don't just burn it. It's gotta be cheaper, and faster to do it that way. Correct me if I'm wrong. The only possibility I can come up with is that they want to sell their shredded paper to a recycling company or something daft like that.
Mozilla does a great job too.
I think they were additions to 0.9.8, because I don't remember seeing them in other versions.
Under Advanced/Scripts + Windows, I can choose:
The last three seem best left on, but preventing changes to status bar text lets you see the real links. Open Unrequested Windows as an "on-off" choice is really neat. Links still work when clicked to open in a new window via scripts, but not during say a page load, or unload. Having raise or lower windows off stops pop-unders.
Not that I'm a pr0n lover or anything...
I agree, it is sad.
I also make the same recommendation. When I bought this computer six months ago, it was only because I knew the manager at the store - friend of a friend - that I could get it without an OS.
The total cost for the system was NZD 2100, and the system would have cost NZD 2600 with WinME + XP Upgrade. I was lucky to be able to save that money.
I talked to 3 of the national / international retailers at the time, and their deals were terrible - and none of them allowed sales of non-Windows operating systems, or for the machine to come with no OS installed.
Don't believe me? check out the IIS curve at Netcraft [netcraft.com] . What happened after Nimda and Code Red? IIS usage INCREASED.
Firstly, statistics, even the 'raw' ones provided by Netcraft, can be read with any spin you choose to apply (as you have done)
Secondly, you're not looking at sites that are active, just ones that have a webserver running. This includes about 2/3 of machines that aren't actually active servers. Check the figures yourself. 36.7 million polled, 13-ish million active. The more relevant graph is the second one provided, showing the count and growth of active servers, not just plain numbers of them.
Personally, I don't think having the FTC involved will make any difference to the number of spam emails being sent and received.
The only solution I can imagine is somehow preventing it at the receiving end, because of the number of mail servers (something like 5%, IIRC) that allow relaying. Till that becomes 0%, there won't be much relief there.
Sadly, the chances of this happening are slim to none, since there is no registered emailing system, such that only emails from registered sources will be accepted, and all otheres routed to /dev/null. I don't see this happening in the future either.
Also, the current options are relatively easy to circumvent. Most involve checking that your email is in the "To" field of the message header. Doesn't help much to people that already have your address, and insert it in there as part of the email. Not exactly a fortress of security there.
It would be to hear some constructive solutions in this thread somewhere amongst the ways we would love to punish spammers.
As far as I am concerned, it doesn't matter. Last time I checked (I asked a guy that's done a contract law paper at the local university), any conditions like the ones in question in the Borland license (or any other) must be 'clearly stated' in the course of agreeing with the license. One of the laws here in New Zealand.
It would be simplicity to argue that clicking this little checkbox here and then that next button there while displaying the EULA in a text area does not "clearly state" the significant clauses, and could most likely sue them back for it.
I have no idea what the laws regarding this in other countries are.
Also, seeing that it 'boilerplate standard' in Enterprise licenses, it should be in the bulk license purchase agreement, not in the EULA in my opinion, because it applies to the purchase, and the company/enterprise as a whole, not the individual user(s).
Javaworld had an article on OO design recently, outlining alternatives to expensive modelling tools such as UML. Read more here.
For those that don't feel like reading the article, basically the author found that UML doesn't make life easier all the time, and the tools are painful to use efficiently.
So he decided to do away with all CASE / Modelling tools and draw things up on a whiteboard, and take photos with a digital camera. Using a software package to make the pictures clearer (correcting lighting, angle etc), the model diagram is available nearly immediately.
The costs are once-off (most software firms have whiteboards, markers already etc) for a digital camera and the whiteboard photo software. I quite liked the mix of seemingly primitive technology used, and pretty much all costs are once-off. Sure you still have to train them up about understanding some parts of the diagrams, but it would be a lot more intuitive. Training for the software... give them an hour for a slow learner.