3 ide's: too easy DevStudio, Borland Builder, Code Warrior, watcom crap, etc.
Ide's are nice, but it's just a pretty window infront of your compiler. Dont forget the real issue at hand, it's the specifics of the language and it's implimentation, not the IDE.
Dude, whats up with all the pictures of chinks on your website?
You've learned how to speak chink, nipp, and nazi according to your site, man what the fuck is up with that?
Whats the deal, you wanna be a fuckin chink or something? Surround your self with ugly chink bitches?
And the other guy who has a section on your site is fucking gay, he uses the word "fabulous" a lot and comments on how cute his cats are, what a fuckin fag. Lemme guess, yall are gay together?
So in conclusion, your a wanna be chink faggot. Great, please go of in a corner somewhere and die.
First, to clarify the present situation: GE owns Hughes Electronics/DirecTV. It is not considered a "core asset", so they desperately want to get rid of it. First, Rupert Murdoch bid on DirecTV, and planned on spinning off all of his global satellite TV assets into a new company, Sky Global, upon completion of the sale. Then EchoStar, owners of Dish Network, made an unsolicited bid that was higher than Murdoch's, and he decided not to match it. Eventually, the EchoStar-DirecTV combination was rejected on monopoly grounds, because the government (rightly so) recognized that if satellite TV assets are privately owned, there needs to be more than one owner; ideally three or more, but even two is better than one.
The SBC deal brings up a new set of problems. There is no more fear about rural consumers losing the benefits of competition, because SBC does not currently own satellite assets. However, due to having a government-approved monopoly over local telephone service, SBC has a unique advantage in that it can never die; it has a core business that practically everyone living in its target market needs, and that no competitor is allowed to offer. Thus, it can leverage its telephone monopoly to offer satellite service at a loss if its needs to, until other competitors are driven out of the market, and then drive prices back up.
There's a larger problem here that needs to be addressed, that of natural monopolies. Some services, most notably utilities that involve physical wires or pipes (water, oil, TV, phone, internet), are such that it would be absurd for two companies to compete in an open market. There is absolutely no reason why we should spend limited resources on building two sets of water pipes, or two sets of cable wires. Also, some of these services, especially oil, electricity, and water, are essential to life (modern or otherwise).
It takes the most die-hard corporate libertarian to argue that someone should be allowed to profit off basic human needs. And they'd be wrong. Municipal power companies have been enormously successful, if for no other reason than they have no profit motive; they only need to provide people with a useful service. All natural monopolies should be redesigned on that model. Whether city, county, or even state-owned, I want to see some (relatively local) level of government controlling electricity, energy, water, and telecommunications distribution.
Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. Their sole motive is to make a profit. Government is accountable to the people. Its motive is to provide for all citizens' basic needs, and (in our case) to ensure that corporations do not abuse their power. Which one would you rather control your wires?
All the stuff the author describes works out of the box without compiling anything, rebuilding anything or even reconfiguring anything on Debian. You just start OO and configure the data source. Even on redhat you do not need to recompile anything. You need: 1. To replace the crap RedHat 8 ships for MySQL with the RPM from MySQL (no need to rebuild). 2. You have to install mysql-shared which redhat for some reason puts into the devel section. It is actually a required rpm to use MySQL from any local app. 3. You need to install unixodbc rpms and the myodbc rpms (as long as you have working MySQL, redhat ones will do). 4. The postinstall script under redhat for the mysql ODBC driver does not register the driver. You need to register it yourself using the odbcinst utilities. Or copy a working odbcinst.ini from Debian After that you start OO and it works. And under debian dselect will actually do all this for you after you have selected myODBC from the package list.
Dont you think that the UK Parliament implicitly owns the domain www.parliament.uk because they've been maintaining before 1996.
If they haven't registered it and nobody else has either, so nobody else is more apt to acquire it.
And I'm sure lots of people want it. I don't have a receipt for that motherboard I bought in 1998. Maybe somebody else owns it even though I've been using it for the past 5 years. That reminds me, i need to buy a new motherboard.
Not really. Sales tax isnt all that noticible in consumer level pricing of products.
What theyre really doing is covering up a well known and very often exploited tax loophole. Suppose you buy some expensive development software. If you buy it online and have it distributed to you online, you avoid the sales tax.
This doesnt usually ammount to very great savings to consumers, but when your talking about 100,000 dollar products, the tax money is significant to both the consumer and the state.
Game tree search is a very well understood problem and most top programs use some version of a null-window negascout (ID-DFS) with opening and closing databases. The most black magic in these systems is in their heuristic evaluation functions.
I have been thinking (and I certainly am going to) about building a system out of PC/Linux/Pinnacle DC10 compresor card.
But if I can get a working system for only 300 Euros That'l be cheaper..
My question to anyone who actually has a XBox : Does it make a lot of noise ? A friend lent me his PS2 for a week and it was the loudest piece of hardware in the appartment.. I.e. (IMNSHO) unusable as a movie player.
gcc could do with some competition, yes its stable, no it is not at the leading edge of performance any more, processor optimization is at least a generation behind what's commonly available and ignores some architectures completely.
I'm looking forward to someone benchmarking gcc vs watcom to see how they do.
I think that every time a editor posts a dupe story they should be required to donate $5 to http://www.eff.org/
If this rule was put into affect, the EFF would end up with enough money to take anyone to court, even have a head on battle with Microsoft!!
If I had a nickle for every dupe on slashdot I would be rich!!
This kind of slow, incremental wearing away of human rights is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.
People need to wake up and understand that there are ALWAYS people who want to disenfranchise the rest of us. The wolf is ALWAYS at the door. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
There are three things that people can do.
1) Vote
2) Join the ACLU
3) Joine the NRA
The reason for the first is obvious. The reasons for the second and third are that the ACLU is a strong champion of individual rights, even if they are part of the loony left. The NRA is of course a strong champion of individual rights as well, even if they are part of the loony right. I'm a member of both and give generously to them.
Laws like this can only come to pass when our representatives in congress are not representing us. The only way that situation can arise is if the voters in general have not been holding them accountable. Any legislator who would put forward legislation intended to deny us our rights is a traitor because they have broken their vow to defend and protect the constitution. Should we re-elect such a person? I'd rather elect a pig straight from someone's barn to office than see someone like that remain in power. The american political landscape is dominated by party politics and this is a big part of the problem. People will vote for someone because of their party, or will vote for a party because that is what they've always done, or because they've been suckered by the propaganda that both major parties just love to spew out. It is sad to see so many people led around by the nose and irritating to have to hear them regurgitate the propaganda that they've swallowed down with relish. Look past the propaganda and bullshit. Be willing to vote for a different party. Become informed about issues that matter and the party's agenda on these issues. If people would do this then a lot of this kind of bullshit would cease to exist.
Here in the US, the sixth and final match was televised on the cable channel ESPN 2. I was channel surfing and I happened to stumble across it. To my surprise, it was actually quite interesting to watch on TV.
I am not a big chess freak, so I would have guessed that watching chess would be a lot like watching paint dry. However, it was made interesting by the "play-by-play" analysts who were chess masters themselves. They did a good job of explaining the moves, and also the psychology and strategy of chess at the grand master level. It really gave me a lot of insight into what goes on at when chess is played at such a high level.
After the match ended in a draw, they interviewed Kasparov. It was interesting to get his reaction to the match. Basically, his goal for the game was to "not lose", which is why he offered a draw from a very strong position. He didn't want to take a chance of making a blunder like he did in the third game of the match.
It seemed like the key advantage that the computer has in this situation is the fact that it doesn't have an ego to deal with. After losing to Deep Blue in 1997, it seemed like Kasparov was very afraid of losing to another computer in such a high-profile match. That definitely affect the way he approached the game.
The computer, on the other hand, is just calculating moves, so psychology doesn't factor into how it plays. To me, this seems like the biggest advantage that a computer has over a human player.
Also, he seemed to have more respect for this computer program than he did for Deep Blue. Apparently, he had a lot of problems with Deep Blue and how the 1997 match was handled. It could be sour grapes, of course, so I took his comments with a grain of salt.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article. This is about a newspaper article I read yesterday, that I think fits in this discussion.
In the Dutch paper "Volkskrant", there was an opinion piece by a biologist yesterday. He explained that currently, the experiments done in the Shuttle are nowhere near worth their money. The experiments done (like what's the effect of zero-gravity on species x) test no important hypotheses and the outcome is usually not published in high profile magazines.
Once in a while, every scientist working in a field that could possibly have something to do with zero gravity research gets a request for ideas for experiments. They're basically begging for things to add to shuttle science missions. He doesn't really take these things seriously, since these experiments never test anything important. The important stuff (what's the effect of long term zero grav on humans) has been pretty much covered by now.
Also, a Shuttle flight costs $500 million. You can run his institute on that for a hundred years.
So his proposal is to give the $500M to the scientific community instead, to be used for pure science, and see if the scientists themselves spend it on experiments in Shuttles. "Of course they wouldn't".
Business - AP World Business
Microsoft Buys Japan
Wed Feb 5, 03:53 PM PT
Microsoft plans to spend about 1 billion dollars (120 billion Yen) funding Japan in its entirety, says Bill Gates, Wednesday.
Gates' plans on purchasing the country at the end of fiscal 2004, but he's not sure what to do with it. Industry pundits predict that Japan will go the way of WebTV and many other companies/countries purchased by Microsoft.
"I like Japan", says Gates, "they really are good at science". Later, Gates was seen snickering.
On their <a href="http://www.riscos.org/">RiscOS site </a>they make the statement:<br><br><i> RISC OS is a windows-and-mouse based operating system to compete with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux in an increasingly computer-orientated world. </i><br><br>
What cheeky little bastards they are to pirate linux code in an effort to compete with linux.
Insurance companies and health care organizations are increasingly relying on PGP in its various forms to met requirements for confidentiality and security of data imposed by the HIPAA legislation. Zimmermann's latest work has a potentially huge market this year, and potentially next year too, if there are more delays with implementing the "enforcement" aspects of the law.
Thank you for pointing this out. Im still tweaking my methods for duplicating other peoples +5 comments, but as you can see, its not working out all that well at the moment
Every comment ive ganked has been a +5 but at the most i grab a +2 for my efforts. Apparantly good posts have a half life.
Of course some of them net me a +3 or +4 from time to time, but usually when that happens, somebody like you blows the whistle and the mod points drop
I'd love to post original and insightful comments but that takes too much time and effort, and isnt as much fun as manipulating the people in the discussion.
The Jesus Candle -- Duplicating posts with religous fervor
Replace every three generations, or when things are three times as fast as your current device.
Simple, isn't it? For the past 10 (or so) I've worked on that little rule and it's lead me exactly where I want to go.
My 486 became a Pentium II 266 became a Pentium III 800 became an Athlon 2400+.
My something rather (I think it was an S3 Virge, but this was in the days when no one cared anyway) became a Voodoo 2 became a Geforce 256 became a Radeon 8500 (Which I bought budget at $100 canadian).
My Gravis Ultrasound became a Sound blaster Live became a Hercules Game Theater XP became Nforce2 Dolby Digital output.
It's strange how well this system worked out. Just as my machine became almost unbearable for games (About a 30FPS average for most games) I've upgraded because of this 3x rule. Sure, it means that you won't be at the bleeding edge for very long but the edge is too easy to fall off anyway. Only idiots would skip from a Radeon 8500 to a 9700, just as it would be stupid to ditch a 2400+ Athlon for a 2.8ghz P4. At the same time, people who tell that a 500mhz and a Voodoo 3 is enough for anyone are obviously not playing any modern games. The trick is to get caught in between the two extremes.
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3 ide's :
too easy
DevStudio, Borland Builder, Code Warrior, watcom crap, etc.
Ide's are nice, but it's just a pretty window infront of your compiler. Dont forget the real issue at hand, it's the specifics of the language and it's implimentation, not the IDE.
I dont know... I'm perfectly happy sitting infront of my vt220.
...
And my screen is orange by the way
Dude, whats up with all the pictures of chinks on your website?
You've learned how to speak chink, nipp, and nazi according to your site, man what the fuck is up with that?
Whats the deal, you wanna be a fuckin chink or something? Surround your self with ugly chink bitches?
And the other guy who has a section on your site is fucking gay, he uses the word "fabulous" a lot and comments on how cute his cats are, what a fuckin fag. Lemme guess, yall are gay together?
So in conclusion, your a wanna be chink faggot. Great, please go of in a corner somewhere and die.
from koft yay for gator, gator rules
from koft
fire up your IRC client and head on over to 65.163.23.142 (6666).
Found a trojan binary on usenet, it points to that IP address. At the time i found it, they had 1900 drones in the channel ##a
Have fun
k--t
When will Sun come thru with there plan to phase-out Solaris in favor of Linux [as reported in a previous ./ article]?
How about... when linux does all the things Solaris can do. Don't hold your breath.
First, to clarify the present situation: GE owns Hughes Electronics/DirecTV. It is not considered a "core asset", so they desperately want to get rid of it. First, Rupert Murdoch bid on DirecTV, and planned on spinning off all of his global satellite TV assets into a new company, Sky Global, upon completion of the sale. Then EchoStar, owners of Dish Network, made an unsolicited bid that was higher than Murdoch's, and he decided not to match it. Eventually, the EchoStar-DirecTV combination was rejected on monopoly grounds, because the government (rightly so) recognized that if satellite TV assets are privately owned, there needs to be more than one owner; ideally three or more, but even two is better than one.
The SBC deal brings up a new set of problems. There is no more fear about rural consumers losing the benefits of competition, because SBC does not currently own satellite assets. However, due to having a government-approved monopoly over local telephone service, SBC has a unique advantage in that it can never die; it has a core business that practically everyone living in its target market needs, and that no competitor is allowed to offer. Thus, it can leverage its telephone monopoly to offer satellite service at a loss if its needs to, until other competitors are driven out of the market, and then drive prices back up.
There's a larger problem here that needs to be addressed, that of natural monopolies. Some services, most notably utilities that involve physical wires or pipes (water, oil, TV, phone, internet), are such that it would be absurd for two companies to compete in an open market. There is absolutely no reason why we should spend limited resources on building two sets of water pipes, or two sets of cable wires. Also, some of these services, especially oil, electricity, and water, are essential to life (modern or otherwise).
It takes the most die-hard corporate libertarian to argue that someone should be allowed to profit off basic human needs. And they'd be wrong. Municipal power companies have been enormously successful, if for no other reason than they have no profit motive; they only need to provide people with a useful service. All natural monopolies should be redesigned on that model. Whether city, county, or even state-owned, I want to see some (relatively local) level of government controlling electricity, energy, water, and telecommunications distribution.
Corporations are accountable to their shareholders. Their sole motive is to make a profit. Government is accountable to the people. Its motive is to provide for all citizens' basic needs, and (in our case) to ensure that corporations do not abuse their power. Which one would you rather control your wires?
"IDE doesn't cut it"
Tell that to Google.
All the stuff the author describes works out of the box without compiling anything, rebuilding anything or even reconfiguring anything on Debian. You just start OO and configure the data source. Even on redhat you do not need to recompile anything. You need: 1. To replace the crap RedHat 8 ships for MySQL with the RPM from MySQL (no need to rebuild). 2. You have to install mysql-shared which redhat for some reason puts into the devel section. It is actually a required rpm to use MySQL from any local app. 3. You need to install unixodbc rpms and the myodbc rpms (as long as you have working MySQL, redhat ones will do). 4. The postinstall script under redhat for the mysql ODBC driver does not register the driver. You need to register it yourself using the odbcinst utilities. Or copy a working odbcinst.ini from Debian After that you start OO and it works. And under debian dselect will actually do all this for you after you have selected myODBC from the package list.
Dont you think that the UK Parliament implicitly owns the domain www.parliament.uk because they've been maintaining before 1996.
If they haven't registered it and nobody else has either, so nobody else is more apt to acquire it.
And I'm sure lots of people want it. I don't have a receipt for that motherboard I bought in 1998. Maybe somebody else owns it even though I've been using it for the past 5 years. That reminds me, i need to buy a new motherboard.
Must be a slow news day.
Not really. Sales tax isnt all that noticible in consumer level pricing of products.
What theyre really doing is covering up a well known and very often exploited tax loophole. Suppose you buy some expensive development software. If you buy it online and have it distributed to you online, you avoid the sales tax.
This doesnt usually ammount to very great savings to consumers, but when your talking about 100,000 dollar products, the tax money is significant to both the consumer and the state.
I'm supprised this hasnt happened sooner.
Game tree search is a very well understood problem and most top programs use some version of a null-window negascout (ID-DFS) with opening and closing databases. The most black magic in these systems is in their heuristic evaluation functions.
I have been thinking (and I certainly am going to) about building a system out of PC/Linux/Pinnacle DC10 compresor card. But if I can get a working system for only 300 Euros That'l be cheaper..
.. I.e. (IMNSHO) unusable as a movie player.
My question to anyone who actually has a XBox : Does it make a lot of noise ? A friend lent me his PS2 for a week and it was the loudest piece of hardware in the appartment
gcc could do with some competition, yes its stable, no it is not at the leading edge of performance any more, processor optimization is at least a generation behind what's commonly available and ignores some architectures completely.
I'm looking forward to someone benchmarking gcc vs watcom to see how they do.
I think that every time a editor posts a dupe story they should be required to donate $5 to http://www.eff.org/
If this rule was put into affect, the EFF would end up with enough money to take anyone to court, even have a head on battle with Microsoft!! If I had a nickle for every dupe on slashdot I would be rich!!
This kind of slow, incremental wearing away of human rights is exactly what happened in Nazi Germany.
People need to wake up and understand that there are ALWAYS people who want to disenfranchise the rest of us. The wolf is ALWAYS at the door. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
There are three things that people can do.
1) Vote
2) Join the ACLU
3) Joine the NRA
The reason for the first is obvious. The reasons for the second and third are that the ACLU is a strong champion of individual rights, even if they are part of the loony left. The NRA is of course a strong champion of individual rights as well, even if they are part of the loony right. I'm a member of both and give generously to them.
Laws like this can only come to pass when our representatives in congress are not representing us. The only way that situation can arise is if the voters in general have not been holding them accountable. Any legislator who would put forward legislation intended to deny us our rights is a traitor because they have broken their vow to defend and protect the constitution. Should we re-elect such a person? I'd rather elect a pig straight from someone's barn to office than see someone like that remain in power. The american political landscape is dominated by party politics and this is a big part of the problem. People will vote for someone because of their party, or will vote for a party because that is what they've always done, or because they've been suckered by the propaganda that both major parties just love to spew out. It is sad to see so many people led around by the nose and irritating to have to hear them regurgitate the propaganda that they've swallowed down with relish. Look past the propaganda and bullshit. Be willing to vote for a different party. Become informed about issues that matter and the party's agenda on these issues. If people would do this then a lot of this kind of bullshit would cease to exist.
Here in the US, the sixth and final match was televised on the cable channel ESPN 2. I was channel surfing and I happened to stumble across it. To my surprise, it was actually quite interesting to watch on TV.
I am not a big chess freak, so I would have guessed that watching chess would be a lot like watching paint dry. However, it was made interesting by the "play-by-play" analysts who were chess masters themselves. They did a good job of explaining the moves, and also the psychology and strategy of chess at the grand master level. It really gave me a lot of insight into what goes on at when chess is played at such a high level.
After the match ended in a draw, they interviewed Kasparov. It was interesting to get his reaction to the match. Basically, his goal for the game was to "not lose", which is why he offered a draw from a very strong position. He didn't want to take a chance of making a blunder like he did in the third game of the match.
It seemed like the key advantage that the computer has in this situation is the fact that it doesn't have an ego to deal with. After losing to Deep Blue in 1997, it seemed like Kasparov was very afraid of losing to another computer in such a high-profile match. That definitely affect the way he approached the game.
The computer, on the other hand, is just calculating moves, so psychology doesn't factor into how it plays. To me, this seems like the biggest advantage that a computer has over a human player.
Also, he seemed to have more respect for this computer program than he did for Deep Blue. Apparently, he had a lot of problems with Deep Blue and how the 1997 match was handled. It could be sour grapes, of course, so I took his comments with a grain of salt.
Disclaimer: I haven't read the article. This is about a newspaper article I read yesterday, that I think fits in this discussion.
In the Dutch paper "Volkskrant", there was an opinion piece by a biologist yesterday. He explained that currently, the experiments done in the Shuttle are nowhere near worth their money. The experiments done (like what's the effect of zero-gravity on species x) test no important hypotheses and the outcome is usually not published in high profile magazines.
Once in a while, every scientist working in a field that could possibly have something to do with zero gravity research gets a request for ideas for experiments. They're basically begging for things to add to shuttle science missions. He doesn't really take these things seriously, since these experiments never test anything important. The important stuff (what's the effect of long term zero grav on humans) has been pretty much covered by now.
Also, a Shuttle flight costs $500 million. You can run his institute on that for a hundred years.
So his proposal is to give the $500M to the scientific community instead, to be used for pure science, and see if the scientists themselves spend it on experiments in Shuttles. "Of course they wouldn't".
Business - AP World Business
Microsoft Buys Japan
Wed Feb 5, 03:53 PM PT
Microsoft plans to spend about 1 billion dollars (120 billion Yen) funding Japan in its entirety, says Bill Gates, Wednesday.
Gates' plans on purchasing the country at the end of fiscal 2004, but he's not sure what to do with it. Industry pundits predict that Japan will go the way of WebTV and many other companies/countries purchased by Microsoft.
"I like Japan", says Gates, "they really are good at science". Later, Gates was seen snickering.
On their <a href="http://www.riscos.org/">RiscOS site </a>they make the statement:<br><br><i>
RISC OS is a windows-and-mouse based operating system to compete with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and Linux in an increasingly computer-orientated world. </i><br><br>
What cheeky little bastards they are to pirate linux code in an effort to compete with linux.
Follow this link, i explain my self there
My post wasnt a duplicate. Shashdot wont let you post a message thats identical to another message
I am not a troll, i am a responsible, contributing member of the slash dot community.
I know Rob Malda and his wife personally. Actually, i'm an editor on slashdot, and i have admin permissions to the site maintence scripts.
Dont make me call Rob Malda up on the telephone and have him ban you IP address, anonymous coward.
Insurance companies and health care organizations are increasingly relying on PGP in its various forms to met requirements for confidentiality and security of data imposed by the HIPAA legislation. Zimmermann's latest work has a potentially huge market this year, and potentially next year too, if there are more delays with implementing the "enforcement" aspects of the law.
Wow, what a great job you did of cutting and pasting this post [slashdot.org]. I'm impressed
Thank you for pointing this out. Im still tweaking my methods for duplicating other peoples +5 comments, but as you can see, its not working out all that well at the moment
Every comment ive ganked has been a +5 but at the most i grab a +2 for my efforts. Apparantly good posts have a half life.
Of course some of them net me a +3 or +4 from time to time, but usually when that happens, somebody like you blows the whistle and the mod points drop
I'd love to post original and insightful comments but that takes too much time and effort, and isnt as much fun as manipulating the people in the discussion.
The Jesus Candle -- Duplicating posts with religous fervor
Here's my little rule for upgrading my system.
Replace every three generations, or when things are three times as fast as your current device.
Simple, isn't it? For the past 10 (or so) I've worked on that little rule and it's lead me exactly where I want to go.
My 486 became a Pentium II 266 became a Pentium III 800 became an Athlon 2400+.
My something rather (I think it was an S3 Virge, but this was in the days when no one cared anyway) became a Voodoo 2 became a Geforce 256 became a Radeon 8500 (Which I bought budget at $100 canadian).
My Gravis Ultrasound became a Sound blaster Live became a Hercules Game Theater XP became Nforce2 Dolby Digital output.
It's strange how well this system worked out. Just as my machine became almost unbearable for games (About a 30FPS average for most games) I've upgraded because of this 3x rule. Sure, it means that you won't be at the bleeding edge for very long but the edge is too easy to fall off anyway. Only idiots would skip from a Radeon 8500 to a 9700, just as it would be stupid to ditch a 2400+ Athlon for a 2.8ghz P4. At the same time, people who tell that a 500mhz and a Voodoo 3 is enough for anyone are obviously not playing any modern games. The trick is to get caught in between the two extremes.