Informative?!? C'mon moderators! This was funny, you know, FUNNY! As in Jerry Springer or something not informatives, that's what you sometimes see at Discovery Channel
The problem is just that
"hit me baby one more time"
is far more common then
"public String getNotSoGoodLyricsFromBS(int singerHitNbr)"
Not ment to flame, was just an unsuccesfull attemps at humor again...
Just that I also had to search for some "exemple code" back to when I were trying to do an open-source version of a windows systray... Finally, i came up with geoshell and had to look at how this was implemented to understand it (never tell me now that windows is documented, this dawn window which occurs to be the tray... Only one window of this type can receive the tray system events...)
I know i'm replying to an off-topic, but hey! It's free-speach;-)
Could you explain me what would be so bad about Mandrake beiing purchased by Sun? I mean, this would mean more money invested into its devellopement, more devellopers, more time etc etc. And everything which is already gpl'ed would still be. I really don't understand peoples reasoning sometimes. Everybody talks about linux acceptance in the industry and when it finally happens, people are still complaining. For my part, I find it great if a big company like Sun decides to invest in it. Sure, they have their own motivation behind it, we can't deny it. But if it also benefits us, what's wrong with that?!?
I found it annoying all day that he keep posting stupid hoax. But now, reading all post of anoyed user, I happened to imagine Taco at his desk with all of his friend yelling: "C'mon man, post just one more of those! C'mon! It will be so funny, those Slashdotters will run crazy!"
Yep! While I beleive that there is no such thing as unbreakable encryption, the kine lies right were you stated it. It's all a matter of time. So could we say that an effective encryption is one which could not be broken within the "usable lifespan" of the encrypted data itself? If we take into account moore's law and everything, we could have a fairly good mesure for encryption security.
Wrong to, if you actually know how to decrypt it, I could torture you during weeks so you give me the "private key". It's another way of using "brute force" hehe. Doesn't want to flame, but I do also beleive that anything which could be decrypt could be "cracked", it's logic. It could be very hard, but still feasable.
How they managed to ask 113% of developers...
Was their 13% of them using both? Or is it just that gartner analyst don't khow additions? Or is it just that I don't know statistics?
Of being able to mute some of my coworkers when they think of them self that they are gods. Problem is that this won't disable their vocal cords... On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to mimic any more "Fuck ya you looser!" at them when they turn around. I imagine them hear the little feminin robotic voice saying "Your Budy "Dan" just says: Fuck ya looser! To respond to this message press 1 now. To forward it to someone else press 2..."
While I agree with the essence of your post, I do not agree with the statements you make. My sister has a kid which is ~1 years old. she made bad choices at the moment she got pregnant (getting pregnant was one) and now she have to face the consequence of her acts. and she faces it pretty well. She's more mature, she got back to shcool, she works hard and she is one really good and lovely mother. She play with her child every day, she talk to him etc etc. But at the beginning, she forgot to take time for here. She was working 30 hours a week, studiing while the kid was sleeping, and always care of him when she was at home. But then, after 9 months of no enough sleeps, not enough everything for her, she got sick. Really sick. She had to stay in hospital for almost 3 weeks. Since then, she is still a lovely mother, she still work hard and is still studying. But once in a while, she bring the kid to my mother over for a weekend and she just go take some fresh air. She put aside all her problems and relax. She is now in really good shape and is kid is quite happy.
And now, about the parental responsability. While I think that parents are majorly responsible for what will become thir child, I am not in favor of them being responsible for their child. Not when they are 17-18-19 + years old. I could understand at something like 2years old that if the kid breaks a window or something, the parent should pay. But at 18, your are responsible for your acts, your are able to make bad or good decisions and that doen't mean that you've got bad or good parents. I've got good parents who've done all what they COULD to give us the best education possible. But they are not super-heroes. I've made some pretty nasty things when I was yonger. Sold and took drugs, get caugh etc etc. And they did all they could to help me. But I just kept continuing this way for a while. Once I understood how stupid I was, I then accepted their help and accepted to help myself. I would not have change before and could't either, I had to understand things, make my own steps. Now, I'm maried, I'm working and have a pretty "stable" life. As stable as a geek could be... And I'm happy that my parents didn't have to be responsible for my acts cause what made me think about all that was that I was held responsible for my acts. When a kid is faced with the results of their act, bad or good, they learn. Somes like to call it "life experience"...
There is a major difference between controling who connects and what they do once they are connected...
an exemple with guns would be (people seems to like those exemple), is that while the government can control who has gun, and know who has what type of gun, they can decide wether one type of gun is not allowed and another is. (Just like Kazaa could decide who could connect and who can't) But once you have possession of your gun, no matter which kind it is, nothing stops you from shooting your neighboor. It's P2P shooting:)
so, Kazaa essentialy(forget spyware for a second) verify who you are, what client you run and returns you a list of nodes to connect to. Once there, they can't control to who you connect and what you exchange because they aren't involve anymore into the process. This is the base of P2P systems. All they do, is enable clients to find themself. Kind of a Directory...
I've not done any studies of how this stuffs works in detail, but basically it is how it's done.
Because there is no particles to shield doen't mean it is impossible to conteract it. If the theory of the curvature of space-time is true, then we could "escape" gravity another way, by manipulating the curvature of space-time or something...
It's really interesting, but there's is still something which I don't get. Despite the fact that P2P is really interesting for Joe User who wish to download gigs of MP3's and x movies of all kind (X as a variable not as XXX:-) I can't find a real use for this technology yet. I mean, if I need to find valuable information, as in documentation, data, specs or anything, it won't help me at all?!? It is mainly used to share "binary files" for now, nothing prevents it from sharing "text file" like web page, xml files (if ever I would need one of any kind) or even PDF(I know, those are not text). But currently, one have to search based on files name/meta informations. Not really helpfull if I search for a websit talking about block cipher for exemple. I understand the need for real sharing of data as in information, and it includes media files as well, but there is a lack in my sense which will need to be filed. I think the world could relleay benefit from a P2P system which would allow users to share ideas, knowledge and you name it, in a much more open and accecible way then the net as we know it. I said as we know it cause it's not true that the guy at his computer down in montreal for exemple can easily acces "the mass" without having to really show the money to either "promote" is web site, paying a good connection and etc etc. P2P could solve this as a way for the information to freely ride throu wires and be publishable to everyone. Then, using a standard way of indexing those information, one could easilly browse throu it and find what ones really search for, not 275 000 sites dedicated to sale a product which I don't care and ) sites about what I want because those pages whill probably never get indexed in any major search engine.
definition of blind
1.a Sightless. ...
To deprive of sight: was blinded in an industrial accident.
Spot A place of relatively small and definite limits.
So a bling spot would be a place of reltively small and definit linit wich deprives you of sight.
So yes, the sun could be considered a blind spot, has it actually deprive you of your sense of sight. To much or not enough lights entering your eyes and they become useless. It is called in photography "dynamic range", I don't know however how it is called when talking about eyes...
This is recursively on topic!
A cargoing 100 km/h is somehow different from a boeing going some 300 km/h (wich is also a lot heavier), even now there is sometimes a thief who goes full speed into a store with a truck/car to access the ATM or something. Flying cars would not be a problem in itself, it all depends on the speed/weight when it hits a building. Also, what causes the the building to colapse was the high heat of the burning fuel, not the hit. A car really doesn't have as much fuel inboard as a plane... And also, as much as those event changed my way of seeing life for ever, there is still plane flying every day. I much more think that what will prevent flying cars from happening any "not so soon" is everything that will also need to change to allow them: signalisation, licenses, city "configuration", regulation etc etc. Geez, we don't even have hydrogen cars are anything less poluting yet...
Well, You are absolutly right about this, but there is one point to consider. People like to buy things when they are more expensive. Even if it isn't true, it gives most people confidence on what they buy. I remember hearing a story about Goldstar(correct me if I'm wrong), wich was selling their stuff very cheaply in chain store ala Wallmarth. Well, sells were not that bright and somebody there went with a new business model: selling the same stereo in "specialized" stores at 2 or 3 times the price. Well, they began to sell pretty well... I for sure would never buy an mp3 player at 1500$ but Average Joe probably would buy it to complement his home stereo/65"TV/etc etc because it's expensive, it looks cool, it does the job without any hassle and he feels confident that at 1500$, it got to worth it. I know that this really applies to my brother in law tough...
just my 2 cents
Re:User input could solve problems
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Google Juice
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
You mean, ala Slashdot mod points?
Business wise
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Google Juice
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· Score: 1, Interesting
They should correct those anoyance and not let it take any proportion. Someone said that if so, it could be the end of "true" search engine. Well, my opinion however is that they effectively need to correct those, but if they ever let it go, someone else (read another "true" search engine) will come in. I've always used Google since ~2 years because I was sick of all the other SE returning me so much crap. I do a lot of search on many subject and I have no objection to switch to any other SE if it evers works better then Google. They are my favorite for now, i am an happy "consumer". They are in business and should really remember what makes them so popular.
By the way, another one wich I really like is http://www.codehound.com, you can search by programming language. Sometimes, it is a good supplement to goolge. At least for those who need to search about programming language...
-- Is a sig. not in the sig. box still a sig.?
Freedom of Speech? I do have!
Let me take a try: You are a fucking asshole.
Wow, I'm still alive, and I won't go to jail! Wow!
FREEDOM OF SPEECH YEAH!
Intelligence? Well, I'm sure we have some, why the hell is the NASA using our canadian arm when going on mission? Why does the F18 as been designed by principally the same dudes who worked on the Avro Arrow(wich was like 20 years before its time)? And why the hell are you buying electricity from here in Quebec from the most advance water dig in the world?
And why the hell am I replying to you?
I got a clue that you need to have your ass kicked
Form a fellow french canadian
I always though that this was the most idiot thing our government has made us to beleive, after why Marijuana is still illegal but not alcoohol. They say that those taxes are there to cover the cost of health problem caused by tobaco. Think about it for a second, if it was so dramatic and so hard on the financial/medical aspect for them, why the hell is it still legal? I pretty much beleive that it's a really good source of money for them and that they strive to find an "equilibre" between how much smokers they can afford to see having lung/heart/etc problem related to cigarettes and how much smokers they actually need as a source of revenue. Yes, cigarettes is really bad for health, everybody knows that, we also know how much addictive it is: they compare its to Cocain! It's also closely related to the "suddent death" syndrom of babies. C'mon, cigarettes are almost a population control device ! But they still allows it to be sold in every store, youy can smoke legally has much as you want and there is no form of control whatsoever on who/when/how you can smoke it. Really, you beleive them when they say taxes on cigarettes are applied to pay only health problem? I am really not sure about that, it's just as much a money source as Lotterys and Casinos. Maybe I'm paranoiac, but it makes my days a bit more funny...
Reminds me of that flash light I got when I was young, with a litte button-switch to do Morse code... Maybe we could all sit in front of a modem and do some IP over flashlight things...
Slashdot Mirror
Moderators or blinds... This is not a Flamebait, this Sarcasm. Personally I like sarcasm :-)
Informative?!? C'mon moderators! This was funny, you know, FUNNY! As in Jerry Springer or something not informatives, that's what you sometimes see at Discovery Channel
I guess that's why one can post as AC, even though this guy/gal did not.
The problem is just that
"hit me baby one more time"
is far more common then
"public String getNotSoGoodLyricsFromBS(int singerHitNbr)"
Not ment to flame, was just an unsuccesfull attemps at humor again...
Just that I also had to search for some "exemple code" back to when I were trying to do an open-source version of a windows systray... Finally, i came up with geoshell and had to look at how this was implemented to understand it (never tell me now that windows is documented, this dawn window which occurs to be the tray... Only one window of this type can receive the tray system events...)
An exemple is NOT off-topic
I know i'm replying to an off-topic, but hey! It's free-speach ;-)
Could you explain me what would be so bad about Mandrake beiing purchased by Sun? I mean, this would mean more money invested into its devellopement, more devellopers, more time etc etc. And everything which is already gpl'ed would still be. I really don't understand peoples reasoning sometimes. Everybody talks about linux acceptance in the industry and when it finally happens, people are still complaining. For my part, I find it great if a big company like Sun decides to invest in it. Sure, they have their own motivation behind it, we can't deny it. But if it also benefits us, what's wrong with that?!?
I found it annoying all day that he keep posting stupid hoax. But now, reading all post of anoyed user, I happened to imagine Taco at his desk with all of his friend yelling: "C'mon man, post just one more of those! C'mon! It will be so funny, those Slashdotters will run crazy!"
Yep! While I beleive that there is no such thing as unbreakable encryption, the kine lies right were you stated it. It's all a matter of time. So could we say that an effective encryption is one which could not be broken within the "usable lifespan" of the encrypted data itself? If we take into account moore's law and everything, we could have a fairly good mesure for encryption security.
Wrong to, if you actually know how to decrypt it, I could torture you during weeks so you give me the "private key". It's another way of using "brute force" hehe. Doesn't want to flame, but I do also beleive that anything which could be decrypt could be "cracked", it's logic. It could be very hard, but still feasable.
How they managed to ask 113% of developers... Was their 13% of them using both? Or is it just that gartner analyst don't khow additions? Or is it just that I don't know statistics?
Don't mod me down, I flame myself as well!
Of being able to mute some of my coworkers when they think of them self that they are gods. Problem is that this won't disable their vocal cords... On the other hand, I wouldn't be able to mimic any more "Fuck ya you looser!" at them when they turn around. I imagine them hear the little feminin robotic voice saying "Your Budy "Dan" just says: Fuck ya looser! To respond to this message press 1 now. To forward it to someone else press 2..."
While I agree with the essence of your post, I do not agree with the statements you make. My sister has a kid which is ~1 years old. she made bad choices at the moment she got pregnant (getting pregnant was one) and now she have to face the consequence of her acts. and she faces it pretty well. She's more mature, she got back to shcool, she works hard and she is one really good and lovely mother. She play with her child every day, she talk to him etc etc. But at the beginning, she forgot to take time for here. She was working 30 hours a week, studiing while the kid was sleeping, and always care of him when she was at home. But then, after 9 months of no enough sleeps, not enough everything for her, she got sick. Really sick. She had to stay in hospital for almost 3 weeks. Since then, she is still a lovely mother, she still work hard and is still studying. But once in a while, she bring the kid to my mother over for a weekend and she just go take some fresh air. She put aside all her problems and relax. She is now in really good shape and is kid is quite happy.
And now, about the parental responsability. While I think that parents are majorly responsible for what will become thir child, I am not in favor of them being responsible for their child. Not when they are 17-18-19 + years old. I could understand at something like 2years old that if the kid breaks a window or something, the parent should pay. But at 18, your are responsible for your acts, your are able to make bad or good decisions and that doen't mean that you've got bad or good parents. I've got good parents who've done all what they COULD to give us the best education possible. But they are not super-heroes. I've made some pretty nasty things when I was yonger. Sold and took drugs, get caugh etc etc. And they did all they could to help me. But I just kept continuing this way for a while. Once I understood how stupid I was, I then accepted their help and accepted to help myself. I would not have change before and could't either, I had to understand things, make my own steps. Now, I'm maried, I'm working and have a pretty "stable" life. As stable as a geek could be... And I'm happy that my parents didn't have to be responsible for my acts cause what made me think about all that was that I was held responsible for my acts. When a kid is faced with the results of their act, bad or good, they learn. Somes like to call it "life experience"...
I wonder if this will be moderated as redundant hehe
There is a major difference between controling who connects
:)
and what they do once they are connected...
an exemple with guns would be (people seems to like those exemple),
is that while the government can control who has gun, and know who
has what type of gun, they can decide wether one type of gun is not allowed and another is.
(Just like Kazaa could decide who could connect and who can't) But once you have
possession of your gun, no matter which kind it is, nothing stops you from shooting your
neighboor. It's P2P shooting
so, Kazaa essentialy(forget spyware for a second)
verify who you are, what client you run and returns you a list of nodes to connect to. Once
there, they can't control to who you connect and what you exchange because they aren't involve
anymore into the process. This is the base of P2P systems. All they do, is enable clients to
find themself. Kind of a Directory...
I've not done any studies of how this stuffs works in detail, but basically it is how it's done.
Because there is no particles to shield doen't mean it is impossible to conteract it. If the theory of the curvature of space-time is true, then we could "escape" gravity another way, by manipulating the curvature of space-time or something...
It's really interesting, but there's is still something which I don't get. Despite the fact that P2P is really interesting for Joe User who wish to download gigs of MP3's and x movies of all kind (X as a variable not as XXX :-) I can't find a real use for this technology yet. I mean, if I need to find valuable information, as in documentation, data, specs or anything, it won't help me at all?!? It is mainly used to share "binary files" for now, nothing prevents it from sharing "text file" like web page, xml files (if ever I would need one of any kind) or even PDF(I know, those are not text). But currently, one have to search based on files name/meta informations. Not really helpfull if I search for a websit talking about block cipher for exemple. I understand the need for real sharing of data as in information, and it includes media files as well, but there is a lack in my sense which will need to be filed. I think the world could relleay benefit from a P2P system which would allow users to share ideas, knowledge and you name it, in a much more open and accecible way then the net as we know it. I said as we know it cause it's not true that the guy at his computer down in montreal for exemple can easily acces "the mass" without having to really show the money to either "promote" is web site, paying a good connection and etc etc. P2P could solve this as a way for the information to freely ride throu wires and be publishable to everyone. Then, using a standard way of indexing those information, one could easilly browse throu it and find what ones really search for, not 275 000 sites dedicated to sale a product which I don't care and ) sites about what I want because those pages whill probably never get indexed in any major search engine.
Mod me Up, this is recursively on topic!
definition of blind
...
1.a Sightless.
To deprive of sight: was blinded in an industrial accident.
Spot
A place of relatively small and definite limits.
So a bling spot would be a place of reltively small and definit linit wich deprives you of sight.
So yes, the sun could be considered a blind spot, has it actually deprive you of your sense of sight. To much or not enough lights entering your eyes and they become useless. It is called in photography "dynamic range", I don't know however how it is called when talking about eyes...
This is recursively on topic!
A cargoing 100 km/h is somehow different from a boeing going some 300 km/h (wich is also a lot heavier), even now there is sometimes a thief who goes full speed into a store with a truck/car to access the ATM or something. Flying cars would not be a problem in itself, it all depends on the speed/weight when it hits a building. Also, what causes the the building to colapse was the high heat of the burning fuel, not the hit. A car really doesn't have as much fuel inboard as a plane... And also, as much as those event changed my way of seeing life for ever, there is still plane flying every day. I much more think that what will prevent flying cars from happening any "not so soon" is everything that will also need to change to allow them: signalisation, licenses, city "configuration", regulation etc etc. Geez, we don't even have hydrogen cars are anything less poluting yet...
To sig. or not to sig.
Well, You are absolutly right about this, but there is one point to consider. People like to buy things when they are more expensive. Even if it isn't true, it gives most people confidence on what they buy. I remember hearing a story about Goldstar(correct me if I'm wrong), wich was selling their stuff very cheaply in chain store ala Wallmarth. Well, sells were not that bright and somebody there went with a new business model: selling the same stereo in "specialized" stores at 2 or 3 times the price. Well, they began to sell pretty well... I for sure would never buy an mp3 player at 1500$ but Average Joe probably would buy it to complement his home stereo/65"TV/etc etc because it's expensive, it looks cool, it does the job without any hassle and he feels confident that at 1500$, it got to worth it. I know that this really applies to my brother in law tough...
just my 2 cents
You mean, ala Slashdot mod points?
They should correct those anoyance and not let it take any proportion. Someone said that if so, it could be the end of "true" search engine. Well, my opinion however is that they effectively need to correct those, but if they ever let it go, someone else (read another "true" search engine) will come in. I've always used Google since ~2 years because I was sick of all the other SE returning me so much crap. I do a lot of search on many subject and I have no objection to switch to any other SE if it evers works better then Google. They are my favorite for now, i am an happy "consumer". They are in business and should really remember what makes them so popular. By the way, another one wich I really like is http://www.codehound.com, you can search by programming language. Sometimes, it is a good supplement to goolge. At least for those who need to search about programming language... -- Is a sig. not in the sig. box still a sig.?
Freedom of Speech? I do have! Let me take a try: You are a fucking asshole. Wow, I'm still alive, and I won't go to jail! Wow! FREEDOM OF SPEECH YEAH! Intelligence? Well, I'm sure we have some, why the hell is the NASA using our canadian arm when going on mission? Why does the F18 as been designed by principally the same dudes who worked on the Avro Arrow(wich was like 20 years before its time)? And why the hell are you buying electricity from here in Quebec from the most advance water dig in the world? And why the hell am I replying to you? I got a clue that you need to have your ass kicked Form a fellow french canadian
I always though that this was the most idiot thing our government has made us to beleive, after why Marijuana is still illegal but not alcoohol. They say that those taxes are there to cover the cost of health problem caused by tobaco. Think about it for a second, if it was so dramatic and so hard on the financial/medical aspect for them, why the hell is it still legal? I pretty much beleive that it's a really good source of money for them and that they strive to find an "equilibre" between how much smokers they can afford to see having lung/heart/etc problem related to cigarettes and how much smokers they actually need as a source of revenue. Yes, cigarettes is really bad for health, everybody knows that, we also know how much addictive it is: they compare its to Cocain! It's also closely related to the "suddent death" syndrom of babies. C'mon, cigarettes are almost a population control device ! But they still allows it to be sold in every store, youy can smoke legally has much as you want and there is no form of control whatsoever on who/when/how you can smoke it. Really, you beleive them when they say taxes on cigarettes are applied to pay only health problem? I am really not sure about that, it's just as much a money source as Lotterys and Casinos. Maybe I'm paranoiac, but it makes my days a bit more funny...
The 8th of MAY, not of MARCH
OffTopic? C'mon, that was pretty funny :-)
Reminds me of that flash light I got when I was young, with a litte button-switch to do Morse code... Maybe we could all sit in front of a modem and do some IP over flashlight things...