I was once asked for help in acquiring passwords from somebody who recently died. The person ran a website and message board for victims of parental abuse and they tried to help others come to terms and move on. The deceased had two sets of parents and was on poor terms with all of them. Nobody knew much about the parents and given the site, that was kind of understood that you don't want to bring that out. The friend wanted to maintain the site after the death but didn't get any of the access information. The host refused to hand it over.
This site had email hosting as well, and the deceased admin referred to it as a backup on the hotmail account. So I suggested they try to reset the password. If they knew enough about the admin, they should be able to handle the secret question.
Sure, you could fight them in court, but that costs money. These patent farms could whack you with a ton of patent infringements, and some will find it easier to roll over as opposed to fight it in court.
If Wikipedia is anything like the Wikis I've dealt with through work, then it's a black hole used to document stuff you do; with the idea that people will come and see it but ultimately they don't.;)
I've found myself lately using the open perl IDE (http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/) for debugging. I can set breakpoints in it and trace variables in a little bar on the side. It isn't perfect--I don't know how well it works in a multithreaded environment in particular, but it has saved my ass many times. Of course it can't fix the "Not a SCALAR reference" crap when dealing with various data types, but that's where Perl 6 will fix things.
Sadly, legislation is probably the only way to make software developers--or rather, their companies--more liable. What, you expect the free market to take this one on? Who here honestly expects a company to decide it's competitive to be more liable?
I'm curious if this new framework will make the game moddable something that plays like Master of Magic. I'm sure they don't want to get into any legal trouble with their claims, so I'll be a little more vague. Could it be readily feasible to have a spellbook to perform various affects from both combat and the overland map? Can the way combat is done be overhauled so that stacks of units can be controlled in a separate combat setting?
The cynic in me agrees. They'll have those RFID checkouts where you can just run your cart through and tally it all at once. However, Wal-Mart will determine we're used to waiting around forever, and will only have one lane.
This is what I did when I moved recently. Licquor store boxes are very sturdy since a broken booze box can mean $200 in alcohol oozing all over the place. I have a short school bus I used to move down last year, and I used it in my house move. I got much more junk since then, and needed boxes to easily transport it around. So I drove my school bus over to the booze store and starting hauling out empty box after empty box of booze.
I'm sure that looked terrible to a bystander.
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I don't think Radio Shack carries 19 million amp fuses, but I am pretty sure you could build one out of a few bricks . . .
I think the point of the mall survey--however misguided as you say--is that these cameras can unnerve the public, and the public can't do squat. However, When a camera unnerves security, they can do whatever they want to stop it.
There was a tool brought up in some Jikes research called "Performance Explorer" that profiles Java applications across time. It uses a variety of performance counters, both from the OS, the JVM, and hardware; painting a very complete profile of the system. I've been waiting to get my mittens on it.
I think the downside is that it probably only works for Jikes, and only PowerPC right now. If it turns out the front-end is very useful, and implementing the performance counter drivers is easy, then I'm sure it'll pick up some steam. I was told it'd be out at the end of this month, but maybe they're bundling it in with those 30 sourceforge projects.
I wonder how this works with the IBM CPL. It's generally an open-source license, with a disclaimer that IBM won't be held responsible for what happens.
I'm surprised to hear about this because I, too, thought Mandrake was knocked out. They were going through some financial troubles awhile back--this has already been mentioned. At the time, I was using Mandrake 9.2 and was having a good time of it. Outside of butchering the apache configuration as a learning experience, it's administrative tools took care of everything.
I guess a distro is only as good as the hard disk it sits on, and I discovered it was on a DeskStar . . . when it died. I put an install of Mandrake 10 on drive it was RMA'd and returned. This didn't seem to be a very mature OS. I couldn't choose what to install, and later found out it didn't include gcc. I installed that only to find it couldn't successfully compile anything! I've since switched to SuSE at home bceause that's what we use at work. While that had its own problems, most of it would have to be blamed on my home CD-burner dying (bad luck lately).
I hear there's a community edition ISO along with something else. Whatever I got might have been the junkier of the two. Either way, it left a very sour impression. I'm surprised they're still conducting business, but the best of luck to them.
The exact word count is always rounded when publishing. They don't really care because the exact count doesn't matter; it's more about the space the words consume, which is more important to the publisher. Hence, a very verbose work with large words counted at 1,000 in your word processor could come up at 1,500.
Some people just have to do low-level stuff in a high-level application. People can write malicious code for that, but that's the price you pay.
The little bit of C# I've looked at has shown that.NET does a lot to reduce the amount of old-fashioned pointers you need. Most of that has been wrapped up into things like references and delegates, which can be tracked and managed.
They could have also prevented C++ from coexisting with the.NET framework, but I think that would have reduced a huge selling point..NET is more than just a VM, and it's trying to solve a lot of problems. C++ should be able to take advantage of it.
I think people are just complaining is on the assumption that.NET will become the next overwhelming thing, and it's VM will be widely adopted--hence the biggest target for attacks. It's very possible to write a JNI exploit that the naive user may also run. Ultimately, accountability still resides with the end user, but these higher-level languages have reduced the amount of stuff the end user has to track.
I am assuming the root of the matter is the disparity between what was predicted in art (science fiction) and what actually happened. I always felt there was too much of a preoccupation with space travel in the past. I guess this makes sense, given the Space Race took up a good amount of people's attention. However, there were two areas that were overlooked: The Internet and advancements in genetics. Both caught the forward-thinkers of the past by surprise.
There were many assumptions of huge talking robots, but not as many about the computers we have today. Our computers are not as powerful, but they're a commodity, available to everybody. Also, cloning was a pipe dream; something to happen in the year 2500 or whatever. And here we are, playing around with cloning cats.
It's not so bad, really, though I could use a good mail-order robobabe right about now.
Science would say the reasons can be found in the mathematical properties of the music and which mathematical patterns produce certain feelings and reactions to what we hear.
So now we are creating a scientifically-driven definition for "catchy." This is a bizzare technology that I would be fearful of if it ever bears any fruit. What I don't like is it doesn't define whether the system works theoretically or empirically. Let me separate the two:
1. Theoretical system. This, I sense, could actually be a great technology. If there is a solid basis behind what we like and why we like it, I feel it would provide some great insights into culture. The record industry would issue music based on what people really do want to hear.
2. Empirical system. This would use data from previous hits and misses to predict how a current song will do. What I don't like about this is the prior database: it will be made up of the generic music the industry has been pushing for years. So it will not be making a decision based on how the masses really would like a tune, rather it would make a decision based on how the masses liked the other stuff they sold. In this way, innovative new styles will still take a long time to pry their way into the mainstream.
Because sometimes the development time is faster in using a script than an application. There are plenty of tasks where resources aren't an issue as much as just getting the damn job done. That way, everybody can get back to the real work at hand.
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I was once asked for help in acquiring passwords from somebody who recently died. The person ran a website and message board for victims of parental abuse and they tried to help others come to terms and move on. The deceased had two sets of parents and was on poor terms with all of them. Nobody knew much about the parents and given the site, that was kind of understood that you don't want to bring that out. The friend wanted to maintain the site after the death but didn't get any of the access information. The host refused to hand it over.
This site had email hosting as well, and the deceased admin referred to it as a backup on the hotmail account. So I suggested they try to reset the password. If they knew enough about the admin, they should be able to handle the secret question.
It asked for the father's middle name.
Sure, you could fight them in court, but that costs money. These patent farms could whack you with a ton of patent infringements, and some will find it easier to roll over as opposed to fight it in court.
If Wikipedia is anything like the Wikis I've dealt with through work, then it's a black hole used to document stuff you do; with the idea that people will come and see it but ultimately they don't. ;)
I've found myself lately using the open perl IDE (http://open-perl-ide.sourceforge.net/) for debugging. I can set breakpoints in it and trace variables in a little bar on the side. It isn't perfect--I don't know how well it works in a multithreaded environment in particular, but it has saved my ass many times. Of course it can't fix the "Not a SCALAR reference" crap when dealing with various data types, but that's where Perl 6 will fix things.
The reference rasterizer is meant to be accurate, not fast. I'd hope it could beat that.
Sadly, legislation is probably the only way to make software developers--or rather, their companies--more liable. What, you expect the free market to take this one on? Who here honestly expects a company to decide it's competitive to be more liable?
I'm curious if this new framework will make the game moddable something that plays like Master of Magic. I'm sure they don't want to get into any legal trouble with their claims, so I'll be a little more vague. Could it be readily feasible to have a spellbook to perform various affects from both combat and the overland map? Can the way combat is done be overhauled so that stacks of units can be controlled in a separate combat setting?
The cynic in me agrees. They'll have those RFID checkouts where you can just run your cart through and tally it all at once. However, Wal-Mart will determine we're used to waiting around forever, and will only have one lane.
This is what I did when I moved recently. Licquor store boxes are very sturdy since a broken booze box can mean $200 in alcohol oozing all over the place. I have a short school bus I used to move down last year, and I used it in my house move. I got much more junk since then, and needed boxes to easily transport it around. So I drove my school bus over to the booze store and starting hauling out empty box after empty box of booze.
I'm sure that looked terrible to a bystander.
I don't think Radio Shack carries 19 million amp fuses, but I am pretty sure you could build one out of a few bricks . . .
I think the point of the mall survey--however misguided as you say--is that these cameras can unnerve the public, and the public can't do squat. However, When a camera unnerves security, they can do whatever they want to stop it.
It probably came from my face. All that acne creme isn't doing squat.
It must have been the Discovery Edition. I don't have the CDs with me to verify.
There was a tool brought up in some Jikes research called "Performance Explorer" that profiles Java applications across time. It uses a variety of performance counters, both from the OS, the JVM, and hardware; painting a very complete profile of the system. I've been waiting to get my mittens on it.
I think the downside is that it probably only works for Jikes, and only PowerPC right now. If it turns out the front-end is very useful, and implementing the performance counter drivers is easy, then I'm sure it'll pick up some steam. I was told it'd be out at the end of this month, but maybe they're bundling it in with those 30 sourceforge projects.
I wonder how this works with the IBM CPL. It's generally an open-source license, with a disclaimer that IBM won't be held responsible for what happens.
I'm surprised to hear about this because I, too, thought Mandrake was knocked out. They were going through some financial troubles awhile back--this has already been mentioned. At the time, I was using Mandrake 9.2 and was having a good time of it. Outside of butchering the apache configuration as a learning experience, it's administrative tools took care of everything.
I guess a distro is only as good as the hard disk it sits on, and I discovered it was on a DeskStar . . . when it died. I put an install of Mandrake 10 on drive it was RMA'd and returned. This didn't seem to be a very mature OS. I couldn't choose what to install, and later found out it didn't include gcc. I installed that only to find it couldn't successfully compile anything! I've since switched to SuSE at home bceause that's what we use at work. While that had its own problems, most of it would have to be blamed on my home CD-burner dying (bad luck lately).
I hear there's a community edition ISO along with something else. Whatever I got might have been the junkier of the two. Either way, it left a very sour impression. I'm surprised they're still conducting business, but the best of luck to them.
Wow a legit use for that program! All I ever got with was a bunch of "Tony's got a small dick" broadcast messages.
The exact word count is always rounded when publishing. They don't really care because the exact count doesn't matter; it's more about the space the words consume, which is more important to the publisher. Hence, a very verbose work with large words counted at 1,000 in your word processor could come up at 1,500.
Now if only I could get published.
Some people just have to do low-level stuff in a high-level application. People can write malicious code for that, but that's the price you pay.
.NET does a lot to reduce the amount of old-fashioned pointers you need. Most of that has been wrapped up into things like references and delegates, which can be tracked and managed.
.NET framework, but I think that would have reduced a huge selling point. .NET is more than just a VM, and it's trying to solve a lot of problems. C++ should be able to take advantage of it.
.NET will become the next overwhelming thing, and it's VM will be widely adopted--hence the biggest target for attacks. It's very possible to write a JNI exploit that the naive user may also run. Ultimately, accountability still resides with the end user, but these higher-level languages have reduced the amount of stuff the end user has to track.
The little bit of C# I've looked at has shown that
They could have also prevented C++ from coexisting with the
I think people are just complaining is on the assumption that
Heh, and the action will be known as "The Gulf Stream War"
I am assuming the root of the matter is the disparity between what was predicted in art (science fiction) and what actually happened. I always felt there was too much of a preoccupation with space travel in the past. I guess this makes sense, given the Space Race took up a good amount of people's attention. However, there were two areas that were overlooked: The Internet and advancements in genetics. Both caught the forward-thinkers of the past by surprise.
There were many assumptions of huge talking robots, but not as many about the computers we have today. Our computers are not as powerful, but they're a commodity, available to everybody. Also, cloning was a pipe dream; something to happen in the year 2500 or whatever. And here we are, playing around with cloning cats.
It's not so bad, really, though I could use a good mail-order robobabe right about now.
. . . from components they popped off of returned deskstars.
1. Theoretical system. This, I sense, could actually be a great technology. If there is a solid basis behind what we like and why we like it, I feel it would provide some great insights into culture. The record industry would issue music based on what people really do want to hear.
2. Empirical system. This would use data from previous hits and misses to predict how a current song will do. What I don't like about this is the prior database: it will be made up of the generic music the industry has been pushing for years. So it will not be making a decision based on how the masses really would like a tune, rather it would make a decision based on how the masses liked the other stuff they sold. In this way, innovative new styles will still take a long time to pry their way into the mainstream.
Because sometimes the development time is faster in using a script than an application. There are plenty of tasks where resources aren't an issue as much as just getting the damn job done. That way, everybody can get back to the real work at hand.
Nah that's OK. Britain is America's largest aircraft carrier, and we'd like to see that last forever. Sustainable energy is perfect for this.