"Spotted on November 27 2004, VD 17 was swiftly identified as rock that potentially crossed Earth's orbit, with a 1 in 3,000 risk of collision on May 4 2102"
Today is March 2, 2006. Our government defines 15 months as "swift"?
OK, for those who didn't get it: Windows admins and developers don't get to participate in a daily Windows "Kernel" thread. So...they avoid having to read 13 megs of stuff each week AND they get to blame Microsoft whenever something goes wrong. (They can't patch Windows core themselves if they find problems.) It's a "win-win"...
And people wonder why there's a market for Windows
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Zack Brown Taking a Break
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· Score: -1, Troll
"Kernel Traffic has become more and more difficult over the years. From an average of 5 megs of email per week in 1999, the Linux kernel mailing list has gradually increased its traffic to 13 megs per week in 2005"
And people wonder why there's a market for Windows...
"Study Says Cell Phones Can Interefere With Planes"
Do cell phones also "interefere" with SPELL CHECK?
Looks like a forced upgrade for US gov users...
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Why Vista Won't Suck
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Looks like a forced upgrade for US gov users; if AES-256 and "SHA-2" hashs are really going to be US gov security requirements, the only way Microsoft will support them is by upgrading EVERY windows desktop and server to Vista. (For some reason Microsoft has refused to put AES-256 support into any non-Vista version of its SSL stack even though the rest of the industry has been doing so for almost five years now.)
No, Wizards and Warriors sucked too. I think it took me something like 2 hours to win it. Maybe I died once or twice, but it seemed like an incredibly easy Ghosts and Goblins rip-off to me.
I noticed that the contact email was "info (at) koanlogic.com". Real companies aren't afraid of spam (they can usually afford a mail server with a spam filter), nor do they want to make it any harder than necessary for people to contact them (by having to change the " (at) " to a "@".)
Hmmm...if I were "KoanLogic", I'd clean this set of conflicting messages up:
"Intellectual Property Protection - KLone's mechanism of compiling both static and dynamic web content into an executable object provides a means of distributing web applications without the corresponding source code." (http://koanlogic.com/kl/cont/gb/html/klone-featur es.html)
VS.
" Great victory against software patents in the European Parliament (648 votes against the reform, 14 in favour and 18 abstentions). Much of the merit goes to the many campaigns and efforts of supporters of the free software community." (http://koanlogic.com/kl/cont/gb/html/news.html)
"My startup company has just released its first product, but since it is made up of geeks without a clue about marketing strategies..."
It's not a company - it's a Dungeons and Dragons session without the game.
"How Would You Launch a Dual-Licensed Product?"
Don't. I buy software components from a company that dual-licenses their software. I simply love negotiating price with them: we are currently getting something like 80% off of list price because we have threatened to go the free route so many times. There are likely many more customers like me out there - my dual-source supplier is currently courting buyers, probably in the hopes that someone who knows what they are doing can bail them out. (If they do get bought out, I don't care - I also have their source code.)
My advice would be to release whatever you have as FREEWARE (but not give out the source), keep your day jobs and see if you can find a market or a talented individual who can find a market for you, and LISTEN to the valuable advice your users give you. Then, once you've figured out a market with an unmet need, figure out a way to sell your product as commercial software to fill that need for those customers. (Hint: services are key.) "SmartFTP" is an example of a company/product that successfully went this route.
Red Hat Certified Engineer - is that the Linux version of the MSCE?
For a while I was starting to believe in some certifications again, but then I ran into an CISSP who needed to be told what magic things a firewall does to that new-fangled technology called TCP.
Do you remember when Nintendo Power started to print color? (With the clay statue of Mario on the cover.) However, the top game lists were a carry-over from the pink-and-blank newsletters, I think.
I remember there was a Nintendo or Nintendo Power phone number you were supposed to call when you won if you were one of the first. (I wasn't, but I tried anyway.)
I consoled myself by attacking the "second quest" anyway.
Once you get to know a couple of other programming languages, PHP and Perl look quite similar indeed. (Kind of like VBS and ASP, Java and C#, C and C++, etc. are similar.)
If you're going to be this generic...
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Going Dynamic with PHP
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If you're going to be this generic, why lock each class to a single table? (Why not let the name of the table be an argument as well?)
The answer would seem to be that there is no input validation or output interpretation going on in this sample. So, you can either write a switch block that makes sure your integers are in valid ranges, etc. or go back to individual properties. (Six dozen of one, half of the other.)
Slashdot Mirror
See: http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/
...but first, they need a job to pay for it, and that's where my fellow Americans can help today. God bless.
If you're from MIT, you'd better start at 70K. You'll never pay back your loans at 30K. Hell, MIT English majors probably start at 30K.
Who the hell would buy these? They've been available for free over the Internet (via MAME, etc.) for the better part of a decade.
Today is March 2, 2006. Our government defines 15 months as "swift"?
OK, for those who didn't get it: Windows admins and developers don't get to participate in a daily Windows "Kernel" thread. So...they avoid having to read 13 megs of stuff each week AND they get to blame Microsoft whenever something goes wrong. (They can't patch Windows core themselves if they find problems.) It's a "win-win"...
And people wonder why there's a market for Windows...
Do cell phones also "interefere" with SPELL CHECK?
Looks like a forced upgrade for US gov users; if AES-256 and "SHA-2" hashs are really going to be US gov security requirements, the only way Microsoft will support them is by upgrading EVERY windows desktop and server to Vista. (For some reason Microsoft has refused to put AES-256 support into any non-Vista version of its SSL stack even though the rest of the industry has been doing so for almost five years now.)
No, Wizards and Warriors sucked too. I think it took me something like 2 hours to win it. Maybe I died once or twice, but it seemed like an incredibly easy Ghosts and Goblins rip-off to me.
I noticed that the contact email was "info (at) koanlogic.com". Real companies aren't afraid of spam (they can usually afford a mail server with a spam filter), nor do they want to make it any harder than necessary for people to contact them (by having to change the " (at) " to a "@".)
"Intellectual Property Protection - KLone's mechanism of compiling both static and dynamic web content into an executable object provides a means of distributing web applications without the corresponding source code." (http://koanlogic.com/kl/cont/gb/html/klone-featur es.html)
VS.
" Great victory against software patents in the European Parliament (648 votes against the reform, 14 in favour and 18 abstentions). Much of the merit goes to the many campaigns and efforts of supporters of the free software community." (http://koanlogic.com/kl/cont/gb/html/news.html)
Fitness Game Bot? It's only a matter of time...
It's not a company - it's a Dungeons and Dragons session without the game.
"How Would You Launch a Dual-Licensed Product?"
Don't. I buy software components from a company that dual-licenses their software. I simply love negotiating price with them: we are currently getting something like 80% off of list price because we have threatened to go the free route so many times. There are likely many more customers like me out there - my dual-source supplier is currently courting buyers, probably in the hopes that someone who knows what they are doing can bail them out. (If they do get bought out, I don't care - I also have their source code.)
My advice would be to release whatever you have as FREEWARE (but not give out the source), keep your day jobs and see if you can find a market or a talented individual who can find a market for you, and LISTEN to the valuable advice your users give you. Then, once you've figured out a market with an unmet need, figure out a way to sell your product as commercial software to fill that need for those customers. (Hint: services are key.) "SmartFTP" is an example of a company/product that successfully went this route.
What? Turino 2006 didn't make the cut? We was robbed!
Red Hat Certified Engineer - is that the Linux version of the MSCE?
For a while I was starting to believe in some certifications again, but then I ran into an CISSP who needed to be told what magic things a firewall does to that new-fangled technology called TCP.
Where was Google five years ago? (LOL)
Wolfenstein? Wrong decade...
Do you remember when Nintendo Power started to print color? (With the clay statue of Mario on the cover.) However, the top game lists were a carry-over from the pink-and-blank newsletters, I think.
I remember there was a Nintendo or Nintendo Power phone number you were supposed to call when you won if you were one of the first. (I wasn't, but I tried anyway.)
I consoled myself by attacking the "second quest" anyway.
Since when was "Earthworm Jim" a classic? What's next: Claymation Fighters?
Once you get to know a couple of other programming languages, PHP and Perl look quite similar indeed. (Kind of like VBS and ASP, Java and C#, C and C++, etc. are similar.)
The answer would seem to be that there is no input validation or output interpretation going on in this sample. So, you can either write a switch block that makes sure your integers are in valid ranges, etc. or go back to individual properties. (Six dozen of one, half of the other.)
No, I consider WinAmp a trojan kit with an OPTIONAL mp3 player.
Is Windows Media Player listed?
This little player lets nastiware break into a computer while soothing a user with an mp3...