All but one of the Borders stores in my area had already closed, and the one that remained is inconvenient.
In any case, I used to visit Borders on a regular basis, looking for (gasp!) computer-related books. I liked the ability to browse through the books to see if they actually answered the questions I had on the subject I needed them for, and if they were laid out in a fashion that let me find answers, as well as read for content. But, as their computer section dwindled from hundreds of books on subjects from assembly language to compiler design to communications protocols to ???, to a selection of a dozen of books on how to use MS Office and get the most out of the mail app on your iPhone, I stopped going.
They probably figured out that most of the people who buy computer books do so online, for better prices, so they tossed away what was their ace in the hole against that - check it out before you buy. Oh, well!
Professors at state universities are public employees, but are not public officials.
And yet, anything they, or any other state employee for that matter, do on their university or government email accounts is considered to be state business, subject to all the laws that apply to "public officials". As such, emails that are for lobbying efforts are illegal, as several state education officials found out over the last two years, as charges are pending for their "innocent" use of state email servers for political purposes.
It is routine to make open records requests in politics. Yes, it is often to intimidate, but it is also often to unmask illegal activities.
Well, more correctly, AN answer is there... May not be correct or even relevant to the question, but there will be an answer.
I used to have my Google preferences to exclude Expert Sex Change from results, but that setting keeps getting reset...
What I don't understand is the outrage over NOT paying into two government schemes (medicare and social security) that this person is also NOT going to depend upon payments from, even though he was continuing to pay the OTHER taxes.
Corporate income tax rate is 15% across the board, with a lot fewer deductions than personal taxes. And, if the business is considered a "personal services" corporation, even more rules apply. When I still had my own companies, we took what we could in salaries and bonuses, rather than profit, because it netted us a lot more cash!
That was my reaction to the breathless introduction one of my coworkers gave to Wave. As he listed the "neatures", as I call them, I couldn't see how any of them would improve work flow without first totally disrupting it, and, even then, the improvements were more in explaining what we were doing than in actually accomplishing work.
Collaborate in real time, when the problem was that we were each working on multiple projects simultaneously? Find a solution that eliminates the distractions and allows you to spend 20 minutes concentrating on ONE THING, so you can recognize the consequences of each step, rather than making it easier to break your train of thought!
Funny, I visited the test site and FireFox 3.5.7 tells me it doesn't trust the certificate issuer. Guess I missed the update where the CNNIC certificate was added...
We're getting it more from AOL than Hotmail, with the occasional bunch of Yahoos. AOL's reporting process, however, is useless, so all we do is block the compromised email addresses.
Comparing the speed of PHP (or Perl, or Ruby, or ???) to a compiled application in a site like Facebook is an invalid comparison; so much of what needs to get done involves outside processes. Pesky little things like exchanging data with an SQL server.
Years ago, I wrote a highly-optimized C program to interpret input data and save it to a database. C was used because the interpretation involved a lot of bit-based (rather than byte-based) manipulation. It was very fast. But, a couple of years ago, I needed a one-time modified version of it for a project, so I developed the temporary program in PHP instead, since the changes to the C program would take longer than I wanted to dedicate to the process.
Surprisingly, the bit-wise manipulation in PHP, while significantly slower than that of the C program, was not a significant factor in how fast the conversion ran. What should have been a 100-200% increase in run time was less than 5%, due to the overhead of the database inserts. For a program that runs once or twice per day, the added overhead was inconsequential, so the next revision of that program was in PHP.
Could Facebook shut down thousands of servers if all their code was converted from PHP to C++? Doubtful. Maybe a hundred or so, but not tens of thousands, as claimed.
The IDE I use is current and actively developed, updated just two weeks ago, thank you very much. It has syntactically-aware auto-completion, and lots of other features of "modern" IDEs. It even supports copy/paste!;)
Except it isn't emacs, or written in Java, so I guess that disqualifies it as being "modern".
If this weren't/., I'd suggest knowing what you're typing about before doing so.
Well, let's see... when it's the person who hired you that isn't "fully familiar with arrays", because he's the one that started the company, maybe you can "do the math"....;)
I work in an environment where there are 4 programmers, of varying skill. What is "clear" to one is not necessarily clear to another, even if it is straight-forward coding. For example, I might program a loop to iterate through an array of data, extracting the important information, while another might explicitly write out each iteration, because he is less familiar with arrays. His code is quite clear - but inflexible, and subject to errors if he makes a required change to 19 of 20 copies of the calculations. Mine is quite clear, but subject to some obscuration if there's something special that has to be done in 3 of the 20 iterations.
In the case of TFA, if the author were this other programmer, he might consider my code to be "too clever".
Much was made of the use of "obscure" variables. Yes, that's one I dislike a lot, too... but I haven't made too much progress on that score in 25 years, with regard to others. When you're working on code that requires a lot of manipulation of a variable, typing a long, descriptive name 65 times is a bit of a PITA, and subject to its own bugs, when you misspell it a few times!
Except the climatologist doesn't know how much heat is being added to the pot, what the composition of the fluid is within the pot, or even how much fluid is there... and still claims to make precise predictions based upon the imprecise data.
Or, more correctly, makes predictions like, "If nothing changes...." when, in fact, things are always changing. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere leads to increased plant growth, which decreases atmospheric CO2. Solar radiation changes in intensity. Changes in temp and amount of foliage change the level of water vapor in the atmosphere, changing the planet's reflectivity.
Tying a prediction like this to "just" an observed short-term increase in CO2 emissions (which, by the way, isn't a 29% increase in the amount of CO2, but the amount being emitted... without taking into account the amount being absorbed by other players in the ecosystem) ignores 99% of the data.
All of the GPS units I own and have owned show the speed averaged over the last second, even if they only RECORD it every 5, 10, or 15 seconds. So a recording of 0 followed by a 45 does not mean I averaged 45 over 30 seconds (to use the example given in the story), but that I was doing 45 during the second that the position is recorded.
Either the software in this GPS tracker is wildly non-standard, or someone missed presenting the correct information to the court.
Unlike a car, it doesn't run on gasoline, meaning that it can be powered with clean energy.
And where will this "clean energy" come from? Nuclear is out, because the same people who push trains are also against any form of nuclear energy. Solar, maybe? No, because the amount of acreage that would have to be covered with solar collection equipment would cause a huge uprising of both the environmentalists and the NIMBY crowd. Wind power? Ooops, too many condors being chopped up, and, again, those NIMBYs are all over the idea of "ugly" wind turbines. Hydroelectric? Um, well, Nevada and Arizona called, and they want their Lake back. And the Pacific Northwest needs their hydro power to feed what they hope to be all those computing centers.
Cars offer greater flexibility in travel, for those who don't live or work near a train station. And who says cars can't be fed by those "clean energy" sources, once they're found?
Before anyone thinks this is particularly innovative, the basic tech (integrated piston engine/generator, with cooling system tied in to domestic hot water and home heat) has been around since the 1970s. Grid tie-in of the units has been part of their design since the beginning; It's just the introduction of "network control" that makes this special. I remember reading about in school, back just after the dark ages ended...
People *shouldn't* be using the 32-bit version, becuase there's still a very real architectural limitation in the 32-bit version: a given process can only see 3 GB of memory, no matter how you set up your licensing.
Whereas the 64-bit version only suffers from limitations on available component drivers...
The secret would be to get an email circulating saying that the government is already doing this, with the aim being to target people who respond to the emails for further surveillance, or to take control over their computers to use them for spying.
80% of the people who would fall for spam and social engineering scams would fall for this, and take steps to protect themselves from it. Especially if you use phrases like, "a secret program put in place by George Bush as part of the Patriot act", and "steal bank information to finance illegal operations overseas".
With Flashblock loaded and active, watching hidden the Macromedia directories, visiting a page with Flash objects created objects in the Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects and Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\sys directories, without running any of the visible Flash objects.
That would indicate to me that some part of Flash is being activated, despite the presence of Flashblock...
Silly person, there is PLENTY of need for tree products in times like this! Have you EVER looked at the PAPERWORK needed to declare an economic downturn, let alone a depression?!?
Yes, and the company should immediately stop using the name in the.NL TLD, because it is quite likely the poster had a legitimate claim on it going back hundreds of years, along with all variations on the theme for the way the name has been represented in written records as language evolved.
Some years back, a national phone company wanted our company's domain, because it matched their stock ticker. We told them $25,000 buys it. Their stock was delisted (for falling below $1 for too long) before they came up with any cash, however, so we still have it!
It was born in the depression, as the government's way to push older workers out of the job market, to make room for younger (and more taxable) ones. Prior to Social Security, you worked until you died, pretty much.
For many, it's still that way - when you stop working, you start dying. I have no plans of letting that happen to me!
The real problem is that most mailadministrators doesnt have a clue.
An even bigger problem is those administrators who do have a clue, but don't give a damn. Several rather large sources of email publish ambiguous SPF records, because they don't want to piss of their users if someone bounces a message, just because the wrong server handled it. So, they end their SPF records with "~all" instead of "-all", which makes any spoofed mail "legitimate".
For a while, I was planning on patching my install to treat "soft-fail" as "fail", because of this crap. Still considering it, because it's back to being a significant factor again.
In actuality, I can think of several applet-type projects that suffer significant problems in Java, which I'd like to try to "cross-compile" to Javascript... One that we've been trying to get to work for a long time works just fine in every browser we have tested it on. Unless, of course, you try to run it from a page loaded by HTTPS! If it is, the success of it running depends entirely upon the browser used, AND whether or not it was previously run from the same page, loaded via a non-TLS connection.
Attempts to resolve the problem (with limited or no error messages given, it just doesn't work) point to several potential problems, and a number of "fixes"... None of which work in all instances, and most of which, at best, change which circumstances fail, or sometimes generate a more useful error message.
If it were possible to turn it into strictly Javascript, it should lose the HTTP/HTTPS dependencies. Not to mention the load time to start the JVM.
Hmm... a list of these banned words and phrases would make a good source of text to use in response to the HELO/EHLO dialog on an SMTP server... Have China block a compromised computer from accessing your server automatically!
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All but one of the Borders stores in my area had already closed, and the one that remained is inconvenient.
In any case, I used to visit Borders on a regular basis, looking for (gasp!) computer-related books. I liked the ability to browse through the books to see if they actually answered the questions I had on the subject I needed them for, and if they were laid out in a fashion that let me find answers, as well as read for content. But, as their computer section dwindled from hundreds of books on subjects from assembly language to compiler design to communications protocols to ???, to a selection of a dozen of books on how to use MS Office and get the most out of the mail app on your iPhone, I stopped going.
They probably figured out that most of the people who buy computer books do so online, for better prices, so they tossed away what was their ace in the hole against that - check it out before you buy. Oh, well!
And yet, anything they, or any other state employee for that matter, do on their university or government email accounts is considered to be state business, subject to all the laws that apply to "public officials". As such, emails that are for lobbying efforts are illegal, as several state education officials found out over the last two years, as charges are pending for their "innocent" use of state email servers for political purposes.
It is routine to make open records requests in politics. Yes, it is often to intimidate, but it is also often to unmask illegal activities.
Well, more correctly, AN answer is there... May not be correct or even relevant to the question, but there will be an answer. I used to have my Google preferences to exclude Expert Sex Change from results, but that setting keeps getting reset...
What I don't understand is the outrage over NOT paying into two government schemes (medicare and social security) that this person is also NOT going to depend upon payments from, even though he was continuing to pay the OTHER taxes.
Corporate income tax rate is 15% across the board, with a lot fewer deductions than personal taxes. And, if the business is considered a "personal services" corporation, even more rules apply. When I still had my own companies, we took what we could in salaries and bonuses, rather than profit, because it netted us a lot more cash!
I always thought it was Japan that got invaded first...
.... why?
That was my reaction to the breathless introduction one of my coworkers gave to Wave. As he listed the "neatures", as I call them, I couldn't see how any of them would improve work flow without first totally disrupting it, and, even then, the improvements were more in explaining what we were doing than in actually accomplishing work.
Collaborate in real time, when the problem was that we were each working on multiple projects simultaneously? Find a solution that eliminates the distractions and allows you to spend 20 minutes concentrating on ONE THING, so you can recognize the consequences of each step, rather than making it easier to break your train of thought!
Funny, I visited the test site and FireFox 3.5.7 tells me it doesn't trust the certificate issuer. Guess I missed the update where the CNNIC certificate was added...
We're getting it more from AOL than Hotmail, with the occasional bunch of Yahoos. AOL's reporting process, however, is useless, so all we do is block the compromised email addresses.
Comparing the speed of PHP (or Perl, or Ruby, or ???) to a compiled application in a site like Facebook is an invalid comparison; so much of what needs to get done involves outside processes. Pesky little things like exchanging data with an SQL server.
Years ago, I wrote a highly-optimized C program to interpret input data and save it to a database. C was used because the interpretation involved a lot of bit-based (rather than byte-based) manipulation. It was very fast. But, a couple of years ago, I needed a one-time modified version of it for a project, so I developed the temporary program in PHP instead, since the changes to the C program would take longer than I wanted to dedicate to the process.
Surprisingly, the bit-wise manipulation in PHP, while significantly slower than that of the C program, was not a significant factor in how fast the conversion ran. What should have been a 100-200% increase in run time was less than 5%, due to the overhead of the database inserts. For a program that runs once or twice per day, the added overhead was inconsequential, so the next revision of that program was in PHP.
Could Facebook shut down thousands of servers if all their code was converted from PHP to C++? Doubtful. Maybe a hundred or so, but not tens of thousands, as claimed.
The IDE I use is current and actively developed, updated just two weeks ago, thank you very much. It has syntactically-aware auto-completion, and lots of other features of "modern" IDEs. It even supports copy/paste! ;)
Except it isn't emacs, or written in Java, so I guess that disqualifies it as being "modern".
If this weren't /., I'd suggest knowing what you're typing about before doing so.
Well, let's see... when it's the person who hired you that isn't "fully familiar with arrays", because he's the one that started the company, maybe you can "do the math".... ;)
I work in an environment where there are 4 programmers, of varying skill. What is "clear" to one is not necessarily clear to another, even if it is straight-forward coding. For example, I might program a loop to iterate through an array of data, extracting the important information, while another might explicitly write out each iteration, because he is less familiar with arrays. His code is quite clear - but inflexible, and subject to errors if he makes a required change to 19 of 20 copies of the calculations. Mine is quite clear, but subject to some obscuration if there's something special that has to be done in 3 of the 20 iterations.
In the case of TFA, if the author were this other programmer, he might consider my code to be "too clever".
Much was made of the use of "obscure" variables. Yes, that's one I dislike a lot, too... but I haven't made too much progress on that score in 25 years, with regard to others. When you're working on code that requires a lot of manipulation of a variable, typing a long, descriptive name 65 times is a bit of a PITA, and subject to its own bugs, when you misspell it a few times!
Except the climatologist doesn't know how much heat is being added to the pot, what the composition of the fluid is within the pot, or even how much fluid is there... and still claims to make precise predictions based upon the imprecise data.
Or, more correctly, makes predictions like, "If nothing changes...." when, in fact, things are always changing. Increased CO2 in the atmosphere leads to increased plant growth, which decreases atmospheric CO2. Solar radiation changes in intensity. Changes in temp and amount of foliage change the level of water vapor in the atmosphere, changing the planet's reflectivity.
Tying a prediction like this to "just" an observed short-term increase in CO2 emissions (which, by the way, isn't a 29% increase in the amount of CO2, but the amount being emitted... without taking into account the amount being absorbed by other players in the ecosystem) ignores 99% of the data.
All of the GPS units I own and have owned show the speed averaged over the last second, even if they only RECORD it every 5, 10, or 15 seconds. So a recording of 0 followed by a 45 does not mean I averaged 45 over 30 seconds (to use the example given in the story), but that I was doing 45 during the second that the position is recorded.
Either the software in this GPS tracker is wildly non-standard, or someone missed presenting the correct information to the court.
Unlike a car, it doesn't run on gasoline, meaning that it can be powered with clean energy.
And where will this "clean energy" come from? Nuclear is out, because the same people who push trains are also against any form of nuclear energy. Solar, maybe? No, because the amount of acreage that would have to be covered with solar collection equipment would cause a huge uprising of both the environmentalists and the NIMBY crowd. Wind power? Ooops, too many condors being chopped up, and, again, those NIMBYs are all over the idea of "ugly" wind turbines. Hydroelectric? Um, well, Nevada and Arizona called, and they want their Lake back. And the Pacific Northwest needs their hydro power to feed what they hope to be all those computing centers.
Cars offer greater flexibility in travel, for those who don't live or work near a train station. And who says cars can't be fed by those "clean energy" sources, once they're found?
Before anyone thinks this is particularly innovative, the basic tech (integrated piston engine/generator, with cooling system tied in to domestic hot water and home heat) has been around since the 1970s. Grid tie-in of the units has been part of their design since the beginning; It's just the introduction of "network control" that makes this special. I remember reading about in school, back just after the dark ages ended...
People *shouldn't* be using the 32-bit version, becuase there's still a very real architectural limitation in the 32-bit version: a given process can only see 3 GB of memory, no matter how you set up your licensing.
Whereas the 64-bit version only suffers from limitations on available component drivers...
The secret would be to get an email circulating saying that the government is already doing this, with the aim being to target people who respond to the emails for further surveillance, or to take control over their computers to use them for spying.
80% of the people who would fall for spam and social engineering scams would fall for this, and take steps to protect themselves from it. Especially if you use phrases like, "a secret program put in place by George Bush as part of the Patriot act", and "steal bank information to finance illegal operations overseas".
With Flashblock loaded and active, watching hidden the Macromedia directories, visiting a page with Flash objects created objects in the Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects and Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\sys directories, without running any of the visible Flash objects.
That would indicate to me that some part of Flash is being activated, despite the presence of Flashblock...
Silly person, there is PLENTY of need for tree products in times like this! Have you EVER looked at the PAPERWORK needed to declare an economic downturn, let alone a depression?!?
Yes, and the company should immediately stop using the name in the .NL TLD, because it is quite likely the poster had a legitimate claim on it going back hundreds of years, along with all variations on the theme for the way the name has been represented in written records as language evolved.
Some years back, a national phone company wanted our company's domain, because it matched their stock ticker. We told them $25,000 buys it. Their stock was delisted (for falling below $1 for too long) before they came up with any cash, however, so we still have it!
It was born in the depression, as the government's way to push older workers out of the job market, to make room for younger (and more taxable) ones. Prior to Social Security, you worked until you died, pretty much.
For many, it's still that way - when you stop working, you start dying. I have no plans of letting that happen to me!
The real problem is that most mailadministrators doesnt have a clue.
An even bigger problem is those administrators who do have a clue, but don't give a damn. Several rather large sources of email publish ambiguous SPF records, because they don't want to piss of their users if someone bounces a message, just because the wrong server handled it. So, they end their SPF records with "~all" instead of "-all", which makes any spoofed mail "legitimate".
For a while, I was planning on patching my install to treat "soft-fail" as "fail", because of this crap. Still considering it, because it's back to being a significant factor again.
In actuality, I can think of several applet-type projects that suffer significant problems in Java, which I'd like to try to "cross-compile" to Javascript... One that we've been trying to get to work for a long time works just fine in every browser we have tested it on. Unless, of course, you try to run it from a page loaded by HTTPS! If it is, the success of it running depends entirely upon the browser used, AND whether or not it was previously run from the same page, loaded via a non-TLS connection.
Attempts to resolve the problem (with limited or no error messages given, it just doesn't work) point to several potential problems, and a number of "fixes"... None of which work in all instances, and most of which, at best, change which circumstances fail, or sometimes generate a more useful error message.
If it were possible to turn it into strictly Javascript, it should lose the HTTP/HTTPS dependencies. Not to mention the load time to start the JVM.
Hmm... a list of these banned words and phrases would make a good source of text to use in response to the HELO/EHLO dialog on an SMTP server... Have China block a compromised computer from accessing your server automatically!