One has to remember that even though the Internet was developed by the military to be resistant against attacks, the private sector has built most of it with cost in mind. So naturally it's not as robust as it could be, but it's quite cheap.
The worst thing that can happen to the music and movie industry is the people completely ignoring them. Clearly this is happening for the parent, and it's happening to me. I find myself downloading less and less, buying less and less, caring less and less.
You finish installing Windows XP. You connect to the internet and fire up your browser. 4 minutes later, additional processes start appearing in your task manager. You've been pwnd! You frantically try to close the security holes by going to the Windows Update website, but all you get are ads for penis enlargement and free porn. As your PC slows to a crawl, the excitement fades...
This is just a deflection by the gun lobby. The real solution would be just to completely outlaw handguns for people who aren't police or military. Just like in the US, incidents like these invokes a reaction to create new laws... It's understandable. It'll probably never pass.
On top of that, I would recommend being really comfortable with the following:
- Try to get comfortable with memory management in C++. Maybe read up on strategies to avoid and track down memory leaks.
- Advanced language features of C++, Java, and C# (generic types, function pointers/delegates, LINQ for C# 3.0, etc...)
- The libraries available for the languages. Get to know what's in the Java and C# frameworks. This is easy because it's standard and the documentation is available online. As for C++, I'm not a C++ developer, so i have no clue. All I know is that there is a standard library, and a crap load of other libraries out there.
- The basics of web applications: PHP, ASP.NET 2.0, JSP (or whatever is the latest for Java).
- GUI deveopment: Win32 and MFC (C/C++), WinForms (C#), WPF (C#), etc.
In my experience, the MOST important aspects of software development are:
- Gathering requirements for the software you need to write. Without a proper requirements spec, it's impossible to know exactly what you need to build, and if what you built performs what it needs to perform.
- Choosing the right technologies. For example, for the UI, do you use ASP.NET? WinForms? For data storage, do you dump to a file, or use a database? As a junior developer, you probably won't have to make these decisions, but you should try to expand your knowledge of all the technologies out there.
Doesn't anyone pay attention to history? Just 20 years ago, the Berlin wall fell, freeing East Germany from the dark days of communist rule. Just 20 years ago in East Germany, ordinary citizens were under the watchful eyes of their neighbours, who were encouraged by the secret police to spy on their neighbours. Somehow, the UK and the US seem keen to tighten their control of their citizens, just like in the communist block during the cold war.
The patent system needs some serious reform though. Patents right now are used like nuclear missiles. Huge corporations, like IBM, just build a giant war chest of patents. Otherwise, their patent holding competitors would just sue them into oblivion. The reason why NVidia and ATI never got into a patent war is that they both have massive amounts of patents, and both are most definitely violating each others patents. If one side started a patent war the other side would counter sue. It would be mutually assured destruction via litigation costs.
This is a symptom of a broader problem in America. Lobbyists have too much clout in Washington. Corporations hire most of the lobbyists. Thus laws are made to benefit the corporations, which more often than not screws the average American. The founding fathers tried their best to design a system to keep power out of the hands of just a few, but that's exactly what's happening. The worst part is that most Americans are completely oblivious to it. The average American income has actually gone down since the 1970s. All the improvements in productivity has benefited only the most wealthy. Anyway, that's the end of my rant.
This reminds me of this insane law in Germany which prevents an employer from writing anything bad in a reference letter. The end result is there's a separate language used in reference letters. For example, they might write that the employee was a "good" performer. But "good" in this case actually means really bad. They would write something more elaborate to describe good performance, like: "exemplary performance and is extremely proficient at his job".
This just encourages people writing critical opinions to post completely anonymously. What if the poster used a terminal in a library without logging in? Then there's no way to know who wrote the post. Even so, the poster can go through an anonymous proxy, which will make it much more difficult to trace.
Not only would an SSD lower power consumption, but it would probably be faster too. I can't imagine what kind of battery this thing packs. They should have added a few more disks in a RAID5 configuration to make things ever faster!
This is completely ridiculous. Customers should be able to set a bill cap to prevent this kind of thing. If you hit the cap, your access gets cut unless you explicitly give permission to charge more. That's why I use a prepaid phone (I live in Germany, so it's dirt cheap here).
I was really hoping Rambus would lose this case. This decision is a loss to everyone because it means that companies can now secretly get patented items into standards, which will really hinder the standards making process (which by the way, is a great benefit to the consumer). I hope everyone just refuses to do business with Rambus and let it go bankrupt.
I think Europe tends to follow the United States in terms of policies. I would imagine it's because the trading with the US is so important, they want to stay on the good side of the US. Also, there's probably a strong lobby in Europe as well.
The music industry's war against its consumers is a guaranteed losing battle. We have already decided that music costs too much and we are refusing to pay their artificially high prices. They can either change or die. They chose to die. So this is just their attempt to survive.
It is clearly ridiculous to expect the average idiot to set this up. The most obvious solution would be to force all new routers sold to automatically perform the data retention.
Depending on the application, wireless might simply be too slow. I've worked on a wireless connection in my office for a few months, and it was torture. The main problem was that we weren't using commercial wireless access points, just regular home ones due to budget issues. I was so happy to get a regular wired network connection after.
If he tested all 3 OSes on the exact same hardware configuration and compared those results, then the tests results are valid.
My major problem with these test results is that he ranked them 1, 2, and 3. He should have put in the actual amount of time these tests took so we could see how much big of a difference it is. 1, 2, 3 tells me nothing. The difference between 1 and 2 could be 0.01% or 5000%.
Following this logic, we're in for some serious inflation! How much music has been copied? $10 trillion worth? $100 trillion worth? It's probably greater than the GDP of America. Wait till everyone starts spending their new found wealth, America will become the next Zimbabwe!
This is a much better choice than choosing an oil baron as the Energy Secretary. This is a step in the right direction. It may not be the perfect choice, but everyone should rejoice the end of the Bush era of taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
You should get yourself an Irony Detector (TM). It might help you understand some of the hilarity of these posts. While you're at it, you might as well buy yourself a Sarcasm Detector (TM). I have a feeling you might need one of those too.
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One has to remember that even though the Internet was developed by the military to be resistant against attacks, the private sector has built most of it with cost in mind. So naturally it's not as robust as it could be, but it's quite cheap.
The worst thing that can happen to the music and movie industry is the people completely ignoring them. Clearly this is happening for the parent, and it's happening to me. I find myself downloading less and less, buying less and less, caring less and less.
You finish installing Windows XP. You connect to the internet and fire up your browser. 4 minutes later, additional processes start appearing in your task manager. You've been pwnd! You frantically try to close the security holes by going to the Windows Update website, but all you get are ads for penis enlargement and free porn. As your PC slows to a crawl, the excitement fades...
This is just a deflection by the gun lobby. The real solution would be just to completely outlaw handguns for people who aren't police or military. Just like in the US, incidents like these invokes a reaction to create new laws... It's understandable. It'll probably never pass.
On top of that, I would recommend being really comfortable with the following:
- Try to get comfortable with memory management in C++. Maybe read up on strategies to avoid and track down memory leaks.
- Advanced language features of C++, Java, and C# (generic types, function pointers/delegates, LINQ for C# 3.0, etc...) - The libraries available for the languages. Get to know what's in the Java and C# frameworks. This is easy because it's standard and the documentation is available online. As for C++, I'm not a C++ developer, so i have no clue. All I know is that there is a standard library, and a crap load of other libraries out there.
- The basics of web applications: PHP, ASP.NET 2.0, JSP (or whatever is the latest for Java).
- GUI deveopment: Win32 and MFC (C/C++), WinForms (C#), WPF (C#), etc.
In my experience, the MOST important aspects of software development are:
- Gathering requirements for the software you need to write. Without a proper requirements spec, it's impossible to know exactly what you need to build, and if what you built performs what it needs to perform.
- Choosing the right technologies. For example, for the UI, do you use ASP.NET? WinForms? For data storage, do you dump to a file, or use a database? As a junior developer, you probably won't have to make these decisions, but you should try to expand your knowledge of all the technologies out there.
Doesn't anyone pay attention to history? Just 20 years ago, the Berlin wall fell, freeing East Germany from the dark days of communist rule. Just 20 years ago in East Germany, ordinary citizens were under the watchful eyes of their neighbours, who were encouraged by the secret police to spy on their neighbours. Somehow, the UK and the US seem keen to tighten their control of their citizens, just like in the communist block during the cold war.
The patent system needs some serious reform though. Patents right now are used like nuclear missiles. Huge corporations, like IBM, just build a giant war chest of patents. Otherwise, their patent holding competitors would just sue them into oblivion. The reason why NVidia and ATI never got into a patent war is that they both have massive amounts of patents, and both are most definitely violating each others patents. If one side started a patent war the other side would counter sue. It would be mutually assured destruction via litigation costs.
This is a symptom of a broader problem in America. Lobbyists have too much clout in Washington. Corporations hire most of the lobbyists. Thus laws are made to benefit the corporations, which more often than not screws the average American. The founding fathers tried their best to design a system to keep power out of the hands of just a few, but that's exactly what's happening. The worst part is that most Americans are completely oblivious to it. The average American income has actually gone down since the 1970s. All the improvements in productivity has benefited only the most wealthy. Anyway, that's the end of my rant.
This reminds me of this insane law in Germany which prevents an employer from writing anything bad in a reference letter. The end result is there's a separate language used in reference letters. For example, they might write that the employee was a "good" performer. But "good" in this case actually means really bad. They would write something more elaborate to describe good performance, like: "exemplary performance and is extremely proficient at his job".
This just encourages people writing critical opinions to post completely anonymously. What if the poster used a terminal in a library without logging in? Then there's no way to know who wrote the post. Even so, the poster can go through an anonymous proxy, which will make it much more difficult to trace.
You forgot to mention that it comes with a portable nuclear power generator to keep this beast running.
Not only would an SSD lower power consumption, but it would probably be faster too. I can't imagine what kind of battery this thing packs. They should have added a few more disks in a RAID5 configuration to make things ever faster!
The only time where I wished such a filter existed was when my room mate in university set my default homepage to goatse.cx on my browser. Yikes!
This is completely ridiculous. Customers should be able to set a bill cap to prevent this kind of thing. If you hit the cap, your access gets cut unless you explicitly give permission to charge more. That's why I use a prepaid phone (I live in Germany, so it's dirt cheap here).
I was really hoping Rambus would lose this case. This decision is a loss to everyone because it means that companies can now secretly get patented items into standards, which will really hinder the standards making process (which by the way, is a great benefit to the consumer). I hope everyone just refuses to do business with Rambus and let it go bankrupt.
I think Europe tends to follow the United States in terms of policies. I would imagine it's because the trading with the US is so important, they want to stay on the good side of the US. Also, there's probably a strong lobby in Europe as well.
The music industry's war against its consumers is a guaranteed losing battle. We have already decided that music costs too much and we are refusing to pay their artificially high prices. They can either change or die. They chose to die. So this is just their attempt to survive.
It is clearly ridiculous to expect the average idiot to set this up. The most obvious solution would be to force all new routers sold to automatically perform the data retention.
Depending on the application, wireless might simply be too slow. I've worked on a wireless connection in my office for a few months, and it was torture. The main problem was that we weren't using commercial wireless access points, just regular home ones due to budget issues. I was so happy to get a regular wired network connection after.
If he tested all 3 OSes on the exact same hardware configuration and compared those results, then the tests results are valid.
My major problem with these test results is that he ranked them 1, 2, and 3. He should have put in the actual amount of time these tests took so we could see how much big of a difference it is. 1, 2, 3 tells me nothing. The difference between 1 and 2 could be 0.01% or 5000%.
Following this logic, we're in for some serious inflation! How much music has been copied? $10 trillion worth? $100 trillion worth? It's probably greater than the GDP of America. Wait till everyone starts spending their new found wealth, America will become the next Zimbabwe!
This is a much better choice than choosing an oil baron as the Energy Secretary. This is a step in the right direction. It may not be the perfect choice, but everyone should rejoice the end of the Bush era of taking from the poor and giving to the rich.
You should get yourself an Irony Detector (TM). It might help you understand some of the hilarity of these posts. While you're at it, you might as well buy yourself a Sarcasm Detector (TM). I have a feeling you might need one of those too.
So will the religious right now be against pollution? I guess not, the religious right are also against science.
This is clearly a joke. Right? A gun classified as a medical device? ha ha! In what universe would that happen! ha ha!
A /. reader admitted to using an MS product! He must have no fear!