As an employee of FedEx, I can say that it's truely scary that we have anything like Forth anywhere... It's difficult enough for us to understand and implement Java.
"Tech" companies also means that they have alot of printers!
Anyways, I don't see the reason why this is frontpage news on Slashdot. So what if they're destroying documents from a case that went on 9 years ago? Just more unbelievably retarded trolling of Microsoft by the Slashdot moderators.
I disagree. Seperate countries have very differing laws. Despite the EU being this huge wonderful conglomeration of countries, each country still has seperate laws. For instance, Germany has laws against games that have blood in them. If Nintendo wants to sell a game in Germany that originally had blood in it, they must edit the content. International business is very different from interstate business. While the states do have different laws, they simply do not differ like the EU's members do.
If Nintendo sells units for more money in a country with less demand, it's illegal? Price-fixing? Nintendo competes in one of the fiercest markets around. *BOGGLE*
How about ISPs setting up spam filters at the link layer. You could write a filter that would pick up all transmissions across port 25, and similar messages repeated over say, 10000 times would cause the bridge to start dropping ethernet frames for TCP port 25 from that source IP. Perhaps even something smarter, that would check the source IP for a legit email gateway (ie: not an open bouncer) so that the sender can be identifier properly. People still using legit email-based lists will just have to sacrifice a service to get rid of spammers. Small lists could continue to operate, however. The web should have already replaced those anyway.
Perl's DBI library is a standard, mature interface that plugs into DBD modules to form a uniform object set. PHP provides several very much differing interfaces for accessing seperate database types. I'd hardly say this is a convoluted nightmare. If you've ever dealt with different databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc), DBI is a blessing.
PHP's speed over Perl is primarily due to the fact that PHP does not have the standard CGI overhead usually associated with Perl. If you use FastCGI to implement your web applications, there is just no competition: Perl beats PHP hands down.
From the view of an e-tailer, you have a large advantage. E-tailers have to compete in that environment of "yahoos drop shipping everything from car tires to baby formula from their living rooms." You have an advantage because you have frontage. You have an advantage because you can sell things that would be completely silly to sell online. You have an advantage because you can instantly gratify people. I like to walk around a real store and feel things and look at the box. Then I like to take it to the counter where I know I can come back within 30 days if I don't like it. It's bull to say that the lack of taxation gives e-tailers an advantage.
I know this sounds cheesy, but use a hash of numbers to verify your login. A "small" number that can be calculated with a normal calculator. Change this formula often. Make sure you can only message from a single IM user. Even though the hash code and your AIM username/password are going over an unencrypted data channel, as long as the hash code is even somewhat robust and changes often, you should have a pretty secure login mechanism. Happy hacking:)
Even more politically incorrect than that observation will be this question: I don't suppose Jobs will be interested in the millions upon millions of American parents who have taken to home schooling their children - or will he?
I believe Apple has a program that gives discounts to homeschoolers... The same discount they give to teachers. So if you're in the market for Apple hardware, homeschool your kids for a couple months:).
Preach it! The bleeding hearts will run from crisis to crisis trying to find things to blame on humanity. One day it's poverty, the next day it's the environment. It doesn't matter if their arguments conflict, however! As long as they hide behind wide-eyed arctic seals and starving kids in Ethiopia, people will continue to ignore common sense get suckered into their pathetic campaigns against rational thought.
You have such a skewed view of economics. The fact is, R&D costs us trillions of dollars globally, and without understood intellectual property laws, we might as well buy a one way ticket back in to the dark ages. There are people who love to create, "the artists," and I highly doubt that they care how lined their pockets are at the end of the day. The people with the money do, and it will continue to be that way, until the end of time. Copyright keeps the wealthy spending the money that keeps the artists busy. This is the way the world works, period. I apoligize if it inconveniences you.
All the while sighting extremely well-respected members of the journalistic community... Go back to begging your parents for money you naive peice of arrogant "free-thinking" trash. Mod me down motherfuckers.
What makes you think it isn't the desire for more money? The desire for personal gain doesn't ever go away, no matter the thickness of your wallet. Even people with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worry about money, there's no such thing as enough. It can all be gone in a second. Your attitude towards money comes from a very narrow viewpoint. You need to have not, have, and then have not again to really understand money.
If the system is off, you should be able to recover from spills. All you have to do is let it completely dry. If you're talking about sticky stuff, you can probably use a household cleaner to get rid of all that stuff. I've had milk tip over on a desk and spill into a cable modem that was on. I quickly unplugged it, let it dry out overnight, and it worked when I plugged it in the next day. Granted, it didn't work "as well" as it used to, but the cable company replaced it recently because it was so outdated (I was one of the first people in the area to subscribe to the service).
The company, Arctic Silver, sells some stuff called "Arctic Alumina," which is a synthetic "white-stuff" compound. As it's made out of ceramic materials, it doesn't conduct ANY electricity. Although it has about 3x the thermal resistance, you're much less likely to cause problems by getting this stuff on any circuitry.
YEAH! Screw them and giving away all that bandwidth and server resources! OMG How dare they actually require you to try to help them make money! AND GOD FORBID if they ever wanted to actually CHARGE us money, oh my eff!!
The wagon wheel is from Netscape Navigator. I really appreciate the new icons in 1.1, as it quickly identifies which windows are browser windows and which windows are mail windows.:)
This is so radically inaccurate... Cite a better source than "thecounter.com" next time, like a poll of MAJOR websites: Google.com, Yahoo.com, Cnet.com, Fedex.com, etc. The fact is, most hits go to a very small percentage of websites.
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Only the Intel Xeon branded processors support 36-bit addressing.
As an employee of FedEx, I can say that it's truely scary that we have anything like Forth anywhere... It's difficult enough for us to understand and implement Java.
"Tech" companies also means that they have alot of printers!
Anyways, I don't see the reason why this is frontpage news on Slashdot. So what if they're destroying documents from a case that went on 9 years ago? Just more unbelievably retarded trolling of Microsoft by the Slashdot moderators.
I disagree. Seperate countries have very differing laws. Despite the EU being this huge wonderful conglomeration of countries, each country still has seperate laws. For instance, Germany has laws against games that have blood in them. If Nintendo wants to sell a game in Germany that originally had blood in it, they must edit the content. International business is very different from interstate business. While the states do have different laws, they simply do not differ like the EU's members do.
If Nintendo sells units for more money in a country with less demand, it's illegal? Price-fixing? Nintendo competes in one of the fiercest markets around. *BOGGLE*
How about ISPs setting up spam filters at the link layer. You could write a filter that would pick up all transmissions across port 25, and similar messages repeated over say, 10000 times would cause the bridge to start dropping ethernet frames for TCP port 25 from that source IP. Perhaps even something smarter, that would check the source IP for a legit email gateway (ie: not an open bouncer) so that the sender can be identifier properly. People still using legit email-based lists will just have to sacrifice a service to get rid of spammers. Small lists could continue to operate, however. The web should have already replaced those anyway.
Perl's DBI library is a standard, mature interface that plugs into DBD modules to form a uniform object set. PHP provides several very much differing interfaces for accessing seperate database types. I'd hardly say this is a convoluted nightmare. If you've ever dealt with different databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc), DBI is a blessing.
PHP's speed over Perl is primarily due to the fact that PHP does not have the standard CGI overhead usually associated with Perl. If you use FastCGI to implement your web applications, there is just no competition: Perl beats PHP hands down.
From the view of an e-tailer, you have a large advantage. E-tailers have to compete in that environment of "yahoos drop shipping everything from car tires to baby formula from their living rooms." You have an advantage because you have frontage. You have an advantage because you can sell things that would be completely silly to sell online. You have an advantage because you can instantly gratify people. I like to walk around a real store and feel things and look at the box. Then I like to take it to the counter where I know I can come back within 30 days if I don't like it. It's bull to say that the lack of taxation gives e-tailers an advantage.
I know this sounds cheesy, but use a hash of numbers to verify your login. A "small" number that can be calculated with a normal calculator. Change this formula often. Make sure you can only message from a single IM user. Even though the hash code and your AIM username/password are going over an unencrypted data channel, as long as the hash code is even somewhat robust and changes often, you should have a pretty secure login mechanism. Happy hacking :)
Easier on the eyes? It's called 100Hz refresh rate on a Trinitron display.
Even more politically incorrect than that observation will be this question: I don't suppose Jobs will be interested in the millions upon millions of American parents who have taken to home schooling their children - or will he?
I believe Apple has a program that gives discounts to homeschoolers... The same discount they give to teachers. So if you're in the market for Apple hardware, homeschool your kids for a couple months :).
Preach it! The bleeding hearts will run from crisis to crisis trying to find things to blame on humanity. One day it's poverty, the next day it's the environment. It doesn't matter if their arguments conflict, however! As long as they hide behind wide-eyed arctic seals and starving kids in Ethiopia, people will continue to ignore common sense get suckered into their pathetic campaigns against rational thought.
You just need a translation... Professional = for Warez Monkeys.
You have such a skewed view of economics. The fact is, R&D costs us trillions of dollars globally, and without understood intellectual property laws, we might as well buy a one way ticket back in to the dark ages. There are people who love to create, "the artists," and I highly doubt that they care how lined their pockets are at the end of the day. The people with the money do, and it will continue to be that way, until the end of time. Copyright keeps the wealthy spending the money that keeps the artists busy. This is the way the world works, period. I apoligize if it inconveniences you.
All the while sighting extremely well-respected members of the journalistic community... Go back to begging your parents for money you naive peice of arrogant "free-thinking" trash. Mod me down motherfuckers.
... the recession began before Bush took office, smarty pants.
What makes you think it isn't the desire for more money? The desire for personal gain doesn't ever go away, no matter the thickness of your wallet. Even people with hundreds of millions or billions of dollars worry about money, there's no such thing as enough. It can all be gone in a second. Your attitude towards money comes from a very narrow viewpoint. You need to have not, have, and then have not again to really understand money.
If the system is off, you should be able to recover from spills. All you have to do is let it completely dry. If you're talking about sticky stuff, you can probably use a household cleaner to get rid of all that stuff. I've had milk tip over on a desk and spill into a cable modem that was on. I quickly unplugged it, let it dry out overnight, and it worked when I plugged it in the next day. Granted, it didn't work "as well" as it used to, but the cable company replaced it recently because it was so outdated (I was one of the first people in the area to subscribe to the service).
The company, Arctic Silver, sells some stuff called "Arctic Alumina," which is a synthetic "white-stuff" compound. As it's made out of ceramic materials, it doesn't conduct ANY electricity. Although it has about 3x the thermal resistance, you're much less likely to cause problems by getting this stuff on any circuitry.
Yes, mod him the fuck down because he's reasonable!
"So how can it be just that someone who commits rape will spend less time in prison than someone who copied (not stole) some digital bits?"
So how can it be just that someone who commits rape will spend less time in prison that someone who simply re-arranged (not murdered) some atoms!
YEAH! Screw them and giving away all that bandwidth and server resources! OMG How dare they actually require you to try to help them make money! AND GOD FORBID if they ever wanted to actually CHARGE us money, oh my eff!!
The wagon wheel is from Netscape Navigator. I really appreciate the new icons in 1.1, as it quickly identifies which windows are browser windows and which windows are mail windows. :)
This is so radically inaccurate... Cite a better source than "thecounter.com" next time, like a poll of MAJOR websites: Google.com, Yahoo.com, Cnet.com, Fedex.com, etc. The fact is, most hits go to a very small percentage of websites.
Only because you haven't patched the Linux kernel to not have sleep(1) in the main loop...