Maybe I misunderstood, and you're writing SDKs for two seperate things, but I highly recommend against writing two seperate SDKs for the same system. It more than doubles the effort. If you need to give your corporate users more power, offer extensions to the original SDK, so that the two are the same except for one extra bit. That way, corporate folks can use the other stuff, and the other folks know precisely what they're missing.
There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying, ``What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure.''
From the Tao of Programming, by Geoffrey James.
Tivo's a great product, but they keep trying to let the users do everything they want....so long as it doesn't make any large companies sad. Here's what they need to do:
1.) Open the system fully. The Tivo started as a very hackable device, but they've been moving to a more and more closed environment. There should be guides on their own website explaining how to add hard drives. There's no reason we can't plug in a USB mouse and keyboard and run X on the thing.
2.) Open exports and imports. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to download an mpg file from my Tivo or load a new one into it. As much as I understand that they don't want to piss off corporations, TV my way is TV where I can send shows I like to my friends and archive my favorites on a permanent medium for myself. It ain't any less legal than a VCR.
3.) Offer a warranty. The TiVo is covered in stickers warning that doing anything except plugging it in will void your warranty, but the "warranty" is an offer to replace it for a small discount if it breaks. It it breaks, and I didn't touch it, and it's been less than a year or so, I want a new one, and I don't intend to pay them.
4.) Put in ad skipping. Sure, it won't endear you to anyone, but they don't like you anyway. Remember, the customer of the cable company is the advertiser. You are not a cable company. Your customer is the person who buys a TiVo. That's important. I'll repeat it.
Your customers are not advertisers. They are not cable companies. They are not producers, movie-makers, or any of them. Your job is to appeal to consumers and only consumers. The advertisers will pay you for popups and the like, but if people don't buy TiVo's, you're out of business.
Why is everybody dissing Tancred's post? You all claim to be geeks and can't see a wonderful allusion when you're smacked in the face with it. I for one give you mad props, Tancred. The rest of you losers go watch Dead Poet's Society.
Well, I dunno, the court has been considerably more lax in its enforcement of the 2nd amendment than the 1st. Freedom of speech turned out to mean that nobody can be silenced for any reason that isn't under the "fire in a crowded theatre" bit. I can burn a flag because it's speech. In theory, there's no reason why the 2nd amendment shouldn't be handled this way. Your friend should have the right to buy a gun on a street corner without giving his ID (do you have to present ID to protest against the government? Do felons no longer have a right to speak?) and waltz into work with it (do you have to stop sharing your political views at work?).
As insightful as this may be, I still feel compelled to say something sarcastic about your need to return to school based on your spelling of the word their.
The evil Computer P1R473Z are downloading the system's IP. Now, the brave and bold hero must digitize himself and take on the P1R473Z on their own turf. Without his lawyers, armed with only spam and pluck, our hero must contend with giant P2P tanks which shoot torrets of bits. Can our hero stop them before innocent set-builders and writers lose their jobs due to IP theft?
It's true! I was a TA at Georgia Tech, and I think there was only one guy who came by my office hours for a real explanation of some topic he didn't understand. Everybody else either wanted to argue their grade or get me to tell them the answer to a problem.
Still, Georgia Tech has to deal with the fact that, at least in computer science, its goal isn't really to teach. It's a research university. Tech throws you into CS and if you don't figure it out on your own, you're sunk, because they're not gonna do a whole heck of a lot to help you out unless you ask a lot of the right questions of the right people. Personally, I blame semesters.
Better question:
Is there something hidden away in the US Constitution that says Congress has the right to make this demand of credit reporting companies? Oh, wait, it's because they potentially do business between the states. Sigh.
Voters swipe a state/government issued ID card
Like the man said, stop right there.
Each race has a 1-10
Write-in candidates?
Also, the idea is alright, but you have to assume the paper ballots won't be counted except in unusual circumstances. If you just change 1 in 20 votes for #2 for #1, there's a 5% change, the totals check out, etc, etc.
Rape is usually about 5-20 years, isn't it? I agree that 9 years is a little extreme for spamming.
The problem with our society is that we can't figure out a better way to punish people than to put them in jail for a decade or so and let them think about what they did. We're not quakers, for the love of God. Why can't we just:
1.) Take all the money paid to him for spamming, 2.) Fine the companies that paid him to spam, give as much of that money back to the gullible suckers as we can, and 3.) Give him 50 lashes and tell him he's not allowed to use email for 5 years.
The right to bear arms is supposed to come with the responsibility to take up those arms to defend this country against attack.
No, the right to bear arms is supposed to come with the repsonsibility to take up those arms to ATTACK this country when it tries to take your guns away. Jefferson was not above revolution when necessary.
The right of free speach adds the responsibility to defend the right to speak words that offend you.
No, the right of free speech adds to right to NOT defend the right to speak words that offend you. That's why it's free speech. You can even say that you shouldn't be allowed to have it.
Freedom of religion makes us responsible to defend all against persecution as well as using our religion to strengthen and comfort the poor, weak, and downtrodden.
No, freedom of religion means that we can believe in a persecuting the lesser religions and ignoring the poor. If religion makes us beholden to certain beliefs of practices, it's not really freedom of any religion, is it?
The right to vote comes with the responsibility to educate yourselves.
No, it doesn't. The right to vote comes with no responsibilities at all except the responsibility to be a juror should the need arise. If I want to vote based on which candidate has the longest last name, my forefathers died for my right to do that, you insensitive clod.
If you blindly believe everything EITHER candidate says, stay home today.
See, this is annoying. Close-minded people always assume that they are open-minded and have rationally come to their conclusions, so surely the other side is being blindly swayed by someone. Y'know what? If you think anyone would ever believe themselves to be a blind follower of either camp, you'd better take a good hard think about where you got that conclusion.
If you think CNN is the word from on high and Fox is the devil, or the other way around, please stay home.
If you think CNN is the opposite of Fox, it shows how far we've got to go. CNN appears to be liberal just because Fox is so conservative it throws off the measurement. In fact, America as a whole is painfully conservative, and CNN is probably just a wee bit on the right side of America. Mr. Hannity thinks CNN is liberal, but the liberals don't. Don't believe the media about media bias.
If you believe Kerry that the top 20% paying 67% of the governments tax revenue constitutes "the middle class paying the highest burden", please stay home today.
Aw, shoot, I'd better stay home! The top 20% is only paying 67%? They're defined to be the biggest earners in this country. A good chunk of the rest of the populace makes $0/year. That they only pay 67% means they really do have a lesser tax burden.
If you think the "major tax break" of not having to pay FICA on overseas workers is the reason that companies save millions of dollars a year paying Achmed 12k a year over paying John 60k a year, please stay home today.
We've been bitching about outsourcing programmers on Slashdot for a while now. Kerry's in the pocket of unions. Whether or not you think this particular bit will help, you've gotta admit Kerry's better for stopping outsourcing.
Finally, if you think T. H. Kerry is an attractive women, please gouge your eyes out.
Ah, good, I was hoping that somewhere you'd take a completely inane swipe against Mrs. Kerry. You try to point out all these issues that don't matter, but then you go and finish up with an issue that matters even less. What's wrong with you?
I think maybe you should think about staying home today.
Yes, code. That way the laws won't be hard to read or understand at all. As an awesome bonus, we could have an IOLCC competition in addition to the IOCCC.
On the last day of the beta test, there was a famous invasion of Paragon City. Now, in the live game, there have been a few events like Trick or Treat, but there hasn't been any real attack or invasion approaching the Rikti invasion in size. Does having a number of worlds instead of a single one make things like this harder to implement? Is it hard to create events that players of all levels can participate in? Will we see more major events in the coming months?
("[A] copy of the [work] is made in the computer's random access memory (RAM), to permit viewing of the material. And in making a copy, even a temporary one, the person who browsed infringes the copyright.")).
Something just occured to me when I read this. Isn't making a copy of a document in RAM for the purposes of viewing very nearly what the human eye does? The eye views the document, and assuming you're looking straight at it, a neat digital copy is encoded and sent straight to your brain. Surely by the same logic merely viewing the image is copyright infringement?
Helllllooooo? We all run linux, use metric, memorize Monty Python movies, and are away from the mainstream in just about every respect. Of course we like the idea of non-mainstream candidates.
Microsoft isn't the first company to change the definition of trust. Do you know what the military's original definition of a trusted computer was? A trusted computer was a computer with the ability to violate the rules.
The Therac-25 example isn't even close to the same thing. A cursory examination of the device would not have found the exact bug that was at fault (typing commands in too quickly overfilled some buffers), but it would have found some grievous engineering mistakes. Why on Earth there wasn't a hardware cap on the amount of radiation the machine emitted we'll never know. I wouldn't feel comfortable having one assembly instruction that Intel and Microsoft promise will provably never run that would blow up the machine, and such a feature would make me question the overall soundness of the design.
So the first amendment doesn't protect you running a poll in the first place, eh? You can just say anything to anyone. Alright, let's approach this in the nerdy way and do a reduction from that.
I've got myself a list of likely voters. I've polled them in the past, so it's not an unsolicited call if I call them now, since we've done business before.
I'm allowed to say anything. I ask Bob how he's gonna vote. He's allowed to say anything. He tells me how he's gonna vote. I'm allowed to write anything. I write one tally on the left side of the paper if it's for Kerry, and one on the right if it's for Bush. I repeat this 100 times. Now, I'm not allowed to conduct a poll, so I don't actually add up these tallies. However, I'm allowed to tell people the contents of the paper, so I'll broadcast that.
Once again freedom is saved from the Republicans! Yay ACLU! Yay Jefferson!
If judges are really overturning, rewriting, or recreating laws based on their own agendas, an appeals court, federal court, or the supreme court should overrule them. If the supreme court is making laws, then maybe you should ask your congressmen, whom you DID elect, why they're stuffing exceptionally partisan men into the court in the first place, instead of impartial, learned scholars are law.
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Maybe I misunderstood, and you're writing SDKs for two seperate things, but I highly recommend against writing two seperate SDKs for the same system. It more than doubles the effort. If you need to give your corporate users more power, offer extensions to the original SDK, so that the two are the same except for one extra bit. That way, corporate folks can use the other stuff, and the other folks know precisely what they're missing.
There once was a master programmer who wrote unstructured programs. A novice programmer, seeking to imitate him, also began to write unstructured programs. When the novice asked the master to evaluate his progress, the master criticized him for writing unstructured programs, saying, ``What is appropriate for the master is not appropriate for the novice. You must understand the Tao before transcending structure.'' From the Tao of Programming, by Geoffrey James.
Tivo's a great product, but they keep trying to let the users do everything they want....so long as it doesn't make any large companies sad. Here's what they need to do: 1.) Open the system fully. The Tivo started as a very hackable device, but they've been moving to a more and more closed environment. There should be guides on their own website explaining how to add hard drives. There's no reason we can't plug in a USB mouse and keyboard and run X on the thing. 2.) Open exports and imports. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to download an mpg file from my Tivo or load a new one into it. As much as I understand that they don't want to piss off corporations, TV my way is TV where I can send shows I like to my friends and archive my favorites on a permanent medium for myself. It ain't any less legal than a VCR. 3.) Offer a warranty. The TiVo is covered in stickers warning that doing anything except plugging it in will void your warranty, but the "warranty" is an offer to replace it for a small discount if it breaks. It it breaks, and I didn't touch it, and it's been less than a year or so, I want a new one, and I don't intend to pay them. 4.) Put in ad skipping. Sure, it won't endear you to anyone, but they don't like you anyway. Remember, the customer of the cable company is the advertiser. You are not a cable company. Your customer is the person who buys a TiVo. That's important. I'll repeat it. Your customers are not advertisers. They are not cable companies. They are not producers, movie-makers, or any of them. Your job is to appeal to consumers and only consumers. The advertisers will pay you for popups and the like, but if people don't buy TiVo's, you're out of business.
Why is everybody dissing Tancred's post? You all claim to be geeks and can't see a wonderful allusion when you're smacked in the face with it. I for one give you mad props, Tancred. The rest of you losers go watch Dead Poet's Society.
Well, I dunno, the court has been considerably more lax in its enforcement of the 2nd amendment than the 1st. Freedom of speech turned out to mean that nobody can be silenced for any reason that isn't under the "fire in a crowded theatre" bit. I can burn a flag because it's speech. In theory, there's no reason why the 2nd amendment shouldn't be handled this way. Your friend should have the right to buy a gun on a street corner without giving his ID (do you have to present ID to protest against the government? Do felons no longer have a right to speak?) and waltz into work with it (do you have to stop sharing your political views at work?).
As insightful as this may be, I still feel compelled to say something sarcastic about your need to return to school based on your spelling of the word their.
The evil Computer P1R473Z are downloading the system's IP. Now, the brave and bold hero must digitize himself and take on the P1R473Z on their own turf. Without his lawyers, armed with only spam and pluck, our hero must contend with giant P2P tanks which shoot torrets of bits. Can our hero stop them before innocent set-builders and writers lose their jobs due to IP theft?
It's true! I was a TA at Georgia Tech, and I think there was only one guy who came by my office hours for a real explanation of some topic he didn't understand. Everybody else either wanted to argue their grade or get me to tell them the answer to a problem.
Still, Georgia Tech has to deal with the fact that, at least in computer science, its goal isn't really to teach. It's a research university. Tech throws you into CS and if you don't figure it out on your own, you're sunk, because they're not gonna do a whole heck of a lot to help you out unless you ask a lot of the right questions of the right people. Personally, I blame semesters.
I'm sorry, bckrispi, the information on how he got that information is not available at your security level.
No, it's like asking the bartender to check the age of the man who wants a drink.
Better question: Is there something hidden away in the US Constitution that says Congress has the right to make this demand of credit reporting companies? Oh, wait, it's because they potentially do business between the states. Sigh.
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Voters swipe a state/government issued ID card Like the man said, stop right there. Each race has a 1-10 Write-in candidates? Also, the idea is alright, but you have to assume the paper ballots won't be counted except in unusual circumstances. If you just change 1 in 20 votes for #2 for #1, there's a 5% change, the totals check out, etc, etc.
Rape is usually about 5-20 years, isn't it? I agree that 9 years is a little extreme for spamming.
The problem with our society is that we can't figure out a better way to punish people than to put them in jail for a decade or so and let them think about what they did. We're not quakers, for the love of God. Why can't we just:
1.) Take all the money paid to him for spamming,
2.) Fine the companies that paid him to spam, give as much of that money back to the gullible suckers as we can, and
3.) Give him 50 lashes and tell him he's not allowed to use email for 5 years.
The right to bear arms is supposed to come with the responsibility to take up those arms to defend this country against attack.
No, the right to bear arms is supposed to come with the repsonsibility to take up those arms to ATTACK this country when it tries to take your guns away. Jefferson was not above revolution when necessary.
The right of free speach adds the responsibility to defend the right to speak words that offend you.
No, the right of free speech adds to right to NOT defend the right to speak words that offend you. That's why it's free speech. You can even say that you shouldn't be allowed to have it.
Freedom of religion makes us responsible to defend all against persecution as well as using our religion to strengthen and comfort the poor, weak, and downtrodden.
No, freedom of religion means that we can believe in a persecuting the lesser religions and ignoring the poor. If religion makes us beholden to certain beliefs of practices, it's not really freedom of any religion, is it?
The right to vote comes with the responsibility to educate yourselves.
No, it doesn't. The right to vote comes with no responsibilities at all except the responsibility to be a juror should the need arise. If I want to vote based on which candidate has the longest last name, my forefathers died for my right to do that, you insensitive clod.
If you blindly believe everything EITHER candidate says, stay home today.
See, this is annoying. Close-minded people always assume that they are open-minded and have rationally come to their conclusions, so surely the other side is being blindly swayed by someone. Y'know what? If you think anyone would ever believe themselves to be a blind follower of either camp, you'd better take a good hard think about where you got that conclusion.
If you think CNN is the word from on high and Fox is the devil, or the other way around, please stay home.
If you think CNN is the opposite of Fox, it shows how far we've got to go. CNN appears to be liberal just because Fox is so conservative it throws off the measurement. In fact, America as a whole is painfully conservative, and CNN is probably just a wee bit on the right side of America. Mr. Hannity thinks CNN is liberal, but the liberals don't. Don't believe the media about media bias.
If you believe Kerry that the top 20% paying 67% of the governments tax revenue constitutes "the middle class paying the highest burden", please stay home today.
Aw, shoot, I'd better stay home! The top 20% is only paying 67%? They're defined to be the biggest earners in this country. A good chunk of the rest of the populace makes $0/year. That they only pay 67% means they really do have a lesser tax burden.
If you think the "major tax break" of not having to pay FICA on overseas workers is the reason that companies save millions of dollars a year paying Achmed 12k a year over paying John 60k a year, please stay home today.
We've been bitching about outsourcing programmers on Slashdot for a while now. Kerry's in the pocket of unions. Whether or not you think this particular bit will help, you've gotta admit Kerry's better for stopping outsourcing.
Finally, if you think T. H. Kerry is an attractive women, please gouge your eyes out.
Ah, good, I was hoping that somewhere you'd take a completely inane swipe against Mrs. Kerry. You try to point out all these issues that don't matter, but then you go and finish up with an issue that matters even less. What's wrong with you?
I think maybe you should think about staying home today.
Yes, code. That way the laws won't be hard to read or understand at all. As an awesome bonus, we could have an IOLCC competition in addition to the IOCCC.
On the last day of the beta test, there was a famous invasion of Paragon City. Now, in the live game, there have been a few events like Trick or Treat, but there hasn't been any real attack or invasion approaching the Rikti invasion in size. Does having a number of worlds instead of a single one make things like this harder to implement? Is it hard to create events that players of all levels can participate in? Will we see more major events in the coming months?
Once I wanted to visit USA but now I wouldn't dream of setting foot in the states.
That's the saddest thing I've ever seen posted on Slashdot.
("[A] copy of the [work] is made in the computer's random access memory (RAM), to permit viewing of the material. And in making a copy, even a temporary one, the person who browsed infringes the copyright.")).
Something just occured to me when I read this. Isn't making a copy of a document in RAM for the purposes of viewing very nearly what the human eye does? The eye views the document, and assuming you're looking straight at it, a neat digital copy is encoded and sent straight to your brain. Surely by the same logic merely viewing the image is copyright infringement?
Helllllooooo? We all run linux, use metric, memorize Monty Python movies, and are away from the mainstream in just about every respect. Of course we like the idea of non-mainstream candidates.
Microsoft isn't the first company to change the definition of trust. Do you know what the military's original definition of a trusted computer was? A trusted computer was a computer with the ability to violate the rules.
The Therac-25 example isn't even close to the same thing. A cursory examination of the device would not have found the exact bug that was at fault (typing commands in too quickly overfilled some buffers), but it would have found some grievous engineering mistakes. Why on Earth there wasn't a hardware cap on the amount of radiation the machine emitted we'll never know. I wouldn't feel comfortable having one assembly instruction that Intel and Microsoft promise will provably never run that would blow up the machine, and such a feature would make me question the overall soundness of the design.
So the first amendment doesn't protect you running a poll in the first place, eh? You can just say anything to anyone. Alright, let's approach this in the nerdy way and do a reduction from that.
I've got myself a list of likely voters. I've polled them in the past, so it's not an unsolicited call if I call them now, since we've done business before. I'm allowed to say anything. I ask Bob how he's gonna vote. He's allowed to say anything. He tells me how he's gonna vote. I'm allowed to write anything. I write one tally on the left side of the paper if it's for Kerry, and one on the right if it's for Bush. I repeat this 100 times. Now, I'm not allowed to conduct a poll, so I don't actually add up these tallies. However, I'm allowed to tell people the contents of the paper, so I'll broadcast that.
Once again freedom is saved from the Republicans! Yay ACLU! Yay Jefferson!
The Squeak wiki is also an excellent open source wiki implementaion that should be mentioned.
No it's not.
If judges are really overturning, rewriting, or recreating laws based on their own agendas, an appeals court, federal court, or the supreme court should overrule them. If the supreme court is making laws, then maybe you should ask your congressmen, whom you DID elect, why they're stuffing exceptionally partisan men into the court in the first place, instead of impartial, learned scholars are law.