I don't understand DRM storage media, because common sense says that once you can read the data, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Say you play a song with an audio player.. can't it save the output PCM stream to a file after it decodes it? Then the DRM is completely fruitless!
How hard could it possibly be to design a voting system, for chrissakes????? There must be a HUGE glitch in the programming if it can't even do a row count.
Seriously, I think there should be a lameness filter set up that automatically strips the final sentence in the news posts. It's almost always a trollish, sarcastic throwaway bit meant to piss people off (and working up Linux/Slashdot zealots is like shooting fish in a barrel.)
Someone mirror the website at daily intervals. Have the results indexed on a separate website. This is a matter of public information policy. It is imperative that the public have access to these materials.
They are not switching from C; they are switching from YScript!, a proprietary Yahoo language.
I think that the most highly evolved languages are the languages that are most likely to succeed. Check this article out, it describes how programmers at Viaweb leveraged Lisp as their secret weapon in the bidding wars for Yahoo. Lisp can be considered a scripting language, but it conquered all other forms of compiled competition in this case.
Anyways, I think that PHP's approach towards the integration of generated and static content smacks of previous-generation languages (namely ASP.) ASP.NET and JSP have evolved the paradigm, with their clear distinctions between compiled code and html. I find ASP.NET with C# to be SO much easier to maintain than the legacy ASP scripts at my company.
Also, it's nice being able to hand pages to the graphics design department without worrying about them deleting important chunks of code. It's a problem when they see the page icon in Dreamweaver and mistake it for a graphic. They hit "delete". There goes Important Function #3! Arrgh!
I find it ironic that the very company that designed two consecutive generations of hard drives that have a propensity for failure touts the merits of their advances towards data integrity.
I had a IBM Deskstar 75GXP and 60GXP fail on me, and believe me, I will never, EVER use another IBM hard drive. They gave me a hard time during the replacement process, and they never offered to recover my data. My productivity went into negative numbers as soon as my hard drives started making the click-bzzp of death (CBOP).
Let's hope that when you turn the "Toaster Assistant" off, an animation is shown where Clippy's metallic self falls into the toaster and dies in a cascade of sparks.
This is the first day of school for me, and my new physics professor described to the class her love for RPN in almost poetic terms. I had to go up to her and talk RPN, which we did for about half an hour. My love for RPN runs deep. I'll share what I know.
The TI-89/92 both have an RPN emulation mode, so you can choose whichever mode of entry suits the situation (although WHY you wouldn't pick RPN is beyond me.)
The entire HP line has been discontinued. The HP48G is a 32kb RPN calculator that kicks serious butt, the 48G+ has 128kb of memory, and the 48GX has expansion slots in addition to 128kb of memory. All use the same anemic "Jupiter" processor.
The HP49, for being a newer calculator (the iMac of calculators!), still has the same crappy processor, but its ROM is more highly optimized and will make the system "feel" faster.
Best buy is the 48GX. The 1993 vintage firmware still rocks, and the expansion slots are terrific for the sciences. Major caveat: no support for symbolic integration, output is numeric-only.
Also, on a more subjective level, the 48 series has superior buttons to the 49. The 49 has rubber membrane buttons, whereas the 48 has metallic faced buttons that give a nice "click" that is most satisfying. Think IBM Keyboards.
The programming language for HP calculators runs in RPN, too. It operates like a macro language, where each command (separated by spaces) acts as if a user were entering it manually. Conditionals and loops are done with information provided on the stack. Learning curve isn't bad. I wrote a chat program that used the infrared ports with it during a few boring days in class.
Anyways, good luck finding your next RPN calculator. It's a damn shame that HP gave up the ghost. Let's have a moment of silence for our dearly departed HP calcs....ok, that's good enough.
This isn't what I'd consider an objective review. It's like asking a Scientologist, "What did you think of that movie Battlefield Earth?"
The author has a vested interest in seeing Staroffice succeed, and I'm sure he relishes the opportunity to take potshots at Microsoft.
I'm not trolling, I'm serious when I say this: I feel more comfortable in MS Office than any other app, on any other platform. It feels very polished, a sense I seldom find with most other programs out there. You can tell that Microsoft realizes that they have a lot at stake in Office and plans accordingly.
With hybrid cars, the main component of the fuel savings is the weight reduction and the displacement decrease in the gasoline component of the engine. The car becomes loud and annoying to maneuver (tiny, TINY wheels!) If you are willing to put up with that, why not pay 40% of the cost and get an Echo?
If you don't have a stigma against diesels, go with a Jetta TDI. Phenomenal fuel economy with few compromises.
Don't get an Insight, though. Don't. You will hate yourself.
Is there a page that details the uses of the MD5 algorithm? I've just been using it for password security, but it seems like every other/. article references MD5 hashes. I'd like to know more about it.
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I don't understand DRM storage media, because common sense says that once you can read the data, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Say you play a song with an audio player.. can't it save the output PCM stream to a file after it decodes it? Then the DRM is completely fruitless!
plz explain thx lol.
How hard could it possibly be to design a voting system, for chrissakes????? There must be a HUGE glitch in the programming if it can't even do a row count.
BALEETED!
Seriously, I think there should be a lameness filter set up that automatically strips the final sentence in the news posts. It's almost always a trollish, sarcastic throwaway bit meant to piss people off (and working up Linux/Slashdot zealots is like shooting fish in a barrel.)
Connection refused. Who needs viruses and DDOS attacks when you have the Slashdotting effect?
especially those suicide bomber ones!
...pop!
(double clicks the mushroom cloud)
OH NO!
Eight computers????
(deep breath) NERD!!!!!!!!!!
I guess since we're dealing with Apple fans here, this is as close to religious persecution as you can get. Sue their asses! :)
Someone mirror the website at daily intervals. Have the results indexed on a separate website. This is a matter of public information policy. It is imperative that the public have access to these materials.
Apple did that with Copland. Gil Amelio must die.
Look at those mindless replies! Jesus Christ! How old are these people, twelve?
No wait, I could write better than that when I was twelve.
I'm surprised that the candidates aren't all Republican.
I think that the most highly evolved languages are the languages that are most likely to succeed. Check this article out, it describes how programmers at Viaweb leveraged Lisp as their secret weapon in the bidding wars for Yahoo. Lisp can be considered a scripting language, but it conquered all other forms of compiled competition in this case.
Anyways, I think that PHP's approach towards the integration of generated and static content smacks of previous-generation languages (namely ASP.) ASP.NET and JSP have evolved the paradigm, with their clear distinctions between compiled code and html. I find ASP.NET with C# to be SO much easier to maintain than the legacy ASP scripts at my company.
Also, it's nice being able to hand pages to the graphics design department without worrying about them deleting important chunks of code. It's a problem when they see the page icon in Dreamweaver and mistake it for a graphic. They hit "delete". There goes Important Function #3! Arrgh!
They should do a study as to who the most influential religious figures are. Torvalds would get #2, just behind LRH.
I had a IBM Deskstar 75GXP and 60GXP fail on me, and believe me, I will never, EVER use another IBM hard drive. They gave me a hard time during the replacement process, and they never offered to recover my data. My productivity went into negative numbers as soon as my hard drives started making the click-bzzp of death (CBOP).
DON'T BUY IBM HARD DRIVES!!!!!!!!!!
Let's hope that when you turn the "Toaster Assistant" off, an animation is shown where Clippy's metallic self falls into the toaster and dies in a cascade of sparks.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of unemployed petrified naked Natalie Portmans! I've done the Slashdot Gods proud.
"Ransom Love" sounds like the pseudonym for the frontman of a heavy metal band. Surely it can't be his birth name; it's too cool for that!
Cooler than "Vin Diesel"? You bet your ass.
This is the first day of school for me, and my new physics professor described to the class her love for RPN in almost poetic terms. I had to go up to her and talk RPN, which we did for about half an hour. My love for RPN runs deep. I'll share what I know.
...ok, that's good enough.
The TI-89/92 both have an RPN emulation mode, so you can choose whichever mode of entry suits the situation (although WHY you wouldn't pick RPN is beyond me.)
The entire HP line has been discontinued. The HP48G is a 32kb RPN calculator that kicks serious butt, the 48G+ has 128kb of memory, and the 48GX has expansion slots in addition to 128kb of memory. All use the same anemic "Jupiter" processor.
The HP49, for being a newer calculator (the iMac of calculators!), still has the same crappy processor, but its ROM is more highly optimized and will make the system "feel" faster.
Best buy is the 48GX. The 1993 vintage firmware still rocks, and the expansion slots are terrific for the sciences. Major caveat: no support for symbolic integration, output is numeric-only.
Also, on a more subjective level, the 48 series has superior buttons to the 49. The 49 has rubber membrane buttons, whereas the 48 has metallic faced buttons that give a nice "click" that is most satisfying. Think IBM Keyboards.
The programming language for HP calculators runs in RPN, too. It operates like a macro language, where each command (separated by spaces) acts as if a user were entering it manually. Conditionals and loops are done with information provided on the stack. Learning curve isn't bad. I wrote a chat program that used the infrared ports with it during a few boring days in class.
Anyways, good luck finding your next RPN calculator. It's a damn shame that HP gave up the ghost. Let's have a moment of silence for our dearly departed HP calcs.
Many conspiracy theorists agree that fluoride was added to water to control the minds of the populace. http://www.sonic.net/kryptox/mcp.htm
So will the products be made under the Red Fedora label?
This isn't what I'd consider an objective review. It's like asking a Scientologist, "What did you think of that movie Battlefield Earth?"
The author has a vested interest in seeing Staroffice succeed, and I'm sure he relishes the opportunity to take potshots at Microsoft.
I'm not trolling, I'm serious when I say this: I feel more comfortable in MS Office than any other app, on any other platform. It feels very polished, a sense I seldom find with most other programs out there. You can tell that Microsoft realizes that they have a lot at stake in Office and plans accordingly.
With hybrid cars, the main component of the fuel savings is the weight reduction and the displacement decrease in the gasoline component of the engine. The car becomes loud and annoying to maneuver (tiny, TINY wheels!) If you are willing to put up with that, why not pay 40% of the cost and get an Echo? If you don't have a stigma against diesels, go with a Jetta TDI. Phenomenal fuel economy with few compromises. Don't get an Insight, though. Don't. You will hate yourself.
Is there a page that details the uses of the MD5 algorithm? I've just been using it for password security, but it seems like every other /. article references MD5 hashes. I'd like to know more about it.
"Here's a nickel. Get yourself a better operating system."
My favorite Dilbert.