It's true that ftp works reliably under high load. Then again, so does http. If you just want to serve some files to an anonymous public, I can't see much reason to not just put them in a directory and let Apache serve them - or some faster web server if you really have such a fast network link that Apache can't saturate it.
For authenticated file transfers, is there any reason to use ftp instead of the ssh file transfer protocol (sftp)?
They're even allowing VOIP over Wifi! How munificent of our wise Apple masters to permit us unworthy customers to run these programs on the computer we paid for! Is this not generosity?
Why lie about your age? Whatever your star sign you can be a perfect match with hers.
A couple of girls once asked me my star sign and I asked them to guess. Libra? no. Capricorn? no. Aries? guess again. And so on and so on. It only took them ten guesses to find out I am a Scorpio. 'Yes! connection! I am a Libra and you're a Scorpio, so we go really well together... nobody else needs to be there, just us...'
It is a matter of great and painful regret to me that I was so naive as to just say goodbye when we got to the train station and walk home by myself.
What a bizarre answer. This isn't about deciding who is in the popular crowd and who is out. Nor, I hope, any crusade against 'technologies' developed by any particular company. (IMHO the use of the word 'technology' to mean a computer program, protocol or file format is an indicator of cluelessness in itself.)
Wrong, Perl parses and byte-compiles the whole program on startup,
However it remains true that you cannot parse the language without evaluating it. The BEGIN block in Perl gives code to be executed at compile time. If you skip these BEGIN blocks then it is likely that the program will fail to compile. There is no way to parse a Perl program, in general, without running the code in the BEGIN blocks.
Indeed, you feel you need a bath after using upvar. But plenty of other languages lack proper references; Python for example (though it can kind of emulate them with the Ref container). (Python programmers at this point will retort that it does have references, indeed every variable is a reference. In which case you move the discussion one level up and the question becomes: why no references to (mutable) references?)
Unstructured strings as the fundamental representation for everything?
Everything runs on your computer using memory, which is a big long string of bytes. Ultimately, an unstructured string is the fundamental representation for all data in all languages. What matters is the tools the language provides to let you manipulate the data in that string.
The inability to parse the language without simultaneously interpreting it?
Perl also suffers from this problem.
I'm sorry, but after a decade of experience I think I can say it's just awful.
I can't argue with that. But at least it sucks in interesting and playful ways.
The syntax is not confused: quite the opposite. It is consistent and very minimal. One command per line, lists separated by spaces, "" quotes with variable interpolation, {} quotes without interpolation, [] to call a function, $ gets the value of a variable, and that's pretty much it.
John Ousterhout used to work for Sun and they had a golden opportunity to push Tcl a bit more and integrate it with Java... but they never did much with Tcl and he eventually left. It's a shame, because I rather liked Tcl with its absurdly minimal syntax.
It's not a 'feature' - more a necessary limitation of the Trinitron design. Of course due to brand loyalty and all that, these horizontal lines got elevated to a mark of quality and indicated a genuine Trinitron tube, blah blah blah.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
--Grampa
Weirdly, on the Continent they like to measure fuel consumption the other way round, as kilometres per litre. So there is no agreed SI-unit replacement for miles per gallon. Clearly though, mpg is a confusing term and should be avoided; English speakers will wonder whether you meant US or Imperial gallons, and everyone else won't have a clue.
The trouble is you are adding another layer of legal process and bureaucracy on top of an already convoluted system. Large firms will be happy to employ legal departments to play the game - to appeal at arbitration hearings, and spend time debating what is 'reasonable terms' in front of a judge. For small companies it's just one more obstacle.
You seem to assume the existence of wise, benevolent Solomonic figures who can fairly arbitrate these disputes and decide what is 'reasonable'. But past experience with the USPTO and EPO shows that those who are already supposed to police the system can't be trusted; they tend to be captured by special interests and just do whatever will increase the scope of their own powers.
Heh, I read that studies had shown some plants can count up to two... the word is certainly used more loosely than it should be. Let's just say that they are able to distinguish different numbers of other fish up to four. Presumably though they don't have a significant preference between a school of four and one of five. They can tell the difference between 0, 1, 2, 3 and 'any number above 3'.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- Dijkstra
I think a similar principle applies to this experiment. They showed that goldfish can count to four. Whether this signifies 'intelligence' in some abstract sense is a different question, and not really relevant here.
copper mines that poison areas bigger than Los Angeles have no obligation to pay for what they destroy.
If the copper mine were situated in the middle of Los Angeles, it would certainly have to pay for the destruction it causes. You can't just poison other people's land without their agreement. Who does the land belong to and why aren't they vetoing the construction of the mine if it would poison what they own?
If the country they live in is corrupt and ignores the wishes of the landowners; or if the people there are just serfs, working land that belongs to somebody else, being a rich landowner or the Party; then that is something that needs a political answer to fix the underlying problem.
'for as long as I can'... this is the important bit. Microsoft can force you onto Vista whenever they want simply by dropping maintenance (including security fixes) for XP. Like it or not, all Windows users are going to be running either Vista or its successors a few years from now. So you'd better get used to it.
I don't think that's true. Even on Slashdot people talk of the Java virtual machine, the Flash virtual machine and so on. If they don't say that a Linux process container is also a virtual machine, this is more likely to be because they haven't thought about it, rather than because they understand the history of operating systems and have carefully decided to change the definition of a VM to mean a system-level VM only. After all, if the virtualized CPU, memory space and hardware presented to a process is not a virtual machine, what is it? Besides, a process virtual machine is sufficient to run a whole operating system: look at User Mode Linux.
I don't see how isolating the web browser, however it is done, will help matters. If the malware can't take over the whole system, so what? It still has control of your web browser, which is what you use to visit banking sites. You would need two browsers isolated from each other, as you suggest.
I'm personally a fan of a stateless browser which is wiped clean between sessions - no cookies, no addins, etc.
If this is a good idea then it should be enforced as a security policy, by not giving the web browser permission to save any files outside a 'scratch' directory which is emptied on each run.
Surely the first stage in any separation of privilege is to have separate user accounts for you and your wife?
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It's true that ftp works reliably under high load. Then again, so does http. If you just want to serve some files to an anonymous public, I can't see much reason to not just put them in a directory and let Apache serve them - or some faster web server if you really have such a fast network link that Apache can't saturate it.
For authenticated file transfers, is there any reason to use ftp instead of the ssh file transfer protocol (sftp)?
I remember when you could do a network install from two floppies...
They're even allowing VOIP over Wifi! How munificent of our wise Apple masters to permit us unworthy customers to run these programs on the computer we paid for! Is this not generosity?
Why lie about your age? Whatever your star sign you can be a perfect match with hers.
A couple of girls once asked me my star sign and I asked them to guess. Libra? no. Capricorn? no. Aries? guess again. And so on and so on. It only took them ten guesses to find out I am a Scorpio. 'Yes! connection! I am a Libra and you're a Scorpio, so we go really well together... nobody else needs to be there, just us...'
It is a matter of great and painful regret to me that I was so naive as to just say goodbye when we got to the train station and walk home by myself.
What a bizarre answer. This isn't about deciding who is in the popular crowd and who is out. Nor, I hope, any crusade against 'technologies' developed by any particular company. (IMHO the use of the word 'technology' to mean a computer program, protocol or file format is an indicator of cluelessness in itself.)
Awesome... the CobolScript logo is a cute little dinosaur...
They obviously need to use UUCP! http://www.wizzy.org.za/
I predict that Cuba will become the centre of a new world-wide anti-imperialist UUCP network reaching all the way to Venezuela.
You could try Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, though this is not really a distribution of the full FreeBSD system but just its kernel with a GNU userland.
An excessively rigorous proof of this is Perl Cannot Be Parsed.
Web apps in Tcl... yes why not?
Someone who knows nothing but Tcl, mind you, is likely to be a bad Tcl programmer. This remains true for any value of Tcl.
The syntax is not confused: quite the opposite. It is consistent and very minimal. One command per line, lists separated by spaces, "" quotes with variable interpolation, {} quotes without interpolation, [] to call a function, $ gets the value of a variable, and that's pretty much it.
John Ousterhout used to work for Sun and they had a golden opportunity to push Tcl a bit more and integrate it with Java... but they never did much with Tcl and he eventually left. It's a shame, because I rather liked Tcl with its absurdly minimal syntax.
It's not a 'feature' - more a necessary limitation of the Trinitron design. Of course due to brand loyalty and all that, these horizontal lines got elevated to a mark of quality and indicated a genuine Trinitron tube, blah blah blah.
I meant litres per kilometre (or 100km) of course... that is 'the other way round' compared to miles per gallon.
Weirdly, on the Continent they like to measure fuel consumption the other way round, as kilometres per litre. So there is no agreed SI-unit replacement for miles per gallon. Clearly though, mpg is a confusing term and should be avoided; English speakers will wonder whether you meant US or Imperial gallons, and everyone else won't have a clue.
The trouble is you are adding another layer of legal process and bureaucracy on top of an already convoluted system. Large firms will be happy to employ legal departments to play the game - to appeal at arbitration hearings, and spend time debating what is 'reasonable terms' in front of a judge. For small companies it's just one more obstacle.
You seem to assume the existence of wise, benevolent Solomonic figures who can fairly arbitrate these disputes and decide what is 'reasonable'. But past experience with the USPTO and EPO shows that those who are already supposed to police the system can't be trusted; they tend to be captured by special interests and just do whatever will increase the scope of their own powers.
Just goes to show that you should always run VMWare in its own separate virtual machine (perhaps using Bochs or QEMU) to avoid security problems.
She got it from a Microsoft? This certainly lends credibility to the suggestion that they will make the Vista compatible with the Linux.
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Heh, I read that studies had shown some plants can count up to two... the word is certainly used more loosely than it should be. Let's just say that they are able to distinguish different numbers of other fish up to four. Presumably though they don't have a significant preference between a school of four and one of five. They can tell the difference between 0, 1, 2, 3 and 'any number above 3'.
Those shapes represent Aeroflot stewardesses.
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." -- Dijkstra
I think a similar principle applies to this experiment. They showed that goldfish can count to four. Whether this signifies 'intelligence' in some abstract sense is a different question, and not really relevant here.
If the country they live in is corrupt and ignores the wishes of the landowners; or if the people there are just serfs, working land that belongs to somebody else, being a rich landowner or the Party; then that is something that needs a political answer to fix the underlying problem.
(BTW I agree with everything you said)
'for as long as I can'... this is the important bit. Microsoft can force you onto Vista whenever they want simply by dropping maintenance (including security fixes) for XP. Like it or not, all Windows users are going to be running either Vista or its successors a few years from now. So you'd better get used to it.
I don't see how isolating the web browser, however it is done, will help matters. If the malware can't take over the whole system, so what? It still has control of your web browser, which is what you use to visit banking sites. You would need two browsers isolated from each other, as you suggest.If this is a good idea then it should be enforced as a security policy, by not giving the web browser permission to save any files outside a 'scratch' directory which is emptied on each run.
Surely the first stage in any separation of privilege is to have separate user accounts for you and your wife?