Yeah, everyone seems so excited about printf. Having spent 40 years programming computers I can tell you its another fad.
Thousands of developers all over the world are misled with the apparent ease of printf'ing the text to the stdout. They all miss the most important fact: the printf doesn't actually generate the text! You still have to supply it, although the printf marketeers might want you to think otherwise.
Another thing - where are the mathematical foundations for printf? Relational databases rely on solid theory that dates back to 1795. Printf enthusiasts cannot deny the fact that it just lacks proper scientific support. It's a sad thing that giant amounts of investors' money are poured into a technology that relies on a wishy-washy muddy set of 'format specifiers'. Haha, 'format specifiers'! I challenge you to come up with a proper mathematical definition for that!
And a final death blow to the whole 'printf' craze. It has no support whatsoever for colors or blinking text! Young printf-bamboozled programmers all over the world realize they're using a purely academic technology when the real world requirements call for a blinking 'Hello world\n' or a colourful 'Foobar'!
My colleague at my former job once sent our boss a report in a file named 'for_dickhead_2003_11'. He changed the file name before attaching it to the email. Unfortunately, a self-reference in the file contents remained, showing the unfortunately chosen first name. Fortunately, our boss just politely reminded him to pick more neutral names, just in case.
I foresee a frenzy of cheap Chinese-made DVD recorders where you can simply press "tray open" and "0" to switch off the DRM system. They made region coding look a bit of a lame duck, anyway.
User's manual: Do not remove the third yellow jumper on the backpanel (counting from the left) to disable the VEIL content protection. This device should be used only to copy content that you have rights to. Thank you for your cooperation.
Hm... I use Komodo for Python development and I... hm, don't dislike it. Komodo's understanding of Python is good enough to have a working symbol finder, but the autocomplete is a bit lacking, but well - perhaps my expectations are a bit high for a dynamically typed language.
The debugger is fine, although the classic python pdb is also fine. Well, I sometimes use the visual object browser in Komodo - gives me better insight into nested lists/tuples/dictionaries.
There are some bugs in Komodo for which I had to find workarounds: the only way to refresh the symbols database is to find and delete codeintel.db, the debugger usually hangs on symbol mouseover (not that I use it, it's just easy to incidentally leave the cursor over a symbol), and the whole app hangs about once a day for no particular reason, which I don't mind very much - reminds me not to miss a coffe break.
Im sure the pron industry will be able to help you out.
Hm... I've just done an extensive search and all I found was a "Penis casting kit". An interesting idea in itself, but requires the replicated object to already exist in 3D:-)
Re:Morphing and going into hiding, more likely.
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The IP blocks they use are widely known and have become ineffective against savvy filesharers. More likely, they're going to go under deeper cover, sourcing bandwidth from consumer sources like cable modem and DSL providers to spy on file sharers and pollute the networks. I'm surprised it's taken this long.
I wonder what the next move of the P2P community will be. My bet is on some kind of social filtering - prefer files that are checked by your buddies, slightly less those preferred by their buddies and so on. A decent protocol could do this without compromising anonymity - you only know your direct connections, but not their connections. The centuries old conspiracy model alive and well in the modern technology environment.
Btw, I hardly use any P2P. Most of the files on my disk come from people I know who wanted to share some music they find interesting.
Obviously, I'm thinking outload here. But the main point is that jailing people is not something we should be deciding willy-nilly based on people from an industry that feels threatened.
Heh heh, you might want to look up "William Randolf Hearst" and "marijuana"...
Third, he is now an ex-employee. He will go out in the world and socialize with his peers at other companies - some of whom his previous employer may well want to hire at some point in the future. If his final impresion of the company is that of a bunch of posterior orifices, that's what he'll be telling people when they ask him about his opinion on applying for a position there.
Third.2: The IT world is a small world. There is a good chance that the ex-employee might soon be in position to influence or even make decisions about purchase of the ex-company products or services.
Sure he should have known better than to use them. But his complaining is having very real, and very positive, results. They should be taken off PriceGrabber, they should be blacklisted at ResellerRatings, they should really be out of business and in jail!
You are probably right about the results. But perhaps it is a good time to think about the implications. A blogger - an essentially anonymous individual can deal a whole lot of damage to a company. Could you tell with 100% certainty if he made the whole story up?
Yeah sure - there are many comments from other sources that seem to back up his opinion about the company. His blog didn't just pop up a day ago, so he has some credibility. But still, one can imagine accumulating credibility just for the sole purpose of misusing it - it's called eBay style attack if I am not mistaken. Just some food for thought - the joy over bad guys getting it shouldn't stop us from thinking about the good guys that could also get it undeserved. Won't someone please think of the good guys!?!?
Actually, it seems to me that if you want reliability, maintainability, and perhaps most important, debugability, you want to manage your memory yourself.
And try to pinpoint which of the hundred thousand totally unrelated functions has modified my data because it happens to use a bad pointer?
I had to debug a C program that started crashing after an unused variable declaration had been removed. The reason? - a dangling pointer.
The program was compiled without any optimization, so the memory for the variable had still been allocated (in spite of the var being unused), which shifted the other variables to that the dangling pointer had missed them. After deleting the unused var, the pointer (used totally elsewhere) damaged the data.
Managed memory gets you rid of this kind of problems. Or, at least, confines them to external libs written in non-managed languages.
That's the catch, and why you won't hit a geometric progression.
If you're like most people, your circle of friends is, for the most part, also their circle of friends. In fact, it's the number one reason most people fail to succeed with Amway or Mary Kay-type schemes. They quickly exhaust their circle, and their friend's (references) circles, and then they're stuck.
Having to do a physical swap is also, by and large, geographically limiting. And at least, from the **AA's viewpoint, you're not simultaneously sharing with Russia, Norway, and Nebraska.
Both the gegraphical and the "local circle" limits can be easily bypassed - I know at least 3 people outside 100 mile radius from my current location. As long as some kind of two way broadband communication is assured, I can exchange files with them privately. All the technology is already here: encrypted e-mail, encrypted file transfer in Jabber (well, haven't tested it, not sure whether it works).
I also remember the old ZX-Spectrum days, where many of my friends exchanged casettes with pirated games by mail - over the ocean. No geographical limit here.
And let's face it. Honestly. How many people do you know with whom you'd do this on a consistent and regular basis? Or to put it another way, how many people would you regularly go to the trouble of copying CDs for now?
For now? None, of course. As long as the regular P2P works, the trouble is unnecessary. Perhaps it will never be necessary. As long as private encrypted connections are legal, there is no need for "backpacknet". My point is that legal attacks (supposedly ones even more severe than what we see now) can only alter the way filesharing is done. They cannot kill it.
Makes the price of admission into a lan party all the more worth it!
Price of admission? Hm... If you charge for admission, the party is probably too visible to facilitate copyright infringement. A circle of friends - the perfect size of a party, not necessarily a lan one.
That's probably better from the RIAA's viewpoint, as sharing your music with 100,000 anonymous "friends" will take a while if you have to actually go visit them...
I don't have to visit each one of them. Sharing a movie with more than one friend is enough for the exponential growth to kick in. It's a pyramid scheme that actually works:-)
The music labels got to realize if they push the p2p networks too hard the p2p clients will go underground into anonymous networks
I am a big fan of "backpacknet". Just pack your HD, visit a friend, and sync repositories. There goes half a terabyte of "content". Eat that, whatever-AA!!
This might be even faster than p2p over broadband, provided your friend lives near and you've got enough content to exchange.
Can you give me _ONE_ real example of how _YOUR_ rights have been violated here in the USA?
I sure as hell won't be waiting till _MY_ rights are violated.
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out-- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists and I did not speak out-- because I was not a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out-- because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me-- and there was no one left to speak out for me.
But what if the first test is negative? That could very well be a false negative. It's unlikely, but possible. According to what you have said, would a retest be performed in such a case?
No. The current HIV tests are very sensitive - they have a very low false negative rate, with a relatively high false positive rate. The retest is to compensate for the latter. Anyway, most false negatives are due to the blood sample having been taken in the window period, so a retest (on the same sample) wouldn't help.
"The most probable explanation for the finding of HIV-specific CTL, able to kill virus-infected cells, in apparently uninfected but repeatedly HIV-exposed women is that they have been immunized by exposure to HIV," notes Dr. Sarah Rowland-Jones of the Molecular Immunology Group at Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
That would seem to contradict your genetic theory.
This is only a hypothesis, and a problematic one. Why does repeated exposure gives immunity, while a single exposure can give you infection or nothing? Why constant exposure while infected doesn't give you immunity?
I'm sure I am not the only one that has seen documentries that include African prostitutes that have gathered a similar immunity to the virus.
From what I have read, no evidence shows that the immunity has been 'gathered'. It's genetic - you have it or you don't, right from your birth. High risk groups, like African prostitutes have a higher percent of people with this gene - not because they aquire it, but because the susceptible die off.
Besides, I think the idea of Darknets is flawed to begin with. It is taking current anonymous P2P networks (Freenet, Ants, I2P etc.) and tying both hands behind their back by no longer allowing all-to-all connections, but only connections to people you trust. That pretty much precludes any sensible routing and load balancing because people are selecting the available routes, and you can't create new connections. Say you are the only person with access to two different social groups, all info must flow over your connection creating a huge bottleneck that the software is not allowed to compensate for.
This is true as the implication of "invite-only". There is, however, a middle ground between the current p2p mainstream and true darknets - encryption + origin hiding routing (onion or ants routing), but no invite-only. MUTE is like this.
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Thousands of developers all over the world are misled with the apparent ease of printf'ing the text to the stdout. They all miss the most important fact: the printf doesn't actually generate the text! You still have to supply it, although the printf marketeers might want you to think otherwise.
Another thing - where are the mathematical foundations for printf? Relational databases rely on solid theory that dates back to 1795. Printf enthusiasts cannot deny the fact that it just lacks proper scientific support. It's a sad thing that giant amounts of investors' money are poured into a technology that relies on a wishy-washy muddy set of 'format specifiers'. Haha, 'format specifiers'! I challenge you to come up with a proper mathematical definition for that!
And a final death blow to the whole 'printf' craze. It has no support whatsoever for colors or blinking text! Young printf-bamboozled programmers all over the world realize they're using a purely academic technology when the real world requirements call for a blinking 'Hello world\n' or a colourful 'Foobar'!
My colleague at my former job once sent our boss a report in a file named 'for_dickhead_2003_11'. He changed the file name before attaching it to the email. Unfortunately, a self-reference in the file contents remained, showing the unfortunately chosen first name. Fortunately, our boss just politely reminded him to pick more neutral names, just in case.
"Encoded Video Invisible Light"?(EVIL)
"Video Invisible Light Encoded"?(VILE)
The debugger is fine, although the classic python pdb is also fine. Well, I sometimes use the visual object browser in Komodo - gives me better insight into nested lists/tuples/dictionaries.
There are some bugs in Komodo for which I had to find workarounds: the only way to refresh the symbols database is to find and delete codeintel.db, the debugger usually hangs on symbol mouseover (not that I use it, it's just easy to incidentally leave the cursor over a symbol), and the whole app hangs about once a day for no particular reason, which I don't mind very much - reminds me not to miss a coffe break.
Any CNC that works in latex?
Btw, I hardly use any P2P. Most of the files on my disk come from people I know who wanted to share some music they find interesting.
Yeah sure - there are many comments from other sources that seem to back up his opinion about the company. His blog didn't just pop up a day ago, so he has some credibility. But still, one can imagine accumulating credibility just for the sole purpose of misusing it - it's called eBay style attack if I am not mistaken. Just some food for thought - the joy over bad guys getting it shouldn't stop us from thinking about the good guys that could also get it undeserved. Won't someone please think of the good guys!?!?
I had to debug a C program that started crashing after an unused variable declaration had been removed. The reason? - a dangling pointer.
The program was compiled without any optimization, so the memory for the variable had still been allocated (in spite of the var being unused), which shifted the other variables to that the dangling pointer had missed them. After deleting the unused var, the pointer (used totally elsewhere) damaged the data.
Managed memory gets you rid of this kind of problems. Or, at least, confines them to external libs written in non-managed languages.
*rimshot!*
This might be even faster than p2p over broadband, provided your friend lives near and you've got enough content to exchange.