One way to mitigate all the nuttiness that lazy developers put into Perl is to take the suggestions from a script called 'perlcritic' on the -harsh setting.
On our team, we have developers that are hackers to college interns. This stops the hackers from writing illegible punctuation explosion code and stops interns from making common mistakes.
I've ran into excruciating waiting for the next turn when playing on a custom Huge world with the maximum number of AI. I was on a machine with only 512MB of ram so it was swapping quite a bit. Upgraded to 2GB of RAM and while the wait between turns much shorter at 30 seconds, as the game gets into the later stages, it gets slower.
If you speak a bit of Japanese, fluent in English, and have technical skills, it's fairly easy to find work in Japan. I ended up in a company based in New York operating an office in Japan and I've been getting by with no Japanese at work.
The Dell is is probably an 8600. Great desktop replacement. My "laptop" is getting a bit crusty and now have a few bad pixels. It may have to be replace soon but I can no longer find any WUXGA display in a ~15" or smaller form factor. Bummed. Even more distressing the lack of matte finish displays for laptops.
I've found most professional coders in Japan have a decent command of English. It's almost a job requirement since according to them, the English to Japanese translation is confusing. From the code I have seen, the variable names are in English. I do see the occasional "janglish" and some poor choice in naming.
There is some usefulness to the MS-Windows logo for systems in a locked down environment. After installation by someone with admin privs, the software or hardware will work without local administrator privileges.
I am temping at a help desk for a big financial company where I was tasked to install a new plug in for MS Outlook 2003. This required the closing of the Outlook application. On this Windows XP machine with group tasking turned on, the Outlook tab had the number 75 (seventy five). This guy had a 75 various Outlook windows open... And this version of Outlook groups all the reminders on to one Window. He had 75 different open messages. It took nearly 5 minutes for the OS to close all the windows. This user also had about 50 (fifty) MS Word documents and about 20 MS Excel documents. Surprisingly only 4 Internet Explorer windows.
and the e-mail server. "An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists." I wonder if every failure has sent off a message.
I too am a long time spamcop user... But spammers do not avoid my account. However, my wife who also has a spamcop address receives almost no spam. Biggest difference I guess is my address is everywhere on the net.
I think one method for this to work is for each suggested target be evaluated by each member. The member has to agree that this is a valid target before his account participates in the attack.
So I guess the question is how is this any different from individual users crafting their own attacks? For me the nice thing about Blue Frog was they crafted a script for me that will be used to attack. I'm sure this new project will do something similar.
And I could even see a karma system for the members. Members that suggest valid targets gets modded up.
You can't trust the "members". Say that a savvy black hat creates many "tainted-members". What happens if the "tainted-members" all report that a legitimate site is spamming?
I think one method for this to work is for each suggested target be evaluated by each member. The member has to agree that this is a valid target before his account participates in the attack.
I recently switched from coding for single company to joining a consulting firm. I'm shocked at how sloppy the commands sent to the database are. It drives me nuts and makes me want to fix all the code... but since I'm low man on the totem pole, my concerns are replied generally with lame excuses like "emulate the coding style of the original author", "we don't get paid much, so it's okay to be sloppy", or "we have a deadline to meet". And no, I can't find a new gig.
Some of the sites I've worked with are vulnerable to this type of injection attack. From my perspective, this is widespread, a bit scary, and should be nice little eye openner as sites get hacked. This may actually be a blessing as I could start pointing what happens with sloppy code and not being given enough time clean everything up.
I considered plasma but having kids and a wife who doesn't care about potential burn in, went with a 42" LCD unit from Toshiba. It's surprisingly good at all angles. The only downside is the smearing of fast moving objects, but it's not really noticable unless you are looking for it.
For me, the limitted viewing angle on the DLP was the deal killer. With a large screen the, edges are out of the sweet spot. Plasma had worrisome burn in. The current generation LCDs was a pleasant surprise. Personally I would have gone with CRT but it seems in Japan, you can no longer get tubes bigger then 28".
I've found Suse 9.2 and up supports various wifi out of the box. I don't know about the Apple Airport though... The drivers seem to be wrapped up and can't be accessed directly so I can't seem to get airsnort to work with it. But then again I was (and still am) a n00b to Linux.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, which I chose mainly for the screen resoltuion of 1920x1600.
As the parent poster stated, Intel supplies the "centrino" drivers for Linux. I'm using Debian and you do have to jump through some hoops to get it working, but if you could follow directions, it's straight forward. Even with the drivers working, the client software from Intel on MS-Windows that manages SSID and different network passwords is not available. So it's a little clunky when I change locations.
I have the ATI Radeon 9x00 module. Can't quite remember what exactly what it is. The 2d drivers seem to work fine and is fast enough.
I did opt for the bluetooth module. It seems with a recent version of the kernel (I think 2.6.12 onwards) bluetooth support is built in. Again not as intuitive as MS-Windows but with a bit of jiggling of the config scripts, I've gotton my bluetooth MS Intellimouse partially working. I can't seem to figure out how to get the wheel, tilt, and thumb buttons to be recognized under X.
And lastly I've gotten all the powersaving bits working as well. The Intel SpeedStep, spinning down the HD, turning off the backlight.
So if you want a very high resolution display, you might want to take a look at the Dell Inspiron. If you can tolerate lower resolutions, many other smaller laptops do a good job, and are much smaller and lighter.
And for those of us not in an area where technical English texts are not available in a timely manner, there is the Safari Books Online from O'reilly. I don't know if they still have the referal program, but if they do, please use me.
This is only comparing only one facet of what a sporty car can do. In addition to quick acceleration, what about runs deep into the canyons? One of the things I enjoyed in a sporty car is going 100+ miles through canyon roads. If a car running on battery was trying to match the performance of a gasoline powered car, I think the battery will be exhausted after a few corners. Hmm.. Thinking about this... I'd like to see the electric car in a comparison after 5 runs.
If you can't see the image quality difference between VHS and DVD, then sticking with older (and usually cheaper) format is fine. For me, even on a standard TV, the image quality is painfully obvious. It's even worse when I acquired high definition monitors. After I got a hard drive recorder, the VHS player went unused. It now sits in the closet, probably only to come out to transfer whatever videos I want to keep to DVD.
I have a funny story. My wife who usually can't see the differences in quality between SD (standard definition) and HD (high definition) TV shows was watching a show that featured fireworks with a backdrop of a city skyline. She remarked how beautiful it was and everything was so detailed. I pointed out it was in HD... for the past few weeks she's been tuning into the HD version of her favorite shows. Now in the future, hopefully I won't have as a hard time convincing her why I'm insisting on gear that costs substantially more.
And for people who think DVDs are good enough, have someone who can see the difference point out all of the artifacting that occurs when viewed on a large, fast HD monitor. It's like pointing out a flaw in a diamond. Once you know it's there, you're always picking it out. I'm now viewing my DVDs on a relatively slow LCD panel so the artifacting isn't as visible... so I guess downgrading from CRT to LCD has it's benefits. (yes, going from CRT to LCD is a downgrade. I moved across the Pacific and to my dismay, you can't get HD CRT displays that are larger then 28". I at least was able to drag my 21" CRT computer monitor with me.)
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One way to mitigate all the nuttiness that lazy developers put into Perl is to take the suggestions from a script called 'perlcritic' on the -harsh setting.
Doc for Perl::Critic
On our team, we have developers that are hackers to college interns. This stops the hackers from writing illegible punctuation explosion code and stops interns from making common mistakes.
I've ran into excruciating waiting for the next turn when playing on a custom Huge world with the maximum number of AI. I was on a machine with only 512MB of ram so it was swapping quite a bit. Upgraded to 2GB of RAM and while the wait between turns much shorter at 30 seconds, as the game gets into the later stages, it gets slower.
I believe apps like SSH or third party web browser would violate the SDK agreement.
If you speak a bit of Japanese, fluent in English, and have technical skills, it's fairly easy to find work in Japan. I ended up in a company based in New York operating an office in Japan and I've been getting by with no Japanese at work.
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Japan does not have the iPhone, yet.
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The Dell is is probably an 8600. Great desktop replacement. My "laptop" is getting a bit crusty and now have a few bad pixels. It may have to be replace soon but I can no longer find any WUXGA display in a ~15" or smaller form factor. Bummed. Even more distressing the lack of matte finish displays for laptops.
I've found most professional coders in Japan have a decent command of English. It's almost a job requirement since according to them, the English to Japanese translation is confusing. From the code I have seen, the variable names are in English. I do see the occasional "janglish" and some poor choice in naming.
The comments may be in Japanese but the code will be in the programming language such as C or Perl.
There is some usefulness to the MS-Windows logo for systems in a locked down environment. After installation by someone with admin privs, the software or hardware will work without local administrator privileges.
You're thinking of Freedom Fighter.
This reminds me of a movie called Tron.
A friend who is going through his residency says that Scrubs is pretty realistic. I would imagine in the way that Office Space is realistic.
I am temping at a help desk for a big financial company where I was tasked to install a new plug in for MS Outlook 2003. This required the closing of the Outlook application. On this Windows XP machine with group tasking turned on, the Outlook tab had the number 75 (seventy five). This guy had a 75 various Outlook windows open... And this version of Outlook groups all the reminders on to one Window. He had 75 different open messages. It took nearly 5 minutes for the OS to close all the windows. This user also had about 50 (fifty) MS Word documents and about 20 MS Excel documents. Surprisingly only 4 Internet Explorer windows.
and the e-mail server. "An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, whom you can also contact if the problem persists." I wonder if every failure has sent off a message.
Does it run on GNU/Linux? No.
I guess a lot of the opinions may be MS-centric.
I too am a long time spamcop user... But spammers do not avoid my account. However, my wife who also has a spamcop address receives almost no spam. Biggest difference I guess is my address is everywhere on the net.
I think one method for this to work is for each suggested target be evaluated by each member. The member has to agree that this is a valid target before his account participates in the attack.
So I guess the question is how is this any different from individual users crafting their own attacks? For me the nice thing about Blue Frog was they crafted a script for me that will be used to attack. I'm sure this new project will do something similar.
And I could even see a karma system for the members. Members that suggest valid targets gets modded up.
You can't trust the "members". Say that a savvy black hat creates many "tainted-members". What happens if the "tainted-members" all report that a legitimate site is spamming?
I think one method for this to work is for each suggested target be evaluated by each member. The member has to agree that this is a valid target before his account participates in the attack.
I recently switched from coding for single company to joining a consulting firm. I'm shocked at how sloppy the commands sent to the database are. It drives me nuts and makes me want to fix all the code... but since I'm low man on the totem pole, my concerns are replied generally with lame excuses like "emulate the coding style of the original author", "we don't get paid much, so it's okay to be sloppy", or "we have a deadline to meet". And no, I can't find a new gig.
Some of the sites I've worked with are vulnerable to this type of injection attack. From my perspective, this is widespread, a bit scary, and should be nice little eye openner as sites get hacked. This may actually be a blessing as I could start pointing what happens with sloppy code and not being given enough time clean everything up.
I considered plasma but having kids and a wife who doesn't care about potential burn in, went with a 42" LCD unit from Toshiba. It's surprisingly good at all angles. The only downside is the smearing of fast moving objects, but it's not really noticable unless you are looking for it.
For me, the limitted viewing angle on the DLP was the deal killer. With a large screen the, edges are out of the sweet spot. Plasma had worrisome burn in. The current generation LCDs was a pleasant surprise. Personally I would have gone with CRT but it seems in Japan, you can no longer get tubes bigger then 28".
I've found Suse 9.2 and up supports various wifi out of the box. I don't know about the Apple Airport though... The drivers seem to be wrapped up and can't be accessed directly so I can't seem to get airsnort to work with it. But then again I was (and still am) a n00b to Linux.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8600, which I chose mainly for the screen resoltuion of 1920x1600.
As the parent poster stated, Intel supplies the "centrino" drivers for Linux. I'm using Debian and you do have to jump through some hoops to get it working, but if you could follow directions, it's straight forward. Even with the drivers working, the client software from Intel on MS-Windows that manages SSID and different network passwords is not available. So it's a little clunky when I change locations.
I have the ATI Radeon 9x00 module. Can't quite remember what exactly what it is. The 2d drivers seem to work fine and is fast enough.
I did opt for the bluetooth module. It seems with a recent version of the kernel (I think 2.6.12 onwards) bluetooth support is built in. Again not as intuitive as MS-Windows but with a bit of jiggling of the config scripts, I've gotton my bluetooth MS Intellimouse partially working. I can't seem to figure out how to get the wheel, tilt, and thumb buttons to be recognized under X.
And lastly I've gotten all the powersaving bits working as well. The Intel SpeedStep, spinning down the HD, turning off the backlight.
So if you want a very high resolution display, you might want to take a look at the Dell Inspiron. If you can tolerate lower resolutions, many other smaller laptops do a good job, and are much smaller and lighter.
And for those of us not in an area where technical English texts are not available in a timely manner, there is the Safari Books Online from O'reilly. I don't know if they still have the referal program, but if they do, please use me.
This is only comparing only one facet of what a sporty car can do. In addition to quick acceleration, what about runs deep into the canyons? One of the things I enjoyed in a sporty car is going 100+ miles through canyon roads. If a car running on battery was trying to match the performance of a gasoline powered car, I think the battery will be exhausted after a few corners. Hmm.. Thinking about this... I'd like to see the electric car in a comparison after 5 runs.
.If you can't see the image quality difference between VHS and DVD, then sticking with older (and usually cheaper) format is fine. For me, even on a standard TV, the image quality is painfully obvious. It's even worse when I acquired high definition monitors. After I got a hard drive recorder, the VHS player went unused. It now sits in the closet, probably only to come out to transfer whatever videos I want to keep to DVD.
I have a funny story. My wife who usually can't see the differences in quality between SD (standard definition) and HD (high definition) TV shows was watching a show that featured fireworks with a backdrop of a city skyline. She remarked how beautiful it was and everything was so detailed. I pointed out it was in HD... for the past few weeks she's been tuning into the HD version of her favorite shows. Now in the future, hopefully I won't have as a hard time convincing her why I'm insisting on gear that costs substantially more.
And for people who think DVDs are good enough, have someone who can see the difference point out all of the artifacting that occurs when viewed on a large, fast HD monitor. It's like pointing out a flaw in a diamond. Once you know it's there, you're always picking it out. I'm now viewing my DVDs on a relatively slow LCD panel so the artifacting isn't as visible... so I guess downgrading from CRT to LCD has it's benefits. (yes, going from CRT to LCD is a downgrade. I moved across the Pacific and to my dismay, you can't get HD CRT displays that are larger then 28". I at least was able to drag my 21" CRT computer monitor with me.)