But I'm just a simple caveman, and your talk of daemons and red hats frighten and confuse me.
But that would be wrong, like Red Hats implementation is.
The clock.redhat or.netgear should be a fallback address, you should be syncing the time from your ISP, if they provide it. Many, most of the good ones at least, will provide an NTP server via DHCP. That way you get the best time sync, since your lag to your ISP should be as close to 0 as its going to get.
Red Hat could be 10 seconds away from me one minute, 0 the next. It's like trying to synchronize watches via snail mail.
1) It's a stratum 1 server, which means it ultimately sets the clocks of millions of other machines, not netgear routers.
2) How many people with a home router (internet savvy or not) spend all that much time reading the logs, let alone making sure the time stamps are valid?
I know you probably do, but I dont. Because I'm just a simple caveman home networker, and your logs and timestamps frighten and confuse me.
Know what? I dont daily check USRobotics.com to make sure I have the latest modem firmware, nor do I go to logitech to make sure I have the latest mouse drivers.
It isnt that people are stupid or lazy, they obviously just have better ways to spend their time.
Most people who work with computers aren't IT douchebags who sit around on the internet all day looking for a new patch to install. You aren't elite. You're the lowest rung on the ladder.
Now hurry the fuck up and replace the toner cartridge in the xerox, monkey boy.
C++ encourages you to avoid solving the problem by trying to introduce abstractions
No it doesnt, it allows you more abstractions that you an use as tools, if they're appropriate. When they're overused or used inappropriately, they detract.
It's like my neighbour who recently bough one of those power spray painter things. He runs around power-painting everything from lawnchairs to his fence - with often terrible results. But he's a guy with a new tool and wants to use it as often as possible, even though it's really only suitable to use in certain niche applications.
Or closer to home, observe the student who just learns recursive techniques. They want to write everything recursively - though it's rarely the best solution and just makes for obscure code. They ubiquitously teach it using factorial as an example, when a for loop is a much better tool.
Such is the way with C++. Not every solution is conducive to an object oriented approach, but it's worth having the tools for the ones that do. The ability to mix and match in large projects is a boon.
If you cant pick the right tools for the right job, then you're a poor craftsman.
Practical C++ Programming is dedicated to teaching the reader how to program in the C++ programming language.
No shit, I thought it was the next in the Harry Potter series. My kids are going to be disappointed.
Sorry, it's just that thats the kind of retarded formula-generated opening statement you'd expect from an 8th grader with no interest in the material. Ie; "The Treasure of Pirate Cove is about a treasure in a place called Pirate Cove"
- IBM is a manipulating orwellian company. You may believe they're on the "good side" of this fight, but that doesn't mean they're a lovely company, nor does it erase their anticompetitive track record.
- they claim the GPL cant be applied to "their" code, since you cant go around and relicense someone else property. I cant release Ghostbusters under a GPL-like license, it's not mine. The argument makes sense, the matter is who owns the code
- making legal claims without filing is nothing new, people send C&D orders all the time which have no real legal merit
I'm not thrilled with what SCO is doing any more than anyone else is, but dont be too quick to evangelize IBM. They'd pull the rug out from under linux in an instant if they could. It'd be a real sweet plum if someone could take "ownership" of linux.
I dont think you can do that legally, just like you cant sell oregano if you tell people it's marijuana.
I think the RIAA lawyers would automatically launch action against anyone with a few thousand (or hundred, or dozens - I'm sure the threshhold will drop over time) titles up for download, and wouldnt bother to check that none of the titles belong to them. They just assume they own all music.
You can draw the same punishment for selling fake pot as you can for selling real pot.
I knew a kid who found that out the hard way. He thought it would be hilarious to sell an ounce of oregano to the guy everyone knew to be an undercover cop (small town with a "vice squad" consisting of two cops).
Turns out the law didnt care.
By the same token, would you get a lighter sentence for serving out a crappily encoded copy of Britney Spears latest album, full of pops and skips?
The government shouldnt be handling anything to do with P2P users, it's a civil matter (at least should be) and should result in lawsuits not prosecutions.
They should however start turning the screws when they see a team of lawyers using a flood of lawsuits (or threats thereof) as a form of revenue, and not to resolve legitimate grievances.
The legal system wasnt put in place for anyone to profit from.
Kids keep pitching tents in their pants hoping that some case like this will all of a sudden make downloading mp3z and 0-day warezezz perfectly legal. Of course that will never happen.
This is challenging the subpoena process, which a superior court has already upheld. So, most likely, nothing will come of it.
I'd like to see the case where someone is subpoena'd by the RIAA, and proves in court that they'd never offered so much as one copyrighted work for download. Like it was all fan fiction and independent music or whatever. Headlines blazing "music industry sues guy for doing nothing", RIAA lawyers with egg on their face.
I don't have a problem with them targetting people who are legitimately harming their business. But I have a problem with automated spiders flagging people to be sued or harassed. Automatic threat letters being sent to some person with the unfortunate name of Britney Spears, stuff like that.
They don't do a lot of fact checking before they launch these suits, and do absolutely none at all to send a C&D order. That's wrong and should be punished.
But the wheelchairs, scooters, and rascals are MUCH more practical.
Falling can be catastrophic to an elderly person, with brittle bones and less ability to react to minimize the fall. I can only imagine how much worse it will be to fall with another 75 lbs of batteries and gizmos strapped to your back.
Another cultural difference (I'm not japanese, nor have I been there but know some who have - correct me if wrong) is the proliferation of highrises and whatnot. In such a small country, much of the construction is going up and up.
While america is sprawled out and (for the most part) easy to make accessible to wheelchairs, perhaps the ability to get up and down stairs is more practical in japan?
Or perhaps this is just another goony inventors idea that wont go anywhere.
Japan has always been the country of "embrace and extend". They didnt invent the radio, they just refined it. They didnt invent the microchip. They didnt invent the automobile, they just learned how to make them as efficiently as possible (a necessity after pissing all their resources away during WWII).
They did invent the hello kitty vibrator, but that's another story.
Japans a fine country with a lot of resourceful folk, but people tend to overestimate their technocracy. They came up with AIBO, we put men on the moon (and brought them back home safely), and the research involved lead directly or indirectly to over 80,000 consumer products.
That said, they're at it again. They took leg braces and added actuators. I cant imagine who would prefer slowly lumbering around like a mecha-frankenstein to a wheelchair.
They dont have to make one single image, they can make a handful, post them around, see if they get a bite that gives them a lead in what would otherwise be a cold case.
No it's not 100% accurate science, but it's a pretty reasonable estimate, and it's been the break they've needed in the past to solve cases.
You can get a good estimate of weight from the bones themselves. You leave little greasy rings on your bones, as well as put much more wear on joints due to the extra weight.
You can get a good idea of weight by the wear on the bones and joints, especially knees and feet and spine. Any joint really. Cartiledge wears away, there may be deformations, signs of poor blood flow or atrophy, etc, etc..
Forensic pathologists can tell all kinds of crazy shit from the littlest scraps of evidence. It's not as glamorous or goofy as CSI, but it's close.
Extra weight puts a lot of telltale stress on your skeleton, just ask CowboyNeel.
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But I'm just a simple caveman, and your talk of daemons and red hats frighten and confuse me.
.netgear should be a fallback address, you should be syncing the time from your ISP, if they provide it. Many, most of the good ones at least, will provide an NTP server via DHCP. That way you get the best time sync, since your lag to your ISP should be as close to 0 as its going to get.
But that would be wrong, like Red Hats implementation is.
The clock.redhat or
Red Hat could be 10 seconds away from me one minute, 0 the next. It's like trying to synchronize watches via snail mail.
1) It's a stratum 1 server, which means it ultimately sets the clocks of millions of other machines, not netgear routers.
2) How many people with a home router (internet savvy or not) spend all that much time reading the logs, let alone making sure the time stamps are valid?
I know you probably do, but I dont. Because I'm just a simple caveman home networker, and your logs and timestamps frighten and confuse me.
Yeah people are so stupid.
Know what? I dont daily check USRobotics.com to make sure I have the latest modem firmware, nor do I go to logitech to make sure I have the latest mouse drivers.
It isnt that people are stupid or lazy, they obviously just have better ways to spend their time.
Most people who work with computers aren't IT douchebags who sit around on the internet all day looking for a new patch to install. You aren't elite. You're the lowest rung on the ladder.
Now hurry the fuck up and replace the toner cartridge in the xerox, monkey boy.
You can use pointers and registers and inline asm. Thats how a real he-man calculates 5!.
C++ encourages you to avoid solving the problem by trying to introduce abstractions
No it doesnt, it allows you more abstractions that you an use as tools, if they're appropriate. When they're overused or used inappropriately, they detract.
It's like my neighbour who recently bough one of those power spray painter things. He runs around power-painting everything from lawnchairs to his fence - with often terrible results. But he's a guy with a new tool and wants to use it as often as possible, even though it's really only suitable to use in certain niche applications.
Or closer to home, observe the student who just learns recursive techniques. They want to write everything recursively - though it's rarely the best solution and just makes for obscure code. They ubiquitously teach it using factorial as an example, when a for loop is a much better tool.
Such is the way with C++. Not every solution is conducive to an object oriented approach, but it's worth having the tools for the ones that do. The ability to mix and match in large projects is a boon.
If you cant pick the right tools for the right job, then you're a poor craftsman.
Koenig & Moo sounds like a great sitcom, or video game.
Practical C++ Programming is dedicated to teaching the reader how to program in the C++ programming language.
No shit, I thought it was the next in the Harry Potter series. My kids are going to be disappointed.
Sorry, it's just that thats the kind of retarded formula-generated opening statement you'd expect from an 8th grader with no interest in the material. Ie; "The Treasure of Pirate Cove is about a treasure in a place called Pirate Cove"
By the way, I love iPods, so mod me up up up!
- IBM is a manipulating orwellian company. You may believe they're on the "good side" of this fight, but that doesn't mean they're a lovely company, nor does it erase their anticompetitive track record.
- they claim the GPL cant be applied to "their" code, since you cant go around and relicense someone else property. I cant release Ghostbusters under a GPL-like license, it's not mine. The argument makes sense, the matter is who owns the code
- making legal claims without filing is nothing new, people send C&D orders all the time which have no real legal merit
I'm not thrilled with what SCO is doing any more than anyone else is, but dont be too quick to evangelize IBM. They'd pull the rug out from under linux in an instant if they could. It'd be a real sweet plum if someone could take "ownership" of linux.
As slashbots are all to eager to point out, it's a copyright violation, not theft, since "theft" implies tangible goods have been taken.
Or maybe you're right, and maybe the feds should be prosecuting linux users on behalf of SCO.
Ugh I made an SCO reference. I feel so dirty.
Anyways, the term "intellectual property" is wrong. It's not property. Ideas aren't things, and aren't entitled to the same protections.
But I'm just a simple caveman, and your words frighten and confuse me.
I dont think you can do that legally, just like you cant sell oregano if you tell people it's marijuana.
I think the RIAA lawyers would automatically launch action against anyone with a few thousand (or hundred, or dozens - I'm sure the threshhold will drop over time) titles up for download, and wouldnt bother to check that none of the titles belong to them. They just assume they own all music.
You can draw the same punishment for selling fake pot as you can for selling real pot.
I knew a kid who found that out the hard way. He thought it would be hilarious to sell an ounce of oregano to the guy everyone knew to be an undercover cop (small town with a "vice squad" consisting of two cops).
Turns out the law didnt care.
By the same token, would you get a lighter sentence for serving out a crappily encoded copy of Britney Spears latest album, full of pops and skips?
The government shouldnt be handling anything to do with P2P users, it's a civil matter (at least should be) and should result in lawsuits not prosecutions.
They should however start turning the screws when they see a team of lawyers using a flood of lawsuits (or threats thereof) as a form of revenue, and not to resolve legitimate grievances.
The legal system wasnt put in place for anyone to profit from.
Kids keep pitching tents in their pants hoping that some case like this will all of a sudden make downloading mp3z and 0-day warezezz perfectly legal. Of course that will never happen.
This is challenging the subpoena process, which a superior court has already upheld. So, most likely, nothing will come of it.
I'd like to see the case where someone is subpoena'd by the RIAA, and proves in court that they'd never offered so much as one copyrighted work for download. Like it was all fan fiction and independent music or whatever. Headlines blazing "music industry sues guy for doing nothing", RIAA lawyers with egg on their face.
I don't have a problem with them targetting people who are legitimately harming their business. But I have a problem with automated spiders flagging people to be sued or harassed. Automatic threat letters being sent to some person with the unfortunate name of Britney Spears, stuff like that.
They don't do a lot of fact checking before they launch these suits, and do absolutely none at all to send a C&D order. That's wrong and should be punished.
Anyways.
I love iPods mod me up.
10 kgs or 20 lbs is good deal of weight.
Strap a 20lb weight to your back and walk around all day, see how much more exhausted you are come bedtime.
Now imagine you're an older or disabled person.
I'd imagine very few people could benefit from this technology, as it exists.
But the wheelchairs, scooters, and rascals are MUCH more practical.
Falling can be catastrophic to an elderly person, with brittle bones and less ability to react to minimize the fall. I can only imagine how much worse it will be to fall with another 75 lbs of batteries and gizmos strapped to your back.
Another cultural difference (I'm not japanese, nor have I been there but know some who have - correct me if wrong) is the proliferation of highrises and whatnot. In such a small country, much of the construction is going up and up.
While america is sprawled out and (for the most part) easy to make accessible to wheelchairs, perhaps the ability to get up and down stairs is more practical in japan?
Or perhaps this is just another goony inventors idea that wont go anywhere.
Japan has always been the country of "embrace and extend". They didnt invent the radio, they just refined it. They didnt invent the microchip. They didnt invent the automobile, they just learned how to make them as efficiently as possible (a necessity after pissing all their resources away during WWII).
They did invent the hello kitty vibrator, but that's another story.
Japans a fine country with a lot of resourceful folk, but people tend to overestimate their technocracy. They came up with AIBO, we put men on the moon (and brought them back home safely), and the research involved lead directly or indirectly to over 80,000 consumer products.
That said, they're at it again. They took leg braces and added actuators. I cant imagine who would prefer slowly lumbering around like a mecha-frankenstein to a wheelchair.
So what? This stuff exists, and has existed for a while.
Just because this thing has wireless lan built in (for some reason? tracking by nurses?) doesn't make it all that new.
Frankly if you cant get around with regular (unpowered) braces, you're probably going to find more mobility from a wheelchair.
Just release the pictures of a parallel evolution on mars that you already have. Shut the creationists up once and for all!
They dont have to make one single image, they can make a handful, post them around, see if they get a bite that gives them a lead in what would otherwise be a cold case.
No it's not 100% accurate science, but it's a pretty reasonable estimate, and it's been the break they've needed in the past to solve cases.
Are you saying that Indian skeletons aren't anatomically correct?
You can get a good estimate of weight from the bones themselves. You leave little greasy rings on your bones, as well as put much more wear on joints due to the extra weight.
They could stretch a tennis sock over it and draw a smiley face, it's still gonna look closer than just a skull.
That guys afro was EASILY twice as big as that.
And the thing is, he came on a couple minutes after they explained how upper class egyptians would have been shaved bald because of lice and the heat.
I expected to see this in the end credits:
Scientific advise: Stephen J Gould Cinematography: J.J. Walker.
You can get a good idea of weight by the wear on the bones and joints, especially knees and feet and spine. Any joint really. Cartiledge wears away, there may be deformations, signs of poor blood flow or atrophy, etc, etc..
Forensic pathologists can tell all kinds of crazy shit from the littlest scraps of evidence. It's not as glamorous or goofy as CSI, but it's close.
Extra weight puts a lot of telltale stress on your skeleton, just ask CowboyNeel.
I had a thought watching the Nefertiti special the other day, they xrayed the mummy and basically used this 3D computer technique to model the face.
Why not xray some living, breathing folk, give the data to someone (who's never seen the subject obviously) and see how close they come?
I'm sure this was done a lot in developing the system, I'd just like to see the results.
I bet their pretty close. Close enough for next of kin to see it on TV and say "oh that looks like my missing son".