What bothers me about this is not the irony of Microsoft teaching courses on secure coding, but that the only benefit they can receive for this is for the advertising. Its just like the commercial they recently had shot down-- 'Microsoft makes hackers obsolete.'
All of the corporate 'Microsoft shops' can now point to Microsoft's security classes to justify paying the ungodly licensing fees instead of considering a reasonable alternative. A lot of people will actually believe that MS code is secure when they see that Microsoft is doing this.
users needing super high-performance and to different types of users (support for embedded systems). I didn't seem to notice any features for common web site data storage.
However in the upcoming 4.x releases there were quite a few cool features for the average joe, such as ability to change mysqld options without restarting the server. There was another proposed feature that was cryptic to me: it looked like it would provide support for database redundancy. Is this correct?
It just occurred to me how useful IM could be in a business environment and that while Linux has a number of useful methods of IM that come with the OS, Windows doesn't seem to have a counterpart. Why hasn't MS integrated instant messaging into Windows NT or even Outlook Express?
Set up like AOL IM, it would be SO SO SO useful in a business environment. It would cut down on so much pointless email and voicemail.
If we began taking enough stuff from the moon, it would lower the mass of the moon and raise the mass of the earth, and therefore increase the gravitational pull of the Earth. Then the moon's orbit would get closer to the Earth.
This way, we could bring the moon closer and closer until it is close enough that we could reach it using an airplane and then it would be a lot easier to mine.
I found the story on the Loebner prize particularly interesting and tried out some of the chat bots that have been developed, esp. Alice. They have a little ways to come as far as language processing, but overall I think they've come very far (the last one I've tried was the psychoanalyst in Emacs).
I can think of a number of uses for this, including search engines, help desk stuff, etc. How long before this becomes commonplace technology? Five years, ten years?
It should not be a question of what kids are most likely to use in the real world. It's what has the most educational value and what OS will form the groundwork for a more complete understanding of an OS. Any UNIX user can easily figure out Windows or any other OS (I'm assuming).
This represents one of the big problems with education nowadays. They focus on practical knowledge and forego the fundamentals. In math, they focus on story problems and applications and typically ignore analysis. In foreign languages, they kick Latin out the door, the basis for five of the most commonly used languages, in place of modern languages.
Not understanding fundamentals is going to hurt kids when they try to move their experience using one OS to another OS. Experience with Unix provides these fundamentals.
It is a GPLed Java calculator-like application that does symbolic integration, graphing, and all the basic ti-8x style math functionality. Very nicely built and its still being developed.
but I spent most of my free time on high school on the Des Moines, IA area BBSs playing those great ASCII 'door games' (the Pit and TradeWars!!) Does anybody still use that software? like Spitfire, etc. or was it killed by the internet?
Werner Heisenberg was driving down the road one day, just flying along at about a hundred miles an hour, and a policeman cruised up behind him with his lights on.
Werner pulled over and rolled down his window. The policeman got out and went up to Werner.
"Do you know how fast you were going?" asked the police officer.
I tend to read mostly modern day novels or 'literary' novels like Philip Roth or Jose Saramago, but I love Lord of the Rings and Hitchhiker's books as well. I don't mean to sound hoity-toity in saying all of this, but the problem is I can't really get a doorway into the sci-fi/fantasy genre in order to learn what is good or what is bad. It seems like when I browse the section, they all look the same to me and some of the books are horribly written.
I suppose what I'm looking for is something with a sense of humor and is 'smart' with its characters.
Another way to phrase this might be: is there any literary difference between a 'good' sci-fi/fantasy novel and a 'good' modern-day novel?
I've heard a lot about the Dune series, Neal Stephenson, & Isaac Asimov. Am I on the right track?
I don't know about Perl (sorry) but from what little I've used or heard about Python, I wouldn't mind if it came to serious competition with Java.
Even as a big Java fan and programmer, I have to admit I think its use on the desktop, for the most part, gives it a bad name (with a few exceptions like JEdit or NetBeans). As a server side language its value is irreplaceable by Python or.NET. With all of the community code out there, particularly the Jakarta-Apache project, and the fact that its a simple and elegant language, what more could we want?
Is it possible to get a reply that is on-topic and not ad hominum? Must I also be so concerned with my spelling every time I post on slashdot? Its as picky at spelling mistakes as my java compiler is. Maybe I should send my code to you so you can correct the spelling, if you like doing it so much, and take the burden off my CPU.
BTW, I didn't reply to my own message. If it makes any difference to you, I happened to agree with something the original poster said. That highly arcane use of the word anymore was probably a coincidence.
And to avoid being completely off-topic, has anyone compared O'Reilly's struts book with Manning's? I've grown very fond of Manning's Java books after JDK 1.4 Tutorial and Bitter Java. Thanks for the help even though no one will see this because it is a reply to a lame mod 0 post.
JBoss is an Enterprise JavaBeans container to be used for large to very-large applications and is purely in the 'controller' (or was it model? I forget:) segment of the MVC. Struts is great for implementing a simple run-of-the-mill to moderately complex web application and its purpose is to structure the application. JBoss provides no structure to the application as a whole, but acts as another layer in the structure. Struts and JBoss can work together without any problems whatsoever.
here here! I feel guilty anymore for wanting to write code myself. There are some truly useful and important tools and libraries out there, and Struts may be one of them, but shouldn't we be allowed to 'reinvent the wheel' a little bit without feeling like some sort of revolutionary? How else are developers to understand software design in an intuitive sense without some trial and error? I know we went through all of the trial and error in college, but colleges are way behind on web technologies (at least mine was two years ago).
There's nothing that can really be done about it, obviously. It is part of the necessary evolution of the system, but still, I feel the need to rant about it.
Where's the fine line between saving time & money (having good stewardship) by using a framework like Struts and exploring a technology like J2EE for better understanding, by trying things yourself? Is this to be done on your own time only?
I don't remember if it is in polynomial time, but the one that assumes the Riemann Hypothesis is the first algorithm to give a 100% probability of primality. Previously they fell around a measly 99%.
Simpy put, the poincare conjecture implies that every compact n-manifold is homotopy-equivalent to the n-sphere iff it is homeomorphic to the n-sphere. (From Wolfram's MathWorld)
Actually I don't know what that means, but having read and studied a bit about math, I can offer some explanation on the importance of such a proof.
When a proof attempts to show that two algebraic structures are equal, as does this conjecture, it allows mathematicians the freedom to look at a problem in two ways instead of one. At last, a compact n-manifold problem can be safely regarded as an n-sphere problem and all the rules regarding n-spheres can be applied to certian n-manifolds.
On another topic, these long-standing, but near-universally-believed-to-be-true conjectures are often assumed to be true in order to prove other theorems. i.e. a ground-breaking new primality testing algorithm ASSUMES the truth of the unproven Reimann Hypothesis. So, future encryption keys may rely on unstable hypotheses for their unbreakability.
Obviously it all can't be a success. How about the downsides?
Of course there will be downsides; all products have downsides, but what is amazing is that Apache and (much of) Mozilla, written mostly in people's spare time, have become a viable competitor to software written by multi-billion dollar corporations.
Business-success in our country should not be defined as 'to dominate a market share' but to 'be able to compete in a market.' That's the difference between fair capitalism and a monopoly.
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All of the corporate 'Microsoft shops' can now point to Microsoft's security classes to justify paying the ungodly licensing fees instead of considering a reasonable alternative. A lot of people will actually believe that MS code is secure when they see that Microsoft is doing this.
However in the upcoming 4.x releases there were quite a few cool features for the average joe, such as ability to change mysqld options without restarting the server. There was another proposed feature that was cryptic to me: it looked like it would provide support for database redundancy. Is this correct?
When does the book come out? Larry Wall's Perl 5 manual was the most fun I've had reading a computer book. Is he going to top it with the Perl 6 book?
Set up like AOL IM, it would be SO SO SO useful in a business environment. It would cut down on so much pointless email and voicemail.
This way, we could bring the moon closer and closer until it is close enough that we could reach it using an airplane and then it would be a lot easier to mine.
This sounds interesting but what's a root server query?
I can think of a number of uses for this, including search engines, help desk stuff, etc. How long before this becomes commonplace technology? Five years, ten years?
This represents one of the big problems with education nowadays. They focus on practical knowledge and forego the fundamentals. In math, they focus on story problems and applications and typically ignore analysis. In foreign languages, they kick Latin out the door, the basis for five of the most commonly used languages, in place of modern languages.
Not understanding fundamentals is going to hurt kids when they try to move their experience using one OS to another OS. Experience with Unix provides these fundamentals.
It is a GPLed Java calculator-like application that does symbolic integration, graphing, and all the basic ti-8x style math functionality. Very nicely built and its still being developed.
but I spent most of my free time on high school on the Des Moines, IA area BBSs playing those great ASCII 'door games' (the Pit and TradeWars!!) Does anybody still use that software? like Spitfire, etc. or was it killed by the internet?
Werner pulled over and rolled down his window. The policeman got out and went up to Werner.
"Do you know how fast you were going?" asked the police officer.
"No," said Werner, "But I know where I am."
I suppose what I'm looking for is something with a sense of humor and is 'smart' with its characters.
Another way to phrase this might be: is there any literary difference between a 'good' sci-fi/fantasy novel and a 'good' modern-day novel?
I've heard a lot about the Dune series, Neal Stephenson, & Isaac Asimov. Am I on the right track?
Thanks for any replies!
Even as a big Java fan and programmer, I have to admit I think its use on the desktop, for the most part, gives it a bad name (with a few exceptions like JEdit or NetBeans). As a server side language its value is irreplaceable by Python or
BTW, I didn't reply to my own message. If it makes any difference to you, I happened to agree with something the original poster said. That highly arcane use of the word anymore was probably a coincidence.
And to avoid being completely off-topic, has anyone compared O'Reilly's struts book with Manning's? I've grown very fond of Manning's Java books after JDK 1.4 Tutorial and Bitter Java. Thanks for the help even though no one will see this because it is a reply to a lame mod 0 post.
JBoss is an Enterprise JavaBeans container to be used for large to very-large applications and is purely in the 'controller' (or was it model? I forget :) segment of the MVC. Struts is great for implementing a simple run-of-the-mill to moderately complex web application and its purpose is to structure the application. JBoss provides no structure to the application as a whole, but acts as another layer in the structure. Struts and JBoss can work together without any problems whatsoever.
There's nothing that can really be done about it, obviously. It is part of the necessary evolution of the system, but still, I feel the need to rant about it.
Where's the fine line between saving time & money (having good stewardship) by using a framework like Struts and exploring a technology like J2EE for better understanding, by trying things yourself? Is this to be done on your own time only?
A breakdown in security? I can see it being a breakdown in MVC.. can someone elaborate on this?
I don't remember if it is in polynomial time, but the one that assumes the Riemann Hypothesis is the first algorithm to give a 100% probability of primality. Previously they fell around a measly 99%.
Very impressive, but tell me what 7 x 10 yields and you'll have me convinced of your math knowledge. 70
Simpy put, the poincare conjecture implies that every compact n-manifold is homotopy-equivalent to the n-sphere iff it is homeomorphic to the n-sphere. (From Wolfram's MathWorld) Actually I don't know what that means, but having read and studied a bit about math, I can offer some explanation on the importance of such a proof. When a proof attempts to show that two algebraic structures are equal, as does this conjecture, it allows mathematicians the freedom to look at a problem in two ways instead of one. At last, a compact n-manifold problem can be safely regarded as an n-sphere problem and all the rules regarding n-spheres can be applied to certian n-manifolds. On another topic, these long-standing, but near-universally-believed-to-be-true conjectures are often assumed to be true in order to prove other theorems. i.e. a ground-breaking new primality testing algorithm ASSUMES the truth of the unproven Reimann Hypothesis. So, future encryption keys may rely on unstable hypotheses for their unbreakability.
If the RIAA has sex with your wife, you haven't lost anything...
Of course there will be downsides; all products have downsides, but what is amazing is that Apache and (much of) Mozilla, written mostly in people's spare time, have become a viable competitor to software written by multi-billion dollar corporations.
Business-success in our country should not be defined as 'to dominate a market share' but to 'be able to compete in a market.' That's the difference between fair capitalism and a monopoly.