that scenario is actually better, b/c i bet you can tell if your system broken or not much better than specialized team of testers who don't touch these systems for a while, then test just a common sense - "eat your own dog food"
yep, first of all sorry for my attempt to insult at the end of the message:)
yep.. it's mostly a hack, STL should have "buffer" class which will allow to get the address in more straightforward way - actually there's a bunch of libraries, ie boost.org which has those classes as long fixed-size arrays with bound checking in debug mode etc it's just a matter of time before they will become a standard c++, but technology lags of course b/c c++ design committee approves new libraries very slowly and what been approved really sucks (iostream fame) so the only option now for C++ programmer is to get some public domain/lgpl/whatever toolset and stick to it i'm very conservative in that b/c you know - "staryi drug luche novyx dvux - yep i'm kinda living in ex-ussr too" but boost.org and ACE are good candidates... somewhat bloated unfortunately i won't suggest to touch MFC once again with 100 feet pole - if you do UI there's a better alternatives (ATL/WTL, wxWindows); if you do mainly logic work - you shouln't use MFC at all - to link with monstrous library to get CArray class ? huh? (i have to admit that 4 years ago i was being doing exactly that)
oh... better do some reasearch before tagging anything wrong at a glance check this out or just google for "getting a pointer to the first element in a STL vector" nice try boy, i almost belived i was wrong and my C++ programs are buggy shit due to that
We have several Linux user groups here and the penetration is very high - for instance every businness here in russia uses linux for sure... bc it saves bucks and opens up some deals. Generally linux prevails here (i live in siberia)... Every government entity won't buy microsoft snake oil but hire competent sysadmins/developers to support some apps. So the support is very strong here.
I agree with you - I somewhat confused Internet voting and voting machines. Yep, Palladium would be very applicable here and chances are it will be "more fair".
The technology it there for several years in form of various crypto hardware and smartcards. The problem here is who you trust. If hardware and software made by the same entity there's nothing to prevent corruption during couting. Palladium on the other hand is hardware produced by some third party - read processor/motherboard manufacturer tailored to not let users to alter some software produced by software company. There's a contract between hardware and software manufacturer to not let user to alter said software. That requeres wide distribution of such hardware. Something not required with with ballot counting. These technologies of course shares something common but actually have a little to do with each other.
what are you smoking ? i have 3 computers 24 hrs on and my electricity bill is only $4/mo - i live in siberia... given that my monthly income is $1k i don't see how it "chewing up a good portion of our monthly income"
Did someone imagine a distributed cluster all around the planet heating atmosphere to the point no one lives on the earth anymore? What do you need to cool it? Oceans?
you could just use symbolic links and make a simple UI for that - that will work just fine (look at how sysV startup scripts in redhat get linked) moving to a database will be a pain, and for a while you won't get anything useable, no doubt
... and it's still uncertain what will happen to GPL-licensed IMs out there like jabber, miranda and gaim, b/c they're obviously "viral software" for microsoft. Actually probably Microsoft will give some source code of their protocol to licensees so it's probably worth the money for commercial IMs - they won't need to reverse-engineer the protocol and will save a money. Will GPL IMs have a money to pay for license ? Will they have a right to disclose the source, or license will prohibit them doing so ? Seems like an attack on open-source IMs for me - quite sad.
Don't know about you guys...
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... but I live in Russia, Siberia (that's not MIT:)!!!) and we have all the city covered with radio ethernet so I don't exactly understand what's new here.
MS is US company, not Chinese.. see the difference that's all about power and control of the software you use no propaganda here - they probably issued a law that prohibits government entities to use foreign software... that's just a matter of certification within government - all governments do this to protect their computer systems. that's nothing to do with businness
probably you will like this: here it allows to scroll vertically/horisontally by pressing right or middle mouse buttons and moving the mouse in any app. it's opensource now - sources are here i've been using it very long and actually it feels as natural as a wheel.
Slashdot Mirror
No wonder that in russian "caca" is just baby-talk for "crap" :) ;-)
I hope that wasn't intended
that scenario is actually better, b/c i bet you can tell if your system broken or not much better than specialized team of testers who don't touch these systems for a while, then test
just a common sense - "eat your own dog food"
yep, first of all sorry for my attempt to insult at the end of the message :)
yep.. it's mostly a hack, STL should have "buffer" class which will allow to get the address in more straightforward way - actually there's a bunch of libraries, ie boost.org which has those classes as long fixed-size arrays with bound checking in debug mode etc
it's just a matter of time before they will become a standard c++, but technology lags of course b/c c++ design committee approves new libraries very slowly and what been approved really sucks (iostream fame)
so the only option now for C++ programmer is to get some public domain/lgpl/whatever toolset and stick to it
i'm very conservative in that b/c you know - "staryi drug luche novyx dvux - yep i'm kinda living in ex-ussr too" but boost.org and ACE are good candidates... somewhat bloated unfortunately
i won't suggest to touch MFC once again with 100 feet pole - if you do UI there's a better alternatives (ATL/WTL, wxWindows); if you do mainly logic work - you shouln't use MFC at all - to link with monstrous library to get CArray class ? huh? (i have to admit that 4 years ago i was being doing exactly that)
ok.. anyway - nice talk, thanks
oh... better do some reasearch before tagging anything wrong at a glance
check this out
or just google for "getting a pointer to the first element in a STL vector"
nice try boy, i almost belived i was wrong and my C++ programs are buggy shit due to that
not true :) vector is just a continous chunk of memory and you can safely get the pointer to the first element - it's well documented
you should use vector for it, not string
We have several Linux user groups here
and the penetration is very high - for instance every businness here in russia uses linux for sure... bc it saves bucks and opens up some deals.
Generally linux prevails here (i live in siberia)... Every government entity won't buy microsoft snake oil but hire competent sysadmins/developers to support some apps.
So the support is very strong here.
There's a rumor circulating that THEY are planning to place
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RFID tags on tinfoil to track you everywhere you go or stay.
Now that's what I call a total control.
I agree with you - I somewhat confused Internet voting and voting machines.
Yep, Palladium would be very applicable here and chances are it will be "more fair".
The technology it there for several years in form of various crypto hardware and smartcards.
The problem here is who you trust. If hardware and software made by the same entity there's nothing to prevent corruption during couting.
Palladium on the other hand is hardware produced by some third party - read processor/motherboard manufacturer tailored to not let users to alter some software produced by software company. There's a contract between hardware and software manufacturer to not let user to alter said software. That requeres wide distribution of such hardware. Something not required with with ballot counting.
These technologies of course shares something common but actually have a little to do with each other.
> The site is still up for now, but how long will it last?
Not very long after the post.
what are you smoking ?
i have 3 computers 24 hrs on and my electricity bill is only $4/mo - i live in siberia... given that my monthly income is $1k i don't see how it "chewing up a good portion of our monthly income"
Did someone imagine a distributed cluster all around the planet heating atmosphere to the point no one lives on the earth anymore?
What do you need to cool it? Oceans?
you could just use symbolic links
and make a simple UI for that - that will work just fine (look at how sysV startup scripts in redhat get linked)
moving to a database will be a pain, and for a while you won't get anything useable, no doubt
... and it's still uncertain what will happen to GPL-licensed IMs out there like jabber, miranda and gaim, b/c they're obviously "viral software" for microsoft.
Actually probably Microsoft will give some source code of their protocol to licensees so it's probably worth the money for commercial IMs - they won't need to reverse-engineer the protocol and will save a money.
Will GPL IMs have a money to pay for license ?
Will they have a right to disclose the source, or license will prohibit them doing so ?
Seems like an attack on open-source IMs for me - quite sad.
... but I live in Russia, Siberia (that's not MIT :)!!!) and we have all the city covered with radio ethernet so I don't exactly understand what's new here.
The Ghost in Your Machine
Quite eye-opening, I thought those're little midget or two who produce such weird noise in my case.
Eureka, they are ghosts!
The whole new meaning of Microsoft Shared Source initiative ;)
They don't use Visual C++ either
Neither Sun uses Java for internal projects.
I don't know why, actually.
MS is US company, not Chinese.. see the difference
that's all about power and control of the software you use
no propaganda here - they probably issued a law that prohibits government entities to use foreign software... that's just a matter of certification within government - all governments do this to protect their computer systems.
that's nothing to do with businness
yeah... i propose to call this new macrophage "SkyNet" ;-)
this app does exactly this with right mouse button (configurable to middle)
probably you will like this:
here
it allows to scroll vertically/horisontally by pressing right or middle mouse buttons and moving the mouse in any app. it's opensource now - sources are here
i've been using it very long and actually it feels as natural as a wheel.
wonder what ? there are already several opensource sip phones/proxies/pbxs (supporting hardware for sound encoding too)
just google for it
somebody.. please stop this new simoniker before it's too late, i have some work to do, really :)