Well, I think there is more work done on unix systems, and more programs are developed for unix systems than there is for windows systems.
The server side of computing is not really as narrow as you have explained it.
Another thing is, no, not everybody uses Windows, I do use it, but since we are here in slashdot, I'm telling you that most of the users around you use, and love, linux and apple systems, and use them as workstations as well (I have a linux work station although it's not my main pc too).
The idea that developing programs for windows is more important is wrong, I really don't like to spend my time developing a program to help Microsoft gain more power in the monopoly.
I am not much into software development for the time being, but if I get into that I'll always make sure to build programs for linux BEFORE Windows (or make portable solutions).
It's just that Unix is a nice OS for MANY things, not some things!
Well, it's more like 99999 more other guys blame Microsoft whether they deserve it or not.
I don't like Microsoft, I rather dislike them, but then, we have to be fair when judging them, if we keep on blaming Microsoft for stuff they don't deserve the blame for, they can, and would, use this against us in things they do deserve the blame for, it breaks our crediblity!
Tiny minority of programs ever written for Unix systems?
Well, you sound quite uninformed (Or acting as uninformed). All I'll do is the server you are using RIGHT now is written for a Unix system, just one simple example for you.
Lots and lots of stuff more, without "Unix systems" computing wouldn't be as good as it is now. It's a very important type of Operating systems!
even if they HAVE been ported or semi ported or whatever, do they always work as good?
And then, 'popular' might mean different stuff for you than it would mean for me, or anybody else, I'd really fancy running some linux programs through a virtual machine (Well, and I did).
Well the idea of virtual machines is nice and pretty useful, but then why would Microsoft want to embeded in its Operating System? And why would Microsoft even consider giving such a service for *free*?
I don't think Microsoft would create another "Internet Explorer"-like problem, if it provides such a service it'll probably be additional and cost more money.
Well, the idea of hacker challenges rings a bill to me, as *hacker challenges* was one of the main things that got me to be interested in computing more than ever before.
That reminds me of the many online hacking/programing challenges I played before, some of them were really fun, examples include http://www.try2hack.nl http://www.arcanum.co.nz http://www.slyfx.co.uk http://www.mod-x.co.uk And many others, they might not be really hard or challenging enough to experts, but they get you will into the interest of computing and security (They have no aims of producing black hat hackers imo, all what they aim at is producing people interested in securing themselves and people around them).
I'll be looking into getting this Hackers Challenge as it really sounds interesting:).
Many of the comments have been blaming this on Microsoft itself selling addresses or stuff like this. I am not pro-Microsoft or whatever, but I think that's just nonsense.
Spam, I guess, hurts the company more than anybody else, it clutters the database, and waste space, and fills unused email accounts with lots of junk,...
We should think a bit before blaming everything on Microsoft just because of the bad guy it is being towards us.
Well that's a weird case to be honest, because I have been using different kinds of account names to see which ones recieve less spam, and I have noticed that some kinds of names actually recieve more spam then others, most noteably first alphabet emails. I have recieved emails sent to names very simillar to mine (in the To list) in a brute force manner.
Maybe you forgot to uncheck the addition to white pages or something? Because it is there by default, and if you have it checked then reasons of spam are obvious.
Well guys, you probably have not been using the google tool bar (or at least not fully), have you?
quoting from http://toolbar.google.com/button_help.html :
Voting buttons: If you especially like or dislike a page, you can vote for or against the page by using these buttons. Just click the happy or unhappy faces to tell Google that you like or dislike a page as you surf. These buttons can also be used to report especially good or bad results after searching on Google. Indicate satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your results by clicking the appropriate button after performing a Google search. This feature is in testing; for now, you will not see any immediate effects by voting for or against a page.
PageRank(TM) : Displays the PageRank of the page currently in your browser. In order to automatically update this display for each page you visit, the Toolbar sends information about the page you are viewing to the Google servers. Although Google, Inc. does not collect information that directly identifies you (e.g., your name, email address) and will not sell or provide personally identifiable information to any third parties, you may wish to read our privacy policy and/or disable this sending of information. If you decide to disable this functionality, you will no longer see the PageRank for every page as you surf the web. Click here to see our Toolbar privacy policy.
The most important factor that makes computers (machines) work is the randomlessness they have. It is even hard (or almost impossible) to build a really random number using a computer. On the other hand, living cells of any kind have much higher randomness, would they really be able to control how large this random factor is?
Well, what's ironic is that the ranking system is _hardly_ used nowawadays (at least from what I see). I have the toolbar, and I did rank some pages sometimes, but when I think about it, I rarely do look at the google page rank in a website when I visit it, and I wonder how many others do?
Note: Slashdot has a high page rank anyways:)
Well, a great question sir, I have been studying 2 computer science courses last semester (erm computer science math). These courses talked about most of the things addressed in the question, and I doubt I'll ever need some stuff there in my real computer science life.
Well, we still studied some interesting stuff with applications in computer science, however, isn't it more useful to make the course more concentrated in stuff we will use all the time in the future!
I hope there are not much such courses in my university career anyway!
I personally prefer using Sun's Java, however, I always hear some people telling me that it is slower and such...
I still trust Sun's JDK to follow the rules more than any other JDK..
Thanks for reading...
Well, google is the greatest search engine in my opinion, I think they are doing a great job! Anyway, I noticed some weird thing in the results (especially in google groups), when I switch to a different page (through the indexed numbers below e.g. 1 2 3 4 Next --->).. I noticed that the number of these pages change sometimes which is a bit weird.
Heh, I'm glad I don't need this because first we don't use busses here, and second even if I needed it I can write a simple program without all this electrical stuff, as I'd rarely be away from my pc anyway, an alert ding would be quite enough!
Slashdot Mirror
True,
sorry, was a typo.
Well, I think there is more work done on unix systems, and more programs are developed for unix systems than there is for windows systems.
The server side of computing is not really as narrow as you have explained it.
Another thing is, no, not everybody uses Windows, I do use it, but since we are here in slashdot, I'm telling you that most of the users around you use, and love, linux and apple systems, and use them as workstations as well (I have a linux work station although it's not my main pc too).
The idea that developing programs for windows is more important is wrong, I really don't like to spend my time developing a program to help Microsoft gain more power in the monopoly.
I am not much into software development for the time being, but if I get into that I'll always make sure to build programs for linux BEFORE Windows (or make portable solutions).
It's just that Unix is a nice OS for MANY things, not some things!
Well, it's more like 99999 more other guys blame Microsoft whether they deserve it or not.
I don't like Microsoft, I rather dislike them, but then, we have to be fair when judging them, if we keep on blaming Microsoft for stuff they don't deserve the blame for, they can, and would, use this against us in things they do deserve the blame for, it breaks our crediblity!
It's just you :)
Tiny minority of programs ever written for Unix systems?
Well, you sound quite uninformed (Or acting as uninformed). All I'll do is the server you are using RIGHT now is written for a Unix system, just one simple example for you.
Lots and lots of stuff more, without "Unix systems" computing wouldn't be as good as it is now. It's a very important type of Operating systems!
Well,
even if they HAVE been ported or semi ported or whatever, do they always work as good?
And then, 'popular' might mean different stuff for you than it would mean for me, or anybody else, I'd really fancy running some linux programs through a virtual machine (Well, and I did).
Well the idea of virtual machines is nice and pretty useful, but then why would Microsoft want to embeded in its Operating System? And why would Microsoft even consider giving such a service for *free*?
I don't think Microsoft would create another "Internet Explorer"-like problem, if it provides such a service it'll probably be additional and cost more money.
Well, the idea of hacker challenges rings a bill to me, as *hacker challenges* was one of the main things that got me to be interested in computing more than ever before. That reminds me of the many online hacking/programing challenges I played before, some of them were really fun, examples include http://www.try2hack.nl http://www.arcanum.co.nz http://www.slyfx.co.uk http://www.mod-x.co.uk And many others, they might not be really hard or challenging enough to experts, but they get you will into the interest of computing and security (They have no aims of producing black hat hackers imo, all what they aim at is producing people interested in securing themselves and people around them). I'll be looking into getting this Hackers Challenge as it really sounds interesting :).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/17379 .html speaks about the fact that addresses are added to the white pages by default.
Many of the comments have been blaming this on Microsoft itself selling addresses or stuff like this. I am not pro-Microsoft or whatever, but I think that's just nonsense.
...
Spam, I guess, hurts the company more than anybody else, it clutters the database, and waste space, and fills unused email accounts with lots of junk,
We should think a bit before blaming everything on Microsoft just because of the bad guy it is being towards us.
Well that's a weird case to be honest, because I have been using different kinds of account names to see which ones recieve less spam, and I have noticed that some kinds of names actually recieve more spam then others, most noteably first alphabet emails. I have recieved emails sent to names very simillar to mine (in the To list) in a brute force manner. Maybe you forgot to uncheck the addition to white pages or something? Because it is there by default, and if you have it checked then reasons of spam are obvious.
I don't use apple at all, but what attracted me is the BSD logo there at the topic. Is it some kind of a mistake or is there any relation?
They're not there by default, they are in the options though, I take it slashdot users do see options when they install something =)
:) ).
You'll find it under Page Information anyway (if we have the same version
Well guys, you probably have not been using the google tool bar (or at least not fully), have you?
quoting from http://toolbar.google.com/button_help.html :Voting buttons: If you especially like or dislike a page, you can vote for or against the page by using these buttons. Just click the happy or unhappy faces to tell Google that you like or dislike a page as you surf. These buttons can also be used to report especially good or bad results after searching on Google. Indicate satisfaction or dissatisfaction with your results by clicking the appropriate button after performing a Google search. This feature is in testing; for now, you will not see any immediate effects by voting for or against a page.
PageRank(TM) : Displays the PageRank of the page currently in your browser. In order to automatically update this display for each page you visit, the Toolbar sends information about the page you are viewing to the Google servers. Although Google, Inc. does not collect information that directly identifies you (e.g., your name, email address) and will not sell or provide personally identifiable information to any third parties, you may wish to read our privacy policy and/or disable this sending of information. If you decide to disable this functionality, you will no longer see the PageRank for every page as you surf the web. Click here to see our Toolbar privacy policy.
thanks for readingI do :]
The most important factor that makes computers (machines) work is the randomlessness they have. It is even hard (or almost impossible) to build a really random number using a computer. On the other hand, living cells of any kind have much higher randomness, would they really be able to control how large this random factor is?
Well, what's ironic is that the ranking system is _hardly_ used nowawadays (at least from what I see). I have the toolbar, and I did rank some pages sometimes, but when I think about it, I rarely do look at the google page rank in a website when I visit it, and I wonder how many others do? Note: Slashdot has a high page rank anyways :)
I'd call it CyberCamel, and cc for short :p could be kinda ironic :]
Well, a great question sir, I have been studying 2 computer science courses last semester (erm computer science math). These courses talked about most of the things addressed in the question, and I doubt I'll ever need some stuff there in my real computer science life.
Well, we still studied some interesting stuff with applications in computer science, however, isn't it more useful to make the course more concentrated in stuff we will use all the time in the future!
I hope there are not much such courses in my university career anyway!
I personally prefer using Sun's Java, however, I always hear some people telling me that it is slower and such ...
I still trust Sun's JDK to follow the rules more than any other JDK ..
Thanks for reading ...
Java.NET already exists, under the beautiful name of C#
Well, google is the greatest search engine in my opinion, I think they are doing a great job! Anyway, I noticed some weird thing in the results (especially in google groups), when I switch to a different page (through the indexed numbers below e.g. 1 2 3 4 Next --->) .. I noticed that the number of these pages change sometimes which is a bit weird.
I don't modify my hammer to work as a screw though (and lose both functionas at the end), do I?
Well, the power of linux is in its command line, I believe there should all the work go. I feel linux is going in a totally wrong direction.
Heh, I'm glad I don't need this because first we don't use busses here, and second even if I needed it I can write a simple program without all this electrical stuff, as I'd rarely be away from my pc anyway, an alert ding would be quite enough!