Exactly how is a review of a 16-month old book newsworthy?
It's not meant to be news, it's meant to be a book review. I've seen plenty of Slashdot book reviews that weren't of recently minted books. I don't see why it's a problem. As long as the book is still relevant in it's subject area, a review is beneficial.
Hell, the review may be beneficial even if the book ISN'T still relevant, if the book review brings that point out, thereby helping somebody avoid a useless purchase.
Frankly, I'm skeptical. I'm sure this program is more sophisticated than diff, which means more likely to get false positives. It was in two introductory programming courses. I'm not sure that there are 187 different ways of writing substantially different programs for that kind of assignment, especially by people who have only seen the style of the teacher and that of the textbooks
Exactly. If somebody asks you to write "Hello, World", how in the hell are you supposed to do it in a fashion that's different enough to NOT get flagged as "cheating?" It just doesn't make sense, especially in lower level courses, to assume that people are cheating because their work is similiar.
It checks for programs that are 96% like other programs that have been submitted to the system. I think it is acctually a good method of catching blatant cheaters.
No, it's not. It's a terrible way to catch cheaters, IMO. And the reason is... even if two students' work is 100% the same, that's still not PROOF that one copied from the other. It's entirely possible that two students, working in isolation from each other, could produce identical solutions to an identical problem.
Especially in a programming 101 course, where the problems are likely to be pretty trivial. It's suspicious, of course, if two students turn in highly similiar work.. but that alone does NOT constitute proof of cheating.
Does this mean they'll have red ibm logos or blue redhat logos' on them?
If I had to guess, I'd guess a blue RedHat logo.
This is based on my recollection of back when IBM used to resell a semi-IBM branded version of Novell Netware. At the time, Netware's predominant color on all their logo's and stuff was (curiously enough) red. But, the boxes, books, etc., that IBM Netware came in, were all blue themed, with the Novell / Netware logo's.
This is wrong, and yes, I'm going to mention 1984 here. How much closer do we have to get?
We can't get/much/ closer. Any closer and we will be living in the world Orwell painted in 1984.
This is absurd, ridiculous, and inexcusable. Something HAS to be done to stop this. I, for one, refuse to give in to the idea of living in an Orwellian nightmare "utopia."
If I worked for you, and you implemented such a policy, I would resign at the earliest possible opportunity. Expecting developers to work with completely locked down machines is ridiculous.
Your experience doesn't match mine at all. My OmniCube works fine with two Linux boxes all the time, a Windows box some of the time, a Mac every now and then (yeah, I'm always juggling stuff around). I've used it a Logitech trackball once (long enough to figure out that I hate trackballs) and two kinds of Logitech mice.
I also use a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port with both linux and Windows machines, and have had ZERO problems with it. It was priced reasonably, isn't too big, and hasn't hiccupped once in the 8 months I've had it. I'd reccommend it in a heartbeat.
I find it somewhat disturbing as in this case, AOL are profiting directly from the product, meanwhile, they contribute nothing back to the open source community (except bug reports, but what AOL users submit those).
Ummm, AOL employs the majority of the Mozilla developers. Whatever you want to say about AOL, one cannot justly say they don't contribute to the OSS community.
If you don't believe me, go to www.mozilla.org and browse until you find lists of module owners and contributors. Or search bugzilla. Note that something like three quarters of the e-mail addresses end in @netscape.com.
Mozilla is the best browser on the market and it's not even version one yet
Agreed. With 0.9.5, Mozilla has become more than good enough for regular use. I haven't had to open IE even once, in the week since I downloaded Moz 0.9.5.
In fact, I've had the same Mozilla window open for right at a week now, and haven't had the first problem. Try keeping the same IE window open ( and used regularly ) for a week.
Mozilla 0.9.5 is just as fast as IE 5.5, on my K6/2-266 machine, and the tabbed interface just kicks a$$.
In short, with the 0.9.5 release, Mozilla IS now the best browser available, IMO.
FWIW, I'm using the Sun Java Plug-in 1.3.1 with Mozilla 0.9.5 and it works just fine. I did have to configure the mime type manually to make it work, but once it was configured, it works fine.
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It also lacks some useful features like auto-refresh, IP spoofing, etc...
LOL! IP spoofing, eh? And just what exactly are you gonna use *that* for???
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Moz is nowhere near as stable as IE. End of story.
Sounds like YOU need to put down the crackpipe. IE is the most unstable, bug-ridden piece of crap I've ever encountered. Mozilla 0.5 was more stable than IE, for cryin' out loud.
With some of the new features starting to appear in Mozilla, and with the performance coming around to usable levels, Mozilla is VERY close to claiming outright, it's status as "Best Browser In The Land."
I think by the time Mozilla hits 1.0, it will be clearly superior to IE in every significant area.
I know this is going to be unpopular, but isn't this the type of thing that Carnivore and/or Echelon is supposed to intercept?
Interesting sentiment, but...
We don't know that Echelon even exists.
We really don't know that Echelon is literally worldwide. If this was coordinated entirely overseas, it might make Echelon moot.
The terrorists might not have used e-mail / telephone or any other kind of electronic communications. Apparently the CIA used to track Bin Laden by monitoring his satellite phone calls, but he got wise to that and quit using it. For all we know, he now relies on carrier pigeons or something.
Even if they did use electronic communication, maybe it was encrypted. I know we are all paranoid, and assume the NSA has the resources to decrypt any and all encrypted e-mail, but maybe that's not the case after all.
You might check the Watcom compiler. I think it can be used from the command line. And, as a bonus, they're in the process of open-sourcing it.
There are some other C++ compilers for Windows as well, or at least there used to be. I'm just having trouble remembering their names. Ummmm. Microsoft, Borland, Watcom, Metaware, Oh, yeah.. Metaware. I think they make a product called High C++ that might be of interest too ya.
And what about good ole GCC? Isn't there a port to Windows that supports the M$ includes and libraries? I thought that I read once that there was.
Ben Franklin ( I think ) said that "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." But Americans have become to apathetic to even care about there government, much less the actions that the government has been taking. And because of this more and more skewed laws have worked there way in the the US Code. Sadly, today, they could arrest almost anyone with the inordinate amount of laws on the books. They chose here and now to arrest Mr. Sklyarov. I hope that he wins, and I hope that the court system invalidates this very askew law. It would help put more freedom back into the individuals hand, and away from the greedy corporate entity.
Not *everyone* has become completely apathetic about the Government. But, there simply don't seem to be enough of us who still care, to make any difference.
Or maybe there are.... Say, does anybody hear a...
Revolution Calling?
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It saddens me to realize that we will probably
be fighting another civil war this century,
because of the activities of the entertainment industry.
As much as it saddens me to say this, I agree. The American people will NOT continue to allow the Constitution of this great country to be raped, forever. The people WILL rise up, and exercise what Abraham Lincoln called "their revolutionary right."
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There is also Tom Swans "Tom Swan's GNU C++ for Linux", published by Que (I think).
Yes, it is by Que. And it's a pretty good "Linux/C++ book", IMHO. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a book that's specifically about C++ on Linux.
Exactly how is a review of a 16-month old book newsworthy?
It's not meant to be news, it's meant to be a book review. I've seen plenty of Slashdot book reviews that weren't of recently minted books. I don't see why it's a problem. As long as the book is still relevant in it's subject area, a review is beneficial.
Hell, the review may be beneficial even if the book ISN'T still relevant, if the book review brings that point out, thereby helping somebody avoid a useless purchase.
Frankly, I'm skeptical. I'm sure this program is more sophisticated than diff, which means more likely to get false positives. It was in two introductory programming courses. I'm not sure that there are 187 different ways of writing substantially different programs for that kind of assignment, especially by people who have only seen the style of the teacher and that of the textbooks
Exactly. If somebody asks you to write "Hello, World", how in the hell are you supposed to do it in a fashion that's different enough to NOT get flagged as "cheating?" It just doesn't make sense, especially in lower level courses, to assume that people are cheating because their work is similiar.
It checks for programs that are 96% like other programs that have been submitted to the system. I think it is acctually a good method of catching blatant cheaters.
No, it's not. It's a terrible way to catch cheaters, IMO. And the reason is... even if two students' work is 100% the same, that's still not PROOF that one copied from the other. It's entirely possible that two students, working in isolation from each other, could produce identical solutions to an identical problem.
Especially in a programming 101 course, where the problems are likely to be pretty trivial. It's suspicious, of course, if two students turn in highly similiar work.. but that alone does NOT constitute proof of cheating.
Does this mean they'll have red ibm logos or blue redhat logos' on them?
If I had to guess, I'd guess a blue RedHat logo.
This is based on my recollection of back when IBM used to resell a semi-IBM branded version of Novell Netware. At the time, Netware's predominant color on all their logo's and stuff was (curiously enough) red. But, the boxes, books, etc., that IBM Netware came in, were all blue themed, with the Novell / Netware logo's.
First of all, who the hell modded this down????? What a crock.
Secondly:
Or did they just drive around New York and Washington until they saw 3 fucking great big buildings?
Exactly!
This is wrong, and yes, I'm going to mention 1984 here. How much closer do we have to get?
/much/ closer. Any closer and we will be living in the world Orwell painted in 1984.
We can't get
This is absurd, ridiculous, and inexcusable. Something HAS to be done to stop this. I, for one, refuse to give in to the idea of living in an Orwellian nightmare "utopia."
I'm an I.T. Director, and I love busting kids like you.
No, you're just another slashdot troll, moron.
It's so much fun to see the look on your face when you discover your not some "special" prodigy who's above reproach.
Which is how much worse than discovering that you're just a mindless I.T. drone who can't cut it as a developer?
Do your damn job and quit whining.
At least when we do our jobs, we're contributing to the bottom line. I.T. is just overhead, remember.
All I have to say is this:
If I worked for you, and you implemented such a policy, I would resign at the earliest possible opportunity. Expecting developers to work with completely locked down machines is ridiculous.
Your experience doesn't match mine at all. My OmniCube works fine with two Linux boxes all the time, a Windows box some of the time, a Mac every now and then (yeah, I'm always juggling stuff around). I've used it a Logitech trackball once (long enough to figure out that I hate trackballs) and two kinds of Logitech mice.
I also use a Belkin OmniCube 4-Port with both linux and Windows machines, and have had ZERO problems with it. It was priced reasonably, isn't too big, and hasn't hiccupped once in the 8 months I've had it. I'd reccommend it in a heartbeat.
I find it somewhat disturbing as in this case, AOL are profiting directly from the product, meanwhile, they contribute nothing back to the open source community (except bug reports, but what AOL users submit those).
Ummm, AOL employs the majority of the Mozilla developers. Whatever you want to say about AOL, one cannot justly say they don't contribute to the OSS community.
If you don't believe me, go to www.mozilla.org and browse until you find lists of module owners and contributors. Or search bugzilla. Note that something like three quarters of the e-mail addresses end in @netscape.com.
Mozilla is the best browser on the market and it's not even version one yet
Agreed. With 0.9.5, Mozilla has become more than good enough for regular use. I haven't had to open IE even once, in the week since I downloaded Moz 0.9.5.
In fact, I've had the same Mozilla window open for right at a week now, and haven't had the first problem. Try keeping the same IE window open ( and used regularly ) for a week.
Mozilla 0.9.5 is just as fast as IE 5.5, on my K6/2-266 machine, and the tabbed interface just kicks a$$.
In short, with the 0.9.5 release, Mozilla IS now the best browser available, IMO.
There is no Java plugin for Moz/Netscape 6 yet.
FWIW, I'm using the Sun Java Plug-in 1.3.1 with Mozilla 0.9.5 and it works just fine. I did have to configure the mime type manually to make it work, but once it was configured, it works fine.
It also lacks some useful features like auto-refresh, IP spoofing, etc...
LOL! IP spoofing, eh? And just what exactly are you gonna use *that* for???
Moz is nowhere near as stable as IE. End of story.
Sounds like YOU need to put down the crackpipe. IE is the most unstable, bug-ridden piece of crap I've ever encountered. Mozilla 0.5 was more stable than IE, for cryin' out loud.
With some of the new features starting to appear in Mozilla, and with the performance coming around to usable levels, Mozilla is VERY close to claiming outright, it's status as "Best Browser In The Land."
I think by the time Mozilla hits 1.0, it will be clearly superior to IE in every significant area.
A Beowulf cluster of these?
LKJJL:JJLJJLKLJKLJ LAMENESS FILTER BLAH BLAH *(*&*&*(
I have been using cnn and foxnews, but they definately have an obvious bias to the US point of view.
Does anyone know of any good sources for this type of reporting
How about the BBC?
I know this is going to be unpopular, but isn't this the type of thing that Carnivore and/or Echelon is supposed to intercept?
Interesting sentiment, but...
We don't know that Echelon even exists.
We really don't know that Echelon is literally worldwide. If this was coordinated entirely overseas, it might make Echelon moot.
The terrorists might not have used e-mail / telephone or any other kind of electronic communications. Apparently the CIA used to track Bin Laden by monitoring his satellite phone calls, but he got wise to that and quit using it. For all we know, he now relies on carrier pigeons or something.
Even if they did use electronic communication, maybe it was encrypted. I know we are all paranoid, and assume the NSA has the resources to decrypt any and all encrypted e-mail, but maybe that's not the case after all.
Agreed. "The real tragedy is yet to come", couldn't have said it better myself.
You might check the Watcom compiler. I think it can be used from the command line. And, as a bonus, they're in the process of open-sourcing it.
There are some other C++ compilers for Windows as well, or at least there used to be. I'm just having trouble remembering their names. Ummmm. Microsoft, Borland, Watcom, Metaware, Oh, yeah.. Metaware. I think they make a product called High C++ that might be of interest too ya.
And what about good ole GCC? Isn't there a port to Windows that supports the M$ includes and libraries? I thought that I read once that there was.
I'm willing to sacrifice all my freedoms to win the War on Drugs.
Then you're a fucking moron. If you are an American, you should be ashamed of yourself.
You sir, are truly pathetic.
Ben Franklin ( I think ) said that "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance." But Americans have become to apathetic to even care about there government, much less the actions that the government has been taking. And because of this more and more skewed laws have worked there way in the the US Code. Sadly, today, they could arrest almost anyone with the inordinate amount of laws on the books. They chose here and now to arrest Mr. Sklyarov. I hope that he wins, and I hope that the court system invalidates this very askew law. It would help put more freedom back into the individuals hand, and away from the greedy corporate entity.
Not *everyone* has become completely apathetic about the Government. But, there simply don't seem to be enough of us who still care, to make any difference.
Or maybe there are.... Say, does anybody hear a...
Revolution Calling?
It saddens me to realize that we will probably
be fighting another civil war this century,
because of the activities of the entertainment industry.
As much as it saddens me to say this, I agree. The American people will NOT continue to allow the Constitution of this great country to be raped, forever. The people WILL rise up, and exercise what Abraham Lincoln called "their revolutionary right."
Can you say "Revolution Calling?"
Voyager was a great show. Not quite as good as Doctor Who, but it was damn good.
I really hate that Voyager ended. That show had at least 3 or 4 more good seasons left in it, damnit!
I'd have to vote for Doctor Who. Doctor Who is the greatest Sci-Fi series in the history of Sci-Fi.
Just find a PBS station that shows re-runs, or see if BBC America is still airing their early morning episodes, and kick back and enjoy.