"The internet hasn't changed the behavior of child molesters, but we're scared to think that one day - maybe, possibly - it will. So let's all be scared of this, despite a complete lack of evidence." *scary face*
But yes, we're restricted to specific languages for each unit. I'm on a BIT, but I'm taking an electrical engineering unit next semester and even that requires VB programming.
Queensland University of Technology students beware!
"Being Free" is even harder to do if you're studying for a degree at my university. Visual Basic 6,.NET, simple Word documents that are incompatible with OpenOffice and are unavailable in any other format, PowerPoint presentations... the list just goes on and on.
Even with things like.NET, where there's an opportunity for them to demonstrate that building applications using.NET allows for potentially cross-platform solutions, they instead teach Windows Forms on MSVC.NET.
I mean, what's the fucking deal? We're students. We're not all living in mummy and daddy's basement, having money freely thrown at us.
The GPL does prevent advances and progress in some cases, such as device drivers,
The GPL is only half the issue. IIRC, the kernel developers intentionally and frequently break API/ABI compatibility between minor releases so as to "encourage" vendors to release drivers under non-proprietary licenses.
I find that a bit extreme. Zealous even.
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I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway? Unless you've got a REALLY fat pipe, there's a limit on how much pr0n you can process
Oh yes, how we all love to "process pr0n" with our "REALLY fat pipe".
Now it seeks to settle the lawsuit filed against it by the State of California by paying $2.6 million.
IMHO, this is California's fault for going with Diebold's systems despite being told well and truly before the elections that these voting machines were insecure. Why do they believe the critics now?
Anyways, I'll bet they still use electronic voting machines come next election.
As it happens, Ash is an enthusiastic quantum-computing amateur... a retired British physicist who turns out to be more than 4 billion years old... Ash modifies his quantum computer into a time machine and teleportation device.
With the help of his new girlfriend, Melody...
Okay, I can believe a basement quantum-computing whiz kid, the 4 billion year old physicist and time travel, but a girlfriend? Pull the other one!
Designing for failure may be the key to success. Engineering for Failure
If you were looking for an expert in designing database management systems, you couldn't find many more qualified than IBM Fellow Bruce Lindsay. He has been involved in the architecture of RDBMS (relational database management systems) practically since before there were such systems. In 1978, fresh out of graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in computer science, he joined IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory, where researchers were then working on what would become the foundation for IBM's SQL and DB2 database products. Lindsay has had a guiding hand in the evolution of RDBMS ever since.
In the late 1980s he helped define the DRDA (Distributed Relational Database Architecture) protocol and later was the principal architect of Starburst, an extensible database system that eventually became the query optimizer and interpreter for IBM's DB2 on Unix, Windows, and Linux. Lindsay developed the concept of database extenders, which treat multimedia data--images, voice, and audio--as objects that are extensions of standard relational database and can be queried using standard SQL (Structured Query Language). Today he is still at work deep in the data management lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center, helping to create the next generation in database management products.
Our interviewer this month is Steve Bourne, of Unix "Bourne Shell" fame. He has spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, and Silicon Graphics, and is now chief technology officer at the venture capital partnership El Dorado Ventures in Menlo Park, California. Earlier in his career he spent nine years at Bell Laboratories as a member of the Seventh Edition Unix team. While there, he designed the Unix Command Language ("Bourne Shell"), which is used for scripting in the Unix programming environment, and he wrote the ADB debugger tool. Bourne graduated with a degree in mathematics from King's College, London, and has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England.
Photography by Tom Upton
STEVE BOURNE Why don't we start off with the thought that you can't recover from an error until you've detected the error.
BRUCE LINDSAY Let's think a little bit about how errors happen--and they happen at all the different levels of the system, from an alpha particle discharging a capacitor in your memory to a fire, flood, or insurrection wiping out the entire site. From program logic blunders to the disk coming back with data from the wrong sector, things go wrong. You have to engineer for failure at all the different levels of the system, from the circuit level on up through subsystems like the database or the file system and on into the application programs themselves.
"Engineering for failure" sounds like a bad phrase, but that's really what's required to deliver reliable and dependable information processing.
SB It's certainly true that one of the mind-sets you have to have when you're writing code and designing systems is: What's going to break? There's a broad range of possibilities for approaching this, depending on the type of application or software. If you're writing a Microsoft Word-type program, the way you approach this might be different from if you're designing a heart monitor.
BL In the heart monitor case, you better keep the heart going, whereas in the Microsoft Word case, you can just give them a blue screen and everybody is used to that.
SB But also in the heart monitor case, it's hard to ask users if they want to keep the heart going because the answer is pretty obvious, whereas in the Word case, you can ask the user in some cases what to do about it.
BL You can sometimes ask the user, although it is better to ask the subsystem what it is going to do to get itself as healthy as it can, or abandon as the case may be, depending on its analysis of the situation.
I can't stand tkinter and wxPython - wxPython/wxWidget's GTK implementation seems to use some nasty generic tree instead of GtkTreeView. It's _ugly_ in a big way. tkinter doesn't rely on an underlying toolkit in Linux and is also rather ugly.
I recommend pygtk There's even Windows bindings for it - and the applications look almost native on Windows. IMHO, more 'native'-looking than wxPython on GTK.
I generally find PyGTK to be cleaner than wx too, but that's just my opinion.:)
And then there's PyQT... but I've never used it before... anyway, I'm a gnome user;)
On the side, I volunteer my time to the human-rights movement. I do not earn cash, but I earn "good feelings" because I know that what I am doing is right
On the side, I volunteer my time to my girlfriend. I do not earn cash, but I get "good feelings" because... well, y'know.;)
I once had incredible, crushing pains in my chest - all the way from the back of my ribs to my sternum (which felt like it was trying to snap in half). The pain was so incredible that I found it hard to walk, and anything other than the shallowest breating caused enormous pain - and don't get me started on yawning/sneezing!
It wound up being related to my back - a combination of poor posture and sitting hunched over at the computer for hours and hours on end.
Probably not related to Pat's issues, but eh - some might find it interesting:)
I've always found a combination of Ad-Aware and HijackThis do an excellent job of keeping all things spyware under control. Ad-Aware for more frequent scans, and the odd hit of HijackThis when things seem screwy. Admittedly, I don't know how much spyware I actually miss but it seems to keep XP happy for most part:)
Slashdot Mirror
BOOGABOOGABOOGA *pulls a scary face*
Or, in english:
"The internet hasn't changed the behavior of child molesters, but we're scared to think that one day - maybe, possibly - it will. So let's all be scared of this, despite a complete lack of evidence." *scary face*
I am a bastard, you insensitive clod!
But see, the information is still available to anybody who wants to pay the money to see it.
This isn't about national security. This is about the mighty dollar.
Wow, sounds wonderful. I should move to Sydney.
But yes, we're restricted to specific languages for each unit. I'm on a BIT, but I'm taking an electrical engineering unit next semester and even that requires VB programming.
Queensland University of Technology students beware!
"Being Free" is even harder to do if you're studying for a degree at my university. Visual Basic 6, .NET, simple Word documents that are incompatible with OpenOffice and are unavailable in any other format, PowerPoint presentations ... the list just goes on and on.
.NET, where there's an opportunity for them to demonstrate that building applications using .NET allows for potentially cross-platform solutions, they instead teach Windows Forms on MSVC.NET.
Even with things like
I mean, what's the fucking deal? We're students. We're not all living in mummy and daddy's basement, having money freely thrown at us.
The GPL does prevent advances and progress in some cases, such as device drivers,
The GPL is only half the issue. IIRC, the kernel developers intentionally and frequently break API/ABI compatibility between minor releases so as to "encourage" vendors to release drivers under non-proprietary licenses.
I find that a bit extreme. Zealous even.
I hate to say it, but what do you think you need 10GHz for anyway? Unless you've got a REALLY fat pipe, there's a limit on how much pr0n you can process
Oh yes, how we all love to "process pr0n" with our "REALLY fat pipe".
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of PornMasters :)
Actually, the legal letter they received demanded that they not touch logs etc., else they face "severe sanctions".
:)
So if your e-mail addy's on there, you may very well be fucked.
Ever heard of MONO, the software that lets you run .NET apps for Linux?
.NET applications non-portable?
Ever heard of Windows Forms, which makes most desktop
Mono's support for Forms is rather shit IIRC, mostly due to the same problems WINE has encountered.
... If there aren't [others like her], we'll find ourselves a nation of passive consumers without any initiative.
:P
Gee, that's a stretch of the imagination
keep your pants on boys ...
He's not kidding sonny. She's old enough to be your typical teenage Slashdotter's mother.
I think she looks like a gremlin in the pic from the article. A cute gremlin, but a gremlin all the same.
;)
But I guess that's what you get for being a great big fucking nerd like the rest of us.
Now it seeks to settle the lawsuit filed against it by the State of California by paying $2.6 million.
IMHO, this is California's fault for going with Diebold's systems despite being told well and truly before the elections that these voting machines were insecure. Why do they believe the critics now?
Anyways, I'll bet they still use electronic voting machines come next election.
As it happens, Ash is an enthusiastic quantum-computing amateur ... a retired British physicist who turns out to be more than 4 billion years old ... Ash modifies his quantum computer into a time machine and teleportation device.
With the help of his new girlfriend, Melody ...
Okay, I can believe a basement quantum-computing whiz kid, the 4 billion year old physicist and time travel, but a girlfriend? Pull the other one!
The Netherlands' mum:
But you promised you would move to open standards years ago!
The Netherlands:
I'll do it tomorrow.
The Netherlands' mum:
That's what you always say and it never gets done, does it? Have you tidied your room like I asked you to?
The Netherlands:
I'll do it tomorrow. God I hate you. I didn't ask to be born!
Vile woman! You've impeded my progress from the day I escaped from your wretched womb!
In Korea, old people are clocks.
Oh, oh, and in Soviet Russia, grandfather clocks you.
In my opinion, SMS has done far more damage to the reading and writing abilities of today's children.
:P
I mean, it's one thing to abbreviate the odd commonly used phrase, but it's another thing to shorthand every fucking word in the english language.
"ur" => "your/you're"
"n" => "and"
"sexc" => "sexy"
"no" => "know"
In some cases they type just as many fucking letters and spell it wrong just for the sake of spelling it wrong ("sexc").
Where's the sense, ffs?
Designing for failure may be the key to success.
Engineering for Failure
If you were looking for an expert in designing database management systems, you couldn't find many more qualified than IBM Fellow Bruce Lindsay. He has been involved in the architecture of RDBMS (relational database management systems) practically since before there were such systems. In 1978, fresh out of graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in computer science, he joined IBM's San Jose Research Laboratory, where researchers were then working on what would become the foundation for IBM's SQL and DB2 database products. Lindsay has had a guiding hand in the evolution of RDBMS ever since.
In the late 1980s he helped define the DRDA (Distributed Relational Database Architecture) protocol and later was the principal architect of Starburst, an extensible database system that eventually became the query optimizer and interpreter for IBM's DB2 on Unix, Windows, and Linux. Lindsay developed the concept of database extenders, which treat multimedia data--images, voice, and audio--as objects that are extensions of standard relational database and can be queried using standard SQL (Structured Query Language). Today he is still at work deep in the data management lab at IBM's Almaden Research Center, helping to create the next generation in database management products.
Our interviewer this month is Steve Bourne, of Unix "Bourne Shell" fame. He has spent 20 years in senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, and Silicon Graphics, and is now chief technology officer at the venture capital partnership El Dorado Ventures in Menlo Park, California. Earlier in his career he spent nine years at Bell Laboratories as a member of the Seventh Edition Unix team. While there, he designed the Unix Command Language ("Bourne Shell"), which is used for scripting in the Unix programming environment, and he wrote the ADB debugger tool. Bourne graduated with a degree in mathematics from King's College, London, and has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College in Cambridge, England.
Photography by Tom Upton
STEVE BOURNE Why don't we start off with the thought that you can't recover from an error until you've detected the error.
BRUCE LINDSAY Let's think a little bit about how errors happen--and they happen at all the different levels of the system, from an alpha particle discharging a capacitor in your memory to a fire, flood, or insurrection wiping out the entire site. From program logic blunders to the disk coming back with data from the wrong sector, things go wrong. You have to engineer for failure at all the different levels of the system, from the circuit level on up through subsystems like the database or the file system and on into the application programs themselves.
"Engineering for failure" sounds like a bad phrase, but that's really what's required to deliver reliable and dependable information processing.
SB It's certainly true that one of the mind-sets you have to have when you're writing code and designing systems is: What's going to break? There's a broad range of possibilities for approaching this, depending on the type of application or software. If you're writing a Microsoft Word-type program, the way you approach this might be different from if you're designing a heart monitor.
BL In the heart monitor case, you better keep the heart going, whereas in the Microsoft Word case, you can just give them a blue screen and everybody is used to that.
SB But also in the heart monitor case, it's hard to ask users if they want to keep the heart going because the answer is pretty obvious, whereas in the Word case, you can ask the user in some cases what to do about it.
BL You can sometimes ask the user, although it is better to ask the subsystem what it is going to do to get itself as healthy as it can, or abandon as the case may be, depending on its analysis of the situation.
SB Are you
You could still get to the gay porn if you really wanted to.
:o
I mean, not that I'd know or anything.
It wasn't "filtered" so to speak - it was redirected to an intermediate page. You could still get to the gay porn if you really wanted to.
Check out tkinter and wxPython.
:)
... but I've never used it before ... anyway, I'm a gnome user ;)
Unless you use Linux.
I can't stand tkinter and wxPython - wxPython/wxWidget's GTK implementation seems to use some nasty generic tree instead of GtkTreeView. It's _ugly_ in a big way. tkinter doesn't rely on an underlying toolkit in Linux and is also rather ugly.
I recommend pygtk There's even Windows bindings for it - and the applications look almost native on Windows. IMHO, more 'native'-looking than wxPython on GTK.
I generally find PyGTK to be cleaner than wx too, but that's just my opinion.
And then there's PyQT
On the side, I volunteer my time to the human-rights movement. I do not earn cash, but I earn "good feelings" because I know that what I am doing is right
... well, y'know. ;)
On the side, I volunteer my time to my girlfriend. I do not earn cash, but I get "good feelings" because
I once had incredible, crushing pains in my chest - all the way from the back of my ribs to my sternum (which felt like it was trying to snap in half). The pain was so incredible that I found it hard to walk, and anything other than the shallowest breating caused enormous pain - and don't get me started on yawning/sneezing!
:)
It wound up being related to my back - a combination of poor posture and sitting hunched over at the computer for hours and hours on end.
Probably not related to Pat's issues, but eh - some might find it interesting
I've always found a combination of Ad-Aware and HijackThis do an excellent job of keeping all things spyware under control. Ad-Aware for more frequent scans, and the odd hit of HijackThis when things seem screwy. Admittedly, I don't know how much spyware I actually miss but it seems to keep XP happy for most part :)