Dazzling product literature and advertising require at least ISDN speeds. But the major corporations upon which we are relying to upgrade Internet access past 28.8Kbps are the local telco monopolies, which like our postal service and public schools have become little more than jobs programs.
This may actually be the one good thing Bush has done. The more Canada is pissed off with the US, hopefully the less acceptable it will be to emulate what the US is doing. We want to see Canada remain a free country, right?
If I were back in high school and confronted with this, I probably would have chosen band over CS courses simply because that was where all my friends were.
Not all British people are the same. Some are very liberal, some are very conservative.
The Tories are doing badly in the polls because they suck, their best policies have been thrown away and replaced with New Labour-style bullshit (which, guess what, most people are fed up with now), and they're "fighting for the centreground" (ie. ignoring 80% of people).
More people in England voted Conservative than Labout at the last election.
Is the BBC liberal because the British people are, or the other way around? It's a chicken-and-egg problem. The BBC unfortunately holds a lot of sway with many people's opinions, and I firmly believe that this country's as politically correct as it is largely in thanks to the BBC.
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That and the fact that they take up less space on the road.
But they make up for that by putting out 100 times the noise pollution.
No, when talking about RAM, where a MB is 1024 KB where a KB is 1024 bytes, you're talking about stuff connected to a memory controller that addresses this in a certain number of two, so that a 32 bit controller can address 4,294,967,296 bytes or 4 GiB. A disk controller works in a different way, and a disk is addressed in a different way. The only reason for demanding the same kind of numbering from a disk is when you need to know how much RAM a file will consume when you load it. Which is why a file's size may be denoted in KiB.
I haven't yet written (or debugged) any large programs in C++, so that could be why I'm still enthusastic. Perhaps after some time with the language I might see what everyone is so worked up about.
If you want a good example, have a look at some of the Mozilla source code. Virtually everything has a layer of abstraction beneath it using various methods such as templates, preprocessor macros, and typedefs. This is apparently so it can be multiplatform, through an object model called XPCOM. The trouble is, C++ may have the ability to be 'multiplatform', but it necessarily involves almost learning a new COM language to be able to do it because of the inherent differences in various platforms.
I'd rather have something higher level like Java, whose VM sorts out the irritating platform differences.
Disclaimer: I have submitted some significant patches to the Mozilla source.
Agree with a lot of what you say, but to compare the Java standard library (well-defined, organized by a central vendor) with CPAN (a plethora of modules to do everything and anything, organized by little more than name, of massively varying quality, some rotting away abandoned whilst others are actively updated) is a bit ridiculous.
Personally I'd like to see a 'vetted' CPAN with quality, well-maintained modules only. I don't know why people put up with the regular CPAN.
You can get uncontended (1:1 ratio) ADSL service for about £1000/month.
Except that that's for business-level uncontended broadband, probably 50MbPS each way. Where's the customer-level uncontended (or at least uncapped)?
Zen Internet used to offer a 512/256 ADSL service, uncapped, for about £25/mo. I stuck with that, I was happy with the speed and I didn't want my connection capped. This speed would probably have slowly increased over time as the network got better. However, they just removed it from the market. Now you can't get ANY uncapped service from any ISP that uses BT's network, because BT charged them per-MB. It sucks.
I'm sure I'm just stating the obvious here, but MS's building in support for this DRM shit is surely going to increase its market penetration. It's lame that they supported it.
Vista is merely repsecting the Image Constraint Token of the specs. That sounds to me like the format has a "make it suck" flag. It's a lot cheaper than hiring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
China's "one child" policy is about the only thing their government got right. Human overpopulation is the elephant in the room, and I actually applaud them for standing up and doing something to stop it there.
"One of my friend who lived at the 20th floor of a condo building in a nice neighborhood saw an intruder in the middle of one night while he was sleeping." Something doesn't add up here.
In China, they're so afraid of crime they even *dream* about it.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change.
Do you really think people who say that would change their minds as long as the government could cite some perceived improvements in security as justification for the extra surveillence? I honestly don't think they would. *THAT'S* what's scary.
Open source ideology is about embracing freedom, not hating Microsoft.
That's like saying doctors are about 'embracing healthiness', not hating disease.
By letting an irrational hatred of Microsoft sour the relationship between Novell and the community we face a danger that the newly confirmed copyright ownership Novell has in Unix will be used by them the same way SCO did.
A lot of us have seen the fate of companies that did deals with Microsoft, and think that chiding anyone who does the same is both good (in the long run) for them, and for the community. It's not just done out of zealousness; we don't want to see Microsoft's embrace, extend, extinguish disease infect Linux in any way.
Go to a beach and pick of a grain of sand, and that single grain is a more important part of that beach that this planet is of the universe...
Whilst I'm not a God-person and do think it's ridiculously conceited to think that humans are made 'in God's image' and are 'God's children', I think your point isn't quite right - it depends how you measure importance.
If you measure it by volume taken up, then you're right. However, if you measure it by culture and uniqueness, then actually we're vastly more important than our physical size suggests. There may be billions of star systems in the universe, but probably only a few 10s of 1000s have intelligent life.
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Dazzling product literature and advertising require at least ISDN speeds. But the major corporations upon which we are relying to upgrade Internet access past 28.8Kbps are the local telco monopolies, which like our postal service and public schools have become little more than jobs programs.
Damn, it's still just as relevant today!
This may actually be the one good thing Bush has done. The more Canada is pissed off with the US, hopefully the less acceptable it will be to emulate what the US is doing. We want to see Canada remain a free country, right?
It's a shame, because just right now I had the sudden urge to go calculate something... but there wasn't a Slashdot post with a relevant link handy.
If I were back in high school and confronted with this, I probably would have chosen band over CS courses simply because that was where all my friends were.
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Sure you'd have been worse off now?
But it IS the cable co's fault for not offering an internet-only cable service that would avoid your having to pay for that crap.
If you wandered around and asked if we should give Doctor Who to the rest of the world for free, I bet you wouldn't find many people who said yes.
No, but I bet you'd find a huge number of people who think we should pay them to take it.
Not all British people are the same. Some are very liberal, some are very conservative.
The Tories are doing badly in the polls because they suck, their best policies have been thrown away and replaced with New Labour-style bullshit (which, guess what, most people are fed up with now), and they're "fighting for the centreground" (ie. ignoring 80% of people).
More people in England voted Conservative than Labout at the last election.
Is the BBC liberal because the British people are, or the other way around? It's a chicken-and-egg problem. The BBC unfortunately holds a lot of sway with many people's opinions, and I firmly believe that this country's as politically correct as it is largely in thanks to the BBC.
That and the fact that they take up less space on the road.
But they make up for that by putting out 100 times the noise pollution.
So I guess the companies that are still using SCO's OS for historical reasons are SOL now, right? They will stop getting support because SCO died...
No, when talking about RAM, where a MB is 1024 KB where a KB is 1024 bytes, you're talking about stuff connected to a memory controller that addresses this in a certain number of two, so that a 32 bit controller can address 4,294,967,296 bytes or 4 GiB. A disk controller works in a different way, and a disk is addressed in a different way. The only reason for demanding the same kind of numbering from a disk is when you need to know how much RAM a file will consume when you load it. Which is why a file's size may be denoted in KiB.
It really isn't confusing at all.
For some reason I'm reminded of this.
I haven't yet written (or debugged) any large programs in C++, so that could be why I'm still enthusastic. Perhaps after some time with the language I might see what everyone is so worked up about.
If you want a good example, have a look at some of the Mozilla source code. Virtually everything has a layer of abstraction beneath it using various methods such as templates, preprocessor macros, and typedefs. This is apparently so it can be multiplatform, through an object model called XPCOM. The trouble is, C++ may have the ability to be 'multiplatform', but it necessarily involves almost learning a new COM language to be able to do it because of the inherent differences in various platforms.
I'd rather have something higher level like Java, whose VM sorts out the irritating platform differences.
Disclaimer: I have submitted some significant patches to the Mozilla source.
Agree with a lot of what you say, but to compare the Java standard library (well-defined, organized by a central vendor) with CPAN (a plethora of modules to do everything and anything, organized by little more than name, of massively varying quality, some rotting away abandoned whilst others are actively updated) is a bit ridiculous.
Personally I'd like to see a 'vetted' CPAN with quality, well-maintained modules only. I don't know why people put up with the regular CPAN.
Trouble is, by the time they actually get proficient the vendor will change the API. To a lesser extent this applies to Perl, Ruby, PHP etc also.
So, in conclusion, nobody should ever program in anything except C/C++?
Ironiocally, it's probably easier to migrate a C#.NET program away from Windows because of the existance of Mono.
Seriously, how did this get to the front page?
You must be new here.
How long until we get...
BBC's ISP to you: You need to pay me more to access my client's wonderful services A, B, and C.
No, they want a slice of the juicy profit the BBC make from the licence fee. The BBC's online service is a 100% cost for them.
You can get uncontended (1:1 ratio) ADSL service for about £1000/month.
Except that that's for business-level uncontended broadband, probably 50MbPS each way. Where's the customer-level uncontended (or at least uncapped)?
Zen Internet used to offer a 512/256 ADSL service, uncapped, for about £25/mo. I stuck with that, I was happy with the speed and I didn't want my connection capped. This speed would probably have slowly increased over time as the network got better. However, they just removed it from the market. Now you can't get ANY uncapped service from any ISP that uses BT's network, because BT charged them per-MB. It sucks.
I'm sure I'm just stating the obvious here, but MS's building in support for this DRM shit is surely going to increase its market penetration. It's lame that they supported it.
China's "one child" policy is about the only thing their government got right. Human overpopulation is the elephant in the room, and I actually applaud them for standing up and doing something to stop it there.
"One of my friend who lived at the 20th floor of a condo building in a nice neighborhood saw an intruder in the middle of one night while he was sleeping." Something doesn't add up here.
In China, they're so afraid of crime they even *dream* about it.
People always say: 'I have nothing to hide, so I am not against surveillance'. They don't realize that this might change.
Do you really think people who say that would change their minds as long as the government could cite some perceived improvements in security as justification for the extra surveillence? I honestly don't think they would. *THAT'S* what's scary.
Open source ideology is about embracing freedom, not hating Microsoft.
That's like saying doctors are about 'embracing healthiness', not hating disease.
By letting an irrational hatred of Microsoft sour the relationship between Novell and the community we face a danger that the newly confirmed copyright ownership Novell has in Unix will be used by them the same way SCO did.
A lot of us have seen the fate of companies that did deals with Microsoft, and think that chiding anyone who does the same is both good (in the long run) for them, and for the community. It's not just done out of zealousness; we don't want to see Microsoft's embrace, extend, extinguish disease infect Linux in any way.
Go to a beach and pick of a grain of sand, and that single grain is a more important part of that beach that this planet is of the universe...
Whilst I'm not a God-person and do think it's ridiculously conceited to think that humans are made 'in God's image' and are 'God's children', I think your point isn't quite right - it depends how you measure importance.
If you measure it by volume taken up, then you're right. However, if you measure it by culture and uniqueness, then actually we're vastly more important than our physical size suggests. There may be billions of star systems in the universe, but probably only a few 10s of 1000s have intelligent life.