It's not only a matter of the virus cartel. Think about how it would be invading someone's privacy? I dont wont some kind of "corporate written worm" (for good or for evil) searching around my hard drives. You cannot control their actions once they're inside and that's a huge concern for me.
It's like breaking into someones house by smashing the window, putting a new armor-glass in and leaving after a few days while tracking the phone book for other vulnerable victims with non-armored-windows.
Decent beer? Hah, in the Netherlands every decent beer drinker likes a big head (2 fingers thick) on his beer. Every country outside ours has a slower tap speed.
Very interesting interview. I've had many conversations with experienced programmers and with people who'd barely could program a Hello World in Python. After discussions we allways came out with Python to be the best language to learn to the newbies. It's nice, clean, dynamic-typed, which I find an important thing for someone new to programming, cause it lets you focus on the WHOLE thing and not on minor details (eg. details).
I've been a Python user myself and I find it quite remarkable how it has evolved since its 1.5.2 to the pointer where they are now 2.3. More and more (interesting) software is being written for it. But evenly important is the code base of Python. It's C implementation is very clean written and very easy to use so one can write extension modules very fast.
All existing naturally ocurring heavy elements are the result of ancient supernovae. It is quite possible that these new elements already exist around other supernovae, which whilst catastropic, are definitely natural. It is just that none was around when the earth coalesced.
Even if they did, they would be so unstable (with a half time to be measured in nanoseconds) that they would fall apart immediately. That's (as being told me by my school Science teacher) also the distinction between natural and nonnatural elements. The ones that are stable exist for a while (at least a second or so) and are natural and the rest has an unstable nucleus and thus isnt natural (ie can only be made in a lab).
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You're right. I was talking about all functions in general and didn't talked about gets() specifically.
It cant be that hard to write your own little library with strncpy etc to make them available under Windows. Give it a shot, especially when your not validating the user input.
No programmer in their right mind uses the I/O POSIX functions without checking the user input. Too bad there are still very common buffer overflows, format strings and heap overflows found in (more or less major) projects.
IMHO it's better for GNU/Linux (never know if rms is watching;) to comply to the older POSIX standards than a nice utopian LSB. I doubt if it will ever get of the ground since the whole Linux distro's are so scattered and divided (let alone the commmercialization of certain products).
btw. check the following for more information on POSIX http://www.posix.com/ http://standards.iee e.org/regauth/posix/
"I found is basically what many suspected all along: extending and strengthening copyright terms has little effect on actual innovation."
Innovation isn't always completely tied to copyright terms. Take the GNU/BSD licenses (copyright terms) of the recent decade. They're successfull and at least a part of their success comes from people being not satisfied with other copyright terms. Indirect the innovation comes from the strengthening of other copyright terms, but you cant say it doesn't have any effect. It does, people are searching for other ways in order to not infringe other stupid copyrights (MS EULA).
There are heaps of biologists who are convinced that the main ingredient for life is water so there *is* a possibility. I'm more curious about the question what we can learn of the eventually presence of water and life.
"JIMO is a sub-project of Project Prometheus, initiated by NASA this year for the purpose of demonstrating that nuclear powered and propelled spacecraft may be safely designed and tested."
Do they really think that it can be completely safe? What if it crashes onto earth just after launch? Or it blows up in the air, so radioactive particles get spread all around?
"..which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.."
There is only one religion... and it's prophet is called Morpheus, it's Messiah Neo.
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It's not only a matter of the virus cartel. Think about how it would be invading someone's privacy? I dont wont some kind of "corporate written worm" (for good or for evil) searching around my hard drives. You cannot control their actions once they're inside and that's a huge concern for me.
It's like breaking into someones house by smashing the window, putting a new armor-glass in and leaving after a few days while tracking the phone book for other vulnerable victims with non-armored-windows.
Does that mean we'll never get to see Duke Nukem Forver?
Decent beer? Hah, in the Netherlands every decent beer drinker likes a big head (2 fingers thick) on his beer. Every country outside ours has a slower tap speed.
Very interesting interview. I've had many conversations with experienced programmers and with people who'd barely could program a Hello World in Python. After discussions we allways came out with Python to be the best language to learn to the newbies. It's nice, clean, dynamic-typed, which I find an important thing for someone new to programming, cause it lets you focus on the WHOLE thing and not on minor details (eg. details).
I've been a Python user myself and I find it quite remarkable how it has evolved since its 1.5.2 to the pointer where they are now 2.3. More and more (interesting) software is being written for it. But evenly important is the code base of Python. It's C implementation is very clean written and very easy to use so one can write extension modules very fast.
All existing naturally ocurring heavy elements are the result of ancient supernovae. It is quite possible that these new elements already exist around other supernovae, which whilst catastropic, are definitely natural. It is just that none was around when the earth coalesced.
Even if they did, they would be so unstable (with a half time to be measured in nanoseconds) that they would fall apart immediately. That's (as being told me by my school Science teacher) also the distinction between natural and nonnatural elements. The ones that are stable exist for a while (at least a second or so) and are natural and the rest has an unstable nucleus and thus isnt natural (ie can only be made in a lab).
You're right. I was talking about all functions in general and didn't talked about gets() specifically.
It cant be that hard to write your own little library with strncpy etc to make them available under Windows. Give it a shot, especially when your not validating the user input.
No programmer in their right mind uses the I/O POSIX functions without checking the user input. Too bad there are still very common buffer overflows, format strings and heap overflows found in (more or less major) projects.
IMHO it's better for GNU/Linux (never know if rms is watching ;) to comply to the older POSIX standards than a nice utopian LSB. I doubt if it will ever get of the ground since the whole Linux distro's are so scattered and divided (let alone the commmercialization of certain products).
e e.org/regauth/posix/
btw. check the following for more information on POSIX
http://www.posix.com/
http://standards.ie
"I found is basically what many suspected all along: extending and strengthening copyright terms has little effect on actual innovation."
Innovation isn't always completely tied to copyright terms. Take the GNU/BSD licenses (copyright terms) of the recent decade. They're successfull and at least a part of their success comes from people being not satisfied with other copyright terms.
Indirect the innovation comes from the strengthening of other copyright terms, but you cant say it doesn't have any effect. It does, people are searching for other ways in order to not infringe other stupid copyrights (MS EULA).
I'm the King of the Deep Sea!
There are heaps of biologists who are convinced that the main ingredient for life is water so there *is* a possibility. I'm more curious about the question what we can learn of the eventually presence of water and life.
"JIMO is a sub-project of Project Prometheus, initiated by NASA this year for the purpose of demonstrating that nuclear powered and propelled spacecraft may be safely designed and tested."
Do they really think that it can be completely safe? What if it crashes onto earth just after launch? Or it blows up in the air, so radioactive particles get spread all around?
"..which are related to the three divine religions, which we all respect and believe in.." There is only one religion... and it's prophet is called Morpheus, it's Messiah Neo.
Of course it's a joke. Never believe anything you hear on April Fools Day... even if it's your mother-in-law die-ing of syphillus :p
Yeah, the IPv4 header bit story rocked! :)
Maybe, but thanks to NASA we now have things like the microwave. You'll never know when and what they'll find.
Very cool they're finally going there! Hope they'll come up with some good stuff found on Mars!