I don't really think bloat is an issue with Emacs any more. Not that it hasn't/won't grow in size over time but computers and other IDEs have far surpassed it.
Antialiased fonts make the new version completely worth the upgrade. They're just so much more pleasant to look at.
What space? I have a computer attached to the TV for home entertainment purposes and a small laptop. Then I use synergy (the tool not the buzzword) to share the laptop mouse and keyboard. I sit in the arm chair with the dog next to me. It works out really well.
Why not multiple policies? Obviously secretaries and others likely to have a students personal information should have their computer locked down like a fascist state. Professors and students can be use open machines and be left to fend for themselves. You can even have mid grade policies for liberal arts and finger painters
Bzztt. Wrong. When I was in school fights were a couple of days. This is an order of magnitude larger for something an order of magnitude less. This is about power.
While I agree that you have to draw line somewhere, I'm pretty sure arbitrary code execution is on the other side. Once an attacker can get shell access to a machine the potential interface in which they can find a hole goes up dramatically. Also many attacker are more interested in things like financial information which tend to not require root.
I agree. The popularity and existance of tools like Automatix indicates that Ubuntu is lacking these regards. The fact you have to downlaod and install Automatix manually is a indication of a problem. Joe Sixpack is not going to like those command line steps. Even as an experienced user I hate the process of beating my system into sumbission to do the things I do on an daily basis. I don't get paid to fight with my desktop. I get paid to program.
I don't mean to be picking on Ubuntu here. I haven't tried it but I've had to fight with usabilty issues in every other OS I've tried. And the existance of Automatix leads me to believe Ubuntu is going to have the same vein of problems.
Might make a nice check for human translators then. Obviously a human can convey the subtlies better. However the machine should help you sanity check what your translator is saying.
With first serial rights, can a condition appear where the writer's story gets stuck in copyright limbo becasue the magazine never actually publishes it? And would this be resolved by the one year deal because if they don't publish it after a year you get your story back?
The quote in the summary seems to be wrong. The article actually says...
The idea is that if someone uses software patents against free software, that company or person loses the right to distribute that particular program and use it in their product, he added.
I've always seen OSS as having alot of potential for gerneral stuff. But not doing so well in the niches. Lots of people use Firefox and the Linux kernel so they don't suck. But if you stray to far away from that center things tend to suck in one way or another.
Having a short cord makes sense if you plug it into the keyboard. I think thats what Apple intended. Then the short cord is a bonus since you don't have a bunch of extra cord to deal with.
Htttp(s) ssh and smpt are all fairly common protocols. And for the server side the port numbers fairly common. No real guessing if you approach things from that end.
I for one have noticed a decrease in my english skills over the years. Which is not something, I'm exactly proud of. They used be be fairly good. I suspect it's due to lack of decent practice.
As for being annoyed about being corrected, I have a partial explaination. Geeks tend to take part in online debates. As a general rule of thumb, the debate has degraded to pointless bickering once someone brings in spelling and grammar since that is generally what the debate is not originally about. As such if someone tries to correct me in the middle of something, it's a distraction.
On the other hand many of us don't like being corrected at all since it implies that we are wrong which we also don't like. Sometimes you just have to bite your tounge and accept being wrong.
What FUD? There are some serious issues. I tried upgrading ssh on test copy of our mailserver here. It decided to remove sendmail and apache along with quite a few other packages. Which normally I could have dealt with. However this time it didn't ask to continue like it ussually does, it just went ahead and did it. Fortunately it's a test machine so I can try and try again, but it's still a real problem. Especially since on most servers we'd have just have done the dist-upgrade directly. We don't have the time or the resources to devote to proper testing.
I seem to remember the SQLite homepage saying it could handle a few million inserts in a few seconds. So asuming you mean 2000+ updates a second in total and not 2000+ per instrument thats quite a safety magin.
Also keep in mind the 64k addres space limit if 16 bit systems is REALLY tiny. Back then many apps had to play games to get around it. It's one things for a document to go over 64k another for it to go over 4 gig.
I'm sure if I knew more about unix printing and ipp my life would be easier. But yeah, the pretty interfaces all suck. Even the stuff on port 631. So far my solution has been to just edit the config files directly. On debian it's "/etc/cups/client.conf". And all I put there is.
I had this discussion awhile back with a coworker. Our hypothetical solution was aluminum punch cards. Not so great for data density but it has a few positive features.
1. long life. Hopefully more durable than paper. Aluminum also shouldn't corrode to much.
2. reader simplicty. The reader should fairly simple to make. A scanner and some black paper should get it into the computer then it's just a matter of oftware. Other methods should be easy also.
3.If you're straight forward with the data it should be fairly easy for archeologists to figure out years from now.
Acutally I would think this makes the whole reverse engineering process a bit easier. If a program written inder the GPL can make sense of a word doc. Then can't that program be used as a reference to to make a program which can write such a document? If the creator looks only at the GPL program, his hands should be clean, right? At least in a copyright sense. I have no idea how the patent front pans out.
A while back I noticed that iTunes has the ability to automatically rip a CD when it's put in the drive. And when it's done the CD can be automatically ejected. I'm not certain but I suspect that combined with some Applescript and a CD jukebox could be a frightenly effective combination. How much you wanna bet that programmers at Apple have already done it for themselves?
One word "Debt". They are fairly anti debt. With a generator you buy the gas before you get the power. With the power company they charge you after you've already used the power. Prepaid cell phones would have a similar advantage over land lines.
Not that they don't have other reasons for things, but no debt seems to be a good idea.
1. Put the software on bootable CDs. 2. Ship an excessive number of CDs to each polling location. 3. Boot the machines using CDs choosen by random voters. 4. Allow voters to take home and verify the excess CDs
The idea is that the object you wrap around the pointer does know. It may require more work to get it to but that can be done. The garbage collector only knows about your wrapper object. So when that's deleted, its destructor cleans up the non-conformist bits.
The C++ version tends to have a few ugly bits since some C++ implimentations don't allow mixing of new/delete and malloc/free. However it's still prettier than the alternatives. Also a new language and can just mandate that they be interchangeable for non-objects.
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I don't really think bloat is an issue with Emacs any more. Not that it hasn't/won't grow in size over time but computers and other IDEs have far surpassed it.
Antialiased fonts make the new version completely worth the upgrade. They're just so much more pleasant to look at.
What space? I have a computer attached to the TV for home entertainment purposes and a small laptop. Then I use synergy (the tool not the buzzword) to share the laptop mouse and keyboard. I sit in the arm chair with the dog next to me. It works out really well.
Why not multiple policies? Obviously secretaries and others likely to have a students personal information should have their computer locked down like a fascist state. Professors and students can be use open machines and be left to fend for themselves. You can even have mid grade policies for liberal arts and finger painters
Bzztt. Wrong. When I was in school fights were a couple of days. This is an order of magnitude larger for something an order of magnitude less. This is about power.
While I agree that you have to draw line somewhere, I'm pretty sure arbitrary code execution is on the other side. Once an attacker can get shell access to a machine the potential interface in which they can find a hole goes up dramatically. Also many attacker are more interested in things like financial information which tend to not require root.
I agree. The popularity and existance of tools like Automatix indicates that Ubuntu is lacking these regards. The fact you have to downlaod and install Automatix manually is a indication of a problem. Joe Sixpack is not going to like those command line steps. Even as an experienced user I hate the process of beating my system into sumbission to do the things I do on an daily basis. I don't get paid to fight with my desktop. I get paid to program.
I don't mean to be picking on Ubuntu here. I haven't tried it but I've had to fight with usabilty issues in every other OS I've tried. And the existance of Automatix leads me to believe Ubuntu is going to have the same vein of problems.
Might make a nice check for human translators then. Obviously a human can convey the subtlies better. However the machine should help you sanity check what your translator is saying.
With first serial rights, can a condition appear where the writer's story gets stuck in copyright limbo becasue the magazine never actually publishes it? And would this be resolved by the one year deal because if they don't publish it after a year you get your story back?
The quote in the summary seems to be wrong. The article actually says...
The idea is that if someone uses software patents against free software, that company or person loses the right to distribute that particular program and use it in their product, he added.
Which changes the meaning.
I've always seen OSS as having alot of potential for gerneral stuff. But not doing so well in the niches. Lots of people use Firefox and the Linux kernel so they don't suck. But if you stray to far away from that center things tend to suck in one way or another.
Having a short cord makes sense if you plug it into the keyboard. I think thats what Apple intended. Then the short cord is a bonus since you don't have a bunch of extra cord to deal with.
Htttp(s) ssh and smpt are all fairly common protocols. And for the server side the port numbers fairly common. No real guessing if you approach things from that end.
I for one have noticed a decrease in my english skills over the years. Which is not something, I'm exactly proud of. They used be be fairly good. I suspect it's due to lack of decent practice.
As for being annoyed about being corrected, I have a partial explaination. Geeks tend to take part in online debates. As a general rule of thumb, the debate has degraded to pointless bickering once someone brings in spelling and grammar since that is generally what the debate is not originally about. As such if someone tries to correct me in the middle of something, it's a distraction.
On the other hand many of us don't like being corrected at all since it implies that we are wrong which we also don't like. Sometimes you just have to bite your tounge and accept being wrong.
What FUD? There are some serious issues. I tried upgrading ssh on test copy of our mailserver here. It decided to remove sendmail and apache along with quite a few other packages. Which normally I could have dealt with. However this time it didn't ask to continue like it ussually does, it just went ahead and did it. Fortunately it's a test machine so I can try and try again, but it's still a real problem. Especially since on most servers we'd have just have done the dist-upgrade directly. We don't have the time or the resources to devote to proper testing.
I seem to remember the SQLite homepage saying it could handle a few million inserts in a few seconds. So asuming you mean 2000+ updates a second in total and not 2000+ per instrument thats quite a safety magin.
Also keep in mind the 64k addres space limit if 16 bit systems is REALLY tiny. Back then many apps had to play games to get around it. It's one things for a document to go over 64k another for it to go over 4 gig.
I had this discussion awhile back with a coworker. Our hypothetical solution was aluminum punch cards. Not so great for data density but it has a few positive features.
1. long life. Hopefully more durable than paper. Aluminum also shouldn't corrode to much.
2. reader simplicty. The reader should fairly simple to make. A scanner and some black paper should get it into the computer then it's just a matter of oftware. Other methods should be easy also.
3.If you're straight forward with the data it should be fairly easy for archeologists to figure out years from now.
Acutally I would think this makes the whole reverse engineering process a bit easier. If a program written inder the GPL can make sense of a word doc. Then can't that program be used as a reference to to make a program which can write such a document? If the creator looks only at the GPL program, his hands should be clean, right? At least in a copyright sense. I have no idea how the patent front pans out.
A while back I noticed that iTunes has the ability to automatically rip a CD when it's put in the drive. And when it's done the CD can be automatically ejected. I'm not certain but I suspect that combined with some Applescript and a CD jukebox could be a frightenly effective combination. How much you wanna bet that programmers at Apple have already done it for themselves?
One word "Debt". They are fairly anti debt. With a generator you buy the gas before you get the power. With the power company they charge you after you've already used the power. Prepaid cell phones would have a similar advantage over land lines.
Not that they don't have other reasons for things, but no debt seems to be a good idea.
The way I would think you could come close is.
1. Put the software on bootable CDs.
2. Ship an excessive number of CDs to each polling location.
3. Boot the machines using CDs choosen by random voters.
4. Allow voters to take home and verify the excess CDs
you would thnk congress would be able to give their own library an exception to the rule. Just a thought.
The idea is that the object you wrap around the pointer does know. It may require more work to get it to but that can be done. The garbage collector only knows about your wrapper object. So when that's deleted, its destructor cleans up the non-conformist bits.
The C++ version tends to have a few ugly bits since some C++ implimentations don't allow mixing of new/delete and malloc/free. However it's still prettier than the alternatives. Also a new language and can just mandate that they be interchangeable for non-objects.
So?
Register it with D's garbage collector and get on with life. It's fairly easy to do similar in C++. It should be easy in D.
void
foo() {
MagicPointer<char *> p;
p=strdup("The MagicPointer destructor will kill my copy");
}