We called it self-modifying code. It was really useful for handling interrupts on low end chips like the 6502. In the same sort of way you described, you could STA/STX/STY the register values in the bytes after the LDA/LDY/LDX opcodes at the end of the interrupt handler to save intermediate storage.
What utter shite.
The opposition produced a costed manifesto, showing that improving healthcare, abolition of student fees, etc would cost around 46bn. They showed exactly where that 46bn would come from - largely by undoing the Tory reductions to corporation tax and partly by removing the charity status of very rich private schools. I wonder why the right wing press didn't report that?
Quality argument, guess you have no rebuttal over the usual "I don't use GNOME yet it makes me mad enough to spout irrational bilge".
I don't need to take a UI design class as I've designed UIs professionally for 20 years. Design is subjective. Also lookup syncopates, cretin.
Sensitive much? Who did I ridicule and what problems did I deny? Is GNOME dying? How do you know that the overwhelming majority of users hate GNOME3? Do you have any sources to back up those assertions?
I find it annoying that whenever there's a GNOME story that instead of talking about the story (in this case, a new settings dialog), there are many comments from people stating that they dislike GNOME and what they're using instead. It's irrelevant and nothing to do with the story.
To stay on-topic, it seems like a step in the right direction - the tree/selection on the left with a panel on the right is much more intuitive than the OSX-style settings panel GNOME currently has where clicking an icon loads the panel in place over the top of the available options. The existing scheme means you need an extra click to return to the available settings.
I like GNOME, I think the devs are doing a great job. I'm sure other people like GNOME. If you don't like GNOME then please stop whining about it and use something you do like. It really pisses me off that every time there's a GNOME story, the comments just get filled with off-topic moaning (yes, like this post).
Are you serious? Google are great if you just want a few mailboxes, but they are not even *close* to a replacement for flexible mail aliases, transports, procmail and data privacy.
If he's in the UK, he probably has a small limited company and he'll pay himself his personal tax-free allowance as income and the remainder as a dividend. He's still paying 20% corporation tax on the profits, plus 22.5% on dividends that take him over 35k. Not as much as he would have paid in income tax, but he's hardly a non-taxpayer - it's just good planning if you can do it.
... or he could be using a tax avoidance scheme where he "invests" all his salary in an overseas scheme who then "loan" the money back to him. In which case, yes, that's pretty dodgy.
1. Stephen Hawking is British. We in the UK have a healthcare system that doesn't bankrupt people unlucky enough to have degenerative and terminal illnesses. Obamacare is irrelevant, but on that note you're a fool if you think any steps towards social healthcare are a bad idea and that the US' current mercenary healthcare system is good for anyone but insurance companies.
2. If you and the dimwitted GP could think of repurposing available tech, why do you assume that engineers at one of the biggest, smartest tech companies in the world couldn't?
Wow. I'm well aware of the "don't feed the troll" rules, but I'll reply this one time.
You sound like you were foaming at the mouth and punching the keyboard while typing these responses. Relax, it's just an internet forum - nothing's worth that amount of anger.
Also, re-read those posts if you like because there's a lesson in there. That guy was wrong, I explained why he was wrong, he didn't pay attention and said something that showed he hadn't understood what I'd said so I gave up. If people aren't interested in what you have to say, then don't worry about it - just leave them to it. I suggest you do the same in future, instead of bursting a blood vessel over it.
Life's too short to let the ramblings of random strangers get to you, so just have a drink or a smoke or whatever you like to do to calm the fuck down before you hurt yourself. Losing your temper just makes you look like a dick and destroys your credibility in any debate.
I won't be replying again, so don't waste your time with a response.
Dude. I'm clearly not the only one who can't be bothered to argue with your rabidly ignorant and whackily formatted diatribes. Could you just do us all a favour and stop posting until you've grown up, please?
I wrote one. It's a simple inetd-based process forking webserver in C (see inetdxtra). It uses about 80kb per process, is scalable (and obviously memory protected using separate processes for both responses and CGI) and was designed for embedded hardware. It supports CGI, so you can write pages in C, Perl, PHP, Java, or anything that can use stdio and read environment variables.
Lots of people must have written webservers like this, I have no idea why slashdot consider this newsworthy.
(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:
It then even goes on to say:
(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
I would create two monstrous supercomputers. The first would create musical melodies based on the number of notes required by copyright statutes to qualify as unique; the idea being to try and copyright all possibilities of note/time combinations for that level of uniqueness through brute force computing over time.
Except you can't copyright music and melodies.
You can copyright lyrics and you can copyright sheet music (as both are written works). Copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. That's why recordings of songs get copyright protection, but not the songs themselves. People seem to have forgotten this somewhere along the way, or recording companies would try and have us think otherwise.
It also ran at half the clock speed of the 6502 (6502 = 2Mhz, 6510 = 1Mhz). I used to code stuff on the C64 demo scene. What I really miss nowadays is the fact that it was the last time I fully knew all of the internals of a machine I was coding for.
On the other hand, Visual C++ still has the most reliable C++ code completion of all IDEs that I've seen, and it's got even better in VS2010.
I don't know what you're doing with it then, but as someone paid to write C++ all day every day with VS2008, I can hand on heart say that the C++ code completion in VS2008 is fucking awful. It kills my dual core CPU updating the intellisense database frequently (ok, I'm working on a large project made up of about 140 modules), then fails to find globals and class members quite often in the same file.
Most times it's only about as useful as grep, but even then manages to be worse since it gives no priority to context - if I have two global variables in two different modules with the same name and ask for the definition in one module, it will quite often open a source file in the other module.
When testing alternatives, I found eclipse-cpp and netbeans-cpp to be far superior at C++ code completion. Unfortunately, I work for an American corporate who "standardise" on Microsoft products:-(
You've just reinvented Port knocking. And why bother encoding the reply IP in the payload? The packets themselves have the reply IP on and if the idea is that your payload is encrypted verification for the IP, that'd be a real pain in the arse if you're ISP allocates dynamic addresses - just use public key auth for your SSH endpoint when it uncloaks instead.
They're two completely different things. I've played guitar for 20 years and I can play most of the tracks in Guitar Hero on a real guitar. I've also five starred every song on expert in every Guitar Hero game (with the exception of Jordan and TTFATF).
Guitar Hero is fun. It's not the same as playing a real instrument, nor will it give you the skills you need to play a real instrument. It's a blast in itself and great fun if you have friends over (or play online). When playing at expert level, most of the songs are actually way more difficult to play on Guitar Hero than they are on a real guitar (granted, to someone who can already play) because of the limited button interface, this just serves to make it even more satisfying when you pull it off.
I suggest you try it with an open mind before you knock it - you might just find you enjoy it. Just see it for what it is - an excellent piece of entertainment.
But you see, most "average" users are not programmers, and don't want to be programmers. As long as the people with the programming skills required to address Linux usability issues show no interest in usability for the "average" user, Linux will stay where it is and Microsoft will own the consumer market regardless of how crappy their OS is, because Microsoft *does* make an attempt to address usability for the "average" user.
But those people with the skills that you're talking about don't give a flying fuck about Linux ruling the desktop market. They have what works for them, and do it for the love of doing it.
Besides, in my opinion that kind of polish is the job of the distro makers to pull it all together. If some distro wants to take on Microsoft on the desktop, then they'll fund developers doing that work (as Canonical is doing with Ubuntu), so I don't really see a problem or a need to villify developers who've already given you a whole boatload of free software as lazy.
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We called it self-modifying code. It was really useful for handling interrupts on low end chips like the 6502. In the same sort of way you described, you could STA/STX/STY the register values in the bytes after the LDA/LDY/LDX opcodes at the end of the interrupt handler to save intermediate storage.
What utter shite. The opposition produced a costed manifesto, showing that improving healthcare, abolition of student fees, etc would cost around 46bn. They showed exactly where that 46bn would come from - largely by undoing the Tory reductions to corporation tax and partly by removing the charity status of very rich private schools. I wonder why the right wing press didn't report that?
Quality argument, guess you have no rebuttal over the usual "I don't use GNOME yet it makes me mad enough to spout irrational bilge". I don't need to take a UI design class as I've designed UIs professionally for 20 years. Design is subjective. Also lookup syncopates, cretin.
Sensitive much? Who did I ridicule and what problems did I deny? Is GNOME dying? How do you know that the overwhelming majority of users hate GNOME3? Do you have any sources to back up those assertions?
I find it annoying that whenever there's a GNOME story that instead of talking about the story (in this case, a new settings dialog), there are many comments from people stating that they dislike GNOME and what they're using instead. It's irrelevant and nothing to do with the story.
To stay on-topic, it seems like a step in the right direction - the tree/selection on the left with a panel on the right is much more intuitive than the OSX-style settings panel GNOME currently has where clicking an icon loads the panel in place over the top of the available options. The existing scheme means you need an extra click to return to the available settings.
I like GNOME, I think the devs are doing a great job. I'm sure other people like GNOME. If you don't like GNOME then please stop whining about it and use something you do like. It really pisses me off that every time there's a GNOME story, the comments just get filled with off-topic moaning (yes, like this post).
Are you serious? Google are great if you just want a few mailboxes, but they are not even *close* to a replacement for flexible mail aliases, transports, procmail and data privacy.
He said he paid no income tax.
If he's in the UK, he probably has a small limited company and he'll pay himself his personal tax-free allowance as income and the remainder as a dividend. He's still paying 20% corporation tax on the profits, plus 22.5% on dividends that take him over 35k. Not as much as he would have paid in income tax, but he's hardly a non-taxpayer - it's just good planning if you can do it.
... or he could be using a tax avoidance scheme where he "invests" all his salary in an overseas scheme who then "loan" the money back to him. In which case, yes, that's pretty dodgy.
Two points.
Wow. I'm well aware of the "don't feed the troll" rules, but I'll reply this one time.
You sound like you were foaming at the mouth and punching the keyboard while typing these responses. Relax, it's just an internet forum - nothing's worth that amount of anger.
Also, re-read those posts if you like because there's a lesson in there. That guy was wrong, I explained why he was wrong, he didn't pay attention and said something that showed he hadn't understood what I'd said so I gave up. If people aren't interested in what you have to say, then don't worry about it - just leave them to it. I suggest you do the same in future, instead of bursting a blood vessel over it.
Life's too short to let the ramblings of random strangers get to you, so just have a drink or a smoke or whatever you like to do to calm the fuck down before you hurt yourself. Losing your temper just makes you look like a dick and destroys your credibility in any debate.
I won't be replying again, so don't waste your time with a response.
Dude. I'm clearly not the only one who can't be bothered to argue with your rabidly ignorant and whackily formatted diatribes. Could you just do us all a favour and stop posting until you've grown up, please?
I wrote one. It's a simple inetd-based process forking webserver in C (see inetdxtra). It uses about 80kb per process, is scalable (and obviously memory protected using separate processes for both responses and CGI) and was designed for embedded hardware. It supports CGI, so you can write pages in C, Perl, PHP, Java, or anything that can use stdio and read environment variables.
Lots of people must have written webservers like this, I have no idea why slashdot consider this newsworthy.
Heh. We always called it "Insecure exploder"
Did you even read what you linked to?
It then even goes on to say:
How does that contradict what I said?
Except you can't copyright music and melodies.
You can copyright lyrics and you can copyright sheet music (as both are written works). Copyright covers the expression of an idea, not the idea itself. That's why recordings of songs get copyright protection, but not the songs themselves. People seem to have forgotten this somewhere along the way, or recording companies would try and have us think otherwise.
It also ran at half the clock speed of the 6502 (6502 = 2Mhz, 6510 = 1Mhz). I used to code stuff on the C64 demo scene. What I really miss nowadays is the fact that it was the last time I fully knew all of the internals of a machine I was coding for.
I don't know what you're doing with it then, but as someone paid to write C++ all day every day with VS2008, I can hand on heart say that the C++ code completion in VS2008 is fucking awful. It kills my dual core CPU updating the intellisense database frequently (ok, I'm working on a large project made up of about 140 modules), then fails to find globals and class members quite often in the same file.
Most times it's only about as useful as grep, but even then manages to be worse since it gives no priority to context - if I have two global variables in two different modules with the same name and ask for the definition in one module, it will quite often open a source file in the other module.
When testing alternatives, I found eclipse-cpp and netbeans-cpp to be far superior at C++ code completion. Unfortunately, I work for an American corporate who "standardise" on Microsoft products :-(
Why is everyone laughing and saying "1% OMG LMAO Windows FTW!" ? Do you realise what a large number 1% is in this context?
Google "Mornington Crescent" and "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue".
Indeed. There's a popular quote floating around "atheism is a religion in the same way that not collecting stamps is a hobby".
You've just reinvented Port knocking. And why bother encoding the reply IP in the payload? The packets themselves have the reply IP on and if the idea is that your payload is encrypted verification for the IP, that'd be a real pain in the arse if you're ISP allocates dynamic addresses - just use public key auth for your SSH endpoint when it uncloaks instead.
They're two completely different things. I've played guitar for 20 years and I can play most of the tracks in Guitar Hero on a real guitar. I've also five starred every song on expert in every Guitar Hero game (with the exception of Jordan and TTFATF).
Guitar Hero is fun. It's not the same as playing a real instrument, nor will it give you the skills you need to play a real instrument. It's a blast in itself and great fun if you have friends over (or play online). When playing at expert level, most of the songs are actually way more difficult to play on Guitar Hero than they are on a real guitar (granted, to someone who can already play) because of the limited button interface, this just serves to make it even more satisfying when you pull it off.
I suggest you try it with an open mind before you knock it - you might just find you enjoy it. Just see it for what it is - an excellent piece of entertainment.
I think you're referring to something like HashCash. Sounds interesting, but I'm not convinced it would work.
But those people with the skills that you're talking about don't give a flying fuck about Linux ruling the desktop market. They have what works for them, and do it for the love of doing it.
Besides, in my opinion that kind of polish is the job of the distro makers to pull it all together. If some distro wants to take on Microsoft on the desktop, then they'll fund developers doing that work (as Canonical is doing with Ubuntu), so I don't really see a problem or a need to villify developers who've already given you a whole boatload of free software as lazy.
This doesn't sound particularly new - if memory serves Citizen Kane did this back in 1941 (calling the effect "Deep Focus").