The EWMH, or Extended Window Manager Hints is a freedesktop.org-
developed standard to support a number of conventions for
communication between the window manager and clients. It builds on
and extends the ICCCM (See Section 3). A copy of the current EWMH
standard is available at http://freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec/
I'm running Windows 2000, and a couple of services run under non-privileged accounts and are started automatically when the machine boots. So yes, it is possible and has been for years.
the IP industry wants it to be treated like real property, exccept for the fact that you can't restrict how customers use real property once it's in their hands.
No, the idea is that IP never becomes the customer's property, it always remains the property of the company that created it. When you buy a DVD you aren't buying IP, you're buying a disc and 'borrowing' the contents, which is IP the company owns.
I don't agree with it, but it's not really a paradox in the way you describe it.
they'd much rather you buy the game and finish it in a month (or even less) so that you're jacked up and ready to buy the next one.
So Valve and ID software must be idiots to make their engine so moddable? Of course not, the more mods available, the better the game sells.
If you buy an expensive game and are bored with it after a short time, you're not likely to buy the sequel, you're likely to go looking for a title with a little more longevity.
So, are you saying that red ink is flowing like a river of blood? And that, if DAoC is to survive at all, it will be among MMORPG dilettante dabblers?
Sorry, couldn't resist.:-)
Serious question: why do native English speakers find it so hard to get the spelling of 'ei' / 'ie' right? The pronunciation is totally different, isn't it? (at least in most other languages it is):
Ortleib - 'ei' is pronounced as 'i' in 'bribe'
Ortlieb - 'ie' is pronounced as 'ee' in 'beep'
Or is this not how English speakers generally pronounce these vowel combinations?
Did you read my post? I said exactly what you're saying now. Needless to say I agree with what you say, but it doesn't apply to this contest. It applies to larger projects where other considerations are important.
For a contest like this, it doesn't really matter what language you use, because these are more about mathematical challenges than software engineering / data processing challenges. That's how I see it, feel free to disagree.
I'm not saying Perl/Python aren't great languages (well, I would say that about Perl, but that's me - I know a lot of folks love it) or that they aren't sometimes the best tools for the job.
I'm saying that for a contest like this with mentally challenging problems, language is a very secondary concern. It is foremost about being a good programmer and being able to solve the problems in your head. Converting the solution to C++ or even VB.NET is very easy compared to that. I've been in contests like this and usually the solution is a fairly short,simple program - but devising the solution was anything but.
And I seriously doubt there are many programming geek who know Perl or Python well but don't know at least one of C(++)/C#/Java/VB.NET.
'Real geeks' are language-agnostic and won't care much what language they use for this.
Besides, some of the problems are presumably very processor-intensive (they mention chess problems) so a compiled language would be a better choice for that.
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Why are individuals allowed to have short, easy-to-remember domain names when there's a corporation that can potentially make money off it? What is this, communism?
People with their own domain name are leeching potential profits off corporations, thereby destroying the economy!
At an ATM you may be right, but we were talking about a fingerprint scanner hooked up to your home PC, right? All it takes is for someone to hack his scanner to disable this security feature, or build his own, and he can just send any fingerprint image he wants.
I think it's simple: fingerprints are not secret, and therefore not a secure way to log in.
Wouldn't a fingerprint be an extremely bad choice for this? If there's anything you're constantly leaving behind, everywhere, every day, it's your fingerprints.
Plus, as others have mentioned, it is impossible to replace when it is compromised.
With ActiveX you could write the data to a temporary file on disk, and as long as the next page also included the ActiveX control it could just resume the download, I suppose.
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The gay male computer or the gay male human?
In school you couldn't hack mathematics.
In Soviet Russia, mathematicians hack YOU!
(apologies, but it's been a while since anyone observed proper form for Soviet Russia-jokes :-)
It took me a while, but I managed to find out what EWMH is (the linked page wasn't very helpful, didn't even explain the acronym):
From this page:
The EWMH, or Extended Window Manager Hints is a freedesktop.org- developed standard to support a number of conventions for communication between the window manager and clients. It builds on and extends the ICCCM (See Section 3). A copy of the current EWMH standard is available at http://freedesktop.org/Standards/wm-spec/
I'm running Windows 2000, and a couple of services run under non-privileged accounts and are started automatically when the machine boots. So yes, it is possible and has been for years.
No, the idea is that IP never becomes the customer's property, it always remains the property of the company that created it. When you buy a DVD you aren't buying IP, you're buying a disc and 'borrowing' the contents, which is IP the company owns.
I don't agree with it, but it's not really a paradox in the way you describe it.
So Valve and ID software must be idiots to make their engine so moddable? Of course not, the more mods available, the better the game sells.
If you buy an expensive game and are bored with it after a short time, you're not likely to buy the sequel, you're likely to go looking for a title with a little more longevity.
So, are you saying that red ink is flowing like a river of blood? And that, if DAoC is to survive at all, it will be among MMORPG dilettante dabblers? Sorry, couldn't resist. :-)
Trust me when I say you won't have to worry about that at all.. :-)
Serious question: why do native English speakers find it so hard to get the spelling of 'ei' / 'ie' right? The pronunciation is totally different, isn't it? (at least in most other languages it is):
Or is this not how English speakers generally pronounce these vowel combinations?
Did you read my post? I said exactly what you're saying now. Needless to say I agree with what you say, but it doesn't apply to this contest. It applies to larger projects where other considerations are important.
For a contest like this, it doesn't really matter what language you use, because these are more about mathematical challenges than software engineering / data processing challenges. That's how I see it, feel free to disagree.
I'm not saying Perl/Python aren't great languages (well, I would say that about Perl, but that's me - I know a lot of folks love it) or that they aren't sometimes the best tools for the job.
I'm saying that for a contest like this with mentally challenging problems, language is a very secondary concern. It is foremost about being a good programmer and being able to solve the problems in your head. Converting the solution to C++ or even VB.NET is very easy compared to that. I've been in contests like this and usually the solution is a fairly short,simple program - but devising the solution was anything but.
And I seriously doubt there are many programming geek who know Perl or Python well but don't know at least one of C(++)/C#/Java/VB.NET.
'Real geeks' are language-agnostic and won't care much what language they use for this.
Besides, some of the problems are presumably very processor-intensive (they mention chess problems) so a compiled language would be a better choice for that.
People with their own domain name are leeching potential profits off corporations, thereby destroying the economy!
At an ATM you may be right, but we were talking about a fingerprint scanner hooked up to your home PC, right? All it takes is for someone to hack his scanner to disable this security feature, or build his own, and he can just send any fingerprint image he wants.
I think it's simple: fingerprints are not secret, and therefore not a secure way to log in.
Wouldn't a fingerprint be an extremely bad choice for this? If there's anything you're constantly leaving behind, everywhere, every day, it's your fingerprints.
Plus, as others have mentioned, it is impossible to replace when it is compromised.
With ActiveX you could write the data to a temporary file on disk, and as long as the next page also included the ActiveX control it could just resume the download, I suppose.
You would be a virus if you have kids and teach them not to use MS. :-)
Hey, are the KDE guys diversifying? What next, flat screen Gnonitron TVs by Gnony? And which would be better..?
(sorry, couldn't resist)