I don't get it. Say you are with someone and you love each other and both of you want to have sex. What's the point in waiting? How does marriage change the way you feel for your partner?
Instead of making the currency impossible to counterfeit using low-cost printers the government is sponsoring research on how to cripple low-cost printers. This has to be the worst ineffective way to deal with counterfeits.
A better solution is to add security features to all paper currency $10 and above. $20 is not good enough because counterfeiters usually avoid higher amounts; people tend to be more careful with those.
After the new currency is out they can allow a 5-10 year period for all insecure bills to be no longer accepted. Problem solved! The big time counterfeiters will always find a way, but the amateurs will need a lot more than a printer to convince anyone.
You can do it with the reflection API but it is not exactly clean code and you lose compile time checking. Most of the times if you need a function pointer you should be using factories instead.
You are right. There is no ASCII rule.
The language specification says:
An identifier is an unlimited-length sequence of Java letters and Java digits, the first of which must be a Java letter.
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Letters and digits may be drawn from the entire Unicode character set, which supports most writing scripts in use in the world today, including the large sets for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This allows programmers to use identifiers in their programs that are written in their native languages.
2.6 needs new modutils. The package is called module-init-tools and it is in testing. Maybe someone has backported the package for woody. Google for that.
Most packages are bundled in jar files so the case sensitivity problem is a non-issue at runtime. The programmer can always fix those kind of problems for compiling the package during development (if he/she is working on Windows).
Java identifiers are limited to ASCII 7bit so it doesn't make a difference if the filesystem supports unicode or not. The contents of the source files themselves (string literals, comments etc) can be in unicode but they don't have anything to do with the filesystem.
I don't use their products so why should I care if they are better or worse? The reason we are complaining is that their security problems affect us (worms flooding networks etc etc). The survey is not about fixing those problems so it doesn't consern me and I am sure they can affort to pay someone to do their market research. We support free speech not free labor.
After you are used to having the source code for everything how do you go back? Closed source even if it's high-quality it's like a gigantic prison. Doesn't really restrict your freedom of movement but just knowning you can't leave those walls makes you feel uneasy.
What about Solaris, MacOS X, etc, etc? They are going after Linux users because Linux is their biggest threat these days for several reasons. It's too early in the day for me to remember stuff but I am sure you can see why Linux is a threat to MS. Think Win2003 sales, pressure from several governments and so on.
Most prices are not based on cost but rather how much is the consumer willing to pay. In short, we are getting f****d for as long as we are willing to take it (some people enjoy that, so I guess it's not bad for everyone).
I wonder how many similar stories were never picked up by the mainstream media. The sad part is that as far as the public is conserned if it's not on CNN it never happened.
The problem is not the look&feel it's the programming API. QT and GTK are completely different to program and they are trying to avoid that (and the qt licence issue for commercial applications). You might disagree with their choice but at least try to understand their reasoning first.
It seems to me that the 2.6 behaviour is correct because it is consistent to how soft symlinks work in general. Also the old behavior is a security issue if a user could add a symlink to directories not meant to be shared.
Anyway, you can solve the problem by using mount --bind instead of symlinks. Another way would be hard links but I don't know how well they work with smb.
Most users don't even know it's an IE issue. They think the webmaster is using f***d up images. After all IE is the "standard" so it's the webmasters fault.
You can use mount --bind to mount local directories. No need to use smbfs (or nfs). If you were talking about remote directories... well sorry that I wasted your time.
Any article that flames one OS to apologize for another (even if the author claims otherwise) is crap. No real evidence on why Windows is as secure as MacOS X, and it tries to pass speculations and opinion as proof.
It's just sad that some people feel so threatened when someone bashes their OS of choice and they need to write BS to feel better.
That being said, I don't use MacOS X and I couldn't care less about it's security. I just get pissed off when idiots pass their misinformed opinion as facts because they happen to have an editorial position.
I agree with you, but practice always helps the educational experience. I just finished a DB course and we had to do a small project on Access and while I appreciated the exercise, most of the effort was wasted on fighting with VB and Access.
(I think we won but only the final grade will show:)
But, we did design a database schema, we checked for the lossless-join etc properties, we normalized it (anything below 3NF was not acceptable), we practised SQL and we had to enforce referencial integrity and other constraints (either at the DB level or at the form level).
So overall, the project helped us understand many DB concepts better, and see how they work together in a DB application.
Projects are beneficial if they do not replace actual classrom teaching, but enhance it.
Gigabit ethernet is cheap (not to mention useless for most people) and you get optical audio with most soundcards these days (which again is useless for many people).
So with a few hundreds more you get:
Superdrive
PCI-X
So you pay a few hundreds more for a DVD burner and a bus that you will have trouble finding hardware for it.
What a deal! Not to mention you get an OS from a vendor that offers upgrades at reasonable prices (NOT). Heck, even MS offers minor upgrades for free.
The G5 is a great machine and MacOSX is a great OS but they are certainly not cheap.
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Headers under include/linux are not guaranteed to work between kernel versions and that's why they need to be avoided. In fact it is not recommended to use them (except if you are libc). The headers are under include/linux because they ARE linux kernel headers and not because somebody wanted to break compatibility with BSD.
For example, the joystick interface used to be pretty much the same as BSD (linux 2.0 era) but not anymore (the new interface is much better but that's another story). If linux used machine/joystick.h it would give the illusion of a uniform interface between linux and BSD but this is not always the case.
Any application using linux or machine headers should either make them optional (at the expence of some functionality or performance) or stop claiming portability.
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Actually server load is the reason I moved to xml. I generate the site with xslt stylesheets and I serve static pages that are updated with a simple 'make'. I get the benefit of custom tags, automatic rss feeds and more, while the server serves static pages (so the users get the pages fast).
Even if you serve your pages as xml and xsl, your bandwidth usage will decrease or increase depending on how well you designed it and the number of pages you serve. In most cases xml pages will be shorter because you will not need to include boilerplate code in every page (menus etc) and the xsl stylesheet will be cached on the user side so you will not need to serve it very often.
The biggest benefit is that you separate presentation from content so you can change your layout dramatically and you don't need to update a single page by hand.
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I don't get it. Say you are with someone and you love each other and both of you want to have sex. What's the point in waiting? How does marriage change the way you feel for your partner?
Instead of making the currency impossible to counterfeit using low-cost printers the government is sponsoring research on how to cripple low-cost printers. This has to be the worst ineffective way to deal with counterfeits.
A better solution is to add security features to all paper currency $10 and above. $20 is not good enough because counterfeiters usually avoid higher amounts; people tend to be more careful with those.
After the new currency is out they can allow a 5-10 year period for all insecure bills to be no longer accepted. Problem solved! The big time counterfeiters will always find a way, but the amateurs will need a lot more than a printer to convince anyone.You can do it with the reflection API but it is not exactly clean code and you lose compile time checking. Most of the times if you need a function pointer you should be using factories instead.
I bought my 80gb 7200rpm for $50 (after rebate). I am sure MS can get better deals. Oh, and it DOES get cheaper over time.
An identifier is an unlimited-length sequence of Java letters and Java digits, the first of which must be a Java letter.
Letters and digits may be drawn from the entire Unicode character set, which supports most writing scripts in use in the world today, including the large sets for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This allows programmers to use identifiers in their programs that are written in their native languages.
2.6 needs new modutils. The package is called module-init-tools and it is in testing. Maybe someone has backported the package for woody. Google for that.
A revolution doesn't have to be violent. A huge strike in vital sectors can bring the country to its knees and have the rich begging for a resolution.
You have seen "Hoffa" too many times.
Most packages are bundled in jar files so the case sensitivity problem is a non-issue at runtime. The programmer can always fix those kind of problems for compiling the package during development (if he/she is working on Windows). Java identifiers are limited to ASCII 7bit so it doesn't make a difference if the filesystem supports unicode or not. The contents of the source files themselves (string literals, comments etc) can be in unicode but they don't have anything to do with the filesystem.
I don't use their products so why should I care if they are better or worse? The reason we are complaining is that their security problems affect us (worms flooding networks etc etc). The survey is not about fixing those problems so it doesn't consern me and I am sure they can affort to pay someone to do their market research. We support free speech not free labor.
After you are used to having the source code for everything how do you go back? Closed source even if it's high-quality it's like a gigantic prison. Doesn't really restrict your freedom of movement but just knowning you can't leave those walls makes you feel uneasy.
What about Solaris, MacOS X, etc, etc? They are going after Linux users because Linux is their biggest threat these days for several reasons. It's too early in the day for me to remember stuff but I am sure you can see why Linux is a threat to MS. Think Win2003 sales, pressure from several governments and so on.
Most prices are not based on cost but rather how much is the consumer willing to pay. In short, we are getting f****d for as long as we are willing to take it (some people enjoy that, so I guess it's not bad for everyone).
Why argue? We know we can't win :)
I wonder how many similar stories were never picked up by the mainstream media. The sad part is that as far as the public is conserned if it's not on CNN it never happened.
The problem is not the look&feel it's the programming API. QT and GTK are completely different to program and they are trying to avoid that (and the qt licence issue for commercial applications). You might disagree with their choice but at least try to understand their reasoning first.
It seems to me that the 2.6 behaviour is correct because it is consistent to how soft symlinks work in general. Also the old behavior is a security issue if a user could add a symlink to directories not meant to be shared.
Anyway, you can solve the problem by using mount --bind instead of symlinks. Another way would be hard links but I don't know how well they work with smb.Most users don't even know it's an IE issue. They think the webmaster is using f***d up images. After all IE is the "standard" so it's the webmasters fault.
You can use mount --bind to mount local directories. No need to use smbfs (or nfs). If you were talking about remote directories ... well sorry that I wasted your time.
Any article that flames one OS to apologize for another (even if the author claims otherwise) is crap. No real evidence on why Windows is as secure as MacOS X, and it tries to pass speculations and opinion as proof.
It's just sad that some people feel so threatened when someone bashes their OS of choice and they need to write BS to feel better.That being said, I don't use MacOS X and I couldn't care less about it's security. I just get pissed off when idiots pass their misinformed opinion as facts because they happen to have an editorial position.
You don't need to explain. They will know.
I agree with you, but practice always helps the educational experience. I just finished a DB course and we had to do a small project on Access and while I appreciated the exercise, most of the effort was wasted on fighting with VB and Access. (I think we won but only the final grade will show :)
But, we did design a database schema, we checked for the lossless-join etc properties, we normalized it (anything below 3NF was not acceptable), we practised SQL and we had to enforce referencial integrity and other constraints (either at the DB level or at the form level).
So overall, the project helped us understand many DB concepts better, and see how they work together in a DB application.
Projects are beneficial if they do not replace actual classrom teaching, but enhance it.Gigabit ethernet is cheap (not to mention useless for most people) and you get optical audio with most soundcards these days (which again is useless for many people).
So with a few hundreds more you get:- Superdrive
- PCI-X
So you pay a few hundreds more for a DVD burner and a bus that you will have trouble finding hardware for it.What a deal! Not to mention you get an OS from a vendor that offers upgrades at reasonable prices (NOT). Heck, even MS offers minor upgrades for free.
The G5 is a great machine and MacOSX is a great OS but they are certainly not cheap.
Headers under include/linux are not guaranteed to work between kernel versions and that's why they need to be avoided. In fact it is not recommended to use them (except if you are libc). The headers are under include/linux because they ARE linux kernel headers and not because somebody wanted to break compatibility with BSD.
For example, the joystick interface used to be pretty much the same as BSD (linux 2.0 era) but not anymore (the new interface is much better but that's another story). If linux used machine/joystick.h it would give the illusion of a uniform interface between linux and BSD but this is not always the case.
Any application using linux or machine headers should either make them optional (at the expence of some functionality or performance) or stop claiming portability.
Actually server load is the reason I moved to xml. I generate the site with xslt stylesheets and I serve static pages that are updated with a simple 'make'. I get the benefit of custom tags, automatic rss feeds and more, while the server serves static pages (so the users get the pages fast).
Even if you serve your pages as xml and xsl, your bandwidth usage will decrease or increase depending on how well you designed it and the number of pages you serve. In most cases xml pages will be shorter because you will not need to include boilerplate code in every page (menus etc) and the xsl stylesheet will be cached on the user side so you will not need to serve it very often.
The biggest benefit is that you separate presentation from content so you can change your layout dramatically and you don't need to update a single page by hand.