Imagine this: you are a tiger monk on darkmists.org:2222. You need to master you spinning kick before the house of Enforcer sicks their jerk police on you. You can either:
Spend all night typing: spin; spin; west; spin; spin; east; spin; spin...; rest;...; spin; spin; (etc).
Use the ZMud script your friend created and click "Run".
Hopefully they can perfect the ion drive, however through this to increase the speed and payload capacity. Then we might have something really cool... (until the anti-matter reactor comes online...)
Yes, the anti-matter reactor. I can see the headline now: Earth Destroyed while Scientists Test New Anti-matter Engines! Of course, there probably wouldn't be anyone to publish that, would there?
On a serious note, I don't think the 15 month travel time is a problem. How often are they going to be sending out probes? Probably not that often. In addition, their research isn't time sensitive, so the extra time required easily justifies the savings to European tax payers.
I'm gonna have a hard time programming my AVRs...
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without a serial port. I use ATMEL's STK500, which uses the serial port to program the microcontrollers.
From article: The move to BTX will also bring us closer to a fully legacy-free PC, with PS/2, serial and parallel ports already beginning to disappear from prototype motherboards.
I worked at Diebold 4 years ago at their campus card systems division. I worked on an ATM like terminal (it actually converted cash to card credits) that ran Windows CE.
As a funny aside, I worked with a programmer named Jules and, after he left the company and I was responsible for the code. While looking through the code one day I found many variables named... jules! If that isn't self documenting code, I don't know what it. In addition, our terminal had problems booting but Jules, being the ever resourceful programmer he is, learned that if he pressed the escape key a lot as the computer was booting then everything worked fine. After Jules left, one of the other programmers became fed up with the escape key nonsense, replaced the keyboard, and the problem was solved.
So remember, in Capitalist America, Jules programs your ATM!
The part that I found most interesting was that Sony will also be named in the lawsuit because GTA was exclusive to their console.
This should be read: Sony will also be named in the lawsuit because they have tons of money and a jury will surely punish that big, evil corporation by giving us helpless victims (the parents of murderers) cash.
As long as we have to use huge, contained explosions to move things off of the planet there is little reason to put humans in space.
But it's okay for millions (if not billions) of us to use smaller, contained explosions to commute to work? How would you propose humans get to space? By a space elevator?;) I think putting humans into space now is important so that, in the future, we will have the ability so send people to other planets, people like Saddam Huessein, David Hasselhoff, and Micheal Jackson.
I'm glad to see something new for manned spaceflight. The shuttle missions are not as insipiring as they used to be. I'm going to write my congresswoman Linda Sanchez to propose a Battle School for the bill, just in case we find any buggers on Mars.
The Globe article is a bit vague. First they state "Linux, not Microsoft Windows, remains the most-attacked operating system..." and then they state "A total of 12,892 Linux on-line servers running e-business and information sites were successfully breached...".
Is the problem with the Operating System or the HTTP server? I'd like to see anyother report of total systems hack, regardless of wether it is a web server or not.
I don't think there is more human effort required to hack a Linux machine. I've been hack twice (both RedHat installs). I didn't learn after the first time, but after the second time I installed Debian (not because it's more secure, just cause I wanted to try it) and I only enabled secure services or ones that I would use. The only services my server is running are SSH, SFTP, and HTTP. That way, I only have to worry about the security updates for those services. Before I used to run everything that came out of the box (a bad move in the olden days when everything was on by default).
Back to the point, which is that I was passively hacked. By examining the log files you can tell that a hack program was the one that gained access to my system. I got hacked by one person with the nick slimshady (damn you eminem!) and someone with a romainian address (I reported him to his romainian ISP, who probably laughed at the dumb american).
I have to agree with memerath2003, the little girl is not the victim. She, albeit unknownly, made illegal copies. A person caught speeding isn't acquitted by their ignorance of the speed limit (of course, if that person has big knockers then it is another story).
Software development is my job, and if people made illegal copies of my software then my company would lose money (of course we have license enforcement software, but you get the picture). Copywrite protects the owners. Though big production companies may not pass much profit to the artists, it is the artists who give the production company the right to do so.
Don't get me wrong. Suing a 12 year old girl without first asking her to stop is a stupid thing to do. The RIAA are bastards, but the girl isn't a victim, just the target of their wrath.
I have written several code generators at my place of work. One of them generates SQLServer, Oracle, and PostgreSQL specific code from a generic SQL file. Another generator creates C code for an install program from an install specification (much like InstallShield). Yet another generator create C code for a resource library from a resource specification.
All of these generators had two things in common: they used Bison as the parser and Flex as the lexer. Since the book uses Ruby in its examples I doubt that it covers Bison and Flex, which is a shame since they are extremely useful tools.
Another thought I had is this: where is the line drawn between code generation and compiling? Are they the same thing? The Dragon Book (Compiler - Principles, Techniques, and Tools), says "...a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language." They seem like the same thing to me.
I've thought about my job being moved offshore for a while now and have come to the conclusion that I ought to get a job that requires a security clearance. Security clearances can only be obtained by U.S. citizens. Try to offshore that;)
I would like to see a company with the enough balls and stupidity to release software without a license (that is, people who buy the software own the software, just like cars, food, etc).
Or, if not that, how about a license that is very simple, such as "Only one copy of this software can be running at a time"?
Of course, receiving the source code best, but a simple license at least allows you to understand it without spending a hour reading the leagalese.
Tuition that is $15k per semester really hurts. The MITAffordable.pdf says your yearly budget is $41030. That means when you graduate you could have a student loan somewhere around $160000. That is how much my condo cost when I bought it (worth a lot more now, thanks to California's insane housing market). Does anyone know the difference in average pay between a non MIT CS graduate and an MIT CS graduate?
MIT is, of course, one of the best techonology focused unversities in the world and you get to work with excellent faculty and students. I think, without any supporting facts, that most MIT students have received financial aid (except for the rich ones, who were born with financial aid).
I got my CS degree from the University of California, Irvine campus. It was a good education and it was a very good deal. It cost me 0 dollars to attend. I got a Cal grant because my parents didn't make a lot of money and I had a good GPA. But even without the Cal grant the tuition for the entire 4 years would have cost just over 1 semester's tuition at MIT (though with the current CA budget crisis prices are rising).
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but the real value of MIT is the interaction with the teachers and the students
Not to mention being able to put MIT on your resume or on applications to graduate schools.
(In a nutshell, the autotuner is told what key the vocal is in and analyzes the wave form in real time. If the singer is off-key, it will adjust the pitch to the closest note in that key.)
From this description, it appears that the autotuner will not work if the singer is intentionally out of key, such as sliding up or down to another note. Will someone with more knowledge shed some light on this?
I disagree. While security is extremely important, it does not belong in a book that is meant to introduce the reader to a language. It would be a great waste of paper and money if every language book talked about security. If you want to learn security then buy a book on security. The author merely knowning the language doesn't mean that they understand security issues enough to inform readers.
All you need for debugging is print statements everywhere. Always works:)
Of course it always works. But since you put print statements everywhere your program probably doesn't do much besides print out the same thing every time you run it;)
Actually now that I think about it, your program doesn't even compile. You cannot call a print function without first declaring or defining it, but since you used print statements everywhere you obviously haven't defined it.
No wait! Since you use print statements everywhere you will get a syntax error because your print statement is not inside of another function, but you have no functions because you use print statement everywhere!
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The choice is yours.
It is truly a sad comment on the dexterity of those individuals who need training wheels to keep them from falling off of their Segway.
Yes, the anti-matter reactor. I can see the headline now: Earth Destroyed while Scientists Test New Anti-matter Engines! Of course, there probably wouldn't be anyone to publish that, would there?
On a serious note, I don't think the 15 month travel time is a problem. How often are they going to be sending out probes? Probably not that often. In addition, their research isn't time sensitive, so the extra time required easily justifies the savings to European tax payers.
From article: The move to BTX will also bring us closer to a fully legacy-free PC, with PS/2, serial and parallel ports already beginning to disappear from prototype motherboards.
As a funny aside, I worked with a programmer named Jules and, after he left the company and I was responsible for the code. While looking through the code one day I found many variables named... jules! If that isn't self documenting code, I don't know what it. In addition, our terminal had problems booting but Jules, being the ever resourceful programmer he is, learned that if he pressed the escape key a lot as the computer was booting then everything worked fine. After Jules left, one of the other programmers became fed up with the escape key nonsense, replaced the keyboard, and the problem was solved.
So remember, in Capitalist America, Jules programs your ATM!
Where is the Microsoft FUD? I don't see any fear, uncertainty, or doubt in this article. The only FUD you pointed out is from SCO.
This should be read: Sony will also be named in the lawsuit because they have tons of money and a jury will surely punish that big, evil corporation by giving us helpless victims (the parents of murderers) cash.
But it's okay for millions (if not billions) of us to use smaller, contained explosions to commute to work? How would you propose humans get to space? By a space elevator? ;) I think putting humans into space now is important so that, in the future, we will have the ability so send people to other planets, people like Saddam Huessein, David Hasselhoff, and Micheal Jackson.
Social Security is funded from social security tax. They won't dip into social security to fund this.
I'm glad to see something new for manned spaceflight. The shuttle missions are not as insipiring as they used to be. I'm going to write my congresswoman Linda Sanchez to propose a Battle School for the bill, just in case we find any buggers on Mars.
a Slashdot story that has pictures of a woman in a bikini!
Sorry, my error. I meant spoonyfork, not memerath2003.
Is the problem with the Operating System or the HTTP server? I'd like to see anyother report of total systems hack, regardless of wether it is a web server or not.
Back to the point, which is that I was passively hacked. By examining the log files you can tell that a hack program was the one that gained access to my system. I got hacked by one person with the nick slimshady (damn you eminem!) and someone with a romainian address (I reported him to his romainian ISP, who probably laughed at the dumb american).
Software development is my job, and if people made illegal copies of my software then my company would lose money (of course we have license enforcement software, but you get the picture). Copywrite protects the owners. Though big production companies may not pass much profit to the artists, it is the artists who give the production company the right to do so.
Don't get me wrong. Suing a 12 year old girl without first asking her to stop is a stupid thing to do. The RIAA are bastards, but the girl isn't a victim, just the target of their wrath.
All of these generators had two things in common: they used Bison as the parser and Flex as the lexer. Since the book uses Ruby in its examples I doubt that it covers Bison and Flex, which is a shame since they are extremely useful tools.
Another thought I had is this: where is the line drawn between code generation and compiling? Are they the same thing? The Dragon Book (Compiler - Principles, Techniques, and Tools), says "...a compiler is a program that reads a program written in one language - the source language - and translates it into an equivalent program in another language - the target language." They seem like the same thing to me.
I've thought about my job being moved offshore for a while now and have come to the conclusion that I ought to get a job that requires a security clearance. Security clearances can only be obtained by U.S. citizens. Try to offshore that ;)
Or, if not that, how about a license that is very simple, such as "Only one copy of this software can be running at a time"?
Of course, receiving the source code best, but a simple license at least allows you to understand it without spending a hour reading the leagalese.
MIT is, of course, one of the best techonology focused unversities in the world and you get to work with excellent faculty and students. I think, without any supporting facts, that most MIT students have received financial aid (except for the rich ones, who were born with financial aid).
I got my CS degree from the University of California, Irvine campus. It was a good education and it was a very good deal. It cost me 0 dollars to attend. I got a Cal grant because my parents didn't make a lot of money and I had a good GPA. But even without the Cal grant the tuition for the entire 4 years would have cost just over 1 semester's tuition at MIT (though with the current CA budget crisis prices are rising).
Not to mention being able to put MIT on your resume or on applications to graduate schools.
From this description, it appears that the autotuner will not work if the singer is intentionally out of key, such as sliding up or down to another note. Will someone with more knowledge shed some light on this?
Sentence structure is important? Remember, he is a games journalist.
I disagree. While security is extremely important, it does not belong in a book that is meant to introduce the reader to a language. It would be a great waste of paper and money if every language book talked about security. If you want to learn security then buy a book on security. The author merely knowning the language doesn't mean that they understand security issues enough to inform readers.
Of course it always works. But since you put print statements everywhere your program probably doesn't do much besides print out the same thing every time you run it ;)
Actually now that I think about it, your program doesn't even compile. You cannot call a print function without first declaring or defining it, but since you used print statements everywhere you obviously haven't defined it.
No wait! Since you use print statements everywhere you will get a syntax error because your print statement is not inside of another function, but you have no functions because you use print statement everywhere!
Ok, I'm done being a jackass for today.
You were wise to post this anonymously on ./.