Marker: same type as string, so no need to worry about bit size, start/stop bits or other extraneous. String can be any size and only restricted by available memory. (given the ability to swap darn near unlimited pages in current hardware.... and the ability to virtualize across computers... this means strings have a potentially <i>infinite</i> limit)
Length: What's the size? What byte order? What bit size? How will this affect communications between platforms?
IMO, C and the null terminated string -saved- more than it cost. It's entirely (theoretically anyway) possible - given the kind of code I've seen in browsers and server code -that the web couldn't have existed without some of these assumptions. The "streaming" so core to unix depends on this... how else does one know when one hits the end of a file or a buffer?
When you mark cost, know what you pay. Not all costs are negative.
accurate, but they weren't at the riot. Apparently the profile of the typical rioter is : wealthy youth, easy life. "spoiled rich kids". There may be exceptions to this profile but I haven't heard of it.
At least 17000 local folks (including many of my friends, and many who DO fit that profile) showed up to help clean up, and put apologetic and welcome messages out. I would have too, but I started my first day of work after a year of unemployment. I got to see the cleanup though - my new job is a block from where the riot took place. There's also been amazing support - see above - re: people helping -catch- the rioters, as well as help out hurt people and businesses. It's quite amazing, really, that part.
They've got a history of calling this kind of game around other countries, and turn around and doing it themselves. Probably 100% of NAFTA legal claims -from- the USA could be considered as examples. Most particularly around softwood (the US doesn't have the infrastructure - or the timber anymore, so they sued my homeland) and tomatoes (a 10-year-old southern US failure against a 100+ year old British Columbian success)
I'll just assume it's more US protectionism. It usually is.
That's got the largest group of wankers on who could attack back. Very bad target. Don't do it. Leave the EVE universe alone to the whackos who know and love it, so their world won't bleed into ours.
or in other words, I'll be waiting to see what fallout hits the news. This could be interesting....
I reject this. I've been working extensive hours job hunting for several years now, with multiple non-programming-related jobs to keep me alive. I'm not a front-end designer - so what code I have done is either part of a system that can't be released, part of my own projects that are missing the final presentation cleanups (because I'm not sure how they should look) - or out and out gone, as several projects I worked on have been entirely wiped - sometimes after a year or more of production use - simply due to the company "moving on". Hand me a design and I'll make it work. Hand me a component and some interface guidelines, and I'll make it work within that.
I honestly don't know where to apply myself in open source - 90+% of the projects need a better front-end, and that's not what I can do.
the one essential item "threat level raised to 7" (implying long term clean up) - is true. The rest... doesn't entirely add up (reliable references please!) I'm not entirely sure how they're supposed to connect.
http://www.iaea.org/ - my primary source. Please check here or another reliable reference Authoritative reference : http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110412-4.pdf
IF I remember the writing of the law correctly (I'm not a lawyer. I've a dreadful habit of reading books of law for fun) - the hatred laws in Canada have to do with the inciting of violence, not as much on who the targets of the violence are. It's an interesting difference from what sounds to be English law.
We've got anti-hate laws here too (hatred described - IIRC - as any speech promoting violence against someone... a bit of a simplified explanation but it'll do)
We haven't got a strong history of anyone paying attention to requests. There are rather a lot of people who flock to hate sites and use the information to 'excuse' their own violence though. (with violent voices agreeing with a speaker, violence is more likely. "righteous" violence can be triggered by hate speech)
I'm with removal of public promotion of violence. Why do people take the right to speak as meaning the right to bully others?
Microsoft's history of security - at least in anything it lets people at home use - suggests to me that the first virus that triggers kill-switches will probably appear as the first phone appears.
And if they protect it with something stupid - like the DCMA or its kin - they are failing to protect users from whatever fallout might happen.
I look forward to being happily surprised. I don't expect to be surprised.
While my copy of Al Kemi has disappeared, this is it exactly.
My father was that kind of alchemist. It also turns out that in alchemical studies a lot of farming practices and improvements were developed. Many take more effort and time to get going - but they also take a lot less work later.
Also, the violin comes out of alchemy. I have the first one my father made. It's beautiful.
Speaking as an experienced sysadmin - that's the right call. Also possibly negotiating with anyone affected but due to privacy laws (and at least in Canada this is the case) NOT publicized.
Part of a sysadmin's responsibility is ensuring no one has access to data they shouldn't. This includes the administrator themselves - but has to be taken on trust, barring unusual ways of securing data. I'm actually trying to design some software to do that, but it's slow going as none of the APIs are very well documented.
So - good call firing him. That is not proper etiquette for a system administrator.
I hate them too - or more precisely the kind of second and third-grade cruft that everyone thinks of as a computer. (Mac's not bad but they have their own quirks. Mostly better hardware though)
If I were paid for more than minimal wage and had a spot of spare time - I'd try to do something about it - at least in the open source world. (I've been studying chrome source lately... just in case I get time to try some of the fixes I want to do)
Back in introductory CS - I'd been programming already for a few years and had read through all of the local college CS texts (not many - but the music ones were neat). The instructor used my code as a basis to spot both cheaters and those who would ask for help. Apparently he could always tell both.... I still don't know what was so distinctive about my code.
I will say though that my favourite instructor marked based on how I planned out, documented and finished my code regardless of how well it fit the course. 1989, first year CS while I was finishing my grade 12 - and my final project was a fully functional text-based word processor with built in simple encryption (variation of playfair cypher).
The novel "Shockwave Rider" (John Brunner, 1975) proposes a computer-based model very similar to this one doing "crowd sourced predictions, with prizes". He even gave proper attribution, calling it "Delphi".
I've ended up homeless and unable to get a job on multiple occasions because there were -threats- that the stuff I was doing might be patented. I had no way to know and no way to find out - and everything I was doing was mathematically obvious. After all is said and done - the patents I -have- seen paperwork for - are all obvious processes. I haven't seen a patent for anything that wasn't obvious for a mathematically-able diligent mind.
To sort of expound my feelings on this: software patents create thoughtcrimes. It makes into criminals those who think and the gedunken (computer software) that is working these thoughts out. I know this is an emotional response.
In my grandfather's day, only a "Russian" could get a degree in Russia. Not a Mennonite (which he was), nor a Jew nor any other group - just what they termed "Russians". He was refused his degree because he was Mennonite. Mind - his home town as well as all the other communities in the area were purged in the 1920s and we get stories like "Fiddler on the Roof" from that area. fwiw: his hometown - all of it that I know of - ended up in Manitoba - because he hauled them out on ships. (it's a complicated story. There's a couple of books out about it). If you want to know more, investigate into the Ukraine area and how Jews and Mennonites were treated, 1880s through 1900s as well as 1920s. I don't know when they started allowing Jewish people degrees in the USSR, but I'm going to guess it was probably post-Stalin. on the flip side, my grandfather was also very antisemitic. My grandfather died long before I was born - and he tried to get his degree in the early 1900s, so this isn't modern information by any length.
Linux: 2 cores = 2 times faster, usually. And so forth... it's had scalable multicore/multiprocessor support for years. Windows: extra core means 10% of programs are faster. So I very much confirm windows needs a rewrite for this.
Now some specific apps under linux still need work - but only if they are resource hogs. The only programs I've run into problems with this with of late are firefox (I'm now mostly running chrome - which is far smoother), thunderbird and - possibly - the X server itself. (I've looked into X server code though - it looks like it's now set to scale)
I can't say anything about BSD or MacOSX as I've never run either on a multicore system. For MacOSX though I'd wager that if it isn't already up to par - it will be. The OSX and even NextStep GUIs are designed to scale.
I'm not in a rush for bind10 - I find bind9 to be quite sufficient, on the whole. I do look forward to seeing what it brings and how it may make my life with the systems I manage much easier. This does look interesting though!
I think Google's figured out that for a company where information is it's primary commodity (and trading in such), that the free flow of information is in its best interest. Basically the gains they'd make over taking ownership of data the hold would cost them too many of their own customer base. Being trusted, basically, is good for their business model. As long as that's remembered, Google's movements are actually pretty predictable.
I don't see what Viacom has to gain over this, long term.
I've been using Vipre Antivirus since I started working as a computer tech. 90+% of the machines I see every day are highly infected and that so far has caught and cleaned all but one type of infection - Alureon/TDSS.y (which it will stop and remove just fine). Microsoft Security essentials gets that one (and cleans it out correctly, leaving a system capable of booting afterwards). Microsoft Security Essentials otherwise is about 80% as effective... again, sufficient unless you're in a "toxic" environment as I am.
Unless a game play requires internet access, I will not purchase a game that requires me to ever be online. I generally won't buy any game that has DRM in any event although I'll mostly ignore it with the playstation-series. (I have one game with broken DRM that refuses to play on any legal playstation-type platform but will work fine if ripped and played in an emulator: "Legend of Dragoon")
I don't find there's any reason for DRM beyond publishers being arses. My study of sales history hasn't shown any real difference between DRM/no DRM in game sales except where DRM became inconveniencing for users causing drops of sales. This is merely a "casual research" though so I've no real references beyond it being an industry I wouldn't mind working within.
I will toss out though that if a company is criminalizing its customers (DRM assumes customers are guilty - and I'll include encoding of DVDs in that) - there's something deeply wrong in how a company is doing business.
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hmm. marker character, or a length.
Marker: same type as string, so no need to worry about bit size, start/stop bits or other extraneous. String can be any size and only restricted by available memory. (given the ability to swap darn near unlimited pages in current hardware.... and the ability to virtualize across computers... this means strings have a potentially <i>infinite</i> limit)
Length: What's the size? What byte order? What bit size? How will this affect communications between platforms?
IMO, C and the null terminated string -saved- more than it cost. It's entirely (theoretically anyway) possible - given the kind of code I've seen in browsers and server code -that the web couldn't have existed without some of these assumptions. The "streaming" so core to unix depends on this... how else does one know when one hits the end of a file or a buffer?
When you mark cost, know what you pay. Not all costs are negative.
accurate, but they weren't at the riot.
Apparently the profile of the typical rioter is : wealthy youth, easy life. "spoiled rich kids".
There may be exceptions to this profile but I haven't heard of it.
At least 17000 local folks (including many of my friends, and many who DO fit that profile) showed up to help clean up, and put apologetic and welcome messages out. I would have too, but I started my first day of work after a year of unemployment. I got to see the cleanup though - my new job is a block from where the riot took place.
There's also been amazing support - see above - re: people helping -catch- the rioters, as well as help out hurt people and businesses.
It's quite amazing, really, that part.
They've got a history of calling this kind of game around other countries, and turn around and doing it themselves.
Probably 100% of NAFTA legal claims -from- the USA could be considered as examples. Most particularly around softwood (the US doesn't have the infrastructure - or the timber anymore, so they sued my homeland) and tomatoes (a 10-year-old southern US failure against a 100+ year old British Columbian success)
I'll just assume it's more US protectionism. It usually is.
That's got the largest group of wankers on who could attack back.
Very bad target. Don't do it. Leave the EVE universe alone to the whackos who know and love it, so their world won't bleed into ours.
or in other words, I'll be waiting to see what fallout hits the news. This could be interesting....
I would apply for that. This sounds like my kind of work.
None of the jobs I've seen posted asked for code.
I reject this. I've been working extensive hours job hunting for several years now, with multiple non-programming-related jobs to keep me alive. I'm not a front-end designer - so what code I have done is either part of a system that can't be released, part of my own projects that are missing the final presentation cleanups (because I'm not sure how they should look) - or out and out gone, as several projects I worked on have been entirely wiped - sometimes after a year or more of production use - simply due to the company "moving on".
Hand me a design and I'll make it work.
Hand me a component and some interface guidelines, and I'll make it work within that.
I honestly don't know where to apply myself in open source - 90+% of the projects need a better front-end, and that's not what I can do.
if I remember rightly, that secret's in the documents the FSB declassified a few years back ;)
the one essential item "threat level raised to 7" (implying long term clean up) - is true. The rest ... doesn't entirely add up (reliable references please!)
I'm not entirely sure how they're supposed to connect.
http://www.iaea.org/ - my primary source. Please check here or another reliable reference
Authoritative reference : http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/files/en20110412-4.pdf
Recently, sold to one of the bigger boys. It was ... too much work, really. (bunch of "entitled" folks in community made life difficult)
Don't regret doing it. There was NO chance of anyone in that area getting connected without our work. But - glad to be free of it.
For anyone who's read security posts on this site - all too often NSA folks pop up and respond :)
(and are frequently very helpful)
IF I remember the writing of the law correctly (I'm not a lawyer. I've a dreadful habit of reading books of law for fun) - the hatred laws in Canada have to do with the inciting of violence, not as much on who the targets of the violence are. It's an interesting difference from what sounds to be English law.
We've got anti-hate laws here too (hatred described - IIRC - as any speech promoting violence against someone... a bit of a simplified explanation but it'll do)
We haven't got a strong history of anyone paying attention to requests. There are rather a lot of people who flock to hate sites and use the information to 'excuse' their own violence though. (with violent voices agreeing with a speaker, violence is more likely. "righteous" violence can be triggered by hate speech)
I'm with removal of public promotion of violence. Why do people take the right to speak as meaning the right to bully others?
Microsoft's history of security - at least in anything it lets people at home use - suggests to me that the first virus that triggers kill-switches will probably appear as the first phone appears.
And if they protect it with something stupid - like the DCMA or its kin - they are failing to protect users from whatever fallout might happen.
I look forward to being happily surprised. I don't expect to be surprised.
While my copy of Al Kemi has disappeared, this is it exactly.
My father was that kind of alchemist. It also turns out that in alchemical studies a lot of farming practices and improvements were developed. Many take more effort and time to get going - but they also take a lot less work later.
Also, the violin comes out of alchemy. I have the first one my father made. It's beautiful.
Speaking as an experienced sysadmin - that's the right call. Also possibly negotiating with anyone affected but due to privacy laws (and at least in Canada this is the case) NOT publicized.
Part of a sysadmin's responsibility is ensuring no one has access to data they shouldn't. This includes the administrator themselves - but has to be taken on trust, barring unusual ways of securing data. I'm actually trying to design some software to do that, but it's slow going as none of the APIs are very well documented.
So - good call firing him. That is not proper etiquette for a system administrator.
I hate them too - or more precisely the kind of second and third-grade cruft that everyone thinks of as a computer. (Mac's not bad but they have their own quirks. Mostly better hardware though)
If I were paid for more than minimal wage and had a spot of spare time - I'd try to do something about it - at least in the open source world. (I've been studying chrome source lately... just in case I get time to try some of the fixes I want to do)
Silly little fragile things they are.
Back in introductory CS - I'd been programming already for a few years and had read through all of the local college CS texts (not many - but the music ones were neat). The instructor used my code as a basis to spot both cheaters and those who would ask for help. Apparently he could always tell both....
I still don't know what was so distinctive about my code.
I will say though that my favourite instructor marked based on how I planned out, documented and finished my code regardless of how well it fit the course. 1989, first year CS while I was finishing my grade 12 - and my final project was a fully functional text-based word processor with built in simple encryption (variation of playfair cypher).
The novel "Shockwave Rider" (John Brunner, 1975) proposes a computer-based model very similar to this one doing "crowd sourced predictions, with prizes". He even gave proper attribution, calling it "Delphi".
so yeah, nothing new here - not even method.
Basically - it's all obvious.
I've ended up homeless and unable to get a job on multiple occasions because there were -threats- that the stuff I was doing might be patented. I had no way to know and no way to find out - and everything I was doing was mathematically obvious. After all is said and done - the patents I -have- seen paperwork for - are all obvious processes. I haven't seen a patent for anything that wasn't obvious for a mathematically-able diligent mind.
To sort of expound my feelings on this: software patents create thoughtcrimes. It makes into criminals those who think and the gedunken (computer software) that is working these thoughts out. I know this is an emotional response.
In my grandfather's day, only a "Russian" could get a degree in Russia. Not a Mennonite (which he was), nor a Jew nor any other group - just what they termed "Russians". He was refused his degree because he was Mennonite. Mind - his home town as well as all the other communities in the area were purged in the 1920s and we get stories like "Fiddler on the Roof" from that area.
fwiw: his hometown - all of it that I know of - ended up in Manitoba - because he hauled them out on ships. (it's a complicated story. There's a couple of books out about it). If you want to know more, investigate into the Ukraine area and how Jews and Mennonites were treated, 1880s through 1900s as well as 1920s.
I don't know when they started allowing Jewish people degrees in the USSR, but I'm going to guess it was probably post-Stalin.
on the flip side, my grandfather was also very antisemitic. My grandfather died long before I was born - and he tried to get his degree in the early 1900s, so this isn't modern information by any length.
Linux: 2 cores = 2 times faster, usually. And so forth... it's had scalable multicore/multiprocessor support for years.
Windows: extra core means 10% of programs are faster. So I very much confirm windows needs a rewrite for this.
Now some specific apps under linux still need work - but only if they are resource hogs. The only programs I've run into problems with this with of late are firefox (I'm now mostly running chrome - which is far smoother), thunderbird and - possibly - the X server itself. (I've looked into X server code though - it looks like it's now set to scale)
I can't say anything about BSD or MacOSX as I've never run either on a multicore system. For MacOSX though I'd wager that if it isn't already up to par - it will be. The OSX and even NextStep GUIs are designed to scale.
I'm not in a rush for bind10 - I find bind9 to be quite sufficient, on the whole. I do look forward to seeing what it brings and how it may make my life with the systems I manage much easier. This does look interesting though!
I think Google's figured out that for a company where information is it's primary commodity (and trading in such), that the free flow of information is in its best interest. Basically the gains they'd make over taking ownership of data the hold would cost them too many of their own customer base. Being trusted, basically, is good for their business model.
As long as that's remembered, Google's movements are actually pretty predictable.
I don't see what Viacom has to gain over this, long term.
I've been using Vipre Antivirus since I started working as a computer tech. 90+% of the machines I see every day are highly infected and that so far has caught and cleaned all but one type of infection - Alureon/TDSS.y (which it will stop and remove just fine). Microsoft Security essentials gets that one (and cleans it out correctly, leaving a system capable of booting afterwards). Microsoft Security Essentials otherwise is about 80% as effective... again, sufficient unless you're in a "toxic" environment as I am.
Unless a game play requires internet access, I will not purchase a game that requires me to ever be online. I generally won't buy any game that has DRM in any event although I'll mostly ignore it with the playstation-series. (I have one game with broken DRM that refuses to play on any legal playstation-type platform but will work fine if ripped and played in an emulator: "Legend of Dragoon")
I don't find there's any reason for DRM beyond publishers being arses. My study of sales history hasn't shown any real difference between DRM/no DRM in game sales except where DRM became inconveniencing for users causing drops of sales. This is merely a "casual research" though so I've no real references beyond it being an industry I wouldn't mind working within.
I will toss out though that if a company is criminalizing its customers (DRM assumes customers are guilty - and I'll include encoding of DVDs in that) - there's something deeply wrong in how a company is doing business.