"Look! I wrote an entire function (it was C) in one line!" He did, too. It was one of those 'for' loops with a 'while' and a bunch of things in one line. It was impossible to read.
That reminds me of the Kernighan quote, which I heartily agree with:
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that there was an actual tiny image way down in the corner of the screen on their website and then Sandra Bullock used her l33t hax0ring skillz to see it and click on it, and thusly hacking into the super secret agency or corporation or whatever.
Let's not forget The Disk that she puts into a Mac II and which restores her life.
The bottom line in that it was a stupid movie and it's only redeeming value was 100 minutes of Sandra Bullock. In 1995, that itself earned them the price of a matinee ticket.
I'm afraid to take a programming class because I might be terrible at it. The last thing I want is to screw up my GPA just to learn some programming skills.
Did it occur to you go out and buy an introductory book on programming? Learn it in your spare time? All those kids programming their VIC-20s, C-64s, TRS-80s & Apple ][s sure didn't learn to do it in school. (This sounds harsh, but is not meant to be.)
Unsurprisingly, most categories, the 2Ghz performed 25% better. (There's a big shock) What was funny was that in gaming they said the 2Ghz performed 13% better than the 1.5Ghz.
At a time when AMD was delivering a thrashing with their Athlon XP chips that had a slower clock speed, slower FSB, and were STILL outperforming Intel, they still woundn't even mention AMD. It's no surprise to me that the CEO of Intel would talk about losing market share without mentioning AMD.
That's the Market Leader's Rule #1 : never, ever mention the competition, pretend it doesn't even exist.
This article just did not have any convincing arguments regarding Lara Croft as a positive thing for female role model. If the intent behind Lara was anything besides selling a game with a sexy icon, then there would be no need for the misproportionate breasts, the sexual innuendos, and the skimpy outfits. If the theory of the "Final Girl" is true, would it not work with any mildly appealing women?
That's exactly right.
Maybe it's been way too long since I've seen a slasher movie, but I remember the heroines being "nice, smart" girls, and the killed-off females being dumb and more scantily dressed. Quite the opposite of Lara Croft.
Many brute-force attack programs include this scheme in their dictionary attacks: shortword-digit-shortword. Some of them also include combinations with a second digit at the end (or beginning) of the password.
I've run my password file thru John The Ripper many times, and never come up with a crack.
In OpenVMS you can go set password/generate which combines the generation with normal passwd functionality.
I've been using VMS for 16 years, and never knew that... Now I must hate you forever.
CompuServe had the best password generation policy, which I still follow:
worddigitword
Thus, I am able to use easily remembered words, but there is enough variation in combinations that guessing and dictionary cracking is well-nigh impossible.
So your going to completly ignore the negitive impact on morale?
Only the morale of whiners.
Or how about the fact that now employees will need to actually take time off to do minor things that they otherwise could have taken just a few minutes out of their day to work on.
Amazingly, the world survived and actually prospered prior to 1995.
If port 80 traffic to non related sites was blocked (and good luck identifing all those sites, and hope you don't have anyone who actually needs the web for their job, like the technicians who fix PCs
I guess you've never heard of whitelists.
Lets see... maybe an hour of lost productivity... compared with... an entire day of lost productivity.
An hour of lost (paid-for) productivity, versus taking a vacation day. I'm paying you to make widgets, not surf the web.
So Im happy as hell with my X2 4800+ and 3GB of DDr1 with Nforce4 chipset and 2TB of disk space and Geforce 7800 GTX and will be for quite some time to come.
Geez, how could you not be happy with that system? Must be kinda noisy, though.
It wasn't france and germany who wanted to rush into Iraq and head into war.
You're right. They just wanted to sell more and more "dual-use" technologies to Iraq while buying oil from them, ensuring that more money funneled into Saddam's pockets.
If the French, West Germans and the Soviets jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
The point is that people (especially Western Europeans) who dump on the USA are being highly hypocritical, and blind to the complicity of their own governments.
Based on his sense of humor, something tells me that this has about a 100% chance of being a joke, and I'm sure that the audience probably got a kick out of it. In fact, I bet if everyone here were there, and didn't hate GW, they would laugh too.
This is Slashdot. It is de rigeur that we criticize GWB early, often and continuously, even when it's patently obvious to anyone with more than a pea-brain that GWB was making a joke.
Multiple servers all looking at the same files? That's what shared storage is all about.. Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc... Look at GFS from RedHat or any of the others like IBM's recently announced GPFS. Fedora or CentOS for RedHat's GFS on a more reasonable budget.
OpenVMS. Clustering is deeply built into the OS and all relevant libraries.
..or you could just get a few decent alpha DS10's for around a grand, install VMS and use it's mail system on the cluster, then measure your uptime in four digit days.
Amen, brother, amen. But you'd have to pay yearly for the OpenVMS licenses. And that adds up.
Would you like to elaborate on that? I _do_ want arbitrary precision and it would be nice to have it built in, instead of using libraries. Is that necessarily bad?
COBOL uses IBM's version of BCD. Decimal numbers are a fundamental data type in COBOL, and IIRC you can make them as big as you want with PICTURE clauses.
Isn't it time for C and its likes to let us specify explicitly how many bits we want for a variable? I would like to tell the compiler that a variable should be _exactly_ 32 bits and another one _at least_ 64 bits. It's appears strange to me that an int seems to be allowed to be, well, anything it wants to be, and I will never know. Throw in arbitrary precision floats too while we're at it.
People who have forgotten COBOL and Binary-Coded Dedimal are doomed to repeat it, poorly.
I mind the thousand other SUVs I drive past on the way to work, which do roughly none of those things to justify being build that way.
You mean Women driving SUVs, yacking on cell phones in the middle of suburbia? Me too.
That's why we bought a minivan... And when it wears out, we'll buy another one. By the time that one wears out, the kids will be in College, and we'll get something nicer.
but Dad doesn't want to drive them because they are not considered "manly" vehicles. If you see a guy driving a minivan, he obviously has a job, a wife, some kids, etc. etc.
What's Dad got to be ashamed of? Am I the only husband/father who is proud that I am a husband/father?
I think that everyone's like "ok, we kind of win the web browser wars... lets move to Office," the difference is, firefox really is better than IE. Can you really say that OpenOffice is better than MS Office?
Ah, ok. I was just curious as to your thought process.
As to whether I think that OOo2 is better than MSO 97 (that's all I have), well, it's hard to say. Word 97 & Excel 97 are very snappy on my Win2k 933MHz/256MB RAM laptop, and OOo2 is really snappy on my Sempron-754 2800+/1GB RAM PC and does everything I and my wife want.
Why don't I use OOo2 on my laptop? MSO 97 is already there, is snappy, and I have to use Outlook anyway at work.
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Using a decent firewall, a "single-user" workstation is secure enough.
But... since I upgrade regularly (yea Debian!), I'm sure I got the fix this afternoon.
That reminds me of the Kernighan quote, which I heartily agree with:
Man oh man! I'm still waiting for the remake of Battlefield Earth!
No 1000 page book should ever be made into a movie. Ever.
I remember thinking how ridiculous it was that there was an actual tiny image way down in the corner of the screen on their website and then Sandra Bullock used her l33t hax0ring skillz to see it and click on it, and thusly hacking into the super secret agency or corporation or whatever.
Let's not forget The Disk that she puts into a Mac II and which restores her life.
The bottom line in that it was a stupid movie and it's only redeeming value was 100 minutes of Sandra Bullock. In 1995, that itself earned them the price of a matinee ticket.
I'm afraid to take a programming class because I might be terrible at it. The last thing I want is to screw up my GPA just to learn some programming skills.
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Did it occur to you go out and buy an introductory book on programming? Learn it in your spare time? All those kids programming their VIC-20s, C-64s, TRS-80s & Apple ][s sure didn't learn to do it in school. (This sounds harsh, but is not meant to be.)
I'm partial to Python, not Ruby, and there are many good books on learning to program with Python. This is supposed to be an excellent beginners book:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592000738/sr=1-
Unsurprisingly, most categories, the 2Ghz performed 25% better. (There's a big shock) What was funny was that in gaming they said the 2Ghz performed 13% better than the 1.5Ghz.
At a time when AMD was delivering a thrashing with their Athlon XP chips that had a slower clock speed, slower FSB, and were STILL outperforming Intel, they still woundn't even mention AMD. It's no surprise to me that the CEO of Intel would talk about losing market share without mentioning AMD.
That's the Market Leader's Rule #1 : never, ever mention the competition, pretend it doesn't even exist.
This article just did not have any convincing arguments regarding Lara Croft as a positive thing for female role model. If the intent behind Lara was anything besides selling a game with a sexy icon, then there would be no need for the misproportionate breasts, the sexual innuendos, and the skimpy outfits. If the theory of the "Final Girl" is true, would it not work with any mildly appealing women?
That's exactly right.
Maybe it's been way too long since I've seen a slasher movie, but I remember the heroines being "nice, smart" girls, and the killed-off females being dumb and more scantily dressed. Quite the opposite of Lara Croft.
Many brute-force attack programs include this scheme in their dictionary attacks: shortword-digit-shortword. Some of them also include combinations with a second digit at the end (or beginning) of the password.
I've run my password file thru John The Ripper many times, and never come up with a crack.
I've been using VMS for 16 years, and never knew that... Now I must hate you forever.
CompuServe had the best password generation policy, which I still follow:Thus, I am able to use easily remembered words, but there is enough variation in combinations that guessing and dictionary cracking is well-nigh impossible.
So your going to completly ignore the negitive impact on morale?
Only the morale of whiners.
Or how about the fact that now employees will need to actually take time off to do minor things that they otherwise could have taken just a few minutes out of their day to work on.
Amazingly, the world survived and actually prospered prior to 1995.
If port 80 traffic to non related sites was blocked (and good luck identifing all those sites, and hope you don't have anyone who actually needs the web for their job, like the technicians who fix PCs
I guess you've never heard of whitelists.
Lets see... maybe an hour of lost productivity... compared with... an entire day of lost productivity.
An hour of lost (paid-for) productivity, versus taking a vacation day. I'm paying you to make widgets, not surf the web.
The bad news (for office-dwellers): This ruling will push more companies to completely disallow surfing during work hours.
Exactly. If I ran a business, I'd have all port 80 traffic blocked, except for sites directly relevant to the business.
So Im happy as hell with my X2 4800+ and 3GB of DDr1 with Nforce4 chipset and 2TB of disk space and Geforce 7800 GTX and will be for quite some time to come.
Geez, how could you not be happy with that system? Must be kinda noisy, though.
It wasn't france and germany who wanted to rush into Iraq and head into war.
You're right. They just wanted to sell more and more "dual-use" technologies to Iraq while buying oil from them, ensuring that more money funneled into Saddam's pockets.
If the French, West Germans and the Soviets jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?
The point is that people (especially Western Europeans) who dump on the USA are being highly hypocritical, and blind to the complicity of their own governments.
The US government supplied 'weapons of mass destruction' to Iraq and Saddam Hussain in 1988 and earlier.
As did the French, West Germans and Sovs.
Based on his sense of humor, something tells me that this has about a 100% chance of being a joke, and I'm sure that the audience probably got a kick out of it. In fact, I bet if everyone here were there, and didn't hate GW, they would laugh too.
This is Slashdot. It is de rigeur that we criticize GWB early, often and continuously, even when it's patently obvious to anyone with more than a pea-brain that GWB was making a joke.
Multiple servers all looking at the same files? That's what shared storage is all about.. Fibre Channel, iSCSI, etc... Look at GFS from RedHat or any of the others like IBM's recently announced GPFS. Fedora or CentOS for RedHat's GFS on a more reasonable budget.
OpenVMS. Clustering is deeply built into the OS and all relevant libraries.
..or you could just get a few decent alpha DS10's for around a grand, install VMS and use it's mail system on the cluster, then measure your uptime in four digit days.
Amen, brother, amen. But you'd have to pay yearly for the OpenVMS licenses. And that adds up.
COBOL uses IBM's version of BCD. Decimal numbers are a fundamental data type in COBOL, and IIRC you can make them as big as you want with PICTURE clauses.
Isn't it time for C and its likes to let us specify explicitly how many bits we want for a variable? I would like to tell the compiler that a variable should be _exactly_ 32 bits and another one _at least_ 64 bits. It's appears strange to me that an int seems to be allowed to be, well, anything it wants to be, and I will never know. Throw in arbitrary precision floats too while we're at it.
People who have forgotten COBOL and Binary-Coded Dedimal are doomed to repeat it, poorly.
I'm sure it won't affect your VB app,
Or your Python, Perl, Pascal, Ruby, Tcl, Java, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, Prolog or Forth programs.
I'm just wondering if this is what is holding up an AMD64 version of Flash.
Sloppy code?
I mind the thousand other SUVs I drive past on the way to work, which do roughly none of those things to justify being build that way.
You mean Women driving SUVs, yacking on cell phones in the middle of suburbia? Me too.
That's why we bought a minivan... And when it wears out, we'll buy another one. By the time that one wears out, the kids will be in College, and we'll get something nicer.
but Dad doesn't want to drive them because they are not considered "manly" vehicles. If you see a guy driving a minivan, he obviously has a job, a wife, some kids, etc. etc.
What's Dad got to be ashamed of? Am I the only husband/father who is proud that I am a husband/father?
I think that everyone's like "ok, we kind of win the web browser wars... lets move to Office," the difference is, firefox really is better than IE. Can you really say that OpenOffice is better than MS Office?
Ah, ok. I was just curious as to your thought process.
As to whether I think that OOo2 is better than MSO 97 (that's all I have), well, it's hard to say. Word 97 & Excel 97 are very snappy on my Win2k 933MHz/256MB RAM laptop, and OOo2 is really snappy on my Sempron-754 2800+/1GB RAM PC and does everything I and my wife want.
Why don't I use OOo2 on my laptop? MSO 97 is already there, is snappy, and I have to use Outlook anyway at work.
OpenOffice.org (a long time ago, before discovering what I consider to be superior alternatives for my needs).
Out of curiosity, what apps do you find superior to OOo2 for general purpose use?