but with.net senior positions and architect positions are common place.
Maybe just bit too common..NET is still a bit new, but come a few more years and the world will be full of.NET programmers. you'll find one hiding under every rock. it will be then that the salaries start to plummet. I admit the extremely good developers/architects will still be able to make impressive amounts but not as good as what you can expect to have in the beginning.
As for the posters decision it's a matter of personal preference. if he already gets a good salary then he might not need that 66% increase as much as the amount he'd enjoy in his perl development. On the other hand if he's not getting paid that much then i think the 66% would be more useful.
Also some people prefer to lead and program with their own style rather than working on somebody else's tune which is what he would get if he went to the dot net position. on the other hand working under and with other developers usually helps increase your abilities (provided that the others are better than you).
So as i said it's a matter of preference. do you like freedom and/or prefer to use your own design abilities then go for perl. if you need the money and enjoy working in large project with a large team then go for.NET.
"I get brave and try to read and write to ext2 and ext3 partitions from Windows. Something about how windows (not surprisingly) does not respect the file permissions."
This is not exactly a problem with windows. it's a problem with file system driver not checking for permissions. perhaps this is not possible since windows and linux permission structures arent exactly the same. The driver wou;d also need to find the/etc/users file to decode the linux users list (which again might not mach with windows users)
the same problem exists in linux ntfs drivers which also doesnt respect windows permssions, i think for the same reasons.
and just in case you didn't knew already there are also a windows driver for the reiserfs (don't have the url with me right now)
It works fine with GUI apps (try it with notepad.exe). I think the problem in this case is that iexplorer.exe which get launched is a wrapper which calls the actual IE (not sure).
You might not care if the spammer doesnt get your rejected message. i dont either, but i certainly do care if you're 'rejected' messages end up in my inbox just because some spammer used my email address as his 'From' address. do everyone a favour either reject any spam at the time you recieve it (via a smtp error code) or dont reject it at all. It would be almost the same as havng a open smtp server since spammers can use your server to send spam as backscatter.
What came into my mind as i read this was a documentry i once saw on Discovery channel which talked about china.
China used to be one of the most advanced civilisations in the world. They developed so many stuff before any other country. Then suddenly some idiot in there decided to cut off china from the rest of the world and not only stop building technically advanced ships but actually destroy its unmatched fleet of ships. Shortly afterwards Britan was able to conquer the country using the technology that chinese themselves invented.
The fact that US seems to be closing libraries makes me wonder if its another version of the same events.
Your brain has no pain receptors. You can't feel anything that is done to your brain. Human beings are conscious when they have brain surgery, too, because the surgeons have to be able to get feedback from the patient during the operation in case anything goes wrong.
The brain doesnt have pain receptors but it does have party which recognises something as a pain. put in the right chemical/electricity into the right part of the brain and the animal/person would "feel" more pain than they would ever feel if they were physically harmed.
It was just an example i didn't literally mean to scare kids to death.
But what about parents that work and aren't there for breakfast? Parents that work late and aren't there for a late snack or even dinner
But thats the problem. While i do understand that it's difficult for most families to survive without both parents working, it's not a excuse for not looking after or educating you'r kids. Ultimatley the kids are a parents responsibility and parents needs to make time to educate and monitor their kids. by monitoring i dont mean fixing a webcam on their heads and watching them remotley all the time, but monitoring their behaviour and watching out for changes.
The problem today is that most parents try to enforce rules and stop their kids doing what they think is bad without taking the time to figure out why they do it. Are the kids taking drug or trying to eat too much junk foods? then figure out why. Is it because it's latest fad at school? or maybe their depressed about something, find out and talk to them about it. I'm not saying that you should enforce rules, but they should be balanced with talking and educating instead of trying to remote control you're kids. Controlling kids by blocking out the food like this doesn't work because kids are simply too smart and innovative they also have virtually unlimited time to find loopholes and get around rules like this. and once they become accustomed to breaking rules you lose even that small bit of control you mightve had.
I Used the VM aproach succesfully in my school. lots of childrens software which we had only ran on windows 98 and obiously windows 98 isnt really the most stable OS with a bunch of kids (hell it's not even stable with adults). so i installed vmware on top of windows and installed windows 98 inside the vm. Enabled the VMware snapshot or whatever which lets you rollback everything when you reboot the VM and change the key combination for FullScreen/Windowed VM mode to something very very uncommon and put the VM into the full screen.
The kids could do anything they wish (including setting up the pictures that they drew as wallpapers something that every kid wants to do). and i could sit back and relax till the end of the lesson and do a remote reboot of all the VMs to get it back into pristine order, ready for the next group.
"In an ideal setup there would be no need for moms to monitor what kids eat, because the school wouldn't be feeding them junk."
An ideal setup would be for kids to be given healthy foods for morning and dinner which they should be getting from home. C'mon people two of the meals that the kids would get they get from there homes. if parents really wanted healthy food, they can regulate the foods at breakfast and dinner to balance whatever junk they eat from school for lunch. plus a real mom would educate there children in smart ways to not eat extreme junk food. Not try to control it by remote controlling the school cafetria (which as even the article explains doens't work 100%). how difficult is it for a bigger kid (who likes to eat junk food) to bully another kid into buying what he want.
speaking of educating children i remember one Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvins mom convinces calvin not to eat the unbaked cake mixture by giving a graphic description how he would die of Salmonella poisoining if he does. Now that what real moms do.
This is why i disabled root login and plain password login on the remote ssh virtual server which i own. now the only way to login to it is using a normal user account (with ssh key) and then do a su or sudo.
They can try all the passwords they want but they simply won't be able to login. you could also change the port which SSH runs on and tar-pit any ip ranges which give you constant trouble (It's really fun to see bot's stay for hours on end trying to check a single login).
Forget about expensive server machines and stuff. I have a conner 150MB hard drive from a old desktop which is still working perfectly without a single bad sector. I still power it up it every month to store backup of the most critical files from my normal backup (a sort of backup of the backup). now thats reliablity. somehow i dont think i can expect the same from any drive which will run out of luibricant like a car or something.
Actually there is a very good reason for this. The floppy drive detects read only status by a optocoupler which will get obstructed by the write protect tab.
This design means that if the optocoupler gets blocked by dust it will, at worst do the safer thing of making a writable disc read only, rather than making a read only disc into writable one which might do something bad.
this might work with my phone though. it gets damn hot when i talk for more than 3 minutes or so (like when you do hardware support for you annoying friends). i think the battery is getting old.
SVG might not gain high acceptance but i dont believe that this new MS techonology even if its completely revolutionary (which i doubt it is) would be picked up quickly by the web developers like any other of thier technology would be. the reason being IE no longer is the market leader. most web developers are have now recognised that they must create webpages which are compatible to firefox and opera and as well as Mac safari. so unless they supply with compatible plugins and stuff (which are cross platform) i doubt their technologies targeting web users would work.
I dont know about rolling clear text or any big stuff about crypto. but i do think that if you write a encryption program which was said to be uncrackable. then encrypt that program source with the same program, and published the encrypted source code into the net claiming that whoever gives them some money will get the "decryption key" to decrypt the program i think thats very stupid. how can u decrypt something with only a key without the the algorithm which tells you how to use that key. and if you are giving away the algorithm (or the source implementation) of the encryption system why bother with a stupid key.
i stopped reading the book at that point. i would probably been able to continue reading it if i was able to convince myself that this was possible but i couldnt convince myself of that.
Since the question is basically about what a online community / forum can do to not be liable for the damage done by a hotlinked image, the simplest solution would be to block allow people to hotlink images however to not show them to the viewers of the page by default but to give them a option which they can enable (after agreeing to a disclaimer) which will dislay the hotlinked images in the page/site. this is pretty much the same concept which is used by email clients to disable tracking images which come embedded in spam emails.
all the more reason to have lower prices. if they have done this for so long i'm pretty sure they dont have any problem manufacturing those pieces at a low cost.
"....if a vendor doesn't bother to certify the driver (it's not that expensive after all) it's a good indication that they might not care about driver improvement as well...."
or maybe it improves that its drivers so frequently that it cant keep trying to certify it every single time?
I generally dont mind ads and banners after all they support the sights which we like to browse. but one day i saw this large square flash ad showing a progress bar saying its loading the clip i was really pissed. a ad should be a small file which doesnt eat users bandwidth not something which is trying to show you a full length movie. i searched for and installed flashblock. no more flash ads for me.
maybe you're more knowledgeble about this than me but i dont like NTFS encryption becasue its very difficult if not impossible (AFAIK) to recover a encrypted file if the os crashes.
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but with .net senior positions and architect positions are common place.
.NET is still a bit new, but come a few more years and the world will be full of .NET programmers. you'll find one hiding under every rock. it will be then that the salaries start to plummet. I admit the extremely good developers/architects will still be able to make impressive amounts but not as good as what you can expect to have in the beginning.
.NET.
Maybe just bit too common.
As for the posters decision it's a matter of personal preference. if he already gets a good salary then he might not need that 66% increase as much as the amount he'd enjoy in his perl development. On the other hand if he's not getting paid that much then i think the 66% would be more useful.
Also some people prefer to lead and program with their own style rather than working on somebody else's tune which is what he would get if he went to the dot net position. on the other hand working under and with other developers usually helps increase your abilities (provided that the others are better than you).
So as i said it's a matter of preference. do you like freedom and/or prefer to use your own design abilities then go for perl. if you need the money and enjoy working in large project with a large team then go for
the problem isn't so much as not having bugs in FF but the fact that MS is trying to make it look like the new IE is revolutionary and secure than FF.
"I get brave and try to read and write to ext2 and ext3 partitions from Windows. Something about how windows (not surprisingly) does not respect the file permissions."
/etc/users file to decode the linux users list (which again might not mach with windows users)
This is not exactly a problem with windows. it's a problem with file system driver not checking for permissions. perhaps this is not possible since windows and linux permission structures arent exactly the same. The driver wou;d also need to find the
the same problem exists in linux ntfs drivers which also doesnt respect windows permssions, i think for the same reasons.
and just in case you didn't knew already there are also a windows driver for the reiserfs (don't have the url with me right now)
It works fine with GUI apps (try it with notepad.exe). I think the problem in this case is that iexplorer.exe which get launched is a wrapper which calls the actual IE (not sure).
You might not care if the spammer doesnt get your rejected message. i dont either, but i certainly do care if you're 'rejected' messages end up in my inbox just because some spammer used my email address as his 'From' address. do everyone a favour either reject any spam at the time you recieve it (via a smtp error code) or dont reject it at all. It would be almost the same as havng a open smtp server since spammers can use your server to send spam as backscatter.
What came into my mind as i read this was a documentry i once saw on Discovery channel which talked about china.
China used to be one of the most advanced civilisations in the world. They developed so many stuff before any other country. Then suddenly some idiot in there decided to cut off china from the rest of the world and not only stop building technically advanced ships but actually destroy its unmatched fleet of ships. Shortly afterwards Britan was able to conquer the country using the technology that chinese themselves invented.
The fact that US seems to be closing libraries makes me wonder if its another version of the same events.
Your brain has no pain receptors. You can't feel anything that is done to your brain. Human beings are conscious when they have brain surgery, too, because the surgeons have to be able to get feedback from the patient during the operation in case anything goes wrong.
The brain doesnt have pain receptors but it does have party which recognises something as a pain. put in the right chemical/electricity into the right part of the brain and the animal/person would "feel" more pain than they would ever feel if they were physically harmed.
It was just an example i didn't literally mean to scare kids to death.
But what about parents that work and aren't there for breakfast? Parents that work late and aren't there for a late snack or even dinner
But thats the problem. While i do understand that it's difficult for most families to survive without both parents working, it's not a excuse for not looking after or educating you'r kids. Ultimatley the kids are a parents responsibility and parents needs to make time to educate and monitor their kids. by monitoring i dont mean fixing a webcam on their heads and watching them remotley all the time, but monitoring their behaviour and watching out for changes.
The problem today is that most parents try to enforce rules and stop their kids doing what they think is bad without taking the time to figure out why they do it. Are the kids taking drug or trying to eat too much junk foods? then figure out why. Is it because it's latest fad at school? or maybe their depressed about something, find out and talk to them about it. I'm not saying that you should enforce rules, but they should be balanced with talking and educating instead of trying to remote control you're kids. Controlling kids by blocking out the food like this doesn't work because kids are simply too smart and innovative they also have virtually unlimited time to find loopholes and get around rules like this. and once they become accustomed to breaking rules you lose even that small bit of control you mightve had.
I know the question sounds sarchastic.
And you're asking why there are degree programs for "Human Communication"?
I Used the VM aproach succesfully in my school. lots of childrens software which we had only ran on windows 98 and obiously windows 98 isnt really the most stable OS with a bunch of kids (hell it's not even stable with adults). so i installed vmware on top of windows and installed windows 98 inside the vm. Enabled the VMware snapshot or whatever which lets you rollback everything when you reboot the VM and change the key combination for FullScreen/Windowed VM mode to something very very uncommon and put the VM into the full screen.
The kids could do anything they wish (including setting up the pictures that they drew as wallpapers something that every kid wants to do). and i could sit back and relax till the end of the lesson and do a remote reboot of all the VMs to get it back into pristine order, ready for the next group.
Just say no!
"In an ideal setup there would be no need for moms to monitor what kids eat, because the school wouldn't be feeding them junk."
An ideal setup would be for kids to be given healthy foods for morning and dinner which they should be getting from home. C'mon people two of the meals that the kids would get they get from there homes. if parents really wanted healthy food, they can regulate the foods at breakfast and dinner to balance whatever junk they eat from school for lunch. plus a real mom would educate there children in smart ways to not eat extreme junk food. Not try to control it by remote controlling the school cafetria (which as even the article explains doens't work 100%). how difficult is it for a bigger kid (who likes to eat junk food) to bully another kid into buying what he want.
speaking of educating children i remember one Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvins mom convinces calvin not to eat the unbaked cake mixture by giving a graphic description how he would die of Salmonella poisoining if he does. Now that what real moms do.
This is why i disabled root login and plain password login on the remote ssh virtual server which i own. now the only way to login to it is using a normal user account (with ssh key) and then do a su or sudo.
They can try all the passwords they want but they simply won't be able to login. you could also change the port which SSH runs on and tar-pit any ip ranges which give you constant trouble (It's really fun to see bot's stay for hours on end trying to check a single login).
The XBox seems the quintessential example of a system which tried to achieve this design goal.
:)
I never thought i'd see the day when a microsoft product would be quintessential example of a high security system
Forget about expensive server machines and stuff. I have a conner 150MB hard drive from a old desktop which is still working perfectly without a single bad sector. I still power it up it every month to store backup of the most critical files from my normal backup (a sort of backup of the backup). now thats reliablity. somehow i dont think i can expect the same from any drive which will run out of luibricant like a car or something.
Actually there is a very good reason for this. The floppy drive detects read only status by a optocoupler which will get obstructed by the write protect tab.
This design means that if the optocoupler gets blocked by dust it will, at worst do the safer thing of making a writable disc read only, rather than making a read only disc into writable one which might do something bad.
this might work with my phone though. it gets damn hot when i talk for more than 3 minutes or so (like when you do hardware support for you annoying friends). i think the battery is getting old.
SVG might not gain high acceptance but i dont believe that this new MS techonology even if its completely revolutionary (which i doubt it is) would be picked up quickly by the web developers like any other of thier technology would be. the reason being IE no longer is the market leader. most web developers are have now recognised that they must create webpages which are compatible to firefox and opera and as well as Mac safari. so unless they supply with compatible plugins and stuff (which are cross platform) i doubt their technologies targeting web users would work.
I dont know about rolling clear text or any big stuff about crypto. but i do think that if you write a encryption program which was said to be uncrackable. then encrypt that program source with the same program, and published the encrypted source code into the net claiming that whoever gives them some money will get the "decryption key" to decrypt the program i think thats very stupid. how can u decrypt something with only a key without the the algorithm which tells you how to use that key. and if you are giving away the algorithm (or the source implementation) of the encryption system why bother with a stupid key.
i stopped reading the book at that point. i would probably been able to continue reading it if i was able to convince myself that this was possible but i couldnt convince myself of that.
Since the question is basically about what a online community / forum can do to not be liable for the damage done by a hotlinked image, the simplest solution would be to block allow people to hotlink images however to not show them to the viewers of the page by default but to give them a option which they can enable (after agreeing to a disclaimer) which will dislay the hotlinked images in the page/site. this is pretty much the same concept which is used by email clients to disable tracking images which come embedded in spam emails.
all the more reason to have lower prices. if they have done this for so long i'm pretty sure they dont have any problem manufacturing those pieces at a low cost.
"....if a vendor doesn't bother to certify the driver (it's not that expensive after all) it's a good indication that they might not care about driver improvement as well...."
or maybe it improves that its drivers so frequently that it cant keep trying to certify it every single time?
I generally dont mind ads and banners after all they support the sights which we like to browse. but one day i saw this large square flash ad showing a progress bar saying its loading the clip i was really pissed. a ad should be a small file which doesnt eat users bandwidth not something which is trying to show you a full length movie. i searched for and installed flashblock. no more flash ads for me.
maybe you're more knowledgeble about this than me but i dont like NTFS encryption becasue its very difficult if not impossible (AFAIK) to recover a encrypted file if the os crashes.
i wonder what effect this will have on my horoscope ;)