1.) The STL could be more complete. I'm currently in the process of hacking up an std::vector to behave like an std::map because I need a non-sorting map and the STL doesn't provide one. Yes, I know about hash_map, but it's non-standard and thus hinders portability.
2.) Everyone who uses inline PHP deserves every bit of pain the runtime inflicts on them. While the ability to use inline PHP (thus turning PHP into a useful preprocessor) is useful in certain scenarios it should only be used when you explicitly need a preprocessor and nothing else. Dynamic web pages are better done by using templates. Even a simple combination of file_get_contents() and str_replace() produces code that is much easier to maintain than the horrible mess inline PHP tends to generate.
I'll be rooting for the people who break it. Among the things I like most about the internet are anonymity and the ability to shut off account from each other, thus I'll keep trying to maintain them, even if these very virtues make the net less professional.
Bad analogies likening huge cars not bought by people who wanted smaller ones to computers with a built-in monitor (most of the time) bought by people who are older than expected.
We clearly need a new kind of unfitting analogies. How about something from quantum physics or maybe roleplaying? Perhaps Vista just has an abysmal Charisma score and not even the Good Looking feat can redeem it. Or, more fitting to the current subthread: Vista has multi-classed so many times that it didn't get past level one in each class. Learned dozens of level 1 spells but none of level 2. Is way beyond its carrying capacity (and that of normal computers). Et cetera.
Until everything is aggressively multithreaded, clusters won't help the average user, so two small computers simply can't do the job of two big ones like two small cars can [usually] do the job of one big one.
Yes, they do, in exactly the same way as two cars do: By allowing two people to do stuff at the same time. Sure, most people don't need clusters but then again most people also don't usually cluster their cars (except if they need to move many people at once - and if they do that often they tend to own a van so they still don't need to cluster).
The analogy still fails, but that's not because nobody would ever want more than one PC per household but just because, unlike the car the GGP talked about, Vista isn't a does-everything-for-everyone solution but just comes in more flavors than most sane people want to know about.
Q: "How many T-Rexes in a gallon of gas?"
A: "SCO did it."
A: "In Soviet Russia, gallon of gas is in T-Rex!"
A: "More importantly, how many gallons are in a Beowulf cluster of Tyrannosauruses?"
A: "It's 'How many T-Rexes are in a gallon of gas'. The Grammar Police strikes again."
A: "A European T-Rex on an African one?"
A: "I bet Roland de Piquepaille sent you to ask this. Go away."
" if I came in and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and this Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about virtualization on Windows, what would you say to us?"
We had a student shooting up his school over here in Germany, just a couple weeks ago. It was found out that he'd been a softair player and had set up a website where he posed with his guns along with texts on which people he wanted to kill. That website and forum posts of similar content have been on the net for several years. People who knew him noted a sudden change in behaviour about a year ago. All signs point to someone who had severe mental issues for years.
Of course, after the amok run the media was quick to point out that he played Counterstrike. They also pointed out that Counterstrike has lots of blood (he played the German version which has no blood) and had the killing of hostages as one goal (both sides lose points for killing hostages).
I'm really thinking about writing a letter to the BILD (Europe's biggest tabloid; Germany-based) asking for action to be taken to preotect our children from dangerous rock music like the stuff the Rolling Stones produce.
Isn't it funny how once you get the law to assume that everyone engages in criminal acts the number of such acts performed actually goes up out of spite? Being a prophet must be awfully sweet when all your prophecies are self-fulfilling.
As the sibling said, the stuff should become available to the public after a while. A prime example of how screwed up the whole thing is is how Disney makes a metric fuckload of cash with old fairy tales (using someone else's work that ended up in the public domain for their profit) yet cling to even the oldest Steamboat Willie film like their lives depended on it (not allowing their work to go into the public domain so others can use it).
In case you argue that the fairy tales in question were not commercial products I'd like you to consider that Lews Carroll's family probably didn't receive royalties from Disney for letting them use Alice in Wonderland - I think back then copyright didn't last for 86 years after release/53 years after the death of the author.
We really need this for agnostics too. Something like... Not Jehovah's Witnesses Because We Don't Actually Have Proof For Or Against It.
*knock knock* Homeowner: "Hello?" NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Have you ever considered not knowing whether to believe in God or not?" Homeowner: "Come again?" NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "God. Have you ever considered that it's impossible to tell whether he exists or not because we do not have irrefutable proof for either?" Homeowner: "...no?" NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Do you want a pamphlet?" Homeowner: "That's a big cardboard box with philosophy books in it." NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Well, without this stuff you can't really make an informed decis--" *slam*
However, at the same time Microsoft is handing out ammunition to the FOSS proponents by the truckload. Essentially these fines could be treated as FOSS subsidies...
I think Transgaming pestered and/or paid them until they agreed that Cedega is not a bot. This is not a story about Blizzard suddenly becoming Linux-friendly, this is a story about Transgaming convincing Blizzard that their product is legit.
So you want me to choose from two options?! TFA is clearly right, there's too many options in today's software! I mean, one option is bad enough already, but no Sir, you had to give me two, as if I had nothing better to do all day than agonize over which of those links I should click! What am I, a god-damn choosing machine?
Unfortunately it's not exactly impossible to read from/write to the Registry (security by obscurity fails yet again), but it's quite easy for the Registry to fail in an unexpected manner - for example by accumulating hundreds of megabytes of \0, which is why there are special programs that do nothing but shrink down bloated registry hives.
I do find it somewhat cute that not even Microsoft can handle the Registry without error. There really is no merit to the thing.
A: "My network stack does weird things. Occasionally it just drops packets or sends them with a massive delay. Any idea on how to fix it?"
B: "Backup your data and reinstall Windows."
A: "Well, no. I don't want to reinstall everything just because of a defective DLL."
B: "In that case use the system backup thing."
A: "It doesn't change anything."
B: "Okay. Backup and reinstall it is, then."
True, the Linux communities have more people who are openly assholes, but at least they know more sentences than "Reinstall Windows" and "Install AdAware/AntiVir/Registry Cleaner 3000".
Additionally, include descriptions of popular file formats. That way your medium can be used to decypher further information - for example compressed images on a second instance of your medium of choice.
Depends. If they found out that one concentration camp accounted for people that weren't there for some reason they would accept that fact. However, some people do make some rather outrageous claims up to and including that concentration camps never existed (which today can still be refuted easily because some of the camps' former guards are still alive).
It's not illegal to uncover historical data - it might be controversial, especially if your sources are unreliable, but it's not illegal. However, claiming that things for which we do have lots of solid evidence did not happen is illegal. The stuff might have been entirely doctored, but that's not very probable.
As well as anyone else. It's impossible to always follow every rule in the Bible, thus I'd wager that if there's one problem heaven doesn't have it's overcrowding. Hell, on the other hand, should be indistinguishable from other people...
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1.) The STL could be more complete. I'm currently in the process of hacking up an std::vector to behave like an std::map because I need a non-sorting map and the STL doesn't provide one. Yes, I know about hash_map, but it's non-standard and thus hinders portability.
2.) Everyone who uses inline PHP deserves every bit of pain the runtime inflicts on them. While the ability to use inline PHP (thus turning PHP into a useful preprocessor) is useful in certain scenarios it should only be used when you explicitly need a preprocessor and nothing else. Dynamic web pages are better done by using templates. Even a simple combination of file_get_contents() and str_replace() produces code that is much easier to maintain than the horrible mess inline PHP tends to generate.
I'll be rooting for the people who break it. Among the things I like most about the internet are anonymity and the ability to shut off account from each other, thus I'll keep trying to maintain them, even if these very virtues make the net less professional.
Bad analogies likening huge cars not bought by people who wanted smaller ones to computers with a built-in monitor (most of the time) bought by people who are older than expected.
We clearly need a new kind of unfitting analogies. How about something from quantum physics or maybe roleplaying? Perhaps Vista just has an abysmal Charisma score and not even the Good Looking feat can redeem it. Or, more fitting to the current subthread: Vista has multi-classed so many times that it didn't get past level one in each class. Learned dozens of level 1 spells but none of level 2. Is way beyond its carrying capacity (and that of normal computers). Et cetera.
They certainly didn't make that mistake with Hurd.
Until everything is aggressively multithreaded, clusters won't help the average user, so two small computers simply can't do the job of two big ones like two small cars can [usually] do the job of one big one.
Yes, they do, in exactly the same way as two cars do: By allowing two people to do stuff at the same time. Sure, most people don't need clusters but then again most people also don't usually cluster their cars (except if they need to move many people at once - and if they do that often they tend to own a van so they still don't need to cluster).
The analogy still fails, but that's not because nobody would ever want more than one PC per household but just because, unlike the car the GGP talked about, Vista isn't a does-everything-for-everyone solution but just comes in more flavors than most sane people want to know about.
Q: "How many T-Rexes in a gallon of gas?"
A: "SCO did it."
A: "In Soviet Russia, gallon of gas is in T-Rex!"
A: "More importantly, how many gallons are in a Beowulf cluster of Tyrannosauruses?"
A: "It's 'How many T-Rexes are in a gallon of gas'. The Grammar Police strikes again."
A: "A European T-Rex on an African one?"
A: "I bet Roland de Piquepaille sent you to ask this. Go away."
Yeah, that'll go real smooth.
" if I came in and started talking to you about virtualization on Linux, and this Microsoft guy showed up and started talking to you about virtualization on Windows, what would you say to us?"
"Who are you and what are you doing in my house?"
We had a student shooting up his school over here in Germany, just a couple weeks ago. It was found out that he'd been a softair player and had set up a website where he posed with his guns along with texts on which people he wanted to kill. That website and forum posts of similar content have been on the net for several years. People who knew him noted a sudden change in behaviour about a year ago. All signs point to someone who had severe mental issues for years.
Of course, after the amok run the media was quick to point out that he played Counterstrike. They also pointed out that Counterstrike has lots of blood (he played the German version which has no blood) and had the killing of hostages as one goal (both sides lose points for killing hostages).
I'm really thinking about writing a letter to the BILD (Europe's biggest tabloid; Germany-based) asking for action to be taken to preotect our children from dangerous rock music like the stuff the Rolling Stones produce.
Isn't it funny how once you get the law to assume that everyone engages in criminal acts the number of such acts performed actually goes up out of spite? Being a prophet must be awfully sweet when all your prophecies are self-fulfilling.
I hear they're still trying to get the naval floss right.
As the sibling said, the stuff should become available to the public after a while. A prime example of how screwed up the whole thing is is how Disney makes a metric fuckload of cash with old fairy tales (using someone else's work that ended up in the public domain for their profit) yet cling to even the oldest Steamboat Willie film like their lives depended on it (not allowing their work to go into the public domain so others can use it).
In case you argue that the fairy tales in question were not commercial products I'd like you to consider that Lews Carroll's family probably didn't receive royalties from Disney for letting them use Alice in Wonderland - I think back then copyright didn't last for 86 years after release/53 years after the death of the author.
Who cares about diamonds, I want black Helium!
We really need this for agnostics too. Something like... Not Jehovah's Witnesses Because We Don't Actually Have Proof For Or Against It.
*knock knock*
Homeowner: "Hello?"
NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Have you ever considered not knowing whether to believe in God or not?"
Homeowner: "Come again?"
NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "God. Have you ever considered that it's impossible to tell whether he exists or not because we do not have irrefutable proof for either?"
Homeowner: "...no?"
NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Do you want a pamphlet?"
Homeowner: "That's a big cardboard box with philosophy books in it."
NJWBWDAHPFOAI: "Well, without this stuff you can't really make an informed decis--"
*slam*
In case you didn't already, now you know where Colbert got the "truthiness" idea from.
However, at the same time Microsoft is handing out ammunition to the FOSS proponents by the truckload. Essentially these fines could be treated as FOSS subsidies...
Of course the correct way to write one and a half Euro is "15 d".
I think Transgaming pestered and/or paid them until they agreed that Cedega is not a bot. This is not a story about Blizzard suddenly becoming Linux-friendly, this is a story about Transgaming convincing Blizzard that their product is legit.
So you want me to choose from two options?! TFA is clearly right, there's too many options in today's software! I mean, one option is bad enough already, but no Sir, you had to give me two, as if I had nothing better to do all day than agonize over which of those links I should click! What am I, a god-damn choosing machine?
Sheesh. Give me a break, man.
Unfortunately it's not exactly impossible to read from/write to the Registry (security by obscurity fails yet again), but it's quite easy for the Registry to fail in an unexpected manner - for example by accumulating hundreds of megabytes of \0, which is why there are special programs that do nothing but shrink down bloated registry hives.
I do find it somewhat cute that not even Microsoft can handle the Registry without error. There really is no merit to the thing.
cf. Windows:
A: "My network stack does weird things. Occasionally it just drops packets or sends them with a massive delay. Any idea on how to fix it?"
B: "Backup your data and reinstall Windows."
A: "Well, no. I don't want to reinstall everything just because of a defective DLL."
B: "In that case use the system backup thing."
A: "It doesn't change anything."
B: "Okay. Backup and reinstall it is, then."
True, the Linux communities have more people who are openly assholes, but at least they know more sentences than "Reinstall Windows" and "Install AdAware/AntiVir/Registry Cleaner 3000".
I, for one, welcome our new fake Burma Shave ad overl-- er, Slashdot meme.
Additionally, include descriptions of popular file formats. That way your medium can be used to decypher further information - for example compressed images on a second instance of your medium of choice.
Depends. If they found out that one concentration camp accounted for people that weren't there for some reason they would accept that fact. However, some people do make some rather outrageous claims up to and including that concentration camps never existed (which today can still be refuted easily because some of the camps' former guards are still alive).
It's not illegal to uncover historical data - it might be controversial, especially if your sources are unreliable, but it's not illegal. However, claiming that things for which we do have lots of solid evidence did not happen is illegal. The stuff might have been entirely doctored, but that's not very probable.
As well as anyone else. It's impossible to always follow every rule in the Bible, thus I'd wager that if there's one problem heaven doesn't have it's overcrowding. Hell, on the other hand, should be indistinguishable from other people...
Ah, the infamous Blue State of Death. Happens a lot during elections, I hear.