You're sure those came from human civilizations only 10 000 years old?
They could well have come from ancient prehuman civilizations, which may be even more likely if the force that ended the dinosaurs offset the C-12/C-14 balance so as to confuse radiocarbon dating or something...as a matter of fact, humans or human-like beings may have lived on this Earth before our race and destroyed evidence of themselves and an older Universe in some giant technologically-advanced cataclysm, causing our pitiful science compared to theirs to see the Universe and Earthling life as formed in its shorter timespan....
An ego is not a bad thing. Napoleon had an ego, and I would venture to say he accomplished in life at least almost all he wanted to. Bill Gates didn't think all he needed to learn was connecting a webserver to a database, and he has a fairly well-paying job.
A CS major who has his goal as connecting a webserver and a database is like a biologist who flips burgers. If you try to underemploy yourself like that, you deserve what you get (the low pay (compared to what you might have had), if not the inability to do menial programming tasks).
How do you know they are extinct? Maybe they had a space program, left for another plnet, and let the Earth be hit by the asteroid. There'd've been enough bodies of already dead dinosaurs for us to find.
Yes it can. After finishing the first post you had an insanely high post rate.:-) If it works like I assume, this severely penalizes the older Blogger users as compared to the recently-joined, since the former has time between their posts.
Because stealing from the store is illegal. The store doing unethical things is just immoral. Not everything that is moral is legal (and vice versa, of course).
Besides, if you're so moral as to argue that the store is underhanded and deserves punishment, wouldn't you be moral enough not to debase yourself to their level?
One problem with the Florida votes was the crazily-designed "butterfly ballot", which made bubble-in would be no better.
And even if I bubble in, say, Gore's bubble, there's no guarantee that the machine's scanner may get "accidentally misaligned" and read it as Bush's bubble.
Even better is to hide the game in some other section of the store...you might as well enjoy your multiplayer knowing that the game won't ever be sold.
Downloading/uploading/cracking/etc. may be debatable, but that is clear piracy in its purest form. This is theft of the company's products. The store paid for the game so it may be sold and the store may recoup their costs. Even if you do not take the game out of the store (which you may as well do), this is stealing software by preventing valid payment for what it contains.
And I wonder if you have any conscience to be able to "enjoy" the multiplayer knowing you've caused the store to lose money; I know I wouldn't.
As long as there are closed-source products that can benefit from open-source products ("benefit" may not necessarily mean "include code"; you can sell proprietary software through GPL'd webservers running GNU/Linux, etc.), OSS will be mildly unfair at the border between OSS and proprietary software. Many believe that OSS's intrinsic benefits outweigh this "exploitation", as you put it, and still continue to support OSS.
And when that box gets bought, the system will lock both you and the legit user out of multiplayer mode. If that would work, buying one copy and distributing it with its own CD key would also work.
It doesn't matter. Open-source the kernel and other core pars and get community development going, and package the compiled OSS kernel with its source (if GPL'd) and the proprietary binaries. Solaris binaries are already available free for non-commercial-ish users, so it shouldn't be hard to give away Sun's own code with it.
But they still do. Open Word, which may or may not have come with your computer, and if not which you probably have.
View | Toolbars | Control Toolbox
Enter design mode (little blue triangle icon). Draw out two textboxes, a button, and another textbox. Rightclick the button and do View Code. Type in TextBox3.Value = Str(Val(TextBox1.Value) + Val(TextBox2.Value)). Close VBA and exit design mode. Type in values and click the button and watch!
Yes, I know you can do this with Excel, but the point was that BASIC as VBA is fairly common, and it's a bit more intuitive than =A1+A2 - especially for more involved code.
Exception. Last year, when I was thirteen, I made a quickie VBA program through Word to ensure our coach's bracket setup for his basketball tournament couldn't result in teams playing each other more than once. This year, I brushed it um with a bunch more features. This is on a school-provided computer without even Internet access. VBA is useful. So is Javascript for quicker stuff; I wrote an averager JS in HTML forms to help with repetetive math on the same computer, and ran it with the built-in IE.
Or something that would qualify for an obfuscated BASIC contest (not that it would be particularly easy to choose a winner)...
1 LET dearbasic = 0 4 LET toyou = 1 9 PRINT "Happy birthday "; 16 GOSUB 64 25 LET happybirthday = toyou 36 GOSUB 64 49 GOTO 196 64 PRINT "to you," 81 GOTO 121 100 PRINT "dear BASIC; " 121 PRINT "happy birthday "; 144 IF happybirthday = toyou THEN GOSUB 225 169 RETURN 196 PRINT "to you." 225 IF happybirthday = dearbasic THEN END 256 happybirthday = dearbasic 289 GOSUB 100 324 RETURN
Works in MS QuickBasic, and, by extension, most sane standard BASICs.
What shocks me is that I can write code like this after writing structured (subs, functions, at worst labels occasionally) BASIC code until about two years ago, whence I've been writing only C/C++ and PHP. Maybe its due to my abuse of the language...my current project for CS class uses macro functions nested three layers deep.
How is this different from a cop with a laptop sitting at the gates?
We've come to falsely expect privacy because our world has grown so large. In older days, you would be recognized if you walked into town - without any biometric ID or other technology but common knowledge.
A "Yo' Mama" joke (at least in spirit, if not in spelling) was modded Insightful, yet a comment on the nonexistence of "irregardless" was modded offtopic? The latter at least was more intelligent.
You are what most people here would call a troll, but I'm going to respond to your statements. In reverse order. If you are indeed a troll, MS is going to have a lot of fun with your abuse of their certificates, but I doubt you are one.
First, let me explain my personal POV: I use Windows. I see that Microsoft is the de facto standard and respect them for making good, usable software products. I do support Free software because I think it's "cool", but some of the stuff is just a pain to use.
GFDL licensing: About the most anyone would want to copy is the facts, which aren't copyrighted. Besides, you need to post a copy of the GFDL to use it (yuck); you may be better of with Creative Commons, if you're going to license your posts at all (which no one I've seen here does, despite their love of free licensing).
Torvalds the hacker? He uses hacker in a different sense, admittedly not the mainstream sense. He avoids using the word "hacker" in published news articles because his interpretation of the word is a positive thing (one who, like you, enjoys coding wiht computers), rather than the common sense of one who breaks into computers. I really wish they'd pick another term for computer/programming enthusiasts so as to avoid the negative connotations.
I would question why you trust a company that is profitable; it just shows they have business sense. Torvalds on the other hand releases all his code for public review. Who would you trust more: a company with a profit motive, or a programmer whose code has been widely peer-reviewed?
Besides, as he readily admits, he isn't writing the majority of Linux code these days, and anyway he only writes the kernel. Most software that's called "Linux" is really just random free software that happens to work with Linux.
And Linus Torvalds is an employee of Transmeta, a well-known CPU maker.
Red Hat is a marketer, not the server. I assume Apache is the server you're using. I'd like to see your data, because the setup may not be optimal; open-source servers normally come configured for development, not deployment. Besides, the times for static content may be so small that a millisecond difference may amount to 276%.
Windows admittedly installs a heck of a lot faster and easier, but none of the software comes with it, and it's hard to configure. Linux solutions offer much more customizability and power at the expense of user-friendliness.
What is "development costs"? Cost of paying employees? They may be better qualified. Besides, J2EE isn't really open-source, it's probably just espoused by the radical (non-evil-)hacker community for being "not Microsoft".
IIS and Apache (I don't know what you mean by Linux 7.0, I assume you mean Red Hat 7.0, an older version that is based around a Linux 2.x core and probably includes Apache) don't put any particular constraints on costs; after all, if it's the same web page you're hosting, it's the same amount of data being sent.
Windows is more well-known, and training Windows is much cheaper, I'll grant you that. I wouldn't recommend Linux-based desktops for the average employees, simply because they have most likely been born and raised into the Windows culture. However, if by LinuxOS you mean LindowsOS, I'll give you my opinion of that: dirty marketer taking free Linux, adding pretty colors, and overpricing everything. There's no need for Linspire to cost more than Windows itself.
Imagine yourself as an impartial viewer: would you trust someone with Microsoft certificates giving facts in support of Microsoft products? I wouldn't even trust Linux people if they claim their product is better than MS's with just statistics. (For example, MS Office on the Mac is native. OpenOffice.org uses X and takes way too long to load. I believe, however, that OOo will at some point pass up Office, so I'll use it if that happens or seems close to happening.)
Bad karma: Don't attack Linux viciously, Slashdot people are touchy. Post your statements as a question, and pretend to want to be converted, and they won't hate you.
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You're sure those came from human civilizations only 10 000 years old?
They could well have come from ancient prehuman civilizations, which may be even more likely if the force that ended the dinosaurs offset the C-12/C-14 balance so as to confuse radiocarbon dating or something...as a matter of fact, humans or human-like beings may have lived on this Earth before our race and destroyed evidence of themselves and an older Universe in some giant technologically-advanced cataclysm, causing our pitiful science compared to theirs to see the Universe and Earthling life as formed in its shorter timespan....
And I, for one, say a hearty belated goodbye to any dinosaurs who planned to overlord me.
An ego is not a bad thing. Napoleon had an ego, and I would venture to say he accomplished in life at least almost all he wanted to. Bill Gates didn't think all he needed to learn was connecting a webserver to a database, and he has a fairly well-paying job.
A CS major who has his goal as connecting a webserver and a database is like a biologist who flips burgers. If you try to underemploy yourself like that, you deserve what you get (the low pay (compared to what you might have had), if not the inability to do menial programming tasks).
"will approach but miss earth"
A guy named Will approaches only the winner of the Miss Earth beauty contest.
How do you know they are extinct? Maybe they had a space program, left for another plnet, and let the Earth be hit by the asteroid. There'd've been enough bodies of already dead dinosaurs for us to find.
Or maybe he programs in C, C++, Java, PHP, etc.
Yes it can. After finishing the first post you had an insanely high post rate. :-) If it works like I assume, this severely penalizes the older Blogger users as compared to the recently-joined, since the former has time between their posts.
when they decide to scale Halo to real life in NYC...if you think the traffic problems there are already bad, wait 'till there's a Warthog or two....
Because stealing from the store is illegal. The store doing unethical things is just immoral. Not everything that is moral is legal (and vice versa, of course).
Besides, if you're so moral as to argue that the store is underhanded and deserves punishment, wouldn't you be moral enough not to debase yourself to their level?
Here in Louisiana, we're so old-fashioned that dead people vote.
One problem with the Florida votes was the crazily-designed "butterfly ballot", which made bubble-in would be no better.
And even if I bubble in, say, Gore's bubble, there's no guarantee that the machine's scanner may get "accidentally misaligned" and read it as Bush's bubble.
So that's why Diebold's trying to get Republicans into office....
Even better is to hide the game in some other section of the store...you might as well enjoy your multiplayer knowing that the game won't ever be sold.
Downloading/uploading/cracking/etc. may be debatable, but that is clear piracy in its purest form. This is theft of the company's products. The store paid for the game so it may be sold and the store may recoup their costs. Even if you do not take the game out of the store (which you may as well do), this is stealing software by preventing valid payment for what it contains.
And I wonder if you have any conscience to be able to "enjoy" the multiplayer knowing you've caused the store to lose money; I know I wouldn't.
As long as there are closed-source products that can benefit from open-source products ("benefit" may not necessarily mean "include code"; you can sell proprietary software through GPL'd webservers running GNU/Linux, etc.), OSS will be mildly unfair at the border between OSS and proprietary software. Many believe that OSS's intrinsic benefits outweigh this "exploitation", as you put it, and still continue to support OSS.
How do you do that? Set up a public mailing list for the world to rule your company at their whim?
Seriously, though, it's called...owning stock.
And when that box gets bought, the system will lock both you and the legit user out of multiplayer mode. If that would work, buying one copy and distributing it with its own CD key would also work.
It doesn't matter. Open-source the kernel and other core pars and get community development going, and package the compiled OSS kernel with its source (if GPL'd) and the proprietary binaries. Solaris binaries are already available free for non-commercial-ish users, so it shouldn't be hard to give away Sun's own code with it.
But they still do. Open Word, which may or may not have come with your computer, and if not which you probably have.
View | Toolbars | Control Toolbox
Enter design mode (little blue triangle icon). Draw out two textboxes, a button, and another textbox. Rightclick the button and do View Code. Type in TextBox3.Value = Str(Val(TextBox1.Value) + Val(TextBox2.Value)). Close VBA and exit design mode. Type in values and click the button and watch!
Yes, I know you can do this with Excel, but the point was that BASIC as VBA is fairly common, and it's a bit more intuitive than =A1+A2 - especially for more involved code.
Exception. Last year, when I was thirteen, I made a quickie VBA program through Word to ensure our coach's bracket setup for his basketball tournament couldn't result in teams playing each other more than once. This year, I brushed it um with a bunch more features. This is on a school-provided computer without even Internet access. VBA is useful. So is Javascript for quicker stuff; I wrote an averager JS in HTML forms to help with repetetive math on the same computer, and ran it with the built-in IE.
Or something that would qualify for an obfuscated BASIC contest (not that it would be particularly easy to choose a winner)...
1 LET dearbasic = 0
4 LET toyou = 1
9 PRINT "Happy birthday ";
16 GOSUB 64
25 LET happybirthday = toyou
36 GOSUB 64
49 GOTO 196
64 PRINT "to you,"
81 GOTO 121
100 PRINT "dear BASIC; "
121 PRINT "happy birthday ";
144 IF happybirthday = toyou THEN GOSUB 225
169 RETURN
196 PRINT "to you."
225 IF happybirthday = dearbasic THEN END
256 happybirthday = dearbasic
289 GOSUB 100
324 RETURN
Works in MS QuickBasic, and, by extension, most sane standard BASICs.
What shocks me is that I can write code like this after writing structured (subs, functions, at worst labels occasionally) BASIC code until about two years ago, whence I've been writing only C/C++ and PHP. Maybe its due to my abuse of the language...my current project for CS class uses macro functions nested three layers deep.
How is this different from a cop with a laptop sitting at the gates?
We've come to falsely expect privacy because our world has grown so large. In older days, you would be recognized if you walked into town - without any biometric ID or other technology but common knowledge.
1. Find infringing troll post
2. Pull poster into court
3. ???
4. Get two trolls off Slashdot
5. PROFIT!!!
> > Bad karma: Don't attack Linux viciously
;-)
> (Score:-1, Flamebait)
I couldn't've said it better myself.
A "Yo' Mama" joke (at least in spirit, if not in spelling) was modded Insightful, yet a comment on the nonexistence of "irregardless" was modded offtopic? The latter at least was more intelligent.
You are what most people here would call a troll, but I'm going to respond to your statements. In reverse order. If you are indeed a troll, MS is going to have a lot of fun with your abuse of their certificates, but I doubt you are one.
First, let me explain my personal POV: I use Windows. I see that Microsoft is the de facto standard and respect them for making good, usable software products. I do support Free software because I think it's "cool", but some of the stuff is just a pain to use.
GFDL licensing: About the most anyone would want to copy is the facts, which aren't copyrighted. Besides, you need to post a copy of the GFDL to use it (yuck); you may be better of with Creative Commons, if you're going to license your posts at all (which no one I've seen here does, despite their love of free licensing).
Torvalds the hacker? He uses hacker in a different sense, admittedly not the mainstream sense. He avoids using the word "hacker" in published news articles because his interpretation of the word is a positive thing (one who, like you, enjoys coding wiht computers), rather than the common sense of one who breaks into computers. I really wish they'd pick another term for computer/programming enthusiasts so as to avoid the negative connotations.
I would question why you trust a company that is profitable; it just shows they have business sense. Torvalds on the other hand releases all his code for public review. Who would you trust more: a company with a profit motive, or a programmer whose code has been widely peer-reviewed?
Besides, as he readily admits, he isn't writing the majority of Linux code these days, and anyway he only writes the kernel. Most software that's called "Linux" is really just random free software that happens to work with Linux.
And Linus Torvalds is an employee of Transmeta, a well-known CPU maker.
Red Hat is a marketer, not the server. I assume Apache is the server you're using. I'd like to see your data, because the setup may not be optimal; open-source servers normally come configured for development, not deployment. Besides, the times for static content may be so small that a millisecond difference may amount to 276%.
Windows admittedly installs a heck of a lot faster and easier, but none of the software comes with it, and it's hard to configure. Linux solutions offer much more customizability and power at the expense of user-friendliness.
What is "development costs"? Cost of paying employees? They may be better qualified. Besides, J2EE isn't really open-source, it's probably just espoused by the radical (non-evil-)hacker community for being "not Microsoft".
IIS and Apache (I don't know what you mean by Linux 7.0, I assume you mean Red Hat 7.0, an older version that is based around a Linux 2.x core and probably includes Apache) don't put any particular constraints on costs; after all, if it's the same web page you're hosting, it's the same amount of data being sent.
Windows is more well-known, and training Windows is much cheaper, I'll grant you that. I wouldn't recommend Linux-based desktops for the average employees, simply because they have most likely been born and raised into the Windows culture. However, if by LinuxOS you mean LindowsOS, I'll give you my opinion of that: dirty marketer taking free Linux, adding pretty colors, and overpricing everything. There's no need for Linspire to cost more than Windows itself.
Imagine yourself as an impartial viewer: would you trust someone with Microsoft certificates giving facts in support of Microsoft products? I wouldn't even trust Linux people if they claim their product is better than MS's with just statistics. (For example, MS Office on the Mac is native. OpenOffice.org uses X and takes way too long to load. I believe, however, that OOo will at some point pass up Office, so I'll use it if that happens or seems close to happening.)
Bad karma: Don't attack Linux viciously, Slashdot people are touchy. Post your statements as a question, and pretend to want to be converted, and they won't hate you.
(y35, I |n0w 3y3'v3 1ik31y b33n +r0113d, but one can dream, no?)