This article seems to focus more on security by design, which is of course important. However security also can be implemented at the language level, for example Java's sandbox. I predict that over the next 50 years languages will improve to prevent programmer from making "stupid" mistakes such as copying user input directly into a buffer that will be become an html document. Tainting already solves some of these problems, but there is still work to be done. (for example to discourage programmers from creating empty "de-tainting" routines when they don't have time to do it properly, de-tainting should really be done by libraries and by the language alone, but I digress)
I am a bit confused, they will cancel the test if there is bad weather? It's a spacesuit, it shouldn't be affected by bad weather, and if it is it shouldn't be used in planetary exploration. Otherwise you end up with the following situation: "I would have been the first man to set foot on mars, but it was windy out, so we went home".
Yeah, the learning curve is a problem, but there enough small devices out there that we are going to need a better solution eventually. It is probably better to simply bite the bullet and learn something new (which would become the defacto standard if the product had any popularity at all). Its either that or find a better way to go from stylus to text, but I don't see that happening any time soon (unless you are willing to learn a new way of writing with the stylus, like some people did for their pdas).
No offense to the people who make these devices, but they need better text input than the minisule keyboard that the image for this product shows it having. Stop trying to put all the keys there and innovate. Maybe something like a chorded keyboard? I really want a small computing device, which I could whip out and take a note or two on, but as long as it is easier to write on paper it seems silly to switch to something like this.
wow, I made the exact same mistake, but I thought it must have been some kind of neural fit, you know where all the neurons go: "screw coherent thought, lets do whatever".
The big question is will someone write malware/virus to somehow take advantage of this flaw?
I am curious how a virus could possibly exploit this. It would have to a) hog the resources so that it ran nearly exclusively, which would mean the virus already had control, and b) somehow cause a floating point error to result in a priviliages error. (priviliages and security routines rarely use floating point numbers). Also why would a kernel patch be released for this? It would hurt performance for the rest of us, customers with defective chips should simply return and replace them.
Are you trying to be funny? Getting a small group of people who speak english to and are willing to put up with voting / verification is in no way a representitive sample. Now if you went into their blog and determined their mood from the text, that might be cool.
Because not all developers run Linus obviously, or have a Mac. Some of us use Windows. For example I use Windows because of 1- games 2- Visual Studio 3 - Linux doesn't have drivers for all my hardware.
I think the Summer of Code is a good idea in principle, but what I find a bit questionable is how heavily Linux oriented it is. There are open source devlopers who write for Windows (and Mac, and Amiga, ect) as their primary platform, and a great many CS students use Windows as their primary OS. I feel that the Summer of Code is slightly biased against them (at least the last one seemed to be).
I don't mean to be a total dick, but why don't you write and finish a game with a good graphics and game play as say, Starcraft, written in C++. You can't? Jesus C++ must suck balls, why does anyone use it? The problem is that not every programmer can create a great game by themselves no matter what the language, so challanges like this are ill concieved.
I was more amused when there was no official explanation and we were all going "WTF WTF!". I mean with no explanation some of us were forming complex theories involving girls raised to be hackers by their evil masters, barbie, who have trained to seek out and destroy geek culture starting with slashdot.
Logically I think the pink if because it just turned April 1st GMT, although I may have that backwards. In any case it also makes it near impossible to read people's user names against a gray background, so the majority of you have no idea that I am replying to myself.
Don't worry it's AJAX Office to the rescue, oh wait, no it isn't. I don't see why this would make people turn to Open Office either, unless Open Office is promising and delivering the features in the now delayed MS Office 2007, which to the best of my knowledge it isn't. In my personal experiance OOo is still playing catch-up, and essential features, like the spell checker still need some fine tuning (it never seems to suggest the word I meant). OOo's real hope of beating Office of course may be by improving and making more intuitive the basic features, used 99% of the time, beyond those that are part of MS Office, like an adaptive spell checker. Unfortunately this doesn't seem like OOo's goal either, they just seem to be trying to catch up with MS Office in the number of features offered, which they may never be able to do in full, even with these delays.
it's only missing a comma, come on, who cares. It's official, dell acquired alienware, vs. it's official dell acquired alienware. At least they got the it's = it is right.
In my opinion Alienware sells overpriced hardware that simply looks cooler because of their case mods. I think the typical Alienware buyer thinks that this makes them oh-so-much better than someone who buys a Dell, I mean they don't even come standard with neon lights. I am going to enjoy asking Alienware customers how their Dell is doing. Lets see them try and brag about a Dell computer, with a straight face.
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This article seems to focus more on security by design, which is of course important. However security also can be implemented at the language level, for example Java's sandbox. I predict that over the next 50 years languages will improve to prevent programmer from making "stupid" mistakes such as copying user input directly into a buffer that will be become an html document. Tainting already solves some of these problems, but there is still work to be done. (for example to discourage programmers from creating empty "de-tainting" routines when they don't have time to do it properly, de-tainting should really be done by libraries and by the language alone, but I digress)
I am a bit confused, they will cancel the test if there is bad weather? It's a spacesuit, it shouldn't be affected by bad weather, and if it is it shouldn't be used in planetary exploration. Otherwise you end up with the following situation: "I would have been the first man to set foot on mars, but it was windy out, so we went home".
Yeah, the learning curve is a problem, but there enough small devices out there that we are going to need a better solution eventually. It is probably better to simply bite the bullet and learn something new (which would become the defacto standard if the product had any popularity at all). Its either that or find a better way to go from stylus to text, but I don't see that happening any time soon (unless you are willing to learn a new way of writing with the stylus, like some people did for their pdas).
there is plenty stopping me, the device doesn't come with one, and who wants to carry a usb keyboard arround for a portable device?
No offense to the people who make these devices, but they need better text input than the minisule keyboard that the image for this product shows it having. Stop trying to put all the keys there and innovate. Maybe something like a chorded keyboard? I really want a small computing device, which I could whip out and take a note or two on, but as long as it is easier to write on paper it seems silly to switch to something like this.
Let me explain: If it wasn't centralized it couldn't be shut down, people would just keep on using it. (Imagine trying to "shutdown" bittorrent)
Lesson 1: Don't be centralized.
A one armed baby bot? That's disturbing on so many levels.
In my opinion the ultimate physics engine was, and is, that of Carmageddon.
Is it just me or are people's attention spans getting ... where was I?
I don't know about the other series, but in DS9 the Klingons had cloak.
wow, I made the exact same mistake, but I thought it must have been some kind of neural fit, you know where all the neurons go: "screw coherent thought, lets do whatever".
The big question is will someone write malware/virus to somehow take advantage of this flaw?
I am curious how a virus could possibly exploit this. It would have to a) hog the resources so that it ran nearly exclusively, which would mean the virus already had control, and b) somehow cause a floating point error to result in a priviliages error. (priviliages and security routines rarely use floating point numbers). Also why would a kernel patch be released for this? It would hurt performance for the rest of us, customers with defective chips should simply return and replace them.
If you are so worried about productivity you could always ... not use it.
Are you trying to be funny? Getting a small group of people who speak english to and are willing to put up with voting / verification is in no way a representitive sample. Now if you went into their blog and determined their mood from the text, that might be cool.
Damn, can't write my own drivers, I must suck as a programmer!
Because not all developers run Linus obviously, or have a Mac. Some of us use Windows. For example I use Windows because of 1- games 2- Visual Studio 3 - Linux doesn't have drivers for all my hardware.
I think the Summer of Code is a good idea in principle, but what I find a bit questionable is how heavily Linux oriented it is. There are open source devlopers who write for Windows (and Mac, and Amiga, ect) as their primary platform, and a great many CS students use Windows as their primary OS. I feel that the Summer of Code is slightly biased against them (at least the last one seemed to be).
I don't mean to be a total dick, but why don't you write and finish a game with a good graphics and game play as say, Starcraft, written in C++. You can't? Jesus C++ must suck balls, why does anyone use it? The problem is that not every programmer can create a great game by themselves no matter what the language, so challanges like this are ill concieved.
I was more amused when there was no official explanation and we were all going "WTF WTF!". I mean with no explanation some of us were forming complex theories involving girls raised to be hackers by their evil masters, barbie, who have trained to seek out and destroy geek culture starting with slashdot.
Logically I think the pink if because it just turned April 1st GMT, although I may have that backwards. In any case it also makes it near impossible to read people's user names against a gray background, so the majority of you have no idea that I am replying to myself.
Slashdot just went pink! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH! I can't see! ... bastards
Don't worry it's AJAX Office to the rescue, oh wait, no it isn't. I don't see why this would make people turn to Open Office either, unless Open Office is promising and delivering the features in the now delayed MS Office 2007, which to the best of my knowledge it isn't. In my personal experiance OOo is still playing catch-up, and essential features, like the spell checker still need some fine tuning (it never seems to suggest the word I meant). OOo's real hope of beating Office of course may be by improving and making more intuitive the basic features, used 99% of the time, beyond those that are part of MS Office, like an adaptive spell checker. Unfortunately this doesn't seem like OOo's goal either, they just seem to be trying to catch up with MS Office in the number of features offered, which they may never be able to do in full, even with these delays.
it's only missing a comma, come on, who cares. It's official, dell acquired alienware, vs. it's official dell acquired alienware. At least they got the it's = it is right.
In my opinion Alienware sells overpriced hardware that simply looks cooler because of their case mods. I think the typical Alienware buyer thinks that this makes them oh-so-much better than someone who buys a Dell, I mean they don't even come standard with neon lights. I am going to enjoy asking Alienware customers how their Dell is doing. Lets see them try and brag about a Dell computer, with a straight face.