It's easy to write non-portable Java code: just use hard-coded paths rooted at "c:\", or use a non-standard library (com.ms.* springs to mind). However, it's probably easier to write non-portable code in C++: just count the platform-checking #ifdefs in a typical program.
(Just as a side note, the weirdest porting problem I had was the result of someone who shall remain nameless assuming that all filesystems are case-sensitive. I unpacked the source tar onto an HFS drive and spent ages trying to work out why some externs were undefined. tree.c was being extracted over TREE.c. There are so many assumptions one can make without checking that they hold for every platform - and even if they do, a future platform may break them if they're not part of a standard to which you're working).
I've written a basic HTTP daemon. I've debugged Apache setups using telnet to port 80. I've read the RFC. The first line of an HTTP request contains the method, the request URI, and the HTTP version, which at present is either "HTTP/1.0" or "HTTP/1.1".
you can change the port in which you connect with; say port 80 and AOL cant block as they cant figure out if your using HTTP or NTP
It's not that hard to look at the first line of a request and see whether it contains the string " HTTP/". They may not want the expense of figuring it out, but it's certainly technically possible.
If you have agreed a contract, abide by the T&Cs, and keep up payment; you have a RIGHT to be hosted, unless the contract is ended under its own T&Cs...
Without wishing to chop logic, I think it's more accurate to say that the hosting party has an obligation to host, and you have the right to sue them for breach of contract if they cease to.
I once considered switching to the Dvorak left hand only layout, when an accident which damaged a tendon put my right hand out of action for a long time. I wasn't going to try moving the keys one-handed, so I was working solely from a printout of the layout, and after two days I pretty much knew where all the letters I used were. The layout seemed to work better for text than for code, though, so I didn't stick with it.
Of course the product won't fly./.ers have been complaining about 1
less button on the Apple mouse. Imagine the uproar over 48 less keys on a keyboard.
It will probably be even greater than the uproar over your confusion between "less" and "fewer".
Google offers the following definitions of FFS: Fee-for-Service, Flash File System, Federal Supply Schedule, Front des forces socialistes. None of those make sense in context, so would you mind elaborating?
You seem to be confusing two orthogonal issues. Movement of power from the Council to the Parliament is much-needed reform: the federal issue is about movement of power from the constituent states to the EU and, IMO, highly objectionable.
The Council consists of the governments of the constituent states.
Which is why you can't move power away from the council while not moving it away from the constituent states. Exactly what the parent to your post was talking about.
The state and the government are distinct. Taking power away from the government doesn't necessarily take it away from the state. Moving power from the government to the directly elected representatives of the people would more closely mirror the balance between government and state, at least in the UK.
Don't ever believe your government when it says it was forced by the EU to do something - they had a veto on that in the Council, but chose to accept the thing (probably in return for some favour by some other government).
I doubt Tony would allow a minister to say something so off-message, but that's not what I'm worried about: my concern is the government saying to the Houses of Parliament, in effect, "We've ganged together with other governments to force you lot to do foobar".
As far as vetoing goes, isn't part of the move towards federalism to eliminate most vetos?
1. I challenge all anti-patent activists to name several major *benefits* of patents and software patents.
2. I challenge all pro-patent activists to name several major *negatives* of patents and software patents.
Benefits for whom? Negatives for whom? The summary is that software patents provide benefits for patent offices and lawyers (more work) and big companies (more monopolies to exploit) and corresponding negatives for small companies and open source developers (risk of being sued by someone with much deeper pockets than you, but financial inability to acquire and defend their own patents). The important question is whether society benefits or not, and that depends on your view of economics.
Why do i have to write to my "minister of agriculture"?
Because it's the ministers of agriculture who will be asked to approve the Software Patent Directive on Monday.
What does agriculture have to do with software patents?
And that's precisely the main point I made in the letter I just wrote to my country's Secretary of State for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs. Just hope it arrives before the meeting.
The thing is that ppl are complaining on the Council and the lack of democracy in the EU and at the same time, the same ppl are crying out loud on every attempt to move power from the Council to the Parlament (they are basically afraid of the superstate of Europe); however, a federal path for Europe is the only way to go for ensuring democratic legiticy for the EU.
You seem to be confusing two orthogonal issues. Movement of power from the Council to the Parliament is much-needed reform: the federal issue is about movement of power from the constituent states to the EU and, IMO, highly objectionable. The EU should get its house in shape before asking its member states for more power - and even then I don't see why it needs its own army.
In some European countries - Spain, for example - it's illegal for the hotel to require that you deposit your passport. Doesn't mean they won't ask, but it's worth checking in advance.
it would be as if columbus made people pay him and his descendents a royalty to explore the new world.
No, because Columbus was the equivalent of the scientist rather than the company. His financial backers (i.e. the Spanish Crown) claimed large chunks of the New World and prohibited it from trading with nations other than Spain.
It's not just the US. I studied CompSci at Cambridge University from 1999 to 2002, and 90% of the CompSci undergrads in my year were male. Similar proportion for maths.
So, it is okay for her to say that males are - on average - better at engineering due to evolution, as long as she qualifies that by saying that women are better at what counts?
Not at all. It's okay for her because she's female. The two rules of political correctness: if you're part of a "minority" (females aren't actually a minority in most countries, but that's irrelevant), you can say what you want; if you're saying that a minority is better, you're fine.
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I'm a Taylor, but I don't make shoes.
There's an offence of wasting police time.
What you probably should have said is "Prove or disprove P == NP". I'd add "Prove or disprove the Generalised Riemann Hypothesis".
(Just as a side note, the weirdest porting problem I had was the result of someone who shall remain nameless assuming that all filesystems are case-sensitive. I unpacked the source tar onto an HFS drive and spent ages trying to work out why some externs were undefined. tree.c was being extracted over TREE.c. There are so many assumptions one can make without checking that they hold for every platform - and even if they do, a future platform may break them if they're not part of a standard to which you're working).
I've written a basic HTTP daemon. I've debugged Apache setups using telnet to port 80. I've read the RFC. The first line of an HTTP request contains the method, the request URI, and the HTTP version, which at present is either "HTTP/1.0" or "HTTP/1.1".
Nothing new. There have been many forks from the English language, and it's a great example of the incompatibilities that can develop.
I once considered switching to the Dvorak left hand only layout, when an accident which damaged a tendon put my right hand out of action for a long time. I wasn't going to try moving the keys one-handed, so I was working solely from a printout of the layout, and after two days I pretty much knew where all the letters I used were. The layout seemed to work better for text than for code, though, so I didn't stick with it.
But do they have a Laser-Maser-Bobaser-Bananafanafofaser?
Given the dodgy anaphor of the second sentence (which looks more like a cataphor), it's distressing that anyone would plagiarise it directly.
Google offers the following definitions of FFS: Fee-for-Service, Flash File System, Federal Supply Schedule, Front des forces socialistes. None of those make sense in context, so would you mind elaborating?
As far as vetoing goes, isn't part of the move towards federalism to eliminate most vetos?
In some European countries - Spain, for example - it's illegal for the hotel to require that you deposit your passport. Doesn't mean they won't ask, but it's worth checking in advance.
It's not just the US. I studied CompSci at Cambridge University from 1999 to 2002, and 90% of the CompSci undergrads in my year were male. Similar proportion for maths.