After reading the summary, I was under the impression that this artical was about a high rate misleading papers published by scientists.
Based on all of the anti-creationalist comments I thought maybe I had misread the summary, so I looked at the article itself.
Not once did I see mention of the universe's creation in the summary or in the linked artical, in fact the example stated was "such as whether a particular gene influences a particular disease."
It seems to me that lately a lot of comments on slashdot have been trying to start a witch hunt for advocates of ID. Can we please knock it off and stop screaming wolf every time some thing that is related to science is mentioned on slashdot.
although most people would expect businesses to be generally open between sunrise and sunset.
Most businesses in Alaska would not appreciate being open 24 hours a day in the summer, being closed for most of winter, and having "normal" workdays during the spring and fall.
This would also make it difficult to work with vendors accross the country. With the current system it is relatively easy to compute when a vendor in Maine will be open for business since most businesses open at 8am. If the decision of which time offset to use becomes arbitray to a specific area, you would need chart for every locale you wish to do business with, since cities in Maine may choose a different starting hour than those in New York, or worse yet the starting hour may change from county to county. Currently most states fall within one of four timezones and follow DST (with the exception of Utah). These four time zones are reasonably easy to memorize and make it easier for business on different sides of the content to do business.
Actually an X server comes on the OS install disk with a Mac. If you do not have your OS install disk, you can download the X server from Apple's website:
I use the X server to run many programs on my Mac as well using it to run apps on remote Linux workstations.
On a side note, I have used both Neo Office and the X11 version of OpenOffice on OS X. I've found the X11 version to be faster and does not bring my computer to a crawl. Although the integration with the desktop was nice with Neo Office, it was irritating slow to use.
Since when is TV a social activity? I was under the impression that social activities meant interacting with other people, not sitting motionless obsorbing radiation, err content.
I can not speak for the blocking of TCP port 80. However as a systems administrator at an ISP, I can assure you that the ISP is justified in blocking out bound TCP port 25.
With the increase of SPAM on the Internet, providers are being more strict with other ISPs that fail to police their IP space for open relays and viruses. A single spammer from one of your netblocks is often enough to get ALL of your net blocks black listed by other ISPs. As a result ISP's are being forced to restrict outbound access to services such as SMTP in order to protect the majority of subscribers that do not host services.
If you would like to send email from your server, configure it to relay out bound e-mails through your ISP's SMTP servers. This allows the ISP to catch surges before remote ISPs start complaining.
Some ISPs, even offer special packages at no additional cost that do not have these restrictions, however they may require that you demostrate techincal competency to use a filterless service. Since a large number of people do not properly lock down SMTP relays or actively check for viruses.
To sum up, at my company it is not about thinking that you should not host services, but that we want to insure that your services will not impact the other 99.99% of our subscriber's access to the Internet.
"but saying it's 2 percent doesn't make any sense. It's not a real number."
How can you claim that he needs to provide evidence of a study to support his numbers, while you claim that his numbers are fabricated without providing one of your own.
I disagree with some of the trends that I hear about in regards to patents, however if you are going to argue a point, follow your own rules.
On second thought, part of the problem may be the editor I am using to view existing code. Vi may be displaying the "tab" as 8 spaces, which is why the Terminal (IE terminal.app, Eterm, Putty) would copy and paste 8 spaces.
This is not always convient or efficient. As an example, let's say I write a C program on my OS X workstation or Windows workstation that will ultimately be run on my companies Solaris servers.
Every time I want to verify that the program will compile and run as expected on the Solaris server (which is about every time I finish a routine or loop statement that is significant to the routine), I have to copy the file to the remote server. Although doable, it is much easier to just develope the program on the Solaris server using SSH to connect to the shell and using cmd line editors such as vi to edit the source. With two terminals I can be editing and testing withou having to loose my place in the code. Having the copy and then compile to debug the code would be a real irritation. So spaces really do not seem all that bad.
In I prefer vi to GUI editors, so even if I am writing the program on my OS X workstation, I use Terminal.app and vi to write the source. So I would still have problems with the terminal copying tabs as spaces.
BTW, when I say the terminal copies tabs as spaces, I am referring to the terminal displaying the tabs as spaces which the GUI part of the OS then copies. So it's not so much that I am writing the code remotely, but viewing existing code remotely.
For instance I use Terminal.app on OS X to connect to my development boxes. I then use vi to edit the files scripts and source files. The terminal.app displays the "tabs" as spaces (not as the actual tab character). So when using the GUI to highligh, copy, and paste, the tabs are replaced with X spaces per tab. Note that when copying text from a local editor to the terminal, tabs are copied and pasted.
This is not just limited to Terminal.app, Eterm under Linux and Putty under Windows do the same thing.
Tabs are all fine and dandy. However when modifying scripts and simple programs on remote servers using SSH and vi, not all terminals will copy Tabs as Tabs. As a result when you copy and paste between terminal you may end up with a mixture of tabs and spaces by accident. In my experience spaces always copy as spaces which makes them easier to use.
I usually am just porting code for a simple apps from Linux or FreeBSD to Solaris so I have not looked in depth at the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit. I was unaware of the "-m64" flag, which is not configured on the solaris box I use to test the ports:
syzdek@webster$ cat long.c #include main(void) {
return(0); } syzdek@webster$ gcc -m64 long.c cc1: -m64 is not supported by this configuration cc1: -mptr32 not allowed on -m64 syzdek@webster$
Looking at your other posts, you appear to be very knowledgeable in compiling/writing code for different archs (including making code compatible with MS Windows), can you recommend any good online resources that give pointers on how to write clean code that can be easily ported between 32 bit and 64 bit systems and various operating systems?
I'm puzzled, what "every other " 64 bit operating system are you referring to? Solaris 9 running on a 64bit sparc uses 4 bytes for a long. "long long" is 8 bytes. I just compiled a test program that prints the return of sizeof(long) and sizeof(long long) to verify.
Me thinks you are mistaken.
If you the thought occurred to you that these
words might apply to you,
Your reasoning definitely applies to me.
then they probably don't.
I guess it doesn't.
If you're sure that they don't apply to you,
I guess it does.
then perhaps they do apply
I give up, your logic is too circular for me to decide whether you think your advice is relevent to me. I'm sticking with my original thought that I am not qualified to debate this article.
He may be putting the end users at risk, however it is not the end users that are suing him. The end users will likely never see a single euro if there is a settlement. The supposed damages that the company is seeking is very possibly for the loss of sales due to end users being aware that the software is flawed. If the company had the end users at heart, then they would put the cost of suing him towards fixing the exploits he uncovered.
Based on your argument, it would be reasonable for the end users to sue him, however it is unreasonable for the company to sue him.
The Apple Corp will of course. With the settlement they will be able to upgrade thier current living accommodations from a yellow submarine to something more suitable of a mega corporation.
I was thinking about buying an iPod and happened to stop by CompUSA while a Mac rep was in the store. Not knowing a whole lot about the iPods, I asked if the HFS+ formatted iPod could be formatted to a vfat file system and vise versa.
Before responding, the Rep asks what OS I was using (OS X or Windows). I replied that I was running Slackware Linux. He promptly told that I would need a computer that could read either a windows file system or a Mac file system.
When I try to explain that linux can read both vfat and hfs+ file systems, he starts mocking me and states that I must have a "pretty fancy computer" that can use both types of file systems.
I was so pissed at him that I went accross the street to Bestbuy and bought a 30gig iPod, got it working under linux (and researched how to switch back and forth between HFS+ and vfat), took it back to the store, found the Rep, showed him that it worked, told him where he could shove his arrogant attitude, and have not shopped at Compusa since.
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Your SSN card is not valid if it is laminated. Don't believe me, just look at the first line of the small print on the back of your card.
I wonder what would happen if Google started to charge for access to this library?
Google would make more more profit. Just a hunch.
After reading the summary, I was under the impression that this artical was about a high rate misleading papers published by scientists.
Based on all of the anti-creationalist comments I thought maybe I had misread the summary, so I looked at the article itself.
Not once did I see mention of the universe's creation in the summary or in the linked artical, in fact the example stated was "such as whether a particular gene influences a particular disease."
It seems to me that lately a lot of comments on slashdot have been trying to start a witch hunt for advocates of ID. Can we please knock it off and stop screaming wolf every time some thing that is related to science is mentioned on slashdot.
although most people would expect businesses to be generally open between sunrise and sunset.
Most businesses in Alaska would not appreciate being open 24 hours a day in the summer, being closed for most of winter, and having "normal" workdays during the spring and fall.
This would also make it difficult to work with vendors accross the country. With the current system it is relatively easy to compute when a vendor in Maine will be open for business since most businesses open at 8am. If the decision of which time offset to use becomes arbitray to a specific area, you would need chart for every locale you wish to do business with, since cities in Maine may choose a different starting hour than those in New York, or worse yet the starting hour may change from county to county. Currently most states fall within one of four timezones and follow DST (with the exception of Utah). These four time zones are reasonably easy to memorize and make it easier for business on different sides of the content to do business.
Would it not be more appropriate to license your post under the FDL instead of the GPL?
I would be interested to see why they planned the high infestion rate of viruses in their products or what the advantage of this infestation is.
Actually an X server comes on the OS install disk with a Mac. If you do not have your OS install disk, you can download the X server from Apple's website:
r macosx.html
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11fo
I use the X server to run many programs on my Mac as well using it to run apps on remote Linux workstations.
On a side note, I have used both Neo Office and the X11 version of OpenOffice on OS X. I've found the X11 version to be faster and does not bring my computer to a crawl. Although the integration with the desktop was nice with Neo Office, it was irritating slow to use.
Since when is TV a social activity? I was under the impression that social activities meant interacting with other people, not sitting motionless obsorbing radiation, err content.
iPod, iBook, iSight.
I can not speak for the blocking of TCP port 80. However as a systems administrator at an ISP, I can assure you that the ISP is justified in blocking out bound TCP port 25.
With the increase of SPAM on the Internet, providers are being more strict with other ISPs that fail to police their IP space for open relays and viruses. A single spammer from one of your netblocks is often enough to get ALL of your net blocks black listed by other ISPs. As a result ISP's are being forced to restrict outbound access to services such as SMTP in order to protect the majority of subscribers that do not host services.
If you would like to send email from your server, configure it to relay out bound e-mails through your ISP's SMTP servers. This allows the ISP to catch surges before remote ISPs start complaining.
Some ISPs, even offer special packages at no additional cost that do not have these restrictions, however they may require that you demostrate techincal competency to use a filterless service. Since a large number of people do not properly lock down SMTP relays or actively check for viruses.
To sum up, at my company it is not about thinking that you should not host services, but that we want to insure that your services will not impact the other 99.99% of our subscriber's access to the Internet.
"but saying it's 2 percent doesn't make any sense. It's not a real number."
How can you claim that he needs to provide evidence of a study to support his numbers, while you claim that his numbers are fabricated without providing one of your own.
I disagree with some of the trends that I hear about in regards to patents, however if you are going to argue a point, follow your own rules.
On second thought, part of the problem may be the editor I am using to view existing code. Vi may be displaying the "tab" as 8 spaces, which is why the Terminal (IE terminal.app, Eterm, Putty) would copy and paste 8 spaces.
This is not always convient or efficient. As an example, let's say I write a C program on my OS X workstation or Windows workstation that will ultimately be run on my companies Solaris servers. Every time I want to verify that the program will compile and run as expected on the Solaris server (which is about every time I finish a routine or loop statement that is significant to the routine), I have to copy the file to the remote server. Although doable, it is much easier to just develope the program on the Solaris server using SSH to connect to the shell and using cmd line editors such as vi to edit the source. With two terminals I can be editing and testing withou having to loose my place in the code. Having the copy and then compile to debug the code would be a real irritation. So spaces really do not seem all that bad. In I prefer vi to GUI editors, so even if I am writing the program on my OS X workstation, I use Terminal.app and vi to write the source. So I would still have problems with the terminal copying tabs as spaces. BTW, when I say the terminal copies tabs as spaces, I am referring to the terminal displaying the tabs as spaces which the GUI part of the OS then copies. So it's not so much that I am writing the code remotely, but viewing existing code remotely.
For instance I use Terminal.app on OS X to connect to my development boxes. I then use vi to edit the files scripts and source files. The terminal.app displays the "tabs" as spaces (not as the actual tab character). So when using the GUI to highligh, copy, and paste, the tabs are replaced with X spaces per tab. Note that when copying text from a local editor to the terminal, tabs are copied and pasted.
This is not just limited to Terminal.app, Eterm under Linux and Putty under Windows do the same thing.
Tabs are all fine and dandy. However when modifying scripts and simple programs on remote servers using SSH and vi, not all terminals will copy Tabs as Tabs. As a result when you copy and paste between terminal you may end up with a mixture of tabs and spaces by accident. In my experience spaces always copy as spaces which makes them easier to use.
Me thinks I was mistaken.
I usually am just porting code for a simple apps from Linux or FreeBSD to Solaris so I have not looked in depth at the differences between 64 bit and 32 bit. I was unaware of the "-m64" flag, which is not configured on the solaris box I use to test the ports:
syzdek@webster$ cat long.c
#include
main(void)
{
return(0);
}
syzdek@webster$ gcc -m64 long.c
cc1: -m64 is not supported by this configuration
cc1: -mptr32 not allowed on -m64
syzdek@webster$
Looking at your other posts, you appear to be very knowledgeable in compiling/writing code for different archs (including making code compatible with MS Windows), can you recommend any good online resources that give pointers on how to write clean code that can be easily ported between 32 bit and 64 bit systems and various operating systems?
I'm puzzled, what "every other " 64 bit operating system are you referring to? Solaris 9 running on a 64bit sparc uses 4 bytes for a long. "long long" is 8 bytes. I just compiled a test program that prints the return of sizeof(long) and sizeof(long long) to verify. Me thinks you are mistaken.
Dude, was something in the punch, because I think the floor is spinning and changing colors.
If you the thought occurred to you that these words might apply to you,
Your reasoning definitely applies to me.
then they probably don't.
I guess it doesn't.
If you're sure that they don't apply to you,
I guess it does.
then perhaps they do apply
I give up, your logic is too circular for me to decide whether you think your advice is relevent to me. I'm sticking with my original thought that I am not qualified to debate this article.
He may be putting the end users at risk, however it is not the end users that are suing him. The end users will likely never see a single euro if there is a settlement. The supposed damages that the company is seeking is very possibly for the loss of sales due to end users being aware that the software is flawed. If the company had the end users at heart, then they would put the cost of suing him towards fixing the exploits he uncovered.
Based on your argument, it would be reasonable for the end users to sue him, however it is unreasonable for the company to sue him.
The Apple Corp will of course. With the settlement they will be able to upgrade thier current living accommodations from a yellow submarine to something more suitable of a mega corporation.
I was thinking about buying an iPod and happened to stop by CompUSA while a Mac rep was in the store. Not knowing a whole lot about the iPods, I asked if the HFS+ formatted iPod could be formatted to a vfat file system and vise versa.
Before responding, the Rep asks what OS I was using (OS X or Windows). I replied that I was running Slackware Linux. He promptly told that I would need a computer that could read either a windows file system or a Mac file system.
When I try to explain that linux can read both vfat and hfs+ file systems, he starts mocking me and states that I must have a "pretty fancy computer" that can use both types of file systems.
I was so pissed at him that I went accross the street to Bestbuy and bought a 30gig iPod, got it working under linux (and researched how to switch back and forth between HFS+ and vfat), took it back to the store, found the Rep, showed him that it worked, told him where he could shove his arrogant attitude, and have not shopped at Compusa since.