The only problems is, the (then) current generation of/. will be whining about how he changed it from what they grew up with, but, hey you can't have everything...
No. The next generation of slashdotters won't care. The Star Wars franchise is dying.
The next generation of slashdotters will be talking about Peter Jackson changing LOTR.
How does the Libertarian Party, whose platform is a complete free market economy with personal responsibility, expect the economy to prosper with the recent corporate scandals such as Enron?
"I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt," Ballmer said
Fear - Ballmer argued that companies should be wary of the lack of indemnity from lawsuits, such as the suit filed by The SCO Group Inc. against DaimlerChrysler AG, IBM, Novell Inc. and others over parts of the Linux operating system that SCO claims infringe on elements of the Unix operating system that it owns.
Uncertainty - "In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims," he said, noting that Microsoft could be forced to swallow a $550 million judgement if it loses its ongoing case with Eolas Technologies Inc., but that its customers would be protected.
Doubt - On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
You are wrong. They do pay fees. That is why some of the local coffee houses only allow original songs to be played on free mike nights. No licensing required. As a bonus, it saves the audience from a bad rendition of "Stairway from Heaven".
How was Clerks edgey? Watch it again, it is pure toilet humor.
At the time, Clerks really was edgy. Clerks were was revolutionary because it was crude and vulgar unlike the movies of the time. It ushered in a wave of vulgar pop culture referencing movies. The big studios have adopted the formula and there are 20 movies like this every year. Looking at it with 2004 eyes Clerks is kind of crappy.
Now I have a question...because I honestly do not know. Is it possible to inline assemble with Java? I guess you would probably loose a lot of your cross platform stuff with it huh?
Yes, you can just call a C/C++ library which has inline assembly. Never needed to do that. In fact that would get me fired because nobody would be able to maintain it. To make up the costs of coding/maintaing something for the applications I write versus the hardware costs of needing a more powerful computer to run it would never come close.
so regardless of auto-completion, I resent having to type stuff like:
X509CertificateSimpleChainVerifier x = new X509CertificateSimpleChainVerifier();
I mean, wouldn't it be possible to ommit the type again from the new operator? I'm sure the parser could infer the default type from the variable it's being assigned to.:p
Somebody doesn't understand object oriented programming. That "type again" is called a constructor. You sometimes need to provide parameters to a constructor or even use a constructor from an inherited class.
As somebody who pays $4000 a year for car insurance it probably would help me. My insurance company told me I can't pay anymore unless I get a DWI or I do illegal street racing.
Yeah games like this usually don't work because they are bound to a few determining factors. Consequently the game isn't very deep and not worth playing for more than a day. The game won't be like a real election which is determined by a million different variables.
I played Ecco the Dolphin on the GBA from the Sega collection. I totally couldn't figure it out. I bought it used so no instruction manual. I really tried hard to understand it but all I did was swim around with no objective.
I guess with a Jaws version the objective will be clearly to eat people.
If Nintendo is smart they will continue the line of games like the excellent "Mario vs Donkey Kong". The original game boy had a lifespan of 8-10 years. The Advance series is getting cut off in 4-5 good years for the DS. The DS is gimmicky and the graphics upgrade isn't work purchasing for the use of a stylus.
Nintendo feels it needs to go after an adult market like the PSP. What they need to do is develop more adult oriented games like Advance Wars and people will still buy a SP. As an adult I like traveling with the SP because it's small, cheap, and the cartridges are tougher than nails. I won't be able to throw one of those PSP disks in my pocket without it breaking. I can't even keep track of my Palm Pilot stylus. How are 8 years not going to lose the stylus?
Generally what is good code and what is bad code is all subjective. Yeah I know there are instances of really bad code but I see a lot of developer's criticize other's code simply because it is different. If it fulfills the requirements and can be maintained it is usually good code.
I also think people make a big scene to managers that the previous developer's code was bad simply to make themselves look good. The manager who usually doesn't code says to themselves "Well he must be a great coder if he thinks the previous developer didn't know what he/she was doing."
Another developer cliché is to complain about documentation. Doesn't matter if you write a war and peace size document to explian everything, the next developer is totally not going to read it. The next developer if he/she doesn't understand it simply says "This code is crap". This buys more time to become competent at programming changes and makes them look like a top coder to the credulous manager.
I use Boland JBuilder 9 Personal Edition and it does everything I need for free. I do servlet programing. Just add the appropriate jar files and I am compiling servlet. Compile it right to server and just test with a web browser. No debugging is available for servlets but I just write out values to the console. Its really easy to use and I have found no reason to switch at this point.
A piece of paper by itself does nothing. The paper has to show the voter how they voted in a human readable way and a way that can be verified against the machine. However, if no audit is conducted, the paper does absolutely nothing but give voters a false sense of security.
Of course the paper has to be readable in a human way. I didn't think the piece of paper should only be read by alien biengs yet to land on the planet. If no audit is conducted how is that sense of security false? You have security of knowing that there is a piece of paper with your vote on it. That doesn't seem like a false sense of security to me.
As long as the e-voting system prints out a piece of paper to keep track of the vote e-voting will work. If no paper trail is kept problems like this will occur and more 2000 Florida debacles will occur.
So if Admin B got runover by a train, Admin A and Admin C could still login as root (because Admin C knew Admin B's password part), change the root password, and do whatever needed to be done.
Unless Admin A is on the same train as Admin B. Then Admin C is fucked.
It would be great for the NFL network to rebroadcast games. I just wish the NFL network would be offered by cable. Seems to be a Direct TV deal. Not sure if its an exclusive thing.
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Unfortunately, the machine knocking down McCain is funded by the democrat party. Those calls made in South Carolina were not funded by George W. Bush. There were funded by prominent democrats in the area.
Umm Democrats don't have enough money to do this kind of thing. McCain would be more of threat to them because he would eat into the middle base.
Bush was supposed to be in the middle but it was all phony to push a super conservative agenda while in office. More likely someone who would get money back in the form of a Hailburton contract was behind it.
This being Slashdot, I have to give the opinion of a footbal fan as one of the few.
Here is why the NFL doesn't want tapings of games on the Internet
NFL just started there own cable channel the "NFL Network". Rebroadcasting all pre-season games this year. Only a matter of time before the rebroadcast all the games.
Direct TV contract. You can watch the games you want it you pay for the $300+ Direct TV package.
Local teams need the plug. The NFL chooses the game you will watch. Even if the game is meaningless and there is a really good game somewhere else.
Still want to black out if needed. Teams don't blackout local coverage much anymore but they still will if the game is not sold out. Oh yeah if that happens you don't get another game you get an infomerical. Oh yeah they can still black you out on Direct TV.
I would pay for a reasonable way to watch the games I want to see. I would also like to go to games but football tickets are insane. The NFL really knows how to screw thier fans sometimes.
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The only problems is, the (then) current generation of /. will be whining about how he changed it from what they grew up with, but, hey you can't have everything...
No. The next generation of slashdotters won't care. The Star Wars franchise is dying.
The next generation of slashdotters will be talking about Peter Jackson changing LOTR.
I agree with your list of safeguards.
Who is proposing a "voting receipt"? That would be a terrible idea. I don't think any political party would support that.
How does the Libertarian Party, whose platform is a complete free market economy with personal responsibility, expect the economy to prosper with the recent corporate scandals such as Enron?
What if, for example, I was to do something like this to my wife's car?
Well if you do GPS your wife, she soon will be an ex-wife. After she takes your car in the divorce, it will be GPS stalking.
"I'm not trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt," Ballmer said
Fear - Ballmer argued that companies should be wary of the lack of indemnity from lawsuits, such as the suit filed by The SCO Group Inc. against DaimlerChrysler AG, IBM, Novell Inc. and others over parts of the Linux operating system that SCO claims infringe on elements of the Unix operating system that it owns.
Uncertainty - "In the Linux world, nobody stands behind patent claims," he said, noting that Microsoft could be forced to swallow a $550 million judgement if it loses its ongoing case with Eolas Technologies Inc., but that its customers would be protected.
Doubt - On the touchy issue of security, Ballmer also dismissed the notion that Linux is more secure than Windows, saying that Linux would be attacked just as frequently as Windows if the open source operating system had as large a share of the operating system market as Windows.
oh and i *was* able to decode the message, it says "we are here to pump *clap* you up."
I think your joke traveled through space too. It would explain the 15 year delay on the reference.
You are wrong. They do pay fees. That is why some of the local coffee houses only allow original songs to be played on free mike nights. No licensing required. As a bonus, it saves the audience from a bad rendition of "Stairway from Heaven".
How was Clerks edgey? Watch it again, it is pure toilet humor.
At the time, Clerks really was edgy. Clerks were was revolutionary because it was crude and vulgar unlike the movies of the time. It ushered in a wave of vulgar pop culture referencing movies. The big studios have adopted the formula and there are 20 movies like this every year. Looking at it with 2004 eyes Clerks is kind of crappy.
Seeing as the constructor is always the name of the object you're creating
No that was one of my points, it doesn't have to be the name of the object.
Now I have a question...because I honestly do not know. Is it possible to inline assemble with Java? I guess you would probably loose a lot of your cross platform stuff with it huh?
Yes, you can just call a C/C++ library which has inline assembly. Never needed to do that. In fact that would get me fired because nobody would be able to maintain it. To make up the costs of coding/maintaing something for the applications I write versus the hardware costs of needing a more powerful computer to run it would never come close.
so regardless of auto-completion, I resent having to type stuff like:
:p
X509CertificateSimpleChainVerifier x = new X509CertificateSimpleChainVerifier();
I mean, wouldn't it be possible to ommit the type again from the new operator? I'm sure the parser could infer the default type from the variable it's being assigned to.
Somebody doesn't understand object oriented programming. That "type again" is called a constructor. You sometimes need to provide parameters to a constructor or even use a constructor from an inherited class.
As somebody who pays $4000 a year for car insurance it probably would help me. My insurance company told me I can't pay anymore unless I get a DWI or I do illegal street racing.
Yeah games like this usually don't work because they are bound to a few determining factors. Consequently the game isn't very deep and not worth playing for more than a day. The game won't be like a real election which is determined by a million different variables.
I think the purpose of this slashdot story is to start a flame war.
To reply to this story just insert into the blanks:
Can we {insert political dirty trick} like {politician}?
I played Ecco the Dolphin on the GBA from the Sega collection. I totally couldn't figure it out. I bought it used so no instruction manual. I really tried hard to understand it but all I did was swim around with no objective.
I guess with a Jaws version the objective will be clearly to eat people.
Is it wrong to fix a problem with an executable running at startup with an executable running at startup? :-)
If Nintendo is smart they will continue the line of games like the excellent "Mario vs Donkey Kong". The original game boy had a lifespan of 8-10 years. The Advance series is getting cut off in 4-5 good years for the DS. The DS is gimmicky and the graphics upgrade isn't work purchasing for the use of a stylus.
Nintendo feels it needs to go after an adult market like the PSP. What they need to do is develop more adult oriented games like Advance Wars and people will still buy a SP. As an adult I like traveling with the SP because it's small, cheap, and the cartridges are tougher than nails. I won't be able to throw one of those PSP disks in my pocket without it breaking. I can't even keep track of my Palm Pilot stylus. How are 8 years not going to lose the stylus?
Generally what is good code and what is bad code is all subjective. Yeah I know there are instances of really bad code but I see a lot of developer's criticize other's code simply because it is different. If it fulfills the requirements and can be maintained it is usually good code.
I also think people make a big scene to managers that the previous developer's code was bad simply to make themselves look good. The manager who usually doesn't code says to themselves "Well he must be a great coder if he thinks the previous developer didn't know what he/she was doing."
Another developer cliché is to complain about documentation. Doesn't matter if you write a war and peace size document to explian everything, the next developer is totally not going to read it. The next developer if he/she doesn't understand it simply says "This code is crap". This buys more time to become competent at programming changes and makes them look like a top coder to the credulous manager.
I use Boland JBuilder 9 Personal Edition and it does everything I need for free. I do servlet programing. Just add the appropriate jar files and I am compiling servlet. Compile it right to server and just test with a web browser. No debugging is available for servlets but I just write out values to the console. Its really easy to use and I have found no reason to switch at this point.
A piece of paper by itself does nothing. The paper has to show the voter how they voted in a human readable way and a way that can be verified against the machine. However, if no audit is conducted, the paper does absolutely nothing but give voters a false sense of security.
Of course the paper has to be readable in a human way. I didn't think the piece of paper should only be read by alien biengs yet to land on the planet. If no audit is conducted how is that sense of security false? You have security of knowing that there is a piece of paper with your vote on it. That doesn't seem like a false sense of security to me.
As long as the e-voting system prints out a piece of paper to keep track of the vote e-voting will work. If no paper trail is kept problems like this will occur and more 2000 Florida debacles will occur.
So if Admin B got runover by a train, Admin A and Admin C could still login as root (because Admin C knew Admin B's password part), change the root password, and do whatever needed to be done.
Unless Admin A is on the same train as Admin B. Then Admin C is fucked.
It would be great for the NFL network to rebroadcast games. I just wish the NFL network would be offered by cable. Seems to be a Direct TV deal. Not sure if its an exclusive thing.
Unfortunately, the machine knocking down McCain is funded by the democrat party. Those calls made in South Carolina were not funded by George W. Bush. There were funded by prominent democrats in the area.
Umm Democrats don't have enough money to do this kind of thing. McCain would be more of threat to them because he would eat into the middle base.
Bush was supposed to be in the middle but it was all phony to push a super conservative agenda while in office. More likely someone who would get money back in the form of a Hailburton contract was behind it.
Here is why the NFL doesn't want tapings of games on the Internet
- NFL just started there own cable channel the "NFL Network". Rebroadcasting all pre-season games this year. Only a matter of time before the rebroadcast all the games.
- Direct TV contract. You can watch the games you want it you pay for the $300+ Direct TV package.
- Local teams need the plug. The NFL chooses the game you will watch. Even if the game is meaningless and there is a really good game somewhere else.
- Still want to black out if needed. Teams don't blackout local coverage much anymore but they still will if the game is not sold out. Oh yeah if that happens you don't get another game you get an infomerical. Oh yeah they can still black you out on Direct TV.
I would pay for a reasonable way to watch the games I want to see. I would also like to go to games but football tickets are insane. The NFL really knows how to screw thier fans sometimes.