precisely what is meant by "inheritance pitfalls that languages like java fall into"?
you can't just say something like that without at least mentioning some of these problems. I wasn't really aware of any inheritance pitfalls that Java falls into, but then again that may be because I ccode a lot of Java.:D
I have a p5-200 in a little case that has many gigs of mp3s on a couple of hard drives. it has a sb16, but could easily have some fancy schmancy newfangled sound board.
if you're goin to have to have a computer on which to store mp3s, why not play mp3s off that computer too? I'm lost.
I'm not really concerned so much about the loss of dignity resulting from being forced to take a drug test before being employed. I'm very concerned with the fact that there are many, many, many potential employees out there who can perform the duties required to the complete satisfaction of their employer who would fail that test because they do drugs on their own time.
There's no reason employers should be able to hold us hostage like that. absolutely none. I refuse to work for anyone who even *thinks* about drugtesting.
right, and that was my point about security guards and airline pilots. I could realyl care less if the guy next to me is tripping face or rolling or dusted; if he's writing good code, thats none of my business.
I don't even really think that the majority of employers have any right to know whether or not you take drugs in your free time. (click that link and I'll explain why.)
I think this is a major issue - we as a workforce should address it now while the job market is in our favor.
And don't start whining about security guards and airline pilots, I'm talkign about tech people here.
well, if your binaries are all on read-only media, maybe there are subtle backdoors hidden in your rc.files; maybe configurations files for daemons have been subtly altered to provide a way back into your machine even after you think it's resecured.
if your machine is owned, tripwire can be subverted. it's not trivial to use tripwire correctly, and even if it is used correctly, it can still be tricked.
as to your last point - once one machine falls, other machines on the netowrk become progressively more prone to falling too. think communists in SE asia, you know?:D
seriously, if your machine has been compromised by anyone other than a completely retarded skriptkiddie, chances are there's going to be lots of "new functionality" in some of the bins on your machine. reinstall from read-only media.
no, CD audio throws away all the information except for one datapoint taken 44.1k times per second. this means that it has orders of madnitude more information than does a 128k mp3, and sounds way better, but the same sorts of people who complain about lowbitrate mp3s complain that CDs sound dead or cold compared to analog storage methods.
to say CD is zero compression isnt really true - to store an analog wave digitally would essentially require infinite storage space, and 660MB aint infinite.
I connect to the internet via DSL. I connect to a machine in a datacenter in NYC via ssh. I tunnel through that connection, and using a connect() wrapper, appear to always be surfing the web from this NYC machine. several other people do the same thing with NYC-box. we're anonymous in that the NYC-box doesnt keep logs, and any traffic originating from this NYC-box could be any one of us. the more of us there are, the more anonymous we become.
Sure, the telco knows im connecting to the box in NYC, but they dont know whether I'm downloading questionable material as long as they cant compromise ssh, my local machine, or the NYC machine.
it's really too bad that this iterative, "let 10 peolpe sequentially do a halfassed job" method of writing software has become such a pervasive paradigm. if Programmer A wrote a clean, simple, extensible framework which people could add to in order to get their particular itch scratched, Programmers B and C wouldn't have to juryrig a bunch of patches onto some crappy works-fine-for-me kludge.
but most people are too blind to see anything other than that which everyone else is doing, so I suppose this sentiment will always fall on deaf ears.
No, artists such as Dr. Dre tour to promote an album. The tour is, in almost all cases, a break-even AT BEST. People don't make money off tours except in ridiculous cases like maybe Michael Jackson or Floyd or something. Ever notice that bands tour whn they release a new disc? Did you think that was conincidence?
whether or not you have moral qualms is really none of anyone's business. the topic at hand isnt whether napster users are going to hell, its about whether they're goign to court. f your morality, you still have to deal with the laws in applicable situations.
I don't care if there is now a new route for people to get into the music arena without having to bow down to the music giants.
I don't care if people who steal mp3s are more likely to buy records.
I don't care if dre hasnt done anything since the chronic.
I care that when you copy and distribute his mp3s, you are breaking the law and you are stealing his art. when napster complains that they aren't directly breaking the law and/. sides with napster, yeah, I guess I can sort of see some logic there. but when dre sues users who are _stealing_ what he sells and you people complain, I really have to wonder. would you like it if I stole your livelihood? I doubt it.
not to be a dick, but have you ever donated 600$ to a scholarship fund? I haven't, and I consider Bill Gates to be a better man than me in the charity arena because at least he's giving up a couple tenths of a percent - I'm giving 0% to charity currently.
I was at an electronic music festival/show thingie at the Cube at MIT, and some people there had set up a device on the flor about 25 feet square that was pressure sensitive - it could basically tell where you were standing. then they hung a projector from the ceiling and projected a picture of the tilty-bok-with-maze-and-ball onto this rig, and you could play the game by standing on the pressure plates and running around.
(good to see someone made a smaller version for the palm.)
If there isn't a shortage of qualified tech-industry workers, I'm very much at a loss to explain exactly why it is that the vast majority of companies I have personally had experience with are staffed by peopel that don't have any clue what they're doing.
One would imagine that in a situation where there was even anywhere near enough workers in a given field, there would not be half as many completely knowledgeless people running around with "certifications" and "experience".
Statistics and data projects aside, I think that anyone who looks around them and evaluates the people that he is working with and for can tell you that there are not enough qualified people in this industry.
that said, I'm not sure there are enough qualified peopel in any industry. but that's another story, I guess.
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if you or members of your "raza" are dumb enough to take drugs that some american company gives you, you deserve to have malformed children.
That'd be "Alan Cox".
precisely what is meant by "inheritance pitfalls that languages like java fall into"?
:D
you can't just say something like that without at least mentioning some of these problems. I wasn't really aware of any inheritance pitfalls that Java falls into, but then again that may be because I ccode a lot of Java.
I have a p5-200 in a little case that has many gigs of mp3s on a couple of hard drives. it has a sb16, but could easily have some fancy schmancy newfangled sound board.
if you're goin to have to have a computer on which to store mp3s, why not play mp3s off that computer too? I'm lost.
I'm not really concerned so much about the loss of dignity resulting from being forced to take a drug test before being employed. I'm very concerned with the fact that there are many, many, many potential employees out there who can perform the duties required to the complete satisfaction of their employer who would fail that test because they do drugs on their own time.
There's no reason employers should be able to hold us hostage like that. absolutely none. I refuse to work for anyone who even *thinks* about drugtesting.
right, and that was my point about security guards and airline pilots. I could realyl care less if the guy next to me is tripping face or rolling or dusted; if he's writing good code, thats none of my business.
http://www.suburbs.net/~shinex/drugpolicy.html
I don't even really think that the majority of employers have any right to know whether or not you take drugs in your free time. (click that link and I'll explain why.)
I think this is a major issue - we as a workforce should address it now while the job market is in our favor.
And don't start whining about security guards and airline pilots, I'm talkign about tech people here.
on a machine:
/dev/lp0
*.* @loghost.my.net
on loghost:
auth.*
make sure you give loghost's syslogd a -u on the command line.
uhhh...
/dev/lp0
auth.*
...might be a way to do this without tail -f sucking half your processor 24/7.
man syslog.conf, dude.
well, if your binaries are all on read-only media, maybe there are subtle backdoors hidden in your rc.files; maybe configurations files for daemons have been subtly altered to provide a way back into your machine even after you think it's resecured.
:D
if your machine is owned, tripwire can be subverted. it's not trivial to use tripwire correctly, and even if it is used correctly, it can still be tricked.
as to your last point - once one machine falls, other machines on the netowrk become progressively more prone to falling too. think communists in SE asia, you know?
reinstall.
seriously, if your machine has been compromised by anyone other than a completely retarded skriptkiddie, chances are there's going to be lots of "new functionality" in some of the bins on your machine. reinstall from read-only media.
"...so 20Hz and 20kHz is kind of moot unless you're in the mastering studio or have built a $15,000 listening room in your home. "
God, I wish.
no, CD audio throws away all the information except for one datapoint taken 44.1k times per second. this means that it has orders of madnitude more information than does a 128k mp3, and sounds way better, but the same sorts of people who complain about lowbitrate mp3s complain that CDs sound dead or cold compared to analog storage methods.
to say CD is zero compression isnt really true - to store an analog wave digitally would essentially require infinite storage space, and 660MB aint infinite.
"what about a virus like Melissa which automatically spreads itself around?"
why don't you read that agan real slow-like, and then ask yourself what the definition of a computer virus is.
I connect to the internet via DSL. I connect to a machine in a datacenter in NYC via ssh. I tunnel through that connection, and using a connect() wrapper, appear to always be surfing the web from this NYC machine. several other people do the same thing with NYC-box. we're anonymous in that the NYC-box doesnt keep logs, and any traffic originating from this NYC-box could be any one of us. the more of us there are, the more anonymous we become.
Sure, the telco knows im connecting to the box in NYC, but they dont know whether I'm downloading questionable material as long as they cant compromise ssh, my local machine, or the NYC machine.
what's mythical about that?
it's really too bad that this iterative, "let 10 peolpe sequentially do a halfassed job" method of writing software has become such a pervasive paradigm. if Programmer A wrote a clean, simple, extensible framework which people could add to in order to get their particular itch scratched, Programmers B and C wouldn't have to juryrig a bunch of patches onto some crappy works-fine-for-me kludge.
but most people are too blind to see anything other than that which everyone else is doing, so I suppose this sentiment will always fall on deaf ears.
No, artists such as Dr. Dre tour to promote an album. The tour is, in almost all cases, a break-even AT BEST. People don't make money off tours except in ridiculous cases like maybe Michael Jackson or Floyd or something. Ever notice that bands tour whn they release a new disc? Did you think that was conincidence?
whether or not you have moral qualms is really none of anyone's business. the topic at hand isnt whether napster users are going to hell, its about whether they're goign to court. f your morality, you still have to deal with the laws in applicable situations.
I don't care if there is now a new route for people to get into the music arena without having to bow down to the music giants.
/. sides with napster, yeah, I guess I can sort of see some logic there. but when dre sues users who are _stealing_ what he sells and you people complain, I really have to wonder. would you like it if I stole your livelihood? I doubt it.
I don't care if people who steal mp3s are more likely to buy records.
I don't care if dre hasnt done anything since the chronic.
I care that when you copy and distribute his mp3s, you are breaking the law and you are stealing his art. when napster complains that they aren't directly breaking the law and
Has anything ever happened regarding the Internet that 2600 wasn't _completely sure_ was a conspiracy?
Particularly hot? For god's sake, people, this girl is a cow. Please, for your own good, get out of your houses once in a while.
not to be a dick, but have you ever donated 600$ to a scholarship fund? I haven't, and I consider Bill Gates to be a better man than me in the charity arena because at least he's giving up a couple tenths of a percent - I'm giving 0% to charity currently.
I was at an electronic music festival/show thingie at the Cube at MIT, and some people there had set up a device on the flor about 25 feet square that was pressure sensitive - it could basically tell where you were standing. then they hung a projector from the ceiling and projected a picture of the tilty-bok-with-maze-and-ball onto this rig, and you could play the game by standing on the pressure plates and running around.
(good to see someone made a smaller version for the palm.)
Now, I hate the french as much as any fashionable American, but you have to admit, they did hook us up in the Revolutionary War.
If there isn't a shortage of qualified tech-industry workers, I'm very much at a loss to explain exactly why it is that the vast majority of companies I have personally had experience with are staffed by peopel that don't have any clue what they're doing.
One would imagine that in a situation where there was even anywhere near enough workers in a given field, there would not be half as many completely knowledgeless people running around with "certifications" and "experience".
Statistics and data projects aside, I think that anyone who looks around them and evaluates the people that he is working with and for can tell you that there are not enough qualified people in this industry.
that said, I'm not sure there are enough qualified peopel in any industry. but that's another story, I guess.
no, they'll give the chips to the people that can afford them. supply and demand anyone?