Ah, but herein lies the point. Any novice programmer's immediate responce would be "What the hell is abstraction and why should I care?" Answer, 80% of PHP users wouldn't care. If MySQL is the database they start with it's the database they stick with. The same goes for this "use DBI;" stuff. The PHP method is drop dead intuitive, you don't have to learn anything about the language to use it. The Perl method requires knowledge of the language.
Besides, if you do want abstraction you can always get it.
Sure he'll probably go to prison for the rest of his life
Not if the current president pardons him. Considering he'll be that president if he has any sense, I like his chances.
Makes me wonder if the RIAA will have some way to verify that it's actually a fingerprint they're getting. Simplest circumvention method I can think of is to lock the file with a random ubiquitous object (i.e. paper clip) and then anyone can unlock it with the same object.
Well obviously a lot of people do, with much more their single vote. Next time you insert your bank card into an ATM check the manufacturer's name on the front. There's a fair chance it's Diebold. Personally I trust just one person, myself.
Of course he doesn't. My point here was Bush's space plan could potentially open a large amount of opportunities for the further commercialization of space.
Unless I miss my guess there is a heck of a lot more than $10 million for whoever wins this race. If the Bush space plan works, and it may, we could well see the commercialization of space in our lifetimes. And whoever has the best and cheapest commercial transport system at that point stands to make billions and billions.
I'd be real curious to see how this handles configuration. For instance, how do you change URLs? The interface I see picture doesn't look like it's up to the task. Howbout WEP? Non-broadcasting SSIDs? I can't find any of this on the company's site. If it doesn't handle this stuff graciously it's a big pretty looking doorstop as far as I'm concerned.
You're kidding right? This is Slashdot, where poster's idea of tricking out a car involves overclocking the CPU and adding large color monitors that will only ever display the command line.
Actually a professional could replace your lock with an identical one. You'd never know, except that suddenly your lock seems to be broken becuase you can't open it.
Speaking as someone who wrote his own (rudimentary) spider there are other advantages (at least from my perspective) to crawling only a few of your pages at a time. It's a very simple way for a small spider to get to index a wide array of sites instead of being stuck on one huge (read: a phpBB forum or CVS repository) site. However the more specific robots.txt could also be beneficial to the spider too, as right now my spider (or any spider) can only guess what the webmaster wants and therefore stands a good chance of being evicted if it guesses wrong. About 18% of sites have disallow rules for all spiders (based on my limited crawls), not a good sign.
Why would a BSoD mean it fires weaponry? More likely it BSoDs and nobody notices until somebody really needs it. Not to mention XP hardly ever BSoDs anymore (as in next to never).
But yeah, equiping them with semi-autos and using them as corporate security is the logical next step. Security is part of your payroll that only proves useful about 2 days out of every year and does tedious, boring (read: sitting or pacing) work the rest of the year. Exactly the kind of work robots are best suited for. Never sleep, one time investment, never get careless, harder to kill, integrated fully with the alarm system.
The logo and domain name seem to be the only changes at Linspire.com, everything else still says Lindows. Can you say plausible deniability?
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There will be plenty of anti-spam tirades and jokes, so I will not bother duplicating that effort. However this is the first instance I've heard of commercial distributed computing (I'm sure there are others). If this trend continues, and I have faith that it will, some very cool sh!te could be in our future. I for one would welcome $1 dollar a processor hour for something not connected to penis enlargement and illegal nigerian money transfers. Though I have to wonder if eventually the computers will unionize and demand a higher hourly wage.
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Well that's what seems to be the trouble, too many have gone and looked. The server is apparently too busy crying for mommy at this point.
Ah, but herein lies the point. Any novice programmer's immediate responce would be "What the hell is abstraction and why should I care?" Answer, 80% of PHP users wouldn't care. If MySQL is the database they start with it's the database they stick with. The same goes for this "use DBI;" stuff. The PHP method is drop dead intuitive, you don't have to learn anything about the language to use it. The Perl method requires knowledge of the language.
Besides, if you do want abstraction you can always get it.
#!/usr/bin/php
mysql_connect("host", "u", "p");
mysql_query("UPDATE database.users SET `p\/\/n3d` = 1 WHERE `lang_pref` LIKE '%perl%'");
Sure he'll probably go to prison for the rest of his life Not if the current president pardons him. Considering he'll be that president if he has any sense, I like his chances.
Makes me wonder if the RIAA will have some way to verify that it's actually a fingerprint they're getting. Simplest circumvention method I can think of is to lock the file with a random ubiquitous object (i.e. paper clip) and then anyone can unlock it with the same object.
Well obviously a lot of people do, with much more their single vote. Next time you insert your bank card into an ATM check the manufacturer's name on the front. There's a fair chance it's Diebold. Personally I trust just one person, myself.
Of course he doesn't. My point here was Bush's space plan could potentially open a large amount of opportunities for the further commercialization of space.
Unless I miss my guess there is a heck of a lot more than $10 million for whoever wins this race. If the Bush space plan works, and it may, we could well see the commercialization of space in our lifetimes. And whoever has the best and cheapest commercial transport system at that point stands to make billions and billions.
I'd be real curious to see how this handles configuration. For instance, how do you change URLs? The interface I see picture doesn't look like it's up to the task. Howbout WEP? Non-broadcasting SSIDs? I can't find any of this on the company's site. If it doesn't handle this stuff graciously it's a big pretty looking doorstop as far as I'm concerned.
Captain, we get signal. What! Main screen turn on. Somebody set us up the bomb.
Even simpler, send them here.
You're kidding right? This is Slashdot, where poster's idea of tricking out a car involves overclocking the CPU and adding large color monitors that will only ever display the command line.
Actually a professional could replace your lock with an identical one. You'd never know, except that suddenly your lock seems to be broken becuase you can't open it.
Speaking as someone who wrote his own (rudimentary) spider there are other advantages (at least from my perspective) to crawling only a few of your pages at a time. It's a very simple way for a small spider to get to index a wide array of sites instead of being stuck on one huge (read: a phpBB forum or CVS repository) site. However the more specific robots.txt could also be beneficial to the spider too, as right now my spider (or any spider) can only guess what the webmaster wants and therefore stands a good chance of being evicted if it guesses wrong. About 18% of sites have disallow rules for all spiders (based on my limited crawls), not a good sign.
Why would a BSoD mean it fires weaponry? More likely it BSoDs and nobody notices until somebody really needs it. Not to mention XP hardly ever BSoDs anymore (as in next to never).
But yeah, equiping them with semi-autos and using them as corporate security is the logical next step. Security is part of your payroll that only proves useful about 2 days out of every year and does tedious, boring (read: sitting or pacing) work the rest of the year. Exactly the kind of work robots are best suited for. Never sleep, one time investment, never get careless, harder to kill, integrated fully with the alarm system.
Semi-scientific support for mass exterminating jerks.
But is it patented?
well the AOL disks would finally actually be useful.
One word: Frisbee.
This sums up why apple should just say "no."
Well, I would prefer projectionists not be able to see what myself and my girlfriend are up to. Yes, she actually exists. No, she is not imaginary.
If it's 96kb how come it's taking so long to download...
...Dihydrogen Monoxide, but how wrong they were.
The logo and domain name seem to be the only changes at Linspire.com, everything else still says Lindows. Can you say plausible deniability?
Better yet, just hex edit it.
There will be plenty of anti-spam tirades and jokes, so I will not bother duplicating that effort. However this is the first instance I've heard of commercial distributed computing (I'm sure there are others). If this trend continues, and I have faith that it will, some very cool sh!te could be in our future. I for one would welcome $1 dollar a processor hour for something not connected to penis enlargement and illegal nigerian money transfers. Though I have to wonder if eventually the computers will unionize and demand a higher hourly wage.