I think it requires a certain level of intelligence as a minimum. Nothing incredibly special but above average
There you have it. You think being able to program makes you special in some way or indicates that you're above average.
Here's the truth: Any idiot can write code. Hell, half of Slashdot taught themselves to program when they were between the ages of 8-13.
All it takes is the will to learn something new. It's no different than learning to work on cars. Do you think auto-mechanics have these same discussions? No. They're more emotionally stable, apparently, than the average developer.
Yeah, just about anyone can learn to write computer programs. Just like every who has ever learned to write code, they'll get better and better as they gain experience
Being able to write computer programs does not make you special. Get over yourself.
There is difference between being able to program and being a programmer. I agree, practically anyone is able to program (write a simple piece of code, that compiles and can be executed) but not everyone is able to be a programmer.
Car analogies don't work here. There is a *huge* difference in complexity between a car and software. Cars are simple (few parts and joints), software systems OTOH are the most complex systems created by humanity.
The point is: to work and be productive as a programmer in some real environment you have to load a huge and complex model into your brain, before you could do anything useful. I don't know, why it is, but my experience shows, that even optimistically speaking only 1 of 10 people is able to successfully work as a programmer in real world projects. That came to me as a huge surprise, too, once.
For a song it is much more important, HOW it is performed, not WHAT is performed.
Not to a judge in a copyright suit. Judges strip away the performance and look at the sheet music.
And? People listening music are generally not judges of a copyright suit. People like songs, which touch them emotionally and that emotion in music is not defined by the chord progressions, that comes from the artistic performance.
I'm sorry, but the reserch won't tell anything interesting. For a song it is much more important, HOW it is performed, not WHAT is performed. There is no (naive) formula there, that a computer could analyze. The success of a song has everything to do with the charm of the artists and how skilled the musicians are and how it is arranged and so on. The chord progressions are irrelevant. Look, this song had only 1 chord and it was a huge hit. So what now -- we start writing 1-chord songs and every monkey could be a star? Sorry, but no.
Few hundred dollars? Doing it all yourself? Yes, absolutely, it is possible, but nobody would want to listen that crap which you put out. I can absolutely guarantee that to you with 100% of probability.
There really are minimal chances that a self-produced album made with a budget of few thousand dollars is something that anyone besides your mum and 2 friends wants to listen.
First -- you need a lot of expensive gear for recording. You even cannot buy a decent microphone with that budget. But you're going to need a lot more -- instrument amplifiers, guitars, drums, lots of mics, preamps, DAV software, studio monitors et cetera. You need to build special mixing and recording rooms. Later the mastering of the album needs also special gear and rooms.
Second -- you need someone who can operate this stuff. For example -- micing a drum set. It requires a lot knowledge and experience to do it properly and correctly. No musician is able to do that in their bedroom, no exceptions. You need to hire someone, who has experience in that, someone, who has done that with 100 bands and albums before yours and really knows all the technical stuff. Yes, it will cost you.
Third -- you are not able to produce your own music. You need a producer. Producing your own stuff is as bad idea as being your own dentist, or defending yourself in the court. Why? Because you are too familiar with your music, you are not able to listen it unbiasedly. You need someone in the recording room, who is able to listen the stuff impartially, who is experienced, who sees the big picture, and who can tell you when you suck (or when you don't). So you need a producer with much experience, someone who has produced a lot of different music. Yes, it will cost you.
Of course -- you actually should work with your music before studio. Do several rounds of demo recordings of the same material, do a decent pre-production where you verify, that your songs actually hang together from the beginning to the end and there aren't too many big issues with your music. Yes, this can be done home with that couple thousand dollars. But that is just a start, that's the beginning of the real work. If you think, that you have done some good stuff in home, then that's probably only 10% of the real potential of your music. The music can be made a lot better, if you include right people to help you with your final production. A lot better.
I don't like recording companies. But I'm afraid there will be problems, if they go away. Who will finance this stuff? Not many bands or musicians know how to produce good stuff independently or have money for it.
PS. I'm currently in the middle of recording an album. I have done one with recording company. This one is independent.
Actually, no, XSS is different. A web application may not have any XSS problems, but it still can have CSRF vulnerabilities. If an application accepts requests solely because the user is logged on and has sufficient privileges, then it probably is vulnerable to the CSRF, even if there are no XSS problems.
No, seriously. The term "hardware firewall" is stupid name for a device, which runs an operating system on a general purpose CPU and is configurable through software, instead of making configuration changes with resoldering different pieces of electronics. The Windows XP firewall is as much a hardware firewall as is some dedicated program running on a dedicated box.
A firewall should provide passive protection like the one included with XP SP2 (damn good firewall for being software based). But other software based firewalls end up getting gummed up with corruption in that they totally shut down the users connectivity to the internet.
What do you mean by the "software based firewall"? Like there were any hardware based firewalls.
So, here is where they have the "un-american" concept. Everyone in the USA wants to be "american", and the government convinces you that if you do anything they don't like, you are "unamerican". A pretty simple concept, and not very different from Stalinism. The difference is that Stalin was a smart man, that he wanted the best for his country, and that he had just one face. You may disagree with his methods, but he did what he considered best for his people, and a big part of what he had to do was because of the external presure made by the USA.
Stalin smart man? Wanted best for his country and people? Did some bad things because of the external pressure of the USA?
What kind of sick jokes are those? Sad thing is, that the half of the Europe and Asia, which suffered greatly under the Stalin regime does not probably find it very funny. The crimes of the Stalin regime may not be as known as the crimes of Nazi Germany, because soviets won the war, but the evil done by Stalin was even worse than Hitler's. Millions of people died because of Stalin. My country lost 10% of the population when soviet troops occupied it during Worl War II. And the damage made to the Easter European economy is so big, that it is not measureable.
Quantum is messy because the universe is. Newtonian Physics isn't flat out wrong. Neither is Einstein's or traditional EM. They are right, to a point.
Einstein doesn't change Newton's laws. They enhance them. Newton's laws hold most of the time, so does EM. But their are cases where things change.
No. If Einstein is right, then the theory of Newton was flat out wrong. They represent different paradigmas, only one of them can be true. Of course, this does not mean, that Newton equations could not be used for computing mostly correct results under some circumstances. But i don't think one can say, that Einsteins theory enchanches Newtons theory, one totally replaces the other.
As an example. There have been two theories about heat, one which says, that heat is sort of like a liquid matter, called flogiston, and second, which says, that heat is cinetic energy of particles. How can they both be correct? There can be no agreement between such different theories. The flogiston theory is thrown out as something completely wrong, because it does not explain lots of experimental facts, as happened with the Newtons theory. But this does not mean, that the flogiston-theory could not be used for computing somewhat correct results in some circumstances.
There are a lot of good reasons why the registry is better than a text file. Performance and fine-grained permissions are two.
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How are you planning on implementing per-user, per-value ACLs on lines of text in a file ? How about making sure modifications don't end up half finished ? Are you aware parsing text is an incredibly inefficient operation?
Performance in the application point of view is irrelevant. Unless you are smoking crack while you're designing programs, you won't use registry as a database backend to your application. Registry should contain configuration data, which is read during application startup and the few milliseconds of additional overhead from parsing plain text should not matter at all.
In the human point of view, parsing the plain text files is much more efficient operation than parsing some massive binary file through some obscure interface.
Fine-grained permissions? As experience shows the root user owning global configuration in/etc and user owning its own configuration in/home/$user is sufficient. Is there really a need for different permissions on every line of configuration? This smells like bad application design, nothing more.
Manual editing of text files is an incredibly bad way to configure a system by just about every measure thinkable.
Wow! Simply -- WOW! Well, i wouldn't replace the text configuration files with anything, but we seem to come from different universes.
And every time its altered, a new version is kept. This would allow users to go back to old version if required.
This is about the only decent idea you've managed to come up with. Mind you, similar functionality is already available via System Restore points - but I imagine people like you automatically turn them off because you "don't like stuff going on behind your back".
How about storing the "evil" text configuration files (IE the whole/etc directory) in CVS or in some other full-blown revision control system? Try this with some obscure binary format.
Like sound, the speed of light is NOT constant; it varies by medium. Postulate a creature who possesses our level of technology, living in a medium with a slower light speed than what we consider to be the vacuum speed--for fun let's say the lightspeed in that medium is 100km/h. If the creature performed the same experiments we have, they would conclude that 100km/h is the maximum speed at which information can travel anywhere in the universe. (Just as many of us have concluded that 280,000 mi/sec is the maximum speed of information).
No, the speed of light is constant and it is constant everywhere. The light "slows down" in materials because photons are absorbed by atoms and emitted after short delay. This creates the illusion of the light being slower.
Information is not subject to light speed limits because information does not exist; it is an abstract creation of the human mind that is deduced from actions. Sound information can be routed around the sound limit by conversion to and from a faster medium for transport. The door is NOT closed to such a solution for light information. We can't see any way to open it right now, but that's a very different statement from saying we've conclusively ruled out the existence of a door.
Information needs some matter to carry it. There is nothing abstract about it and it is bound to the same limits as matter.
In a sense, hoping to travel faster than light is as meaningless as hoping to go further south than south pole. The speed of light, although expressed with finite value, represents infinity. For example: you need infinite amount of energy to accelerate to the speed of light.
Yes, the Ministry of communications says that Estonian will be govered "in few years" with wireless Internet using CDMA technology and radio frequencies which previously were used by NMT mobile telephones. The area of Estonia is 40 000 km^2 with the population of 1,3 million people.
To me (i'm estonian) the project seems a little redundant since we have cheap DSL, cable and local wireless Internet everywhere, but hey, it would be cool to comment slashdot in middle of some swamp some day.
juhan@galadriel:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11$ find . -name *.c -exec grep "belong here" {} \; if we don't belong here... */ /* This does not belong here, but locally generated errors need it if connection * I think these routines belong here because they're not yet really hardware /* nothing. lockup detection does not belong here */ /* nothing. lockup detection does not belong here */ * this stuff doesn't really belong here.. mb();/* nothing. lockup detection does not belong here */; * I think these routines belong here because they're not yet really hardware * I think these routines belong here because they're not yet really hardware * First some stuff that does not belong here: * KG: This was in DATAOUT. Does it also belong here? * - remove allow_modeset (acornfb idea does not belong here) /* FIXME: This doesn't belong here... */
I just upgraded my Woody box which had several backports installed. This needed unusual amount of typing for a Debian user -- altogether three short commands instead of the usual two. Heh,:-) I guess the aptitude was recommended for good reasons, so i won't bitch about it any more.
The upgrade succeeded without a single glitch and my new Sarge box runs like charm. All backports were also upgraded without problems. Nothing's broken, everything just works. There is no other operating system distro in the world, which you could just install once and then upgrade forever.
Saying that something is massless, is same as saying it does not exist. Photons, however, exist, therefore they must have mass.
Saying that photons do not have "rest mass" is just a fancy way to say that you cannot stop the light.
Light has mass, but it cannot exist in other speeds than speed of light. When you slow or stop photon, you destroy it -- make it not exist or in other words -- make it have no mass.
> > But you are correct - it's the accelleration that kills you (or decelleration, in the case of defenestration...)
> It's actually differential acceleration that's the killer isn't it?
> You can survive any level of acceleration as long as it applies uniformly to every part of you, (and in fact you won't even feel it) - like gravity does.
No you can't survive any level of acceleration, even if it applies uniformly. If the acceleration is great enough, everyone turns into pancake.
And how dare you not to feel the gravity, you insensitive clod?
* Start with web server, dns and dhcp migration to linux.
* Migrate the file servers to samba.
* Follow that by email.
* Replace browsers with firefox.
* Replace outlook with evolution or thunderbird.
*...
Wow!
What a nice cooking recipe.:-)
Well, this is actually what we are doing here. This, IMHO, is the thing that slowly goes on everywhere.
Would it be enough to cause the atmosphere to go poof like the trick paper used by magicians to make a flame appear out of nowhere?
This really was a worry at the time the Manhattan project was designing the first hydrogen bomb. There were some doubts that the chain reaction in the hydrogen bomb would continue in the atmosphere and in oceans, so our planet would burst into blazing fireball. Professor Gregory Breit was the theoretic who proved at forties that this is not physically possible. (Robert Jungk, Heller als tausend Sonnen, Verlag, Bern und Stuttgart, 1956)
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I think it requires a certain level of intelligence as a minimum. Nothing incredibly special but above average
There you have it. You think being able to program makes you special in some way or indicates that you're above average.
Here's the truth: Any idiot can write code. Hell, half of Slashdot taught themselves to program when they were between the ages of 8-13.
All it takes is the will to learn something new. It's no different than learning to work on cars. Do you think auto-mechanics have these same discussions? No. They're more emotionally stable, apparently, than the average developer.
Yeah, just about anyone can learn to write computer programs. Just like every who has ever learned to write code, they'll get better and better as they gain experience
Being able to write computer programs does not make you special. Get over yourself.
There is difference between being able to program and being a programmer. I agree, practically anyone is able to program (write a simple piece of code, that compiles and can be executed) but not everyone is able to be a programmer.
Car analogies don't work here. There is a *huge* difference in complexity between a car and software. Cars are simple (few parts and joints), software systems OTOH are the most complex systems created by humanity.
The point is: to work and be productive as a programmer in some real environment you have to load a huge and complex model into your brain, before you could do anything useful. I don't know, why it is, but my experience shows, that even optimistically speaking only 1 of 10 people is able to successfully work as a programmer in real world projects. That came to me as a huge surprise, too, once.
For a song it is much more important, HOW it is performed, not WHAT is performed.
Not to a judge in a copyright suit. Judges strip away the performance and look at the sheet music.
And? People listening music are generally not judges of a copyright suit. People like songs, which touch them emotionally and that emotion in music is not defined by the chord progressions, that comes from the artistic performance.
I'm sorry, but the reserch won't tell anything interesting. For a song it is much more important, HOW it is performed, not WHAT is performed. There is no (naive) formula there, that a computer could analyze. The success of a song has everything to do with the charm of the artists and how skilled the musicians are and how it is arranged and so on. The chord progressions are irrelevant. Look, this song had only 1 chord and it was a huge hit. So what now -- we start writing 1-chord songs and every monkey could be a star? Sorry, but no.
Few hundred dollars? Doing it all yourself? Yes, absolutely, it is possible, but nobody would want to listen that crap which you put out. I can absolutely guarantee that to you with 100% of probability. There really are minimal chances that a self-produced album made with a budget of few thousand dollars is something that anyone besides your mum and 2 friends wants to listen. First -- you need a lot of expensive gear for recording. You even cannot buy a decent microphone with that budget. But you're going to need a lot more -- instrument amplifiers, guitars, drums, lots of mics, preamps, DAV software, studio monitors et cetera. You need to build special mixing and recording rooms. Later the mastering of the album needs also special gear and rooms. Second -- you need someone who can operate this stuff. For example -- micing a drum set. It requires a lot knowledge and experience to do it properly and correctly. No musician is able to do that in their bedroom, no exceptions. You need to hire someone, who has experience in that, someone, who has done that with 100 bands and albums before yours and really knows all the technical stuff. Yes, it will cost you. Third -- you are not able to produce your own music. You need a producer. Producing your own stuff is as bad idea as being your own dentist, or defending yourself in the court. Why? Because you are too familiar with your music, you are not able to listen it unbiasedly. You need someone in the recording room, who is able to listen the stuff impartially, who is experienced, who sees the big picture, and who can tell you when you suck (or when you don't). So you need a producer with much experience, someone who has produced a lot of different music. Yes, it will cost you. Of course -- you actually should work with your music before studio. Do several rounds of demo recordings of the same material, do a decent pre-production where you verify, that your songs actually hang together from the beginning to the end and there aren't too many big issues with your music. Yes, this can be done home with that couple thousand dollars. But that is just a start, that's the beginning of the real work. If you think, that you have done some good stuff in home, then that's probably only 10% of the real potential of your music. The music can be made a lot better, if you include right people to help you with your final production. A lot better. I don't like recording companies. But I'm afraid there will be problems, if they go away. Who will finance this stuff? Not many bands or musicians know how to produce good stuff independently or have money for it. PS. I'm currently in the middle of recording an album. I have done one with recording company. This one is independent.
In any case Debian 8.10 is reported to work less than perfectly on my hardware...
There is no Debian 8.10, current stable release is 4.0.
Actually, no, XSS is different. A web application may not have any XSS problems, but it still can have CSRF vulnerabilities. If an application accepts requests solely because the user is logged on and has sufficient privileges, then it probably is vulnerable to the CSRF, even if there are no XSS problems.
This is 5th on the OWASP top 10 list of vulnerabilities of the web applications. If you're writing one and don't know about the CSRF, then it probably good idea to read up a bit.
So it would be -- Did Not Start?
No, seriously. The term "hardware firewall" is stupid name for a device, which runs an operating system on a general purpose CPU and is configurable through software, instead of making configuration changes with resoldering different pieces of electronics. The Windows XP firewall is as much a hardware firewall as is some dedicated program running on a dedicated box.
What do you mean by the "software based firewall"? Like there were any hardware based firewalls.
Stalin smart man? Wanted best for his country and people? Did some bad things because of the external pressure of the USA?
What kind of sick jokes are those? Sad thing is, that the half of the Europe and Asia, which suffered greatly under the Stalin regime does not probably find it very funny. The crimes of the Stalin regime may not be as known as the crimes of Nazi Germany, because soviets won the war, but the evil done by Stalin was even worse than Hitler's. Millions of people died because of Stalin. My country lost 10% of the population when soviet troops occupied it during Worl War II. And the damage made to the Easter European economy is so big, that it is not measureable.
No. If Einstein is right, then the theory of Newton was flat out wrong. They represent different paradigmas, only one of them can be true. Of course, this does not mean, that Newton equations could not be used for computing mostly correct results under some circumstances. But i don't think one can say, that Einsteins theory enchanches Newtons theory, one totally replaces the other.
As an example. There have been two theories about heat, one which says, that heat is sort of like a liquid matter, called flogiston, and second, which says, that heat is cinetic energy of particles. How can they both be correct? There can be no agreement between such different theories. The flogiston theory is thrown out as something completely wrong, because it does not explain lots of experimental facts, as happened with the Newtons theory. But this does not mean, that the flogiston-theory could not be used for computing somewhat correct results in some circumstances.
Performance in the application point of view is irrelevant. Unless you are smoking crack while you're designing programs, you won't use registry as a database backend to your application. Registry should contain configuration data, which is read during application startup and the few milliseconds of additional overhead from parsing plain text should not matter at all.
In the human point of view, parsing the plain text files is much more efficient operation than parsing some massive binary file through some obscure interface.
Fine-grained permissions? As experience shows the root user owning global configuration in /etc and user owning its own configuration in /home/$user is sufficient. Is there really a need for different permissions on every line of configuration? This smells like bad application design, nothing more.
Wow! Simply -- WOW! Well, i wouldn't replace the text configuration files with anything, but we seem to come from different universes.
How about storing the "evil" text configuration files (IE the whole /etc directory) in CVS or in some other full-blown revision control system? Try this with some obscure binary format.
No, the speed of light is constant and it is constant everywhere. The light "slows down" in materials because photons are absorbed by atoms and emitted after short delay. This creates the illusion of the light being slower.
Information needs some matter to carry it. There is nothing abstract about it and it is bound to the same limits as matter.
In a sense, hoping to travel faster than light is as meaningless as hoping to go further south than south pole. The speed of light, although expressed with finite value, represents infinity. For example: you need infinite amount of energy to accelerate to the speed of light.
Yes, the Ministry of communications says that Estonian will be govered "in few years" with wireless Internet using CDMA technology and radio frequencies which previously were used by NMT mobile telephones. The area of Estonia is 40 000 km^2 with the population of 1,3 million people.
To me (i'm estonian) the project seems a little redundant since we have cheap DSL, cable and local wireless Internet everywhere, but hey, it would be cool to comment slashdot in middle of some swamp some day.
No, no. You've totally mistaken. The God did not create the World. The World is right now creating the God. Me.
I just upgraded my Woody box which had several backports installed. This needed unusual amount of typing for a Debian user -- altogether three short commands instead of the usual two. Heh, :-) I guess the aptitude was recommended for good reasons, so i won't bitch about it any more.
The upgrade succeeded without a single glitch and my new Sarge box runs like charm. All backports were also upgraded without problems. Nothing's broken, everything just works. There is no other operating system distro in the world, which you could just install once and then upgrade forever.
Great job, Debian team!!!
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> > Saying that something is massless, is same as saying it does not exist.
> No, sorry, there is no such law of physics. An object does not have to have mass to exist, only energy.
And since when is the energy not equivalent with mass?
> No, photons are massless particles.
Saying that something is massless, is same as saying it does not exist. Photons, however, exist, therefore they must have mass.
Saying that photons do not have "rest mass" is just a fancy way to say that you cannot stop the light.
Light has mass, but it cannot exist in other speeds than speed of light. When you slow or stop photon, you destroy it -- make it not exist or in other words -- make it have no mass.
> > But you are correct - it's the accelleration that kills you (or decelleration, in the case of defenestration...)
> It's actually differential acceleration that's the killer isn't it?
> You can survive any level of acceleration as long as it applies uniformly to every part of you, (and in fact you won't even feel it) - like gravity does.
No you can't survive any level of acceleration, even if it applies uniformly. If the acceleration is great enough, everyone turns into pancake.
And how dare you not to feel the gravity, you insensitive clod?
Duh! The "awful media replacement" is actually from Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and every distro should follow it.
* Start with web server, dns and dhcp migration to linux. ...
* Migrate the file servers to samba.
* Follow that by email.
* Replace browsers with firefox.
* Replace outlook with evolution or thunderbird.
*
Wow!
What a nice cooking recipe. :-)
Well, this is actually what we are doing here. This, IMHO, is the thing that slowly goes on everywhere.