I think Unreal Tournament III doesn't have any copy protection, I only ever needed the disk to install it. On the other hand, it does have a CD Key which can only be used by one person at a time to play online.
For most people, a couple of DVDs will be enough since you don't back up everything. In my case, my two biggest space eaters are media and games, neither of which are important enough. I can back up my work and my digital photos easily enough to DVD (although in reality I just keep them in sync with my laptop).
If I did want to back up my music, for example, I wouldn't have to copy all of it every month, just the couple of albums I might have ripped in the last few weeks.
Of course, there will be a few video editors and professional photographers for whom this won't cut it, so for them a removable drive is still better.
I cannot understand how learning Java would not teach pointers as it is a language in which every variable is a pointer. The first thing to learn, "a = b", teaches about pointers! (not to mention the idiotic "==")
I speak from the experience of watching the rest of my class learn C after having learned Java and not getting pointers. It's quite easy to teach Java without mentioning pointers: "a = b makes a and b the same object. If you want to make a copy of b and call it a, you do a = b.clone()"
You find C hard to learn only because C is hard to learn. After learning some less idiotic language you just cannot believe *why* things are as bad as they are in C (and to some extend in C++). And this makes learning hard.
C is easy to learn, the language is very small. Java is huge in comparison. Learning to do complex things in C without messing up is hard because C doesn't have safeguards and lets you do stupid things. Java on the other hand prevents you from doing what you want.
Object oriented ideas are not hard, it is just basic encapsulation.
Most things are not hard once you know them. Pointers, for example, are easy, but many people find them difficult and make lots of mistakes when learning.
Note: I do think learning more than one programming language is a very good idea - just like learning second language (french/...) is good. But C... gimme a break!
C is low-level and gives you a better idea of what's going on at a low-level when you're doing something complex. E.g. your example equating objects with structs and functions.
I think objects are "hard" only because many books teaching them are worse than useless.
I disagree, firstly, a language is not just a language, it's also a way of thinking about problems. If you can think about a problem from both an iterative and recursive (for example) point of view, you're better equipped to solve that problem.
Secondly, you never know what language you're going to have to use but whatever it is, you probably haven't learned it (although you can improve your chances by learning java,C,C++,C#,ASP,SQL) but the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn a new one. Learning the language is a lot easier than learning the concepts involved with that language. You'd find C very difficult to learn if all you'd done was Java since you'd never had to learn to use pointers and manage your own memory. Conversely, you'd find Java very difficult if all you knew was C because you'd never have touched on object oriented ideas.
If they'd used yo instead of he, I wouldn't have understood what it meant. I would probably assume it was a typo for you or some slang meaning your (which would make even less sense in the context. Yo might be the word we've been looking for the last 200 years, but I doubt it and I certainly hadn't heard it used that way.
Originally Facebook was designed to appeal to university students (I believe you had to have a uni e-mail address to sign up) and for this target market, it works very well. When you start university, you quickly meet lots of new people who you might not bump into again and whose names you're trying to remember.
One of it's most useful feature is that you can search through people at your uni who've signed up, you can search for people who are doing the same course as you, you can get enough background information to gauge whether you might get on with them and to allow you not to fall into socially awkward traps. You can get an idea of where their interests lie by which groups they've joined so you can take a guess at what sort of stuff they might enjoy.
It's only good because the people on facebook are people you have actually met and if you're getting to know someone, it saves you from having to ask them their name three times and can tell you whether he's actually going out with that girl you always see him with or whether they're just friends.
Bear in mind that applications have only come about recently and (IMO) are the cancer that will kill facebook*. Previously, you had the personal info, the wall, the groups and the photos.
*Not that I think that the idea of applications is a particularly bad one, there's a lot of interesting things you can do with them but the invite system is really annoying, some people fill their page with applications until it looks like myspace and some application writers seem to be competing to get the most users.
For one of my assignments last term, I made a system where you could link your bluetooth ID with your facebook account and your friends could tell if you were within bluetooth range by running a program on their phone which would query our database with a list of bluetooth IDs and get a list of friends with their name and photo. Of course, this application isn't really practical, very few people have a smart phone or have bluetooth turned on and I won't even start talking about the privacy implications but it allowed us to see people's reactions to it and to show that it could be done by a small group of undergrads.
Why the hell do people call them this when they are not even rendered to give the user a 3D perspective?
Possibly because they make use of a GPU, most commonly associated with 3D graphics, because of the cube plugin for compiz (which obviously *is* 3d) or because 3D has this cool sound which people tend to remember.
Could a proprietary software developer not do something similar, have one employee document the protocol from the samba source and have another implement it again from that documentation? Given the effort involved, it might be easier to pay MS $10000...
Sure, getting another file with the same MD5 might be easy enough, getting one that appears to work like squirrel mail except with a critical vulnerability that has the same md5 hash is a different matter.
Simple enough people wouldn't buy them. IE would have the Microsoft name slapped on it so the people who would buy a web browser would be buying what they know. Like I said I personally dont like IE but people are familure with it its the same reason they use MS products for the simple things like email and web surfing.
Most people who haven't heard of Firefox won't know what Internet Explorer is either. Which they buy will depend on what their friends have told them to get, what the sales person talks them into and which is cheaper.
Part of my job next year may involve me doing security testing on a company website or network. Before I'm allowed to do that, I will need to provide a list of prior convictions from the police national database.
The database is out there. Fortunately there are quite a number of restrictions as to how it may be used (e.g. running a background check on a suspected criminal as a matter of routine is not allowed).
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You joke, as if such a thing was crazy, but I have a friend who does all his programming in notepad with Comic Sans...
Sounds quite similar to the facebook application made by the Cityware project. It tells you whose been near their hotspots at the same time as you.
As one of our projects on my course, we're looking at extending this to do without hotspots and be able to show you a list of who's around you right now, pulling their name and picture from facebook and alerting you if one of your friends is near by. We're also looking to be able to store where you've met people and display this using google maps.
He's referencing this: http://www.xkcd.com/327/
However, using prepared statements with ? for variables unknown at compile time protects you from this type of exploit.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
I guess that is quite a trivial thing, but I don't know whether it's possible to write a plugin or similar for nautilus to do that. It may be easier to have whatever communication program you get these links through mangle it for you.
CCTV footage is also used to help determine the nature and seriousness of a crime once a criminal has been caught. Even if the footage is not clear enough to positively identify someone, it's still useful for seeing what actually happened (e.g. was the attacker being threatened).
It's mentioned that The Street is owned by a company who rent out space on it to others. It's also mentioned that when he's in his house, Hero doesn't have to be connected to the rest of the metaverse (stuff in his house is stored locally allowing him to see some video while in his car) and that the physical rules within the black sun are different and more complicated than those on the street (I have it in my head that that's because David is providing some serious processing power to do all the collision detection and sword-fighting routines but I'm not sure if that's correct). Lastly, the routines governing the sword-fighting were written by Hero, and can disconnect someone from the metaverse entirely which suggests that he who writes the rules effectively has a lot of power and he who owns the land writes the rules.
As far as I can remember, it isn't mentioned whether the inside of a building can be bigger than the outside.
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I think Unreal Tournament III doesn't have any copy protection, I only ever needed the disk to install it. On the other hand, it does have a CD Key which can only be used by one person at a time to play online.
For most people, a couple of DVDs will be enough since you don't back up everything.
In my case, my two biggest space eaters are media and games, neither of which are important enough. I can back up my work and my digital photos easily enough to DVD (although in reality I just keep them in sync with my laptop).
If I did want to back up my music, for example, I wouldn't have to copy all of it every month, just the couple of albums I might have ripped in the last few weeks.
Of course, there will be a few video editors and professional photographers for whom this won't cut it, so for them a removable drive is still better.
I speak from the experience of watching the rest of my class learn C after having learned Java and not getting pointers. It's quite easy to teach Java without mentioning pointers: "a = b makes a and b the same object. If you want to make a copy of b and call it a, you do a = b.clone()"
C is easy to learn, the language is very small. Java is huge in comparison. Learning to do complex things in C without messing up is hard because C doesn't have safeguards and lets you do stupid things. Java on the other hand prevents you from doing what you want.
Most things are not hard once you know them. Pointers, for example, are easy, but many people find them difficult and make lots of mistakes when learning.
C is low-level and gives you a better idea of what's going on at a low-level when you're doing something complex. E.g. your example equating objects with structs and functions.
Agreed.
I disagree, firstly, a language is not just a language, it's also a way of thinking about problems. If you can think about a problem from both an iterative and recursive (for example) point of view, you're better equipped to solve that problem.
Secondly, you never know what language you're going to have to use but whatever it is, you probably haven't learned it (although you can improve your chances by learning java,C,C++,C#,ASP,SQL) but the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn a new one. Learning the language is a lot easier than learning the concepts involved with that language. You'd find C very difficult to learn if all you'd done was Java since you'd never had to learn to use pointers and manage your own memory. Conversely, you'd find Java very difficult if all you knew was C because you'd never have touched on object oriented ideas.
-Myspace creators realize the magnitude of their crime against human civilization and turn themselves into local authorities.
If they'd used yo instead of he, I wouldn't have understood what it meant. I would probably assume it was a typo for you or some slang meaning your (which would make even less sense in the context. Yo might be the word we've been looking for the last 200 years, but I doubt it and I certainly hadn't heard it used that way.
Originally Facebook was designed to appeal to university students (I believe you had to have a uni e-mail address to sign up) and for this target market, it works very well. When you start university, you quickly meet lots of new people who you might not bump into again and whose names you're trying to remember.
One of it's most useful feature is that you can search through people at your uni who've signed up, you can search for people who are doing the same course as you, you can get enough background information to gauge whether you might get on with them and to allow you not to fall into socially awkward traps. You can get an idea of where their interests lie by which groups they've joined so you can take a guess at what sort of stuff they might enjoy.
It's only good because the people on facebook are people you have actually met and if you're getting to know someone, it saves you from having to ask them their name three times and can tell you whether he's actually going out with that girl you always see him with or whether they're just friends.
Bear in mind that applications have only come about recently and (IMO) are the cancer that will kill facebook*. Previously, you had the personal info, the wall, the groups and the photos.
*Not that I think that the idea of applications is a particularly bad one, there's a lot of interesting things you can do with them but the invite system is really annoying, some people fill their page with applications until it looks like myspace and some application writers seem to be competing to get the most users.
For one of my assignments last term, I made a system where you could link your bluetooth ID with your facebook account and your friends could tell if you were within bluetooth range by running a program on their phone which would query our database with a list of bluetooth IDs and get a list of friends with their name and photo. Of course, this application isn't really practical, very few people have a smart phone or have bluetooth turned on and I won't even start talking about the privacy implications but it allowed us to see people's reactions to it and to show that it could be done by a small group of undergrads.
Possibly because they make use of a GPU, most commonly associated with 3D graphics, because of the cube plugin for compiz (which obviously *is* 3d) or because 3D has this cool sound which people tend to remember.
This would work except that the list of domain names is available to anyone (see post somewhere above).
A more sensible way might be for them to publish a public key which we could then use to encrypt the query so that only they can decrypt it.
Running a business isn't one of his talents?
Doesn't mean he doesn't work just as hard at what he does, just that it's not something that gets you paid loads.
Could a proprietary software developer not do something similar, have one employee document the protocol from the samba source and have another implement it again from that documentation?
Given the effort involved, it might be easier to pay MS $10000...
Sure, getting another file with the same MD5 might be easy enough, getting one that appears to work like squirrel mail except with a critical vulnerability that has the same md5 hash is a different matter.
Part of my job next year may involve me doing security testing on a company website or network. Before I'm allowed to do that, I will need to provide a list of prior convictions from the police national database.
The database is out there. Fortunately there are quite a number of restrictions as to how it may be used (e.g. running a background check on a suspected criminal as a matter of routine is not allowed).
You joke, as if such a thing was crazy, but I have a friend who does all his programming in notepad with Comic Sans...
As one of our projects on my course, we're looking at extending this to do without hotspots and be able to show you a list of who's around you right now, pulling their name and picture from facebook and alerting you if one of your friends is near by. We're also looking to be able to store where you've met people and display this using google maps.
It's pretty close on the tasteless side, although it's not as bad as the MS design for the iPod.
He's referencing this: http://www.xkcd.com/327/ However, using prepared statements with ? for variables unknown at compile time protects you from this type of exploit. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
I guess that is quite a trivial thing, but I don't know whether it's possible to write a plugin or similar for nautilus to do that. It may be easier to have whatever communication program you get these links through mangle it for you.
Does the research mention if the results are different depending on whether the computer has stepmania installed?
s:\path\to\shared\file.doc then becomes /media/sdrive/path/to/shared/file.doc
CCTV footage is also used to help determine the nature and seriousness of a crime once a criminal has been caught. Even if the footage is not clear enough to positively identify someone, it's still useful for seeing what actually happened (e.g. was the attacker being threatened).
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It's mentioned that The Street is owned by a company who rent out space on it to others. It's also mentioned that when he's in his house, Hero doesn't have to be connected to the rest of the metaverse (stuff in his house is stored locally allowing him to see some video while in his car) and that the physical rules within the black sun are different and more complicated than those on the street (I have it in my head that that's because David is providing some serious processing power to do all the collision detection and sword-fighting routines but I'm not sure if that's correct). Lastly, the routines governing the sword-fighting were written by Hero, and can disconnect someone from the metaverse entirely which suggests that he who writes the rules effectively has a lot of power and he who owns the land writes the rules.
As far as I can remember, it isn't mentioned whether the inside of a building can be bigger than the outside.
Worms 2: Open Warfare does, not sure about any other games.