could you please cite where US law states that 1) it has to be on the boarding pass
No, I can't. You can't talk about the anti-terror laws, and I don't actually know the law is there, but it seems a reasonable deduction as AFAICT every airline flying into the US has suddenly introduced them.
and 2) it has to be on an unsecure system.
The fact that the system is unsecure is BA's fault, sure. But the information wouldn't be there in the first place if it wasn't for the US.
And considering how well the ODF documents I'm sent tend to work in KOffice, I'm not sure how much of it is a standard and how much is "do what openoffice does" (The bugs are mostly documented as places where the spec is ambiguous). Finally, for me at least, a grepable format counts for a lot.
and has extremely little support for any useful formatting or metadata that you would want in an office format.
Huh? The formatting is there, and styles would appear to be kept. I've done thirty-page reports with graphics, styles, automatic TOC etc., and I don't remember losing anything saving them in RTF.
This system shouldn't have information such as the passport number. The fact that it does is an internal matter for BA and has absolutely nothing to do with the USA.
No, the reason it has them is the new US law that requires them to have them.
He's not saying it actually doesn't exist. He's saying he doesn't give a fuck about it. And you'll notice he's not promoting it. Seems the studio feels different. No contradiction.
I really think it was just a sense of wanting to "do things properly" on the part of the developer. Bethesda doesn't seem to care much about this sort of thing - Daggerfall had plenty of actual nudity around, not as a sexual thing, just for accurate representation of life. Apparently all it is is they made a texture to go under for the bits that show through clothing, and someone noticed this means if you remove the default unclothed top (bra) you can see that texture. To me this smacks of wanting to be accurate with the model more than anything else.
You're not very specific about what you mean by Alpha - there's modern JVMs (from HP) for true64 on alpha, I have no idea if you can run Azureus in them.
Sorry. I mean the alphastation 600 currently sitting next to my left foot. It's got gentoo installed until I find something better, and I haven't found a single working JVM for it, even GCJ wouldn't compile.
I think Java is available on more platforms then QT or wx - and I have to add that I misunderstood your original post, thinking by 'platform' you meant the API provided by an operating system.
I think any API with enough functions to implement a program in it counts as a platform. Even the win32 API could be ported, and is to a certain extent by wine - if the utorrent codebase is really clean, you could compile it against winelib on pretty much any machine and it would work. I think Wx probably supports a similar number of platforms to Java - the only thing I can think of it's missing is BeOS, and Java only goes up to 1.3 there (IIRC). Qt, perhaps not.
WHy don't you reply to this guy - his point was better then mine.
Because he's right. I have no more arguments (other than that the small benefits he lists are not worth the massive memory cost, which the reader can judge for themselves), and replying with "yeah, you win" just looks lame.
But in answer to your question - java runs on alpha, so it will run just fine. uTorrent will not.
Where's a JVM for alpha that will run Azureus then? Sun doesn't have one listed, at least for 1.5 (earlier versions might work, but IIRC Azureus needs a pretty new one) and last I checked, Azureus won't run in Kaffe or anything like that.
My point is that whateve platform you target, be that posix, win32, Wx, Java or something else, you're at the mercy of that platform's maintainers. Having everything interpreted (yes, dynamically recompiled, but it amounts to the same thing) doesn't change that - you're relying on porting the interpreter exactly the same way as I'm relying on porting the library. But it doesn't matter whether that's a port of everything but the basic functions or a reimplementation in native functions - the former may be easier on the maintainers, but the latter is far more efficient for the user, and Wx (or indeed SWT) shows that it can work. Using only the basic primitives is laziness on the part of the Java maintainers, and users pay the price in memory and performance.
So you pick a better platform, like Wx or Qt. Doesn't invalidate my point. Call me when you have azureus running on an Alpha (the official, Wx client works fine and uses a lot less memory).
uTorrent is doing exactly what you should do - use the platform library rather than reimplementing everything yourself. If java would do the same - use the system window drawing functions, high level network access, etc, rather than a few primitives and then reimplementing everything else in java, we'd be a lot better off.
Typosquatters aren't the only sites that go crazy with popups. The best way to avoid them is a popup blocker, though many sites are getting good at circumventing blockers.
I know, but I don't like blocking them, there are places which use them properly.
One feature I often wish for is a script disabler with an automatic whitelist. The first time you visited a site that used scripts, it would ask you if you wanted to let the site run scripts, and only add the site to the whitelist if you said "yes". That would effectively prevent most popups.
Konqueror can pretty much do this - set the global policy on allowing javascript to open new windows to "ask".
Well-written viruses (which, yes, the vast majority aren't) are usually done in hand-coded assembler. For many buffer overflows, that's all you have space for. Sure, you need to know the API as well, but I think that's easier to learn than another assembly language.
It's not recognising the typosquatter that's the problem, it's closing the 6000 popups. There wouldn't be that much benfeit, but it can't be much work to implement.
Thing is, it isn't "barely loads". We don't pass these stories unless it has half-life or whatever running and working. Wheras this really is a "barely loads" thing.
But it is not cool. Simple as that. It's just dumb. Just because something takes some technical ability and involves computer parts doesn't make it cool.
The syntax ignores everything that programmers have learned for 30 years
If so, it's better for it.
it's uttlerly inconsistent
Where? Colon and indentation is the same for everything, function calls look like anywhere else...I see no inconsistencies. There's not enough syntax for there to be inconsistencies.
and impossibly inefficient
Not at all. I can generally do the same thing significantly faster in python than any other language I've met.
Hmm. That doesn't look nice. But from a programming perspective it was fine to use. I can see from this and other replies that python is grungier than it looks on the inside, but I haven't encountered any of this when using it.
I never said that low-level languages were best for everything, but a low-level language can still be clean and orthogonal, and I feel that C is an example of such a language.
I feel clean should be clean to program in, without "tricks" that one needs to remember. And I feel C has those.
I would consider python's extention interface to be one of the messiest, along with JNI. Consider this: You can only embed one python interpreter per application because of the way the python library links. What's so clean about that?
I thought we were talking about the extension interface, i.e. that for writing C modules you can use from python. I haven't used the embedding interface, but don't see a real problem with the interpreter being a one-per-program thing - that's what it would be for a pure python program.
Lua and Io both do a significantly better job in this regard.
I know Lua is designed to be embeddable, and this is its primary use, so it's unsurprising it would be better at it.
While one should be skeptical that pressures as great as 12.50G let alone 20.00G would ever be experienced during space travel (space being weightless, this would I imagine be largely of concern only to a craft piloted foolishly close to a black hole)
Erm, acceleration, dude. If we get a drive that lets us do so, the quickest way to get to alpha centurai will be to accelerate as fast as we can halfway and decellerate the other half.
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No, I can't. You can't talk about the anti-terror laws, and I don't actually know the law is there, but it seems a reasonable deduction as AFAICT every airline flying into the US has suddenly introduced them.
and 2) it has to be on an unsecure system.
The fact that the system is unsecure is BA's fault, sure. But the information wouldn't be there in the first place if it wasn't for the US.
O RLY?
And considering how well the ODF documents I'm sent tend to work in KOffice, I'm not sure how much of it is a standard and how much is "do what openoffice does" (The bugs are mostly documented as places where the spec is ambiguous). Finally, for me at least, a grepable format counts for a lot.
and has extremely little support for any useful formatting or metadata that you would want in an office format.
Huh? The formatting is there, and styles would appear to be kept. I've done thirty-page reports with graphics, styles, automatic TOC etc., and I don't remember losing anything saving them in RTF.
No, the reason it has them is the new US law that requires them to have them.
He's not saying it actually doesn't exist. He's saying he doesn't give a fuck about it. And you'll notice he's not promoting it. Seems the studio feels different. No contradiction.
I really think it was just a sense of wanting to "do things properly" on the part of the developer. Bethesda doesn't seem to care much about this sort of thing - Daggerfall had plenty of actual nudity around, not as a sexual thing, just for accurate representation of life. Apparently all it is is they made a texture to go under for the bits that show through clothing, and someone noticed this means if you remove the default unclothed top (bra) you can see that texture. To me this smacks of wanting to be accurate with the model more than anything else.
Never mind the stress of it, how about just the fact that people have to pay for their own healthcare, making them less likely to go to the doctor?
Sorry. I mean the alphastation 600 currently sitting next to my left foot. It's got gentoo installed until I find something better, and I haven't found a single working JVM for it, even GCJ wouldn't compile.
I think Java is available on more platforms then QT or wx - and I have to add that I misunderstood your original post, thinking by 'platform' you meant the API provided by an operating system.
I think any API with enough functions to implement a program in it counts as a platform. Even the win32 API could be ported, and is to a certain extent by wine - if the utorrent codebase is really clean, you could compile it against winelib on pretty much any machine and it would work. I think Wx probably supports a similar number of platforms to Java - the only thing I can think of it's missing is BeOS, and Java only goes up to 1.3 there (IIRC). Qt, perhaps not.
I'm on the same big hub as at least 30 students living near me. Most of this traffic isn't even getting as far as a router.
Because he's right. I have no more arguments (other than that the small benefits he lists are not worth the massive memory cost, which the reader can judge for themselves), and replying with "yeah, you win" just looks lame.
But in answer to your question - java runs on alpha, so it will run just fine. uTorrent will not.
Where's a JVM for alpha that will run Azureus then? Sun doesn't have one listed, at least for 1.5 (earlier versions might work, but IIRC Azureus needs a pretty new one) and last I checked, Azureus won't run in Kaffe or anything like that.
My point is that whateve platform you target, be that posix, win32, Wx, Java or something else, you're at the mercy of that platform's maintainers. Having everything interpreted (yes, dynamically recompiled, but it amounts to the same thing) doesn't change that - you're relying on porting the interpreter exactly the same way as I'm relying on porting the library. But it doesn't matter whether that's a port of everything but the basic functions or a reimplementation in native functions - the former may be easier on the maintainers, but the latter is far more efficient for the user, and Wx (or indeed SWT) shows that it can work. Using only the basic primitives is laziness on the part of the Java maintainers, and users pay the price in memory and performance.
So you pick a better platform, like Wx or Qt. Doesn't invalidate my point. Call me when you have azureus running on an Alpha (the official, Wx client works fine and uses a lot less memory).
uTorrent is doing exactly what you should do - use the platform library rather than reimplementing everything yourself. If java would do the same - use the system window drawing functions, high level network access, etc, rather than a few primitives and then reimplementing everything else in java, we'd be a lot better off.
That wastes enough effort it's easier to just avoid the obnoxious sites.
I know, but I don't like blocking them, there are places which use them properly.
One feature I often wish for is a script disabler with an automatic whitelist. The first time you visited a site that used scripts, it would ask you if you wanted to let the site run scripts, and only add the site to the whitelist if you said "yes". That would effectively prevent most popups.
Konqueror can pretty much do this - set the global policy on allowing javascript to open new windows to "ask".
Well-written viruses (which, yes, the vast majority aren't) are usually done in hand-coded assembler. For many buffer overflows, that's all you have space for. Sure, you need to know the API as well, but I think that's easier to learn than another assembly language.
It's not recognising the typosquatter that's the problem, it's closing the 6000 popups. There wouldn't be that much benfeit, but it can't be much work to implement.
Anything hosted on a list of about half a dozen parking servers? 90+% of the typosqats I see are exactly the same type of page.
Thing is, it isn't "barely loads". We don't pass these stories unless it has half-life or whatever running and working. Wheras this really is a "barely loads" thing.
It'd help with that, too, but other than space combat (hopefully not coming anytime soon) we shouldn't need them.
Erm, wtf? The driver shipped with the card plugs it into opengl and directx, the game outputs to those and doesn't care, and everything is happy.
I do. I keep it at 1600 since that's all the EDID claims it will do, but it has no trouble with that res.
But it is not cool. Simple as that. It's just dumb. Just because something takes some technical ability and involves computer parts doesn't make it cool.
If so, it's better for it.
it's uttlerly inconsistent
Where? Colon and indentation is the same for everything, function calls look like anywhere else...I see no inconsistencies. There's not enough syntax for there to be inconsistencies.
and impossibly inefficient
Not at all. I can generally do the same thing significantly faster in python than any other language I've met.
Hmm. That doesn't look nice. But from a programming perspective it was fine to use. I can see from this and other replies that python is grungier than it looks on the inside, but I haven't encountered any of this when using it.
I feel clean should be clean to program in, without "tricks" that one needs to remember. And I feel C has those.
I would consider python's extention interface to be one of the messiest, along with JNI. Consider this: You can only embed one python interpreter per application because of the way the python library links. What's so clean about that?
I thought we were talking about the extension interface, i.e. that for writing C modules you can use from python. I haven't used the embedding interface, but don't see a real problem with the interpreter being a one-per-program thing - that's what it would be for a pure python program.
Lua and Io both do a significantly better job in this regard.
I know Lua is designed to be embeddable, and this is its primary use, so it's unsurprising it would be better at it.
While one should be skeptical that pressures as great as 12.50G let alone 20.00G would ever be experienced during space travel (space being weightless, this would I imagine be largely of concern only to a craft piloted foolishly close to a black hole)
Erm, acceleration, dude. If we get a drive that lets us do so, the quickest way to get to alpha centurai will be to accelerate as fast as we can halfway and decellerate the other half.