China lost a "little war" about some border regions against Vietnam due to heavy coordination problems: the Chinese soldiers didn't even have badges of rank.
Learn history, idiot. National "Socialism" was capitalism par excellence. Especially the war industry was organized similar to today's war industry in the US.
Sure, if he can demonstrate beforehand that he and his platform will sway a significant number of voters to at least make him a viable candidate (like Ross Perot did).
And how should he do that? Through votes? Do you see the absurdity of the system?
In these days, I'm really proud to be a European, with democratic systems that still work.
There's no real incentive to move to IPv6, at least not in the western world, as there's plenty of IPv4 address space left. Apart from that there's also the perceived complexity of IPv6 (long hex numbers, so it must be more complicated than shorter decimal numbers).
Uhm, mobile IP? That's definitely a nice thing to have. Then router advertising/solicitation, also a nice thing to have. And no need for NAT anymore, also a nice thing to have. And you have real link-local and site-local addresses. Oh, and nobody uses actual IPv6 addresses: that's what DNS is for.
I already deployed IPv6 in my home network, and I wouldn't want to miss it. And it was really useful to me already a few times.
Oh, well, in fact, they can't fuck anyone, as there are other diseases than just AIDS. A prominent example is the composer of the song "Guantanamera", who died of syphilis a few days after he finished writing the song.
I wasn't talking about Java, but about native Symbian UIs.
Java is not an option on Symbian, btw, since you cannot even access the filesystem, since you're totally sandboxed when it comes to storage: all you can do is to write into a special "filestore" that is quite limited.
Java is not capable enough on Symbian OS to do serious programming (like implementing an Online Updater application similar to "Windows Update" for Symbian OS like I do it right now).
Every specific series has its own SDK, e.g. the old Series 60 mobiles, the new Series 60 mobiles, Series 80 (Nokia Communicator), the SonyEricsson mobiles. Code that doesn't do any UI stuff is portable between them, but user interfaces have to be implemented extra for each of those models. In fact, you have totally different UI classes on the different mobile phones, e.g. Avkon on Series 60, Qikon on UIQ and Cikon on Series 80. And they are really _totally_ different.
I do Symbian OS programming for a living (Symbian OS is the OS that was once EPOC on Psion and now drives a number of mobile phones, including Nokia Series60/80/90 and UIQ [Sony Ericsson P800/900/910]), and I have to say, from the security aspect it's one of the worst operating systems I ever saw. It has absolutely no security measures (besides a trivial buffer overflow checker in TDesC and derived classes), no permission system, nothing. The only really secure part that I saw in it was the Java sandbox.
So, my call to Nokia: get another OS vendor, try not to use Symbian OS anymore, and switch to e.g. Linux like Motorola did: it would be a relief for a lot of programmers, and help overall security on handsets and other mobile devices of your company.
P.S.: from the theoretical point of view, Symbian OS is great: it's AFAIK the most widely deployed microkernel operating system. But theoretical greatness doesn't help you with practical security issues...
The response rates for spam mails are extremely low, but it's still more profitable than "traditional" commercials and ads, which means you get the same amount of customers with less investments. AFAICR, there's been a study about that about a year ago, but I can't find any link or reference anymore...:-/
I'm working on the StreamMan project for Sony NetServices, and we're using Subversion with about 1.5 GB of data in the source tree (that is source and documentation). The clients are both Unix/Linux machines and Windows machines with TortoiseSVN. So far, we didn't have any problems with Subversion, compared to the developers on the floor below us who are working on Connect Europe and still have to use CVS.
Sorry, but that's nothing compared to my VAXstation 4000: you don't need to remove any screws at all. The only tool you need is something like a small ruler to press at a clamp to be able to remove the harddisks. _That_ is great hardware maintainability.
I absolutely don't want to troll, but has anybody here managed to moved an existing SpamAssassin setup to a CRM114 setup? While I don't plan to move away from SpamAssassin, I want to evaluate both how effective CRM114 is and how easy it would (theoretically) be to eventually move some or all of our customer's existing SA installations to CRM114.
gaim does what you want: - it's cross-plattform (Windows, OSX, Linux) - it supports server hosted friends list - it starts up quickly - it supports a lot of different protocols - it's free as in speech
I, for one, run ICQ, Jabber and MSN with gaim, and had no problems with it so far.
No software patents are per definitionem fucking evil.
When you patent software, you patent algorithms, and algorithms are nothing but... mathematical formulas. It makes absolutely no sense to patent mathematical formulas, since - if they exist - they can be derived from the mathematical system's axioms. This means that _nothing_ can be invented in the field of mathematics, but only derived from the axioms. Thus, patent law doesn't apply, anyway.
Of course, _implementations_ of certain algorithms can be protected, but that's what copyright is for.
Neither van Beethoven nor Mozart were Austrians. Beethoven was born and lived in Germany for most of his time, and Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was part of Bavaria at that time, and became part of Austria about 20 years after his death.
Yeah, the plant growing stuff is pretty cool. I live in Linz, Austria, and have been to Ars Electronica Center at least 10 times since they opened it. The plant growing installation was one of the first installations there, established in 1996, and ran until August 2004. Their CAVE was also the first one in the world that was publicly accessible. It's so cool, with your 3D shutter glasses on, standing in a 3x3x3 m cube with 3D projections on the walls in front of you and left and right of you and on the ground, and you're playing Quake or Unreal Tournament 2003! No joke, they ported these games to their CAVE, and since I know one of their programmers, they let me play these games once. It was just awesome, and I'm sure every/. reader will envy me.;-)
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First of all: there are many reasons for new apps to be written in C. One is portability: when you write portable applications for Unix, you can basically only assume that you have C available. Another one is bloat: C programs are generally less bloated than their C++ counterparts. STL is one reason: while STL provides a pretty generic framework, it leads to hidden (i.e. only visible in the binary code but not in the source code) code duplication. Less bloat also means less code cache misses. And in case you missed it: it _is_ possible to do object-oriented programming in pure C. While it can look ugly and the language doesn't explictly support it, it isn't too difficult to implement. So you can do use your modern design methods, and still implement it using pure C.
Oh, BTW: your argument with explicit memory allocation is totally flawed: in fact, when using C++ you have to care as much as you have to care using C. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I currently do C++ programming for Symbian OS for a living, and it's no real fun, especially since C++ on Symbian OS is less forgiving than on a typical Unix or Unix-like operating system.
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China lost a "little war" about some border regions against Vietnam due to heavy coordination problems: the Chinese soldiers didn't even have badges of rank.
I choose "sane, hot, available, nice." Do you know the saying that stupid girls are good in bed?
Learn history, idiot. National "Socialism" was capitalism par excellence. Especially the war industry was organized similar to today's war industry in the US.
No need for NAT, no need for DHCP, for example.
Sure, if he can demonstrate beforehand that he and his platform will sway a significant number of voters to at least make him a viable candidate (like Ross Perot did).
And how should he do that? Through votes? Do you see the absurdity of the system?
In these days, I'm really proud to be a European, with democratic systems that still work.
There's no real incentive to move to IPv6, at least not in the western world, as there's plenty of IPv4 address space left. Apart from that there's also the perceived complexity of IPv6 (long hex numbers, so it must be more complicated than shorter decimal numbers).
Uhm, mobile IP? That's definitely a nice thing to have. Then router advertising/solicitation, also a nice thing to have. And no need for NAT anymore, also a nice thing to have. And you have real link-local and site-local addresses. Oh, and nobody uses actual IPv6 addresses: that's what DNS is for.
I already deployed IPv6 in my home network, and I wouldn't want to miss it. And it was really useful to me already a few times.
Oh, well, in fact, they can't fuck anyone, as there are other diseases than just AIDS. A prominent example is the composer of the song "Guantanamera", who died of syphilis a few days after he finished writing the song.
Let the courts decide which field belongs to which candidate
I wasn't talking about Java, but about native Symbian UIs.
Java is not an option on Symbian, btw, since you cannot even access the filesystem, since you're totally sandboxed when it comes to storage: all you can do is to write into a special "filestore" that is quite limited.
Java is not capable enough on Symbian OS to do serious programming (like implementing an Online Updater application similar to "Windows Update" for Symbian OS like I do it right now).
Every specific series has its own SDK, e.g. the old Series 60 mobiles, the new Series 60 mobiles, Series 80 (Nokia Communicator), the SonyEricsson mobiles. Code that doesn't do any UI stuff is portable between them, but user interfaces have to be implemented extra for each of those models. In fact, you have totally different UI classes on the different mobile phones, e.g. Avkon on Series 60, Qikon on UIQ and Cikon on Series 80. And they are really _totally_ different.
I do Symbian OS programming for a living (Symbian OS is the OS that was once EPOC on Psion and now drives a number of mobile phones, including Nokia Series60/80/90 and UIQ [Sony Ericsson P800/900/910]), and I have to say, from the security aspect it's one of the worst operating systems I ever saw. It has absolutely no security measures (besides a trivial buffer overflow checker in TDesC and derived classes), no permission system, nothing. The only really secure part that I saw in it was the Java sandbox.
So, my call to Nokia: get another OS vendor, try not to use Symbian OS anymore, and switch to e.g. Linux like Motorola did: it would be a relief for a lot of programmers, and help overall security on handsets and other mobile devices of your company.
P.S.: from the theoretical point of view, Symbian OS is great: it's AFAIK the most widely deployed microkernel operating system. But theoretical greatness doesn't help you with practical security issues...
The response rates for spam mails are extremely low, but it's still more profitable than "traditional" commercials and ads, which means you get the same amount of customers with less investments. AFAICR, there's been a study about that about a year ago, but I can't find any link or reference anymore... :-/
When a media is used to send spam to other people it is alive and well. When it is used to transport pr0n it will have a prospective future.
I'm working on the StreamMan project for Sony NetServices, and we're using Subversion with about 1.5 GB of data in the source tree (that is source and documentation). The clients are both Unix/Linux machines and Windows machines with TortoiseSVN. So far, we didn't have any problems with Subversion, compared to the developers on the floor below us who are working on Connect Europe and still have to use CVS.
Sorry, but that's nothing compared to my VAXstation 4000: you don't need to remove any screws at all. The only tool you need is something like a small ruler to press at a clamp to be able to remove the harddisks. _That_ is great hardware maintainability.
Thanks for your insight!
I absolutely don't want to troll, but has anybody here managed to moved an existing SpamAssassin setup to a CRM114 setup? While I don't plan to move away from SpamAssassin, I want to evaluate both how effective CRM114 is and how easy it would (theoretically) be to eventually move some or all of our customer's existing SA installations to CRM114.
Google already censors search results for e.g. Germany, due to sentences spoken out by some German court.
Der Standard.
In fact, I saw a major Austrian newspaper regularly refer to Wikipedia when it comes to explaining terms from the IT industry.
gaim does what you want:
- it's cross-plattform (Windows, OSX, Linux)
- it supports server hosted friends list
- it starts up quickly
- it supports a lot of different protocols
- it's free as in speech
I, for one, run ICQ, Jabber and MSN with gaim, and had no problems with it so far.
No software patents are per definitionem fucking evil.
When you patent software, you patent algorithms, and algorithms are nothing but... mathematical formulas. It makes absolutely no sense to patent mathematical formulas, since - if they exist - they can be derived from the mathematical system's axioms. This means that _nothing_ can be invented in the field of mathematics, but only derived from the axioms. Thus, patent law doesn't apply, anyway.
Of course, _implementations_ of certain algorithms can be protected, but that's what copyright is for.
Neither van Beethoven nor Mozart were Austrians. Beethoven was born and lived in Germany for most of his time, and Mozart was born in Salzburg, which was part of Bavaria at that time, and became part of Austria about 20 years after his death.
Yeah, the plant growing stuff is pretty cool. I live in Linz, Austria, and have been to Ars Electronica Center at least 10 times since they opened it. The plant growing installation was one of the first installations there, established in 1996, and ran until August 2004. Their CAVE was also the first one in the world that was publicly accessible. It's so cool, with your 3D shutter glasses on, standing in a 3x3x3 m cube with 3D projections on the walls in front of you and left and right of you and on the ground, and you're playing Quake or Unreal Tournament 2003! No joke, they ported these games to their CAVE, and since I know one of their programmers, they let me play these games once. It was just awesome, and I'm sure every /. reader will envy me. ;-)
First of all: there are many reasons for new apps to be written in C. One is portability: when you write portable applications for Unix, you can basically only assume that you have C available. Another one is bloat: C programs are generally less bloated than their C++ counterparts. STL is one reason: while STL provides a pretty generic framework, it leads to hidden (i.e. only visible in the binary code but not in the source code) code duplication. Less bloat also means less code cache misses.
And in case you missed it: it _is_ possible to do object-oriented programming in pure C. While it can look ugly and the language doesn't explictly support it, it isn't too difficult to implement. So you can do use your modern design methods, and still implement it using pure C.
Oh, BTW: your argument with explicit memory allocation is totally flawed: in fact, when using C++ you have to care as much as you have to care using C. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about, I currently do C++ programming for Symbian OS for a living, and it's no real fun, especially since C++ on Symbian OS is less forgiving than on a typical Unix or Unix-like operating system.