Actually, if would be more accurate to say that they were looking out from the piece of paper that held the photograph to get the images they were seeing.
An upside down spiral is still a same arm direction spiral.
I've seen a couple of unbought books in the bookstore ( think about the sentance for a bit ) but other than that I haven't seen that much re: C#.
Is anybody actually using it other than MS? If so, what are the particular reasons for choosing it over C,C++, or Java or something else?
I'm actually curious - I don't understand the need for C# - Java is sufficient for platform indepandance - C# is currently just for MS-OS's, so C++ or whatever binary for your target OS would be equivlent.
From an informal mental survey of people I know 5 have Handspring / Palm-Pilots vs 1 w/ a PocketPC ( forget the brand ).
I'd say the Handsprings / Palm etc are suffering from a price drop ( I think b/c of oversupply ) and they need to be a bit more aggressive in updating the models. It'd be super-nice to get away from 160x160 pixel screen and have the microphone wired in like it should be so it can be used. Oh, and throw a decent ( semi-decent ) sound chip on there too...
( re: motion to dismiss b/c of jurisdiction )
then I'm going to become a billionaire ( eventually... ) - buy one of those little mini-island nations and invent a whole lot of rules on the internet and then start bringing people to trial.
I'll have the next internet be the best internet there could be - reidrect all your browsers to/dev/null - that's what would happen.
but there is a lot of cheating in undergraduate courses.
I was one of the better students in my comp-sci classes and so other students looked for me for help etc. I would routinely point them to my own finished assignments as example of how to do something or provide listings in which we would discuess the assignment and how to do things.
This worked well until I got called before the teacher in regards to two students having taken my listings and typed them in ( with practically no modification whatso-ever ). I explained the truth - that I provided it for purposes of instruction not stealing and managed to escape. The other students were forced to retake the course.
After this incident I kept my eyes wider open and noticed more students "copying"...
It happens. Whether this program is really needed or not I think is more an indication of how well the teacher stresses the students on final exams and such.
I see this whole issue as akin to writing a book that's badly prepared - it may be full of errors, it may be full of untruths - it may try to pass itself off as non-fiction. It may harm some people if they interpret it literally - for prudent people it may not.
This raises some constitutional issues - Do I have the right of freedom of speech ( as code has been found to be in some cases ) to utter an incorrect program?
An additional question would be should all software now come with a warrently that specifically disclaims the implied warrenty and states that there is no warrenty? Would it be legal under the proposal?
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As a matter of law however, contractural law is a contract between two entities - the Bill of Rights has nothing to do with what the two entities can or can-not agree on.
There are basic assumptions of free-will etc that cannot be impinged but the section of contract as I've read it would have been enforceable.
But then again, what do I know - I'm not a lawyer - I just like to argue with the traffic judges.:-)
The term "re-write" scared me when reading your query. In large scale systems, especially of the size you're talking about it's best to re-implement certain portions / areas that can be broken apart and handled independantly.
If you wish to convert into a differant environment then treat it as a seperate project from the re-write. If the conversion to a differant environment is not straight-forward ( I don't have a lot of experiance with CGI / Perl.. ) then write implementation wrappers for the missing / alternate functionality so it's merely a simplified change in the function naming rather than a re-implementation.
If you need to do both - handle each independantly. You'll thank yourself when an important requirement that marketing promised pops up when you're in the middle of it.
Seperate, Seperate, Seperate - There are no huge projects - only people who are too all-encompassing to break them down into achievable sub-goals.
Keep breaking them down until each is achievable in a months, 2 months time. None should go over 3 months even for the worst case. Ideal time-spans would be 1 month periods.
Usually don't get dragged into these things but as, usual the "debate"/argument/fuss that is constantly raging on Slashdot about pro/against Microsoft is because of a fundamental differance.
Microsoft windows originated with ease of use in mind.
Linux originated as a hobbiest OS seeking to do things the most efficient quickest way.
As such, Microsoft has grown in different areas - as has Linux. Linux, imho has a better base than Windows. ( I can't verify this obviously unless I go work for Microsoft... - it's just my impression ).
If you're a common everyday end user that wants something that's easy to use - go for Microsoft.
Linux has been made substantially easier to use than when it first came out - in some areas it even excels over Microsoft, in others - not as much so. The majority of the power I see in Linux is that things are done in a logically coordinated fashion and the code is "tight".
Your speed comparison on Quake makes several assumptions - all timing comparisons will. Quake runs faster, usually under Windows, as the result of the tight commercialization that Microsoft has done with Windows in terms of device driver software from hardware manufacturues. If you give it 2-3 years I would expect even more hw manufactures to start providing linux compatible software drivers.
In sum, there is no right answer.
Get over it.
Get on with it.Shut the **** up - I'm tired of reading all this mindless drivel - Everyone sounds like children saying My Os is Better than Your Os.
That's the thing... WE NEED TO INSURE THAT PEOPLE WON'T BUY IT. How?
Yell, Speak, Protest, Get on the News... Whatever to let the Common Consumer( CC ) know what is going on. Most of them don't give a flying rat's ---- what the --- is going on. They see new technology - go Gee, This looks neat and buy.
We, who ( mostly ) know better, ( at least about this sorta stuff ), need to educate them. Protest, Scream, Bug sales-people about how bad SDMI is. They may convey that to the end-user. Word of mouth sells - so does word of math discourage sells. ( Eggh, Word of mouth - I like that word of math phrase.. anyway.. ).
A new fungul bacterium has been found to have entered the space station and as such the station has been placed on a Priority - One alert.
Crew members will begin scrubbing with alchohol every surface area available - maintance member will supervise the removal and supervision of internal cleaning of panels and conduits. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Will Joe Swinkowsky please come to the medical center for treatment of his athlete's foot. A mutation is suspected.
9. Linus agrees in principle to take this code in. It has
already been reviewed by Ingo and Andrea. Linus wants to
clean up the page allocation data structures a bit before
imposing this code on top of it; I am trying to help him
do that. New: As of 2.3.31, this code is in under
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM.
There will be no kernal split - Linus has agreed to put it in -
Rather thank taking people at their word that a ste is safe.. there needs to be paid auditor's group - similair to how the NTSB ( National Transportation Safety Board ) or the FAA regular automobiles, and air-planes.
Now, granted a government agency is going to the ut-most greatest in catching anything at all... it would at least provide us with an excuse to blame the government.:-)
Seriously tho, an agency ( govermental, non-profit, even for-profit ) needs to be set up with regulatory authority to mandate passage of certain criteria before a web-site can say it's "Protected" customer data.
Strict interpretation of the UPSO rules has always been a pipe-dream. Look at the Uni-Bomber. You think the USPO came after him for breaking Postal Regulations? I think not.
The Uni-Bomber sent packages that weren't marked free or anything on the front. At least I highly doubt it...
What's the purpose of harrassing DC?
Ya know, you might loose the ability to get the scanners. Have DC start selling them for slightly below cost ( $5.00 for an electronic toy isn't ridiculous ).
They're there to protect the company. They can also protect you if you read them carefully and understand them. Case in point:
My wife had signed up for a National Cellular service ( which we ended up intensly disliking ). After we received a notice of a Change in Service Agreement I read the contract a little bit more closely and found that we could opt out at this point with no penalty and without waiving our deposit. It then took about 5 faxes and numerous phone calls to support to effect this -- read all contracts that you sign up for on service etc.
Anybody ever notice how funny it is to actually obtain the service agreements from Cellular companies before you sign up with them? Nearly impossible....
Okay... I wasn't sure which distribs it was... just remember being able to do it... However I'm a Mandrake fanatic right now so wish they had something similair.
Are there any others than RedHat? For my tastes, RedHat is too vanilla-flavored... sorta bland. ( But then again, I haven't used it since 4.0 so... *shrugs* ).
At one time - in the early linux days there were distribs that you could download a small file subset and then do installs over the web after entering the minimal dial-up connectivity etc...
It might pay for the distrib makers to add this feature back in -- it comes in very handy... doing updates this way is also very very useful.
Why / Where did that disappear to?
Granted - I've got ADSL and a CD-Burner but downloading multiple ISO's etc gets time-consuming.
Thank god that the original post has been modded down ( at least I didn't see it - which is a good thing - I did see the sick crap in another article the other day).
What needs to happen here is that the FBI needs to be contacted; told about the article. They can then subpoena Slashdot for the name of the poster ( only account holders can post Anon - as I understand it ), and then the FBI can take care o sick perverts.
It's best for Slashdot however, if they only release the individual's name under court order. Otherwise it'd set a bad precedent for the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, if would be more accurate to say that they were looking out from the piece of paper that held the photograph to get the images they were seeing.
An upside down spiral is still a same arm direction spiral.
I've seen a couple of unbought books in the bookstore ( think about the sentance for a bit ) but other than that I haven't seen that much re: C#.
Is anybody actually using it other than MS? If so, what are the particular reasons for choosing it over C,C++, or Java or something else?
I'm actually curious - I don't understand the need for C# - Java is sufficient for platform indepandance - C# is currently just for MS-OS's, so C++ or whatever binary for your target OS would be equivlent.
The joys of MS programming languages.
Btw the open and close blockquote cause auto-indentation unless you force a [p] (substitute) on the line being blockquoted.
Sorry... too much Tolkien...
From an informal mental survey of people I know 5 have Handspring / Palm-Pilots vs 1 w/ a PocketPC ( forget the brand ).
I'd say the Handsprings / Palm etc are suffering from a price drop ( I think b/c of oversupply ) and they need to be a bit more aggressive in updating the models. It'd be super-nice to get away from 160x160 pixel screen and have the microphone wired in like it should be so it can be used. Oh, and throw a decent ( semi-decent ) sound chip on there too...
( re: motion to dismiss b/c of jurisdiction )
/dev/null - that's what would happen.
then I'm going to become a billionaire ( eventually... ) - buy one of those little mini-island nations and invent a whole lot of rules on the internet and then start bringing people to trial.
I'll have the next internet be the best internet there could be - reidrect all your browsers to
but there is a lot of cheating in undergraduate courses.
I was one of the better students in my comp-sci classes and so other students looked for me for help etc. I would routinely point them to my own finished assignments as example of how to do something or provide listings in which we would discuess the assignment and how to do things.
This worked well until I got called before the teacher in regards to two students having taken my listings and typed them in ( with practically no modification whatso-ever ). I explained the truth - that I provided it for purposes of instruction not stealing and managed to escape. The other students were forced to retake the course.
After this incident I kept my eyes wider open and noticed more students "copying"...
It happens. Whether this program is really needed or not I think is more an indication of how well the teacher stresses the students on final exams and such.
No, it's not the same. In your example there's willful intent to harm; in regular sane coding there's no willful intent to harm.
Your example is akin to saying that because a person can choke on a pretzal the pretzal manufacturer's should be held liable.
I see this whole issue as akin to writing a book that's badly prepared - it may be full of errors, it may be full of untruths - it may try to pass itself off as non-fiction. It may harm some people if they interpret it literally - for prudent people it may not.
Where did the old adage, buyer beweare go to?
This raises some constitutional issues - Do I have the right of freedom of speech ( as code has been found to be in some cases ) to utter an incorrect program?
An additional question would be should all software now come with a warrently that specifically disclaims the implied warrenty and states that there is no warrenty? Would it be legal under the proposal?
As a matter of law however, contractural law is a contract between two entities - the Bill of Rights has nothing to do with what the two entities can or can-not agree on.
:-)
There are basic assumptions of free-will etc that cannot be impinged but the section of contract as I've read it would have been enforceable.
But then again, what do I know - I'm not a lawyer - I just like to argue with the traffic judges.
The term "re-write" scared me when reading your query. In large scale systems, especially of the size you're talking about it's best to re-implement certain portions / areas that can be broken apart and handled independantly.
If you wish to convert into a differant environment then treat it as a seperate project from the re-write. If the conversion to a differant environment is not straight-forward ( I don't have a lot of experiance with CGI / Perl.. ) then write implementation wrappers for the missing / alternate functionality so it's merely a simplified change in the function naming rather than a re-implementation.
If you need to do both - handle each independantly. You'll thank yourself when an important requirement that marketing promised pops up when you're in the middle of it.
Seperate, Seperate, Seperate - There are no huge projects - only people who are too all-encompassing to break them down into achievable sub-goals.
Keep breaking them down until each is achievable in a months, 2 months time. None should go over 3 months even for the worst case. Ideal time-spans would be 1 month periods.
Usually don't get dragged into these things but as, usual the "debate"/argument/fuss that is constantly raging on Slashdot about pro/against Microsoft is because of a fundamental differance.
Microsoft windows originated with ease of use in mind.
Linux originated as a hobbiest OS seeking to do things the most efficient quickest way.
As such, Microsoft has grown in different areas - as has Linux. Linux, imho has a better base than Windows. ( I can't verify this obviously unless I go work for Microsoft... - it's just my impression ).
If you're a common everyday end user that wants something that's easy to use - go for Microsoft.
Linux has been made substantially easier to use than when it first came out - in some areas it even excels over Microsoft, in others - not as much so. The majority of the power I see in Linux is that things are done in a logically coordinated fashion and the code is "tight".
Your speed comparison on Quake makes several assumptions - all timing comparisons will. Quake runs faster, usually under Windows, as the result of the tight commercialization that Microsoft has done with Windows in terms of device driver software from hardware manufacturues. If you give it 2-3 years I would expect even more hw manufactures to start providing linux compatible software drivers.
In sum, there is no right answer.
Get over it.
Get on with it.Shut the **** up - I'm tired of reading all this mindless drivel - Everyone sounds like children saying My Os is Better than Your Os.
Yell, Speak, Protest, Get on the News... Whatever to let the Common Consumer( CC ) know what is going on. Most of them don't give a flying rat's ---- what the --- is going on. They see new technology - go Gee, This looks neat and buy.
We, who ( mostly ) know better, ( at least about this sorta stuff ), need to educate them. Protest, Scream, Bug sales-people about how bad SDMI is. They may convey that to the end-user. Word of mouth sells - so does word of math discourage sells. ( Eggh, Word of mouth - I like that word of math phrase.. anyway.. ).
A new fungul bacterium has been found to have entered the space station and as such the station has been placed on a Priority - One alert.
Crew members will begin scrubbing with alchohol every surface area available - maintance member will supervise the removal and supervision of internal cleaning of panels and conduits. THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Will Joe Swinkowsky please come to the medical center for treatment of his athlete's foot. A mutation is suspected.
There will be no kernal split - Linus has agreed to put it in -
Geesh...
Lesee, 1488.98 *31 = 46158.38 - not 46170.9.
I would imagine the 31 processors there would be some overhead for SMP so it should actually be less than that. Where did 46170.9 come from?
Uh, yeah... sure - just give me your account info. I'll make sure it's out^H^H^H there in a hurry.
Now, granted a government agency is going to the ut-most greatest in catching anything at all ... it would at least provide us with an excuse to blame the government. :-)
Seriously tho, an agency ( govermental, non-profit, even for-profit ) needs to be set up with regulatory authority to mandate passage of certain criteria before a web-site can say it's "Protected" customer data.
The Uni-Bomber sent packages that weren't marked free or anything on the front. At least I highly doubt it...
What's the purpose of harrassing DC?
Ya know, you might loose the ability to get the scanners. Have DC start selling them for slightly below cost ( $5.00 for an electronic toy isn't ridiculous ).
My wife had signed up for a National Cellular service ( which we ended up intensly disliking ). After we received a notice of a Change in Service Agreement I read the contract a little bit more closely and found that we could opt out at this point with no penalty and without waiving our deposit. It then took about 5 faxes and numerous phone calls to support to effect this -- read all contracts that you sign up for on service etc.
Anybody ever notice how funny it is to actually obtain the service agreements from Cellular companies before you sign up with them? Nearly impossible....
Actually, as of Version 6 ( or 7? ) Mandrake has forked from RedHat.
Ouch... It always hurts...
Are there any others than RedHat? For my tastes, RedHat is too vanilla-flavored ... sorta bland. ( But then again, I haven't used it since 4.0 so ... *shrugs* ).
It might pay for the distrib makers to add this feature back in -- it comes in very handy... doing updates this way is also very very useful.
Why / Where did that disappear to?
Granted - I've got ADSL and a CD-Burner but downloading multiple ISO's etc gets time-consuming.
( I'm into the I want it now! phase of my life. )
What needs to happen here is that the FBI needs to be contacted; told about the article. They can then subpoena Slashdot for the name of the poster ( only account holders can post Anon - as I understand it ), and then the FBI can take care o sick perverts.
It's best for Slashdot however, if they only release the individual's name under court order. Otherwise it'd set a bad precedent for the future.