Re:Interesting? mod this clown down.
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Java Puzzlers
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Nope, Gecko is written in C++ but the whole Firefox interface, which is for all means and purposes "my browser" is written in XUL, which is nothing more than Javascript + CSS + XML.
Which is why you can get browsers such as K-Meleon, also based on Gecko and still different browsers (K-Meleon being written in C++/Win32).
Re:How many java apps are you running?
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hint: your browser, email, OS, shell, image editor, spreadsheet, wordprocessor are
My browser and email are actually written in Javascript with a small C core.
That could get hacked too if the questions/answers schemes of the home-calling were known/cracked.
One would "merely" (yes, I am aware that this merely is non trivial) have to setup a home-server emulation and redirect communications to legit server to the fake one.
The industry sponsers ads and commercials saying the laws need to be changed. They say they want to allow people to choose what they get but changing the laws will only reduce choices, if you want dls you would only be able to get it from them.
Whoa, wonderful...
Well, good luck guys, looks like you'll need it...
Not really. In SBCs areas of operation you may have a choice as to who you get DSL from but they all go through SBCs CO, central office, where the switchs are located.
That's not what I call "multiple DSL providers".
In france, there is something called "dégroupage", which is basically your DSL provider putting you on his own lines. His lines go to the switches, and the local copper (from the switches to your house) have to be surrendered by the original provider (France Telecom in france, which used to be fully govt owned).
Providers don't always play fair (and people sometime find out that another provider took their line in charge and removed their legit provider's switch, or the old provider may try delay as much as possible the hook of your new provider's switches) but it mostly goes ok, and it allows people to get rid of any "legacy" provider, and the costs that go with him (this practice allowed regular DSL, up to 20Mbps downstream quota-less, to get as low as $20/month with TV and phone included)
If cable Internet did not exist. SBC and the remaining RBOCs could get away with these schemes.
Wrong, if you had more DSL providers in the US (or at least if there were more of them in SBC's turfs) you'd still have competition even without cable.
In france, we have like 1 cable operator or 2, but we have 5 or 6 major DSL providers, and in most places you can get to choose between at least 2 or 3 of them (the other being somewhat local, or only in quite big towns).
Would our cable operator just die, that wouldn't change anything as far as competition go, because they (cable) are not the lowest price, nor the best features, nor the best quality, nor do they have the most extended network.
I must strongly disagree on the OO implementation however, aside from it not supporting multiple inheritance, it's just good.
Given the fact that C# does not support multiple inheritance either, you must really know quite a lot about it...
Oh, and as far as implicit goes, you don't want C# nor Java, you want a dynamically strong typed language such as Python or Ruby, which both - on top of that - consider functions, classes and modules as perfectly regular first-class objects.
The one fact you forgot to add that makes MS's current implementation poor is that the link becomes a drive letter, and how many in total can you have with Windows?
That would be really funny if it was true.
It is, alas, false, and junctions do not become "a drive letter", they are virtual folders akin to Linux' directory symlinks (since junctions sadly don't handle the file level but only the directory one).
Windows 2k and above have both hardlinks (which are available via standard tools) as well as symlinks, restricted to directories only and not available via the OS' tools.
Check Juctions for the creation and handling of symlinks.
In New Darwinism you find the idea that our bodies will mutate in the direction most beneficial for us
This, kind sir, is complete and utter bullshit.
Neo-darwinism theories never ever stated that our bodies would mutate "in the direction most beneficial for us", what it says is that the mutations that are kept into the gene pools are the ones beneficial to the reproduction and continuation of the specie.
"All organisms will have the same basic DNA building blocks" is non-falsifiable.
Excuse me?
Finding one single organism not using DNA building blocks, or the regular 4+1 DNA bases would be more than enough to falsifiate this claim, how the hell is it "non-falsifiable"?
Not at all, because SETI is refutable (the base is that ETs are supposed to exist. As of today, with no proof of their existance, all we can say is that they don't).
ID is based of faith, not proofs, and bullshit arguments (which are mostly not, in fact, arguments) as well as the refutation of Darwin's theory which was actually replaced by more advanced ones a few years past Darwin's death.
ID is, as such, not refutable because it has no grounds, doesn't make any predictions (which is a requirement for a scientific theory), doesn't give any explanation of facts (which is also a requirement to call yourself "scientific theory") and therefore is nowhere close anything "scientific". In a word, ID is the same old creationist bullshit rehashed to make it less obvious.
Re:They aren't as dangerous as before
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Turns out, the wires were too ratty/old to hold voice service: static, buzzing, dropped calls, and the like.
The phone company came out, and ran over ONE MILE of new wiring, including telephone poles, through a forest, just to reach his house!
That's merely what guaranteed quality means.
When we took Numeris (ISDN guaranteed quality service of Frances' France Telecom provider) a few years ago (because DSL was nowhere in reach), the guys had to fully redo almost 10km (that'd be around 6 miles) of landlines before the quality of the communications was deemed acceptable.
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Or Avril Lavigne's version of Chop Suey?
Nope, Gecko is written in C++ but the whole Firefox interface, which is for all means and purposes "my browser" is written in XUL, which is nothing more than Javascript + CSS + XML.
Which is why you can get browsers such as K-Meleon, also based on Gecko and still different browsers (K-Meleon being written in C++/Win32).
My browser and email are actually written in Javascript with a small C core.
As far as I can tell, only 4 can qualify in favour of Java.
1, 2, 3 and 5, on the other hand, should drive devs towards Python or Ruby.
The only information Google indexes is the one publicly available to every and any one.
Yahoo and Microsoft (with MSN Search) do exactly the same.
If you don't want search engines to have informations on you, just don't put these informations online. Plain and simple.
Castorama is an insurance, it works for some time (probably a month too) after you have bought the product.
There are some conditions though, mainly on the distance to the competitor with lower price (and i'm pretty sure online sellers don't work).
That could get hacked too if the questions/answers schemes of the home-calling were known/cracked.
One would "merely" (yes, I am aware that this merely is non trivial) have to setup a home-server emulation and redirect communications to legit server to the fake one.
Whoa, wonderful...
Well, good luck guys, looks like you'll need it...
That's not what I call "multiple DSL providers".
In france, there is something called "dégroupage", which is basically your DSL provider putting you on his own lines. His lines go to the switches, and the local copper (from the switches to your house) have to be surrendered by the original provider (France Telecom in france, which used to be fully govt owned).
Providers don't always play fair (and people sometime find out that another provider took their line in charge and removed their legit provider's switch, or the old provider may try delay as much as possible the hook of your new provider's switches) but it mostly goes ok, and it allows people to get rid of any "legacy" provider, and the costs that go with him (this practice allowed regular DSL, up to 20Mbps downstream quota-less, to get as low as $20/month with TV and phone included)
I think that the proof record of a software ATM is 500 000 LOCs of space rocket software.
Wrong, if you had more DSL providers in the US (or at least if there were more of them in SBC's turfs) you'd still have competition even without cable.
In france, we have like 1 cable operator or 2, but we have 5 or 6 major DSL providers, and in most places you can get to choose between at least 2 or 3 of them (the other being somewhat local, or only in quite big towns).
Would our cable operator just die, that wouldn't change anything as far as competition go, because they (cable) are not the lowest price, nor the best features, nor the best quality, nor do they have the most extended network.
Yes they can, it's the mathematical proof of a software.
It's tough, time consuming, very expensive and requires *the horror* the actual usage of mathematicians, but it is possible to prove a software.
Given the fact that C# does not support multiple inheritance either, you must really know quite a lot about it...
Oh, and as far as implicit goes, you don't want C# nor Java, you want a dynamically strong typed language such as Python or Ruby, which both - on top of that - consider functions, classes and modules as perfectly regular first-class objects.
Toplevel ISPs have issues, not google. It would probably require the whole intarweb to break down to down all of google's various servers.
That would be really funny if it was true.
It is, alas, false, and junctions do not become "a drive letter", they are virtual folders akin to Linux' directory symlinks (since junctions sadly don't handle the file level but only the directory one).
Either because it's a server that must run 24/7, or because you're lasy enough to not want to waste the time of a reboot.
Windows 2k and above have both hardlinks (which are available via standard tools) as well as symlinks, restricted to directories only and not available via the OS' tools.
Check Juctions for the creation and handling of symlinks.
Symlinks do exist in W2k and above - only as directory symlinks though and not as file ones, but aren't available through standard tools.
They're called Junctions, and Mark Russinovich from Sysinternals created a small util to handle them.
The thing is that ID can't be discussed in academic halls for it's a joke and about as close as scientific as the word of the Bible.
This, kind sir, is complete and utter bullshit.
Neo-darwinism theories never ever stated that our bodies would mutate "in the direction most beneficial for us", what it says is that the mutations that are kept into the gene pools are the ones beneficial to the reproduction and continuation of the specie.
Excuse me?
Finding one single organism not using DNA building blocks, or the regular 4+1 DNA bases would be more than enough to falsifiate this claim, how the hell is it "non-falsifiable"?
Not at all, because SETI is refutable (the base is that ETs are supposed to exist. As of today, with no proof of their existance, all we can say is that they don't).
ID is based of faith, not proofs, and bullshit arguments (which are mostly not, in fact, arguments) as well as the refutation of Darwin's theory which was actually replaced by more advanced ones a few years past Darwin's death.
ID is, as such, not refutable because it has no grounds, doesn't make any predictions (which is a requirement for a scientific theory), doesn't give any explanation of facts (which is also a requirement to call yourself "scientific theory") and therefore is nowhere close anything "scientific". In a word, ID is the same old creationist bullshit rehashed to make it less obvious.
That's merely what guaranteed quality means.
When we took Numeris (ISDN guaranteed quality service of Frances' France Telecom provider) a few years ago (because DSL was nowhere in reach), the guys had to fully redo almost 10km (that'd be around 6 miles) of landlines before the quality of the communications was deemed acceptable.