I know that's kind of a rhetorical question, but it's because it's very, very easy to detach yourself from the victim of your crime if you never even have to look them in the eye while you rob them.
Hence the reason you should always mug elderly women by putting a gun between their shoulder blades.
You have to start somewhere. Just like if you wanted to learn PHP, the PEAR toolkit, and Drupal or some other 'framework' for Web applications in PHP, or whatever. Or, as an example I'm more immediately familiar with would be knowing Python, mod_python, Django, WSGI and a database like MySQL or Postgres.
You start by learning Python. Then you move on to MySQL. And then you might learn mod_python and finally WSGI and then Django. But you have to start with one concept and move on the next and the next and the next until you have enough knowledge to cover what you need to know.
So with Java, you might start with Java, move on to Netbeans, etc. Learn any frameworks, etc. You start with one thing and move on to the next. YOu need to learn increasing levels of complexity. SO obviously you need to have a grounding in Java before you learn Swing. And Java basics before J2EE. And so forth.
Agreed. I don't see how anyone would be unable to find information about Java. I search for obscure and finer points of HTML, CSS, Python, Perl and other stuff all the time and run into Java stuff in my search results. I see so much information about Java that I sometimes puke Java in my sleep!
you must be new here. democrats vote only for democrats and likewise with republicans
Really? Think so? I'm a registered Democrat who has voted and likely will vote for several Republicans.
I'm one of the 'dangerous' people the party loyalists call 'swing' voters. And guess what? We decide elections!
See, there are just about as many loyalist Democrats as loyalist Republicans. If it were only an issue of Dems vs. Reps, then every election would be very very close, down to a few ballots. But we have had both Republican and Democratic landslides (Clinton in '92 and '96, Reagan in '80 and '84). What changed was the swing voters.
Close elections happen when swing voters get polarized. That's what happened in 2000 and again in 2004. In 2004, it was the gay marriage issue that the Republicans used to polarize the swing voters and in 2000 it was the Kyoto Treaty.
This is not the first time a huge security vulnerability was fixed by changing a single character!
Yeah. I once wrote a web application and in one of the auth checks, I put a '==' where I wanted a '!='. Fortunately in that case one of the testers caught it and it never actually went to production, but sometimes we all make silly mistakes.
Oh f****! I read that as 'rm man'! I was in/usr/bin as root at the time! Crap! Now I can't read any man pages! Anyone know how to fix this? I would RTFM, but I can't anymore!
Windows XP takes 4-5GB (while Vista takes about 15GB). Do you see where this is going?
Yes, I do. Do you?
Nice one! Maybe he/she/it might also want to know that my entire Ubuntu install, including a all of my installed applications (and there are a lot of them, some are quite large) is like 12-15 GB.
I feel a...disturbance...in the Net. As if 100,000 Slashdotters simulatenously clicked the 'Alter Relationship' button next to your nick on this post...
Use Opera Portable. It obliterates (erases AND overwrites) any and all signs of your activity when you exit. And it's had that feature for several years. Perfect for visiting internet cafes or libraries.
You want MS to provide a linux version so that you can either state your intent to never install it, or so that you can sh*t on it? I'm sure they'll get right on that...
I don't get the legal action part. Is the x86 architecture patented by Intel? Even if it is, wouldn't the patent have expired by now? After all, its more than 30 years old. Do AMD, VIA etc. pay licensing fees to Intel for building processors using the x86 architecture? If so, why cant NVidia?
Yes. Various pieces of parts of the x86 architecture that have been developed within the last 20 years (noteably, stuff related to the IA32 architecture of the 386, 486 and Pentium and later lines) are all still under patent.
Patents filed before June 8, 1995 get the greater of 17 past the patent grant date or 20 years total, whichever is greater.
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Great, now I know why summer this year was, well, pretty nonexistant really.
Speak for yourself. It was already 85F outside as of 10:00 a.m..
I'm the first to realise I might have a big problem if all the drinking and smoking just doesn't kill me in time.
I hear there are companies that sell a solution to this problem. Like Beretta, Browning, Glock, Remington, etc.
I know that's kind of a rhetorical question, but it's because it's very, very easy to detach yourself from the victim of your crime if you never even have to look them in the eye while you rob them.
Hence the reason you should always mug elderly women by putting a gun between their shoulder blades.
Probably because slashdot is targeted towards people with IQs above 90.
You must be new here.
Then you might appreciate this:
As a former employee of Cedar Fair, L.P., let me be the first to say: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
K'plagh!
Anyway, would that make this the longest running Star Trek franchise?
Not by a long shot. The first movie franchise, even if you only consider Star Trek I - VI, ran from 1978 to 1991, which is 13 years.
You have to start somewhere. Just like if you wanted to learn PHP, the PEAR toolkit, and Drupal or some other 'framework' for Web applications in PHP, or whatever. Or, as an example I'm more immediately familiar with would be knowing Python, mod_python, Django, WSGI and a database like MySQL or Postgres.
You start by learning Python. Then you move on to MySQL. And then you might learn mod_python and finally WSGI and then Django. But you have to start with one concept and move on the next and the next and the next until you have enough knowledge to cover what you need to know.
So with Java, you might start with Java, move on to Netbeans, etc. Learn any frameworks, etc. You start with one thing and move on to the next. YOu need to learn increasing levels of complexity. SO obviously you need to have a grounding in Java before you learn Swing. And Java basics before J2EE. And so forth.
From the rendering, the entire house isn't made out of trees, just some pieces of it.
I didn't have long pointy ears or hairy feet.
But you do now?
Agreed. I don't see how anyone would be unable to find information about Java. I search for obscure and finer points of HTML, CSS, Python, Perl and other stuff all the time and run into Java stuff in my search results. I see so much information about Java that I sometimes puke Java in my sleep!
Seriously.
It's not that hard to find.
Sometimes I think we really need a medieval style guild (NOT a union) that punishes companies that habitually abuse IT workers.
Oooh! Can I be one of the people pouring boiling oil on the CEOs? Pleeeeaaasssse?!
you must be new here. democrats vote only for democrats and likewise with republicans
Really? Think so? I'm a registered Democrat who has voted and likely will vote for several Republicans.
I'm one of the 'dangerous' people the party loyalists call 'swing' voters. And guess what? We decide elections!
See, there are just about as many loyalist Democrats as loyalist Republicans. If it were only an issue of Dems vs. Reps, then every election would be very very close, down to a few ballots. But we have had both Republican and Democratic landslides (Clinton in '92 and '96, Reagan in '80 and '84). What changed was the swing voters.
Close elections happen when swing voters get polarized. That's what happened in 2000 and again in 2004. In 2004, it was the gay marriage issue that the Republicans used to polarize the swing voters and in 2000 it was the Kyoto Treaty.
So .. what if I really really want to change my MX after 2 days? :-/
You can't. That's kind of the whole point.
wooosh.
This is not the first time a huge security vulnerability was fixed by changing a single character!
Yeah. I once wrote a web application and in one of the auth checks, I put a '==' where I wanted a '!='. Fortunately in that case one of the testers caught it and it never actually went to production, but sometimes we all make silly mistakes.
That would be because Steve Jobs is not dead.
is dead. And Slashdot isn't reporting it. I guess that are too busy with the idle section.
That would probably be because Steve Jobs is not dead, though that never stopped them before, given BSD's "untimely demise". ;)
man rm
Oh f****! I read that as 'rm man'! I was in /usr/bin as root at the time! Crap! Now I can't read any man pages! Anyone know how to fix this? I would RTFM, but I can't anymore!
Windows XP takes 4-5GB (while Vista takes about 15GB). Do you see where this is going?
Yes, I do. Do you?
Nice one! Maybe he/she/it might also want to know that my entire Ubuntu install, including a all of my installed applications (and there are a lot of them, some are quite large) is like 12-15 GB.
I feel a...disturbance...in the Net. As if 100,000 Slashdotters simulatenously clicked the 'Alter Relationship' button next to your nick on this post...
Use Opera Portable. It obliterates (erases AND overwrites) any and all signs of your activity when you exit. And it's had that feature for several years. Perfect for visiting internet cafes or libraries.
You want MS to provide a linux version so that you can either state your intent to never install it, or so that you can sh*t on it? I'm sure they'll get right on that...
No need to wait for MS to do that. I'm sure this will be in ies4linux eventually, thanks to Sérgio. Want it sooner? Donate time or money to either ies4linux or to Wine. Or both.
The original story came from Charlie at The Inquirer. Charlie and NVidia hate each other.
Possibly related to Charlie's vast holdings of AMD stock...
When Congress and the IRS do racketeering, it isn't called 'racketeering', it's called 'revenue collection'.
I don't get the legal action part. Is the x86 architecture patented by Intel? Even if it is, wouldn't the patent have expired by now? After all, its more than 30 years old. Do AMD, VIA etc. pay licensing fees to Intel for building processors using the x86 architecture? If so, why cant NVidia?
Yes. Various pieces of parts of the x86 architecture that have been developed within the last 20 years (noteably, stuff related to the IA32 architecture of the 386, 486 and Pentium and later lines) are all still under patent.
Patents filed before June 8, 1995 get the greater of 17 past the patent grant date or 20 years total, whichever is greater.