That would be a little more risky... because "= time (" is not the only places where the return value is used.... That being said, checking only for time (NULL) might also be incorrect, because the return value might still be used by the code calling that.
Bottom line - we'll have to check for all calls to the time function...
I bet it's possible (and that it's usually done) to patent specific innovative aspects of wheel making like the ones which produce the desirable effects you talked about!
I guess many people didn't reply because they are too busy downloading the sound files:)
If you actually read the descriptions of the conferences, there are many interesting ones! I read all the descriptions and ended up downloading 15 of the mp3...
I've started messing around with computers when I was about 3 years old, on a Spectrum. My dad bought one, took some programming courses himself, and I learned how to load games into it (LOAD "" eheheh:D) and wait 5 minutes for them to load:P
My start in programming was when I learned how to read and write (and maybe before) I took my dad's books and I would spend hours typing the example programs on the Spectrum. Sometimes they would work, sometimes they wouldn't (although some books actually had mistakes on the programs). The first decent program I actually remember programming was a calculator program (with a menu with +-*/ as choices:P) when I was 8...
Then, when I was 8 too, I got a PC (386, 12/25 MHz - turbo button rules ehehe:)), and would open exe files from games in DOS's editor, and wonder how intelligent the guys were in order to program using those silly characters and faces. I had noone to talk about this, so that misconception stayed in my mind for quite a while... At that time, I could only program using QBASIC which was more or less similar to the only programming language I knew at the time
Later (when I was 11), I met a programmer who was a friend of my parents, who got me a copy of Visual Basic 3.0 for windows 3.1, and I remember the first decent program I made was something for converting measures in between them (distances, temperatures, etc).
The cool point was when I was 13 years old, my father showed me some pascal books, and I read and read them, learning alone how to program in the first "decent" language that I saw. I also had a C book at the time, but as soon as I got to the part where they talked about #define as using macros I would always quit. Macro just seemed a too complicated word for me at the time:)
Later, I actually could understand how C worked, and since then (I'm 21 now and taking a computer engineering ), C has remained my favorite language till now, and I think it will... By the way, what really got me into serious programming were Denthor's tutorials on Demo programming. Thanks to it, I learned how devising an algorithm was like, the importance of code optimization, things about computer architectures, assembly language, and much more...
So, my point is - I think that if a child really has the knack for computers, he/she will reveal it naturally! Now for introducing a child to the user world of computing, I guess you would just start by introducing her to some games, and then start showing her normal software like word processors, spreadsheets as soon as they know some maths, etc... The rest will come naturally, and the internet will make it much vital for a child to learn things like file management (the files the child receives from friends for example)! Of course, parental guidance will always be needed, or the child will probably stick to always doing the same things, unless it is a curious child
By the way, of course those distribution channels exist. And also, most of the distribution is made in ftp servers (anyone who knows anything about release groups knows that), not in IRC channels in the first place. IRC channels usually get the stuff later only.
Sorry, but I'm not english speaking so maybe I didn't use the words correctly. Thank you for taking them so literally.
By the way, I wasn't talking about the Wired article, I was talking about the other one.
And yes, I know Wired isn't "news for know-it-all uber-geeks who already know how things are done". It's a good article for common people. Let's not forget that.
That's exactly why they should care less about explaining useless details in stupid ways like they did. Or else, "regular people" (as opposed to geeks) will create more and more misconceptions. For me, one either explains a concept correctly (or at least using a semi-correct analogy) or doesn't explain it at all, since in many cases it isn't necessary.
Yes there is, on the Yahoo! News article (not on the Wired one which has already been on slashdot yesterday... btw, shouldn't./'s editors actually read the news./ features??)
The point of the article isn't (or shouldn't be, since it's really badly written) that the existing "secret" communities harm the movie makers because they provide a place where to download movies. The point is that they capture the movies before they even get to the theaters, and that they are the starting point for sharing movies (eventually they will reach DC++, Kazaa, Emule and Bittorrent networks/servers)...
You aren't being generous by presenting 100,000 people downloading a movie. You're being naive.
I know that media news about technical issues are rarely accurate, but this article's mistakes are a little bit exagerating, I think...
"Unlike popular file-swapping networks where millions of files -- mostly for music -- are shared relatively easily, it takes more than a casual effort to even begin to find the right place to download a movie." -- what?
"Typically, large movie files are broken down into text that appears to the naked eye as gibberish. Files are distributed through news groups or made available through so-called top sites or private computer servers accessed by File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, an early conduit for exchanging data on the Internet." -- half-right...
There are other examples, and if one cares to think about it, many of the stupid statements (like the second one I've shown) only happen because they try to explain things too much. Who cares how the movie files are "broken"?
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I think you are comparing two very different things... Learning how to do ONE thing is easy for us (even if it takes time). Don't you think that learning how to adapt our own brains to work in a different way will be much harder?
Repeat after me: Microsoft still officially supports windows 2000 and other operating systems besides XP SP2, so the vulnerabilities are still unpatched on those OS's
I first read your post as "Blizzard can't catch speed hackers, because when they're spotted, they run". I only grasped what you really meant when I saw it mod'd as informativa. Was I the only one?:D
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I'm sure every hollywood film maker out there doesn't have food on their plate
Example:
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if (time (NULL) > 3)
another:
y = 1 + time (NULL);
That would be a little more risky... because "= time (" is not the only places where the return value is used.... That being said, checking only for time (NULL) might also be incorrect, because the return value might still be used by the code calling that.
Bottom line - we'll have to check for all calls to the time function...
Because we need negative values to indicate that there was an error on the time call...
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most people who make worms are not fucking $$$ centered bastards...
I bet it's possible (and that it's usually done) to patent specific innovative aspects of wheel making like the ones which produce the desirable effects you talked about!
I guess many people didn't reply because they are too busy downloading the sound files :)
If you actually read the descriptions of the conferences, there are many interesting ones! I read all the descriptions and ended up downloading 15 of the mp3...
Maybe he's not english speaking... if he is, then yes...
now the community of slashdot reading thieves knows what to look for :P
I've started messing around with computers when I was about 3 years old, on a Spectrum. My dad bought one, took some programming courses himself, and I learned how to load games into it (LOAD "" eheheh :D) and wait 5 minutes for them to load :P
:P) when I was 8...
:)), and would open exe files from games in DOS's editor, and wonder how intelligent the guys were in order to program using those silly characters and faces. I had noone to talk about this, so that misconception stayed in my mind for quite a while... At that time, I could only program using QBASIC which was more or less similar to the only programming language I knew at the time
:)
My start in programming was when I learned how to read and write (and maybe before) I took my dad's books and I would spend hours typing the example programs on the Spectrum. Sometimes they would work, sometimes they wouldn't (although some books actually had mistakes on the programs). The first decent program I actually remember programming was a calculator program (with a menu with +-*/ as choices
Then, when I was 8 too, I got a PC (386, 12/25 MHz - turbo button rules ehehe
Later (when I was 11), I met a programmer who was a friend of my parents, who got me a copy of Visual Basic 3.0 for windows 3.1, and I remember the first decent program I made was something for converting measures in between them (distances, temperatures, etc).
The cool point was when I was 13 years old, my father showed me some pascal books, and I read and read them, learning alone how to program in the first "decent" language that I saw. I also had a C book at the time, but as soon as I got to the part where they talked about #define as using macros I would always quit. Macro just seemed a too complicated word for me at the time
Later, I actually could understand how C worked, and since then (I'm 21 now and taking a computer engineering ), C has remained my favorite language till now, and I think it will... By the way, what really got me into serious programming were Denthor's tutorials on Demo programming. Thanks to it, I learned how devising an algorithm was like, the importance of code optimization, things about computer architectures, assembly language, and much more...
So, my point is - I think that if a child really has the knack for computers, he/she will reveal it naturally! Now for introducing a child to the user world of computing, I guess you would just start by introducing her to some games, and then start showing her normal software like word processors, spreadsheets as soon as they know some maths, etc... The rest will come naturally, and the internet will make it much vital for a child to learn things like file management (the files the child receives from friends for example)! Of course, parental guidance will always be needed, or the child will probably stick to always doing the same things, unless it is a curious child
By the way, of course those distribution channels exist. And also, most of the distribution is made in ftp servers (anyone who knows anything about release groups knows that), not in IRC channels in the first place. IRC channels usually get the stuff later only.
Sorry, but I'm not english speaking so maybe I didn't use the words correctly. Thank you for taking them so literally.
By the way, I wasn't talking about the Wired article, I was talking about the other one.
And yes, I know Wired isn't "news for know-it-all uber-geeks who already know how things are done". It's a good article for common people. Let's not forget that.
That's exactly why they should care less about explaining useless details in stupid ways like they did. Or else, "regular people" (as opposed to geeks) will create more and more misconceptions. For me, one either explains a concept correctly (or at least using a semi-correct analogy) or doesn't explain it at all, since in many cases it isn't necessary.
lol :)
Yes there is, on the Yahoo! News article (not on the Wired one which has already been on slashdot yesterday... btw, shouldn't ./'s editors actually read the news ./ features??)
I didn't say anything about the $ quantities involved, the point of my reply wasn't that (I won't repeat it here since it's already written).
;)
By the way, you should have replied to my message and not yours, I only found your reply by accident
The point of the article isn't (or shouldn't be, since it's really badly written) that the existing "secret" communities harm the movie makers because they provide a place where to download movies. The point is that they capture the movies before they even get to the theaters, and that they are the starting point for sharing movies (eventually they will reach DC++, Kazaa, Emule and Bittorrent networks/servers)...
You aren't being generous by presenting 100,000 people downloading a movie. You're being naive.
I know that media news about technical issues are rarely accurate, but this article's mistakes are a little bit exagerating, I think... "Unlike popular file-swapping networks where millions of files -- mostly for music -- are shared relatively easily, it takes more than a casual effort to even begin to find the right place to download a movie." -- what? "Typically, large movie files are broken down into text that appears to the naked eye as gibberish. Files are distributed through news groups or made available through so-called top sites or private computer servers accessed by File Transfer Protocol, or FTP, an early conduit for exchanging data on the Internet." -- half-right... There are other examples, and if one cares to think about it, many of the stupid statements (like the second one I've shown) only happen because they try to explain things too much. Who cares how the movie files are "broken"?
I think you are comparing two very different things... Learning how to do ONE thing is easy for us (even if it takes time). Don't you think that learning how to adapt our own brains to work in a different way will be much harder?
Repeat after me: Microsoft still officially supports windows 2000 and other operating systems besides XP SP2, so the vulnerabilities are still unpatched on those OS's
Not everyone looks at the task bar, don't forget that...
You would be right, but he said "browser bug" so he's true :P
Just check out this pics - http://homepage.mac.com/ahaney/FlagBurnDance/Saved NewsPhotos/
And even with 13 people reporting it, it seems it's not enough judging by the moderation
That Aolution is the aolution to a completely different article ;)
I first read your post as "Blizzard can't catch speed hackers, because when they're spotted, they run". I only grasped what you really meant when I saw it mod'd as informativa. Was I the only one? :D