Why are you writing a Chess program?
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Do you want to make it cross-platform for philosophical reasons? Do you wan to do it for the challenge (maybe Tk would be a better choice MUHHAHAH)? Do you want to sell it as shareware (MFC, duh)?. Are you writing it to learn more about computer Chess AI (MC since you know it)? Or are you writing it to learn more about manipulating on-screen graphics and learn GUI design? Then you should go with Qt, wxWindows, MFC, Tk, etc. And then write a book about your experience. Mind you, the technical aspects, not the nervous breakdown!:-)
But development on wxWindows can die off...
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... leaving you effectively in the same situation as having your vendor die off or stop supporting the product. The only difference is you could continue development on your own. But how many people are really going to do that?
If you want real portablity, use an ASCII terminal for the display. You'd have a better chance of getting that to work 10-20 years from now than wxWindows, Tk, or MFC.
My primary objection is that the ISS seems to be a construction project in search of a purpose, instead of a major piece of a well thought out long term space exploration program with goals and milestones.
But couldn't this just as easily be the result of budgetary concerns? If people knew the ISS would be well funded for several years we would be more likely to see a greater interest in research projects. You don't just wake up one day and do research -- it has to be planned and funded. And I do not know about you but I'm not going to waste my time and money preparing for a research project on the ISS if I'm not sure it will happen.
Considering there is no way to simulate the much weaker gravity in Earth's orbit for lengthy periods of time I would think there is a lot of research that can be done up there.
Re:I went and was minority report a few days ago
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Minority Report
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Keep in mind that there was a plot put into place to frame Anderton. That means that at some point Anderton and the guy he is accused of pre-killing would run into other. I'll agree it still seems like a self-fullfulling prophecy, but on the other hand we do not get to see how Anderton arrives at the hotel in the dream, so maybe the path he took was different?
Re:This review makes too great a logical leap
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I would hope that the/. editorial staff will try not to drop such obvious dreck on us in the future. Of course history tells me differently...
Come on, the review could have been written by John Katz!;-)
Re:Spielberg annoys to the end
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The doctor who does the protagonists surgery claims he was locked up sometime in the past by his patient. He explains while the patient is passing out from drugs that he is about to exact his revenge. What comes of it? Nothing...
I didn't like this either. When he was saying this they showed him putting the eye plucking helmet on cruise's character. Then a lot of closeups of his face and eyes. Then the machine getting ready to pluck out his eyes and right before it goes in.. new scene. I felt as if I was watching a bad tv edit in the end, though, I was fairly confident they were gonna cut to a new scene since it was a pg-13 movie. The whole thing was one big tease in my opinion. This is very Speilberg, but in Jaws or Gremlins,we got a violent scene. Here we get a *very* heavy handed lead in and then nothing.
I always thought the police found Anderton because the Doctor ratted him out. Maybe even the whole keep your eyes closed for 12 hours or you go blind was also a hoax (Anderton obviously didn't go blind by revealing his eye to the spiders).
If I find a bug in Windows, I cannot even easily report it, let alone try to fix it at the code level. OSS projects gain a lot in portability and stablity because of users, something commercial misses out on. Yet this study overlooks these contributions.
Well if the universe has performed 10^120 operations and it's about 20 billion years old, it's running at about 4*10^90 gigahertz. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!
Hmm, maybe that's what our brains are used for when we sleep at night....
I agree that in depth Darth Maul was pathetic, but he was obviously a dangerous opponent, as Qui-Gon found out. There was no one who stood out as a serious immediate threat in that same way in AoTC. The whole Dooku sequence at the end was just weak. Obi-wan can kill Darth Maul but not Dooku??? Obi-wan fell too easily (I'd say the same about Anakin if it wasn't for his stupidity).
The Yoda battle was just disapointing. In fact I thought there was one seen in which both Dooku and Yoda had their light sabers locked where I could swear all Dooku had to do was slide his down Yoda's to kill him. And how is it that Yoda has to struggle to hold that "pillar" up when later on in Ep5 he tells Luke that size matters not?
I do not think Dooku was being nice to Obi-wan, et. al. either. The ending seems to make it pretty clear that things went according to plan -- recall that Dooku says something like "I have good news, we are at war". Basically, he was playing the Jedi for fools -- recall the line about the Republic ruled by a Sith and that he (Dooku) was fighting against that. That fits into the cliche of "the best lie is one cloaked in truth". At the end we see him reporting the good news that they are at war to Darth Siddius -- who is presumably Palpatine.
So the truth is that the Republic is lead by a Sith; the lie is that Dooku is working against these dark forces since at the end we learn he is actually working for them (actually, very high up, maybe the #2 man).
The main thing I want to know is if part of the plan was that the Jedi would track the bounty hunter down, find the clones, and basically have things go the way they did in the movie. In other words, how much of AoTC was part of the plan and how much was "winging it." Based on the ending you have to believe that a lot of it was part of the plan (i.e. they had to be counting on the Jedi to learn about the clones).
It's a good story adapted into a weak screenplay made even worse by bad directing, especially in regards to acting (if you have good actors and the acting is bad then it is the director's fault).
I think a better explanation is that Spider-Man is better written and better directed than Attack of the Clones. Occam's Razor and all that.
When you have good actors but the acting is lackluster, that's defintely the director's fault. Weak script with even weaker directing. I actually thought Episode I was better, even with Jar Jar Binks. Darh Maul was certainly better than any villan in AoTC.
Under NT, disable "Administrator" login, and give an alternate loginname administrator rights. (note: I'm not sure if this can actually be done)
That's a bad idea! What is to prevent someone from repeatedly trying to login as your administrator account until said account is locked??? And then what do you do if your policy is to leave accounts locked indefinitely? Even a few hours before the locked status is reset could be a huge problem. The answer is that you can login to the local administrator account from the console even if the account is locked.
UNIX isn't the only OS to assign certain privledges to accounts with special ID's. As others suggested, rename the account if you are that worried about it and then create a new account (disabled, in the guest group, with random garbage for the password).
Want to know the fastest way to get spam outlawed? Use it for political advocacy for the upcoming election. . . . If you're successful, you'll vote the bastards out. If not, you'll get spam outlawed . . ..
Woah, woah, WOAH!!! What's to stop the major candidates from adopting spam as a legitimate tactic? Then you would never get rid of it!
If it is GPL'd software then point out to them that they could be sued if they do not release the patches.
Regardless of license, point out that you are much more likely to get support from the open source community if you are part of that community (by giving back) then if you are a leech (not giving back).
They do not, at any point, get your signature nor is the agree monitored by anything other than the installation program itself (i'm assuming, anyway).
IANAL, but I imagine that it would suffice as a signature.
I would be more curious to know what would happen if I printed out the license and crossed out the portions I objected to and then clicked "yes" to continue the installation.
Into the Buzzsaw covers several cover-ups by the media. I have not finished reading it so I cannot say if it covers the Israeli/CALEA story you mention. With that said, after reading this book a coverup is neither hard to believe nor even far-fetched.
Not to mention that if we are willing to coverup the Israeli attack against the Liberty, why not this? Attack on the USS Liberty
The control that media conglomerates have on the press is vastly overstated.
Right, that's why more and more literature is coming out describing how terribly scary the problem is becoming. "Vastly understated" would seem more appropriate, especially after reading these books:
Alpha not a serious UNIX player anymore
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Compaq buys DEC out and practically kills the Alpha line (on the plus side AMD picks up a lot of their engineers). Meanwhile HP manages to alienate just about all of their customers.
Now Compaq starts pushing the Alpha again just in time to merge with HP. Oh yeah, I'm sure the Alpha has a great future. <cough>
When buying server hardware you want to know the product line will be supported in the future. Given that, the commercial UNIX players of today are Sun and IBM, with SGI a a distant third. Wasn't it Nestle who just made a $5mil deal to switch from HP-UX to AIX?
I thought the ports you are complaining about are for remotely administering several servers with UPS on them? Maybe you do not need that portion of the software running to still have it do a clean shutdown when you run out of power?
Someone should set up a test box with this software and then sue APC once they get hacked....
but now unless you have a portal what's the point in handing anything out as more then a "nice option" ??
From a marketing standpoint registration codes and a signup web-site. WTF do you think all those AOL, Earthlink, Worldnet, etc. CD's you get in the mail are for???
Plus the ISP can provide a wrapper for DUN that makes life even easier for less knowledgable users. Besides, how else are many users going to upgrade to a newer browser? Likely it's either their ISP or a new version of a Microsoft Office product....
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Do you want to make it cross-platform for philosophical reasons? Do you wan to do it for the challenge (maybe Tk would be a better choice MUHHAHAH)? Do you want to sell it as shareware (MFC, duh)?. Are you writing it to learn more about computer Chess AI (MC since you know it)? Or are you writing it to learn more about manipulating on-screen graphics and learn GUI design? Then you should go with Qt, wxWindows, MFC, Tk, etc. And then write a book about your experience. Mind you, the technical aspects, not the nervous breakdown! :-)
If you want real portablity, use an ASCII terminal for the display. You'd have a better chance of getting that to work 10-20 years from now than wxWindows, Tk, or MFC.
But couldn't this just as easily be the result of budgetary concerns? If people knew the ISS would be well funded for several years we would be more likely to see a greater interest in research projects. You don't just wake up one day and do research -- it has to be planned and funded. And I do not know about you but I'm not going to waste my time and money preparing for a research project on the ISS if I'm not sure it will happen.
Considering there is no way to simulate the much weaker gravity in Earth's orbit for lengthy periods of time I would think there is a lot of research that can be done up there.
Keep in mind that there was a plot put into place to frame Anderton. That means that at some point Anderton and the guy he is accused of pre-killing would run into other. I'll agree it still seems like a self-fullfulling prophecy, but on the other hand we do not get to see how Anderton arrives at the hotel in the dream, so maybe the path he took was different?
Come on, the review could have been written by John Katz! ;-)
I didn't like this either. When he was saying this they showed him putting the eye plucking helmet on cruise's character. Then a lot of closeups of his face and eyes. Then the machine getting ready to pluck out his eyes and right before it goes in .. new scene. I felt as if I was watching a bad tv edit in the end, though, I was fairly confident they were gonna cut to a new scene since it was a pg-13 movie. The whole thing was one big tease in my opinion. This is very Speilberg, but in Jaws or Gremlins,we got a violent scene. Here we get a *very* heavy handed lead in and then nothing.
I always thought the police found Anderton because the Doctor ratted him out. Maybe even the whole keep your eyes closed for 12 hours or you go blind was also a hoax (Anderton obviously didn't go blind by revealing his eye to the spiders).
And what are the people who are using Challenge/Response supposed to do???
If I find a bug in Windows, I cannot even easily report it, let alone try to fix it at the code level. OSS projects gain a lot in portability and stablity because of users, something commercial misses out on. Yet this study overlooks these contributions.
And the Big Bang is what happens when the universe runs out of memory?
Hmm, maybe that's what our brains are used for when we sleep at night....
The Yoda battle was just disapointing. In fact I thought there was one seen in which both Dooku and Yoda had their light sabers locked where I could swear all Dooku had to do was slide his down Yoda's to kill him. And how is it that Yoda has to struggle to hold that "pillar" up when later on in Ep5 he tells Luke that size matters not?
I do not think Dooku was being nice to Obi-wan, et. al. either. The ending seems to make it pretty clear that things went according to plan -- recall that Dooku says something like "I have good news, we are at war". Basically, he was playing the Jedi for fools -- recall the line about the Republic ruled by a Sith and that he (Dooku) was fighting against that. That fits into the cliche of "the best lie is one cloaked in truth". At the end we see him reporting the good news that they are at war to Darth Siddius -- who is presumably Palpatine.
So the truth is that the Republic is lead by a Sith; the lie is that Dooku is working against these dark forces since at the end we learn he is actually working for them (actually, very high up, maybe the #2 man).
The main thing I want to know is if part of the plan was that the Jedi would track the bounty hunter down, find the clones, and basically have things go the way they did in the movie. In other words, how much of AoTC was part of the plan and how much was "winging it." Based on the ending you have to believe that a lot of it was part of the plan (i.e. they had to be counting on the Jedi to learn about the clones).
It's a good story adapted into a weak screenplay made even worse by bad directing, especially in regards to acting (if you have good actors and the acting is bad then it is the director's fault).
When you have good actors but the acting is lackluster, that's defintely the director's fault. Weak script with even weaker directing. I actually thought Episode I was better, even with Jar Jar Binks. Darh Maul was certainly better than any villan in AoTC.
Lets not forget multi-user systems. I'm hoping to replace Netscape with Mozilla on our Sun Ray servers in the future (~40 users).
I can't wait to see what 3.2 has in store.
Probably stable UltraSPARC 64 support! ;-)
That's a bad idea! What is to prevent someone from repeatedly trying to login as your administrator account until said account is locked??? And then what do you do if your policy is to leave accounts locked indefinitely? Even a few hours before the locked status is reset could be a huge problem. The answer is that you can login to the local administrator account from the console even if the account is locked.
UNIX isn't the only OS to assign certain privledges to accounts with special ID's. As others suggested, rename the account if you are that worried about it and then create a new account (disabled, in the guest group, with random garbage for the password).
Woah, woah, WOAH!!! What's to stop the major candidates from adopting spam as a legitimate tactic? Then you would never get rid of it!
Regardless of license, point out that you are much more likely to get support from the open source community if you are part of that community (by giving back) then if you are a leech (not giving back).
Microsoft "borrowing" ideas from competitors. Nothing new here, move on...
IANAL, but I imagine that it would suffice as a signature.
I would be more curious to know what would happen if I printed out the license and crossed out the portions I objected to and then clicked "yes" to continue the installation.
Into the Buzzsaw covers several cover-ups by the media. I have not finished reading it so I cannot say if it covers the Israeli/CALEA story you mention. With that said, after reading this book a coverup is neither hard to believe nor even far-fetched.
Not to mention that if we are willing to coverup the Israeli attack against the Liberty, why not this? Attack on the USS Liberty
Right, that's why more and more literature is coming out describing how terribly scary the problem is becoming. "Vastly understated" would seem more appropriate, especially after reading these books:
Into the Buzzsaw
Manufacturing Consent
You might want to read 1984 as well....
Now Compaq starts pushing the Alpha again just in time to merge with HP. Oh yeah, I'm sure the Alpha has a great future. <cough>
When buying server hardware you want to know the product line will be supported in the future. Given that, the commercial UNIX players of today are Sun and IBM, with SGI a a distant third. Wasn't it Nestle who just made a $5mil deal to switch from HP-UX to AIX?
Someone should set up a test box with this software and then sue APC once they get hacked....
From a marketing standpoint registration codes and a signup web-site. WTF do you think all those AOL, Earthlink, Worldnet, etc. CD's you get in the mail are for???
Plus the ISP can provide a wrapper for DUN that makes life even easier for less knowledgable users. Besides, how else are many users going to upgrade to a newer browser? Likely it's either their ISP or a new version of a Microsoft Office product....