Nah, this looks far more like run of the mill incompetence. Run of the mill incompetence? The coder at Microsoft responsible would be professionally incompetent! A fantastic line of code, superbly unnoticed till know, responsible for great demand for high spec media PC's, while retaining some level of operation for the rest of us.
Perl has some wonderful examples: [Both of these print "Just another Perl hacker" and exit]
Yes they do actually run without error. Try it.
Example 1. [Edit Slashdot thinks I am using too many junk characters so check the code out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAPH it consists entirely of punctuation]
And for those who think perl is cartoon characters swearing:
Example 2. not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor s x x length uc ord and print chr ord for qw q join use sub tied qx xor eval xor print qq q q xor int eval lc q m cos and print chr ord for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp ref y m xor scalar srand print qq q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos and print chr ord for qw x printf each return local x y or print qq s s and eval q s undef or oct xor time xor ref print chr int ord lc foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill exec return y s gt sin sort split
This is a worthless gimmick conceived by someone out to make a buck - because the list will influence some tourists' destinations this summer (and I'd wager that some of those on the list paid there way up there) - and lapped up by popular media in the place of surfboarding ferrets. As if there are only 21 valuable places in the world (the shortlist), and an internet vote can provide an unbiased and definitive list of the seven 'greatest'.
There are thousands of fantastic places in the world. The UN's world heritage sites (660 cultural, 166 natural) are but a start at cataloguing and an attempt to protect them.
I once visited the iTunes forums. The majority of posts were windows users being driven insane by iTunes adding a shortcut to itself on their start menu, quicklaunch and desktop every time *any* user ran it.
Weird. I read about this in an exam I took last week. It stated that the present standard kilogram is a mass of platinum and iridium kept at STP underground, and asked what factors might affect the mass of the standard kilogram when it is measured. I answered if any isotopes of platinum or iridium decay, or if the standard kilogram had a velocity close to the speed of light.
Tivo users suffer under their current GPLv2 abuse. Their rights are unjustly stolen from them, exploiting a circumstance hard to imagine in 1991 when the GPLv2 was published. Tivo knows this full well. Now is time to clean up their act (before GPLv3 would be best) or else they await a just upcommance.
Non-free drivers and specifications will NEVER work. They will always fail users, because the developers cannot possibly predict how users in the future will use their products. Will the drivers with an 8 year old non-standard printer/modem/camera packaged for Windows 98 work on Vista? Probably not. Have the developers producted updated drivers? No, why should they? The line is discontinued. But the hardware is still in perfect condition. If the drivers were free, someone could easily update them, but a lack of specifications makes that impossible.
Non free drivers will ALWAYS end up screwing users, because it's impossible to produce something futureproof. In ten years, your 2nd generation iPod won't play modern codecs, only obsolete ones.
We already see perfectly functional hardware abandoned because of inadequate software.
Think about the OLPC. Why do the drivers have to be free? Because if not, they are dependant on the developers (at their liberty, even if they are still in business) to produce software to work with newer, superior protocols and technology.
There exists a hi-tech car park, where cars are filed by a robot into pigeon holes. The company that built it went bust, never releasing the software. If the software goes wrong, that's hundreds of cars irretrievable without demolition. No company to take responsibility, or to fix it.
Free software is an issue of ethics. Shouldn't man be allowed to help his neighbour if he were to asked to share his knowledge? Or his computer software? In a humane society, would the men be punished or rewarded? Is a hierarchical system of knowledge/information acceptable? (Akin to the medieval feudal society, where an elite possess a wealth of information, and subjects are abandoned to poverty of education). Whereas the distribution of wealth (and books) has always been unjust because of their finiteness, for the distribution of knowledge today there exists an opportunity to share limitless information equally between everyone.
In such a free society, there would exist neither 'open-source' or 'closed-source', and they would require no copyright to protect them. The GPL exists as it does, protected by copyright, because Richard Stallman knew that this would be the most successful method to protect free software within the present system.
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>Reading is a process of pattern recognition.
What's the regex syntax like?
Some joke about you quit facebook, court of law acquits you. I
Perl has some wonderful examples:
[Both of these print "Just another Perl hacker" and exit]
Yes they do actually run without error. Try it.
Example 1.
[Edit Slashdot thinks I am using too many junk characters so check the code out here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAPH
it consists entirely of punctuation]
And for those who think perl is cartoon characters swearing:
Example 2.
not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor
s x x length uc ord and print chr
ord for qw q join use sub tied qx
xor eval xor print qq q q xor int
eval lc q m cos and print chr ord
for qw y abs ne open tied hex exp
ref y m xor scalar srand print qq
q q xor int eval lc qq y sqrt cos
and print chr ord for qw x printf
each return local x y or print qq
s s and eval q s undef or oct xor
time xor ref print chr int ord lc
foreach qw y hex alarm chdir kill
exec return y s gt sin sort split
Degrees? Great choice. It's not subjective: it neatly fits the 360 days in a year.
Everyone knows linux users are irrational, a class of number of which there exists so many that their number is uncountably infinite.
This is a worthless gimmick conceived by someone out to make a buck - because the list will influence some tourists' destinations this summer (and I'd wager that some of those on the list paid there way up there) - and lapped up by popular media in the place of surfboarding ferrets. As if there are only 21 valuable places in the world (the shortlist), and an internet vote can provide an unbiased and definitive list of the seven 'greatest'.
There are thousands of fantastic places in the world. The UN's world heritage sites (660 cultural, 166 natural) are but a start at cataloguing and an attempt to protect them.
I once visited the iTunes forums. The majority of posts were windows users being driven insane by iTunes adding a shortcut to itself on their start menu, quicklaunch and desktop every time *any* user ran it.
How can you unveil something that's been through a year of public drafting?
You can live inside an operating system? Now that's virtualisation. It must be hell.
They're going to bring a Mac client as well, which means that *everyone* will be able to watch TV. That's how they report the story.
Weird. I read about this in an exam I took last week. It stated that the present standard kilogram is a mass of platinum and iridium kept at STP underground, and asked what factors might affect the mass of the standard kilogram when it is measured. I answered if any isotopes of platinum or iridium decay, or if the standard kilogram had a velocity close to the speed of light.
I'm sure we can count on Slashdot readers to submit reliable bug reports.. Like bugzilla.mozilla doesn't drop requests with slashdot.org as referer.
Tivo users suffer under their current GPLv2 abuse. Their rights are unjustly stolen from them, exploiting a circumstance hard to imagine in 1991 when the GPLv2 was published. Tivo knows this full well. Now is time to clean up their act (before GPLv3 would be best) or else they await a just upcommance.
The first time I clicked "read more" on this story I got the "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." error.
Was it a Scientology faith school?
Is there a LinuxDay event anywhere?
=o= what? no cute blond girls?
They're not digg. They should apoligise, and restore the post.
Non-free drivers and specifications will NEVER work. They will always fail users, because the developers cannot possibly predict how users in the future will use their products. Will the drivers with an 8 year old non-standard printer/modem/camera packaged for Windows 98 work on Vista? Probably not. Have the developers producted updated drivers? No, why should they? The line is discontinued. But the hardware is still in perfect condition. If the drivers were free, someone could easily update them, but a lack of specifications makes that impossible.
Non free drivers will ALWAYS end up screwing users, because it's impossible to produce something futureproof. In ten years, your 2nd generation iPod won't play modern codecs, only obsolete ones.
We already see perfectly functional hardware abandoned because of inadequate software.
Think about the OLPC. Why do the drivers have to be free? Because if not, they are dependant on the developers (at their liberty, even if they are still in business) to produce software to work with newer, superior protocols and technology.
There exists a hi-tech car park, where cars are filed by a robot into pigeon holes. The company that built it went bust, never releasing the software. If the software goes wrong, that's hundreds of cars irretrievable without demolition. No company to take responsibility, or to fix it.
Spam has no borders. We need a *worldwide* effort.
Why does the author describe them as 'flaws' rather than bugs, or vulnerabilities if they concern security.
Free software is an issue of ethics. Shouldn't man be allowed to help his neighbour if he were to asked to share his knowledge? Or his computer software? In a humane society, would the men be punished or rewarded? Is a hierarchical system of knowledge/information acceptable? (Akin to the medieval feudal society, where an elite possess a wealth of information, and subjects are abandoned to poverty of education). Whereas the distribution of wealth (and books) has always been unjust because of their finiteness, for the distribution of knowledge today there exists an opportunity to share limitless information equally between everyone.
In such a free society, there would exist neither 'open-source' or 'closed-source', and they would require no copyright to protect them. The GPL exists as it does, protected by copyright, because Richard Stallman knew that this would be the most successful method to protect free software within the present system.