Being a enterprise developer using Qt, the worse that I've had to deal with is some linking issues with dynamic libraries and GUI adjustments when porting to windows from linux...
Perhaps the "KDE" portion of the code is harder to port than the "Qt" portion?
Possibly, a reason is that most people don't have the math or statistical skills to learn the concepts. Most schools don't even teach the techniques of data mining until late in a masters of science program.
When [normal non slashdot] people hear data mining they think querying with something like google ("computer find bad people in the FBI database") not markov chains.
Actually if you play around with the bar on top of the graph it gives you the stock price over years and lets you zoom into any section. The site is definetly polished and extreamly interactive; "quickly hacked together" my buttox.
to be too plain and looks suspiciously like something quickly hacked together.
Yea what is with that statement? The front page might look a little simple but if you actually use the search function, say for Apple It is extreamly feature rich.
It offers news, a company summary, and a little interactive explorer that lets you see the exact stock value on the graph.
Methinks that this poster did not actually use the site...
You know it always amazes me that when anyone talks about math they start talking statistics and calculations. This is not pure mathematics. Statistics is its own breed and calculations are for the engineers, pure mathematics is about abstractions of formal logic.
Now if we wanted to start talking about ring theory, field theory, galois theory, real analysis, topology, etc. these are examples of the pure mathematical concepts. Not number crunching. All of these other things like "statistics" and "applied math" are great things but I feel that they are certainly not pure.
I was thinking at comment #4, wow I should mention subversion, but clearly something as wonderful as subversion is the first thing on anyones mind that has used the SCM.
The biggest advantages:
It can move folders what a novel concept? (looking in CVSs direction).
Good support for local repositories or remote ones manages through Apache or SSH
Most (good) web viewers for SCMs support it
Great intuitive clients for Mac OSX, Windows, and *nix
Easy conversion from CVS to Subversion
There are lots of other good things to say but did I mention that it moves directories? I mean you don't have to go onto the server and manually move all of the files therefore screwing up your teams local checkouts! (If you can't tell I am a little bitter about CVS)
The last time I checked out redhat (about version 8 I rekon) they inluded this nice little utility called "logviewer". And, I though, wow a text viewer how novel, Linux doesnt have many text viewers.
So not only is this a text viewer, but it also finds all those logs hidden in/var/log/*, it must be hard to find anything in/var/log/*...
IMHO the real irony is that it is the web browser,IE, is causing most of the viruses/spyware/shove a rod up your systems *#//%## problems that face windows today; however, IE must be packaged into the OS, and, as a super special add-on, you can pay premiums for a product that will fix our bundled crap.
This was the first thing that poped into my mind when I read this article; and, since this is slashdot, I suspect most readers feal this way.
While in itally or (any other country that uses 230 volt power) switch the "voltage" switch on your power supply from 230 to 115 while the computer is running, a bright blue spark will fly out and you will have successfully screwed your computer.
(I actually proved this while in CAD class in high school)
Or you'll obviously have a boner so long that you'll never get your pants off again. Jebus, I've seen those sites...they're not that bad.
The preteen girls at the mall wear shit worse than half those pictures. I can agree, that those might be considered paedo fodder...but so is Mary Kate and Ashley, Hilary Duff, Amanda Bines...or any other manufactured teeny bopper pop idol. If you ban those sites, you might as well fucking ban Nickolodean as well.
Methinks that if this stuff showed up on nickelodeon George Bushes right wing evangilist group would be on it like white on rice.
Your too goddamned sensitive,
And I suppose someone ripped out your heart with a rusty iron spoon and replaced it with a "Dingelbert Humberdink" LP from the 60's.
people have problems and find girls that are way too young attractive. Some people also find animals attractive, so we need to get rid of all those obvious zoophiliac sites like http://www.SandiegoZoo.org/ And also many of those sites are for 15+ girls...and when they reach sexaul maturation of course they will be attractive to the opposite sex.
Don't even start about the zoo thats just plain old bad logic. One of the first logical falicies you can make: A 9 year old girl != a duck.
Just because a law says it's wrong doesn't change biology.
I'm not going to "dirty" slashdot by putting up links to some of the more disturbing images, but rest assure this is a bit blood curtling. Yea, they have the 15+ section, but they also have the 9-year-old-in-thong-section
You obviously havent seen many of these sites, just go to google.com and type in "Child Super Model" you can even use "I'm feeling lucky" because the first is the worst.
I've got to second this. I mean I've seen my fair share of "p0rn" (the non-horrible stuff) and all of these sites have the same basic design and content. For example: A members section, movies, gallery, and pictures of the "model" in poses all around the site.
After doing a quick google for "Child Super Model" as listed in the above post, it returned one site of interest at the top. A freaking top 100 list. Seriously, these pages are screwed up, theres no reason for it. They have the exact same "features" as a normal p0rn site.
Really, I'm sure under a bit of investigation in to the owners of these sites will surely lead to some "sexual" material and you can bust these people. The graphics design alone probably cost a pretty penny, not to mention the professional photography, etc. These sites are not just pervs in the basement of Disneyland but and people that are actually making a legal buisness of the exploitation of children.
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Why had this taken so long? KOffice is built with Qt, a robust cross-platform gui toolkit, http://trolltech.com/products/qt/.
Being a enterprise developer using Qt, the worse that I've had to deal with is some linking issues with dynamic libraries and GUI adjustments when porting to windows from linux...
Perhaps the "KDE" portion of the code is harder to port than the "Qt" portion?
I can't believe how small they made the content on these pages ... it's 1/4th of the page! The rest is 3/4 crap with a dash of navigation.
Possibly, a reason is that most people don't have the math or statistical skills to learn the concepts. Most schools don't even teach the techniques of data mining until late in a masters of science program.
When [normal non slashdot] people hear data mining they think querying with something like google ("computer find bad people in the FBI database") not markov chains.
Actually if you play around with the bar on top of the graph it gives you the stock price over years and lets you zoom into any section. The site is definetly polished and extreamly interactive; "quickly hacked together" my buttox.
Good comment, better link: Maddox.
I don't need to google it, already learned it. I was giving some background for everyone else.
There called Axioms, and they are needed in all formal logic. If you really don't understand this concept visit:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Axiom.html
You know it always amazes me that when anyone talks about math they start talking statistics and calculations. This is not pure mathematics. Statistics is its own breed and calculations are for the engineers, pure mathematics is about abstractions of formal logic.
Now if we wanted to start talking about ring theory, field theory, galois theory, real analysis, topology, etc. these are examples of the pure mathematical concepts. Not number crunching. All of these other things like "statistics" and "applied math" are great things but I feel that they are certainly not pure.
I saw this quite a while ago on treehugger.com check out http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/06/fedex_furn iture.php
This guy did not "take new" fedex boxes from fedex. He used previously discarded boxes. On other-words ultra-minimal impact on the environment.
For more info: http://freegan.info/
I was thinking at comment #4, wow I should mention subversion, but clearly something as wonderful as subversion is the first thing on anyones mind that has used the SCM.
The biggest advantages:
There are lots of other good things to say but did I mention that it moves directories? I mean you don't have to go onto the server and manually move all of the files therefore screwing up your teams local checkouts! (If you can't tell I am a little bitter about CVS)
I guess I can switch back to using Linux from Mac .... All Mac has is Steve Jobs and he does'nt even where mini-skirts....
Thinking of bill "tackling sex" is just getting me all excited to!
No one may have heard of the name of the guy, but I am sure many have heard the spiderific voice of MC Pee Pants on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
IMHO I didn't even know there was a real rapper behind that voice! So this is interesting news to me.
Actually, at this same conference I belive, MS announced they would be releasing Internet Explorer 7 which has a slew of bugfixes
( probably not as good as firefox though)
I would have just said "hey, check your log files" and saved some development time/money.
The last time I checked out redhat (about version 8 I rekon) they inluded this nice little utility called "logviewer". And, I though, wow a text viewer how novel, Linux doesnt have many text viewers.
So not only is this a text viewer, but it also finds all those logs hidden in /var/log/*, it must be hard to find anything in /var/log/* ...
I see you have been educated in the art of logic!
IMHO the real irony is that it is the web browser ,IE, is causing most of the viruses/spyware/shove a rod up your systems *#//%## problems that face windows today; however, IE must be packaged into the OS, and, as a super special add-on, you can pay premiums for a product that will fix our bundled crap.
This was the first thing that poped into my mind when I read this article; and, since this is slashdot, I suspect most readers feal this way.
While in itally or (any other country that uses 230 volt power) switch the "voltage" switch on your power supply from 230 to 115 while the computer is running, a bright blue spark will fly out and you will have successfully screwed your computer.
(I actually proved this while in CAD class in high school)
Sadly enough, it seems that we slashdoted Microsofts maps.
Now how am I going to get from Haugesund to Trondheim to visit my half friends brother!
Methinks that if this stuff showed up on nickelodeon George Bushes right wing evangilist group would be on it like white on rice.
And I suppose someone ripped out your heart with a rusty iron spoon and replaced it with a "Dingelbert Humberdink" LP from the 60's.
Don't even start about the zoo thats just plain old bad logic. One of the first logical falicies you can make: A 9 year old girl != a duck.
I'm not going to "dirty" slashdot by putting up links to some of the more disturbing images, but rest assure this is a bit blood curtling. Yea, they have the 15+ section, but they also have the 9-year-old-in-thong-section
You obviously havent seen many of these sites, just go to google.com and type in "Child Super Model" you can even use "I'm feeling lucky" because the first is the worst.
To understand how to fight something you must first understand what it is your trying to fight.
It would also be a nasty pre-req to make all the IT people take statistics 101 before the could take course on Bayesian Spam filtering.
I've got to second this. I mean I've seen my fair share of "p0rn" (the non-horrible stuff) and all of these sites have the same basic design and content. For example: A members section, movies, gallery, and pictures of the "model" in poses all around the site.
After doing a quick google for "Child Super Model" as listed in the above post, it returned one site of interest at the top. A freaking top 100 list. Seriously, these pages are screwed up, theres no reason for it. They have the exact same "features" as a normal p0rn site.
Really, I'm sure under a bit of investigation in to the owners of these sites will surely lead to some "sexual" material and you can bust these people. The graphics design alone probably cost a pretty penny, not to mention the professional photography, etc. These sites are not just pervs in the basement of Disneyland but and people that are actually making a legal buisness of the exploitation of children.
Somthing has got to be done about this ...