Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it actually be:
Active: The boy rides his bike - e.g. The system loads preferences from/etc/foo Passive: The boy can ride his bike - e.g. The system will load preferences from/etc/foo
My understanding of using active voice is to use only assertive forms of verbs etc. The idea behind not using it in essays/reports etc is that it is taken as a given that someone is asserting something - using will, can, should in every sentence of a technical manual is just pointless.
Fsck it! OK now you got my inerest up. Scanning for viruses - looks OK. C'mon its from MIT! Those.edu domains aren't reserved for nothing.
Hmmm. Under Win2k3, it seems to attempt to run. Unfortunately the server won't tell me the results.
Aaron.
Jesus christ, how did this make frist pots?
Are you SERIOUSLY going to waste our time explaining this? Like there is a language left on the face of the planet without multi-threaded support.
And umm - yeah, locking is locking. Thanks for that. By the way, locks should be brought upwards and managed intelligently, or avoided with smart procedures and data structures, not pushed deep into the code where it can be called from many places very often.
And don't post first on multithreading ever again.
How stupid! If I want to drive a car, I'm free to, however I'm well aware that I take certain risks and need certain knowledge to do so. People who don't understand this wipe themselves and otherpeople off the face of the planet every day.
I'm free to fix my own car. Again if I didn't know what I was doing, that would be really stupid move, and if I did it bad enough the law would insist that the car should be taken off the road.
But people expect to download software and be able to operate it with no training and with no repurcussions to themselves. If someone gave me a free car, does the value of it decrease because I can't drive or fix it up? No, as with EVERYTHING ELSE in life, the value of a freedom is equal to the advantage of it that I can take.
...the role of computers and their intrusion into every day life has changed dramatically. And yes, most computer classes are about Excel and Word because 'computer skills' has a very different meaning to what it did 10 years ago, let alone 20 or more.
But rest assured, with even Microsoft offering free development tools these days, those that are born to program still will. Even the chances these days of being born into a family with broadband and the ability to access pirate software for messing around with development are far far higher these days.
The computer industry doesn't know whether its about office infrastructure, high-end gaming platforms, VOIP, home automation, programming - eventually these industries will become more separate and universities and schools will create courses that aim into appropriate areas, it will just take time.
What worries me more is that people these days have no idea just how many CPU cycles their program hogs, because noone programs with assembly or C these days - you use Forms Designer and hook bits of spaghetti code to your window. Its disturbing that this is what people see of programming from the beginning, but at the same time there is no way I would go back to programming like I used to have to do.
with AMD it's now possible to build non-mission critical dual core servers from desktop parts. Not sure how it sits elsewhere, but in Australia Intel is shipping the cheapest Dual core for less than HALF the cost of an AMD X2 3800. Think they might be feeling the pinch?
We'll see how this AM2 thing pans out, and what Intel does with their dual core family, over the next six months. Should be very interesting and I think we will be looking at some seriously shit-hot, seriously cheap CPUs.
The media over here has been successfully distracted with a furore over the misdirection of a war casualty, which the various ministers involved will blame each other over until that and the more serious issue of personal privacy have become old news.
I disagree with this. You can enable IE's enhanced security measures and interactively add the sites you visit regularly to the trusted sites list. IE is reasonably intelligent about this and will not load activeX controls that are linked to externally or anything. Also when you enable this the default 'zone' for sites is significantly hardened. I'm not sure if other browsers have followed suit yet, but if they haven't I wouldn't recommend using them - force the developers to make the browsing process more intelligent;-)
And really, the reason sites are put on these servers is because they are the TARGET of attacks, not the source.
would be to get an Audigy or two. Anyone who thinks recording multi-track audio is an expensive thing to do these days obviously doesn't hang around computers enough.
...who was 'informative' enough to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to introduce already known information in the middle of a discussion.
Note to self - so THIS is how one actually gets mod points!?!
Great. Now we will not only have trouble making things go where we want them to on the screen, we will have to guess if the user is running in pixel doubled mode.
This is absolute bullsh*t. HTML should have gone to SVG a LONG LONG time ago. Working with actual pixel numbers is stupid for both web development and desktop development - I was amazed that MS decided to keep pixels when they unified the forms for desktop and web into one entity.
If we were working on a 1x1 canvas, we could even have anti-aliasing on our desktops.
Check out http://sourceforge.net/buzz-like for an example of an application that is both independent of resolution and allows the user to scale the interface.
Or don't new Slashdot users get to be part of it?
And yes, I'm FUCKING serious. Now I've seen this discussion, I don't think I'll bother coming back here. Sounds like this 'Digg' is a much better site.
The first informative Slashdot article ever - alternatives to Slashdot.
Someone mod parent down. Its pure fantasy and a troll.
Microsoft 'has become known for' providing timely patches for their software like no-one else. Nobody on the face of the planet invests the amount of time and effort in this area that MS does.
Microsoft may have, at some stage in the past, caused a problem with a fix, but sitting here applying 45 updates to every OEM copy of XP+Office I've sold, I can't say I ever noticed a patch screwing up a machine.
I can see your point. I am guessing they thought that the only people who would be interested were those that recognised the name (or those that were really bored and about to be introduced to it).
I actually thought it was refreshing to see a headline that suggested somebody might know something about what they were talking about.
For all the people that hang around here cranking up points with various insightful posts about spyware, how many could be ignorant of this? 180 solutions is well known by anyone who actually deals with spyware - it's like saying AMD when you're talking about computers: far from an obscure reference.
Not just a dupe, but its a stupid story about using natural phenomena as a truly random data source. Anyone who is even slightly interested (enough to know what a one-time-pad is) will know that this isn't even very interesting.
Obviously the Slashdot editors are not part of this group.
Why use a random source of information *that is available to everyone on your side of the planet*? Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
My Engineering professors all beat this guy by years in proving that Fourier Analyisis works. And they used to routinely prove it and use it on the blackboard during my Electrical Engineering course. In fact, superposition of functions is the basis for many mathematical frameworks, including quantum mechanics.
If you're saying Apple felt that this sort of thing would impress anyone who actually has to USE a computer RIGOROUSLY on a DAY TO DAY basis, then I'm disappointed in Apple.
I seriously hope that the sort of lack of improvement in general useability those screenshots show is not indicative of what people find great about OSX. (Never used it so I won't say anything.)
What I'd like to see from any of the GUI designers out there now is a screenshot of ANY OS allowing me to open a browser or program without it taking focus. Allowing me to browse to Google without having my cursor relocated halfway through typing, using a drop-down list that doesn't malfunction if it happens to drop down over where my mouse is. I'd like to see an interface where when I click on a part of my screen it's interpreted in the context of what is there right now, rather than what is going to be there when my drive stops thrashing (probably from loading a fracken Flash or ActiveX control).
Do I need my friggen windows to spin in 3D, or half my desktop real estate taken up by a search that should just have stayed in the damn start menu but gotten some actual functionality about it? Do I need yet bigger icons and spaces between them? More annoying special effects to disable before I get down to work? F*ck no!
Why won't anyone listen and do some REAL thinking about GUIs?
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Hey, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it actually be:
/etc/foo /etc/foo
Active: The boy rides his bike - e.g. The system loads preferences from
Passive: The boy can ride his bike - e.g. The system will load preferences from
My understanding of using active voice is to use only assertive forms of verbs etc. The idea behind not using it in essays/reports etc is that it is taken as a given that someone is asserting something - using will, can, should in every sentence of a technical manual is just pointless.
:-D Crap! And I thought I reread that SOOO many times. My bad.
:-p
Is this another way a security hole could happen?
Fsck it! OK now you got my inerest up. Scanning for viruses - looks OK. C'mon its from MIT! Those .edu domains aren't reserved for nothing.
Hmmm. Under Win2k3, it seems to attempt to run. Unfortunately the server won't tell me the results.
Aaron.
Jesus christ, how did this make frist pots? Are you SERIOUSLY going to waste our time explaining this? Like there is a language left on the face of the planet without multi-threaded support. And umm - yeah, locking is locking. Thanks for that. By the way, locks should be brought upwards and managed intelligently, or avoided with smart procedures and data structures, not pushed deep into the code where it can be called from many places very often. And don't post first on multithreading ever again.
if (getuid() == 0 || geteuid() != 0) I think if you compile this a modern compiler will warn you the statemnt can never be false.
How stupid! If I want to drive a car, I'm free to, however I'm well aware that I take certain risks and need certain knowledge to do so. People who don't understand this wipe themselves and otherpeople off the face of the planet every day.
I'm free to fix my own car. Again if I didn't know what I was doing, that would be really stupid move, and if I did it bad enough the law would insist that the car should be taken off the road.
But people expect to download software and be able to operate it with no training and with no repurcussions to themselves. If someone gave me a free car, does the value of it decrease because I can't drive or fix it up? No, as with EVERYTHING ELSE in life, the value of a freedom is equal to the advantage of it that I can take.
...Linux only.
Another person to ignore.
...the role of computers and their intrusion into every day life has changed dramatically. And yes, most computer classes are about Excel and Word because 'computer skills' has a very different meaning to what it did 10 years ago, let alone 20 or more.
But rest assured, with even Microsoft offering free development tools these days, those that are born to program still will. Even the chances these days of being born into a family with broadband and the ability to access pirate software for messing around with development are far far higher these days.
The computer industry doesn't know whether its about office infrastructure, high-end gaming platforms, VOIP, home automation, programming - eventually these industries will become more separate and universities and schools will create courses that aim into appropriate areas, it will just take time.
What worries me more is that people these days have no idea just how many CPU cycles their program hogs, because noone programs with assembly or C these days - you use Forms Designer and hook bits of spaghetti code to your window. Its disturbing that this is what people see of programming from the beginning, but at the same time there is no way I would go back to programming like I used to have to do.
That's what I think anyway.
Aaron.
with AMD it's now possible to build non-mission critical dual core servers from desktop parts. Not sure how it sits elsewhere, but in Australia Intel is shipping the cheapest Dual core for less than HALF the cost of an AMD X2 3800. Think they might be feeling the pinch? We'll see how this AM2 thing pans out, and what Intel does with their dual core family, over the next six months. Should be very interesting and I think we will be looking at some seriously shit-hot, seriously cheap CPUs.
The media over here has been successfully distracted with a furore over the misdirection of a war casualty, which the various ministers involved will blame each other over until that and the more serious issue of personal privacy have become old news.
I disagree with this. You can enable IE's enhanced security measures and interactively add the sites you visit regularly to the trusted sites list. IE is reasonably intelligent about this and will not load activeX controls that are linked to externally or anything. Also when you enable this the default 'zone' for sites is significantly hardened. I'm not sure if other browsers have followed suit yet, but if they haven't I wouldn't recommend using them - force the developers to make the browsing process more intelligent ;-)
And really, the reason sites are put on these servers is because they are the TARGET of attacks, not the source.
Aaron.
would be to get an Audigy or two. Anyone who thinks recording multi-track audio is an expensive thing to do these days obviously doesn't hang around computers enough.
...who was 'informative' enough to use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to introduce already known information in the middle of a discussion. Note to self - so THIS is how one actually gets mod points!?!
Great. Now we will not only have trouble making things go where we want them to on the screen, we will have to guess if the user is running in pixel doubled mode.
This is absolute bullsh*t. HTML should have gone to SVG a LONG LONG time ago. Working with actual pixel numbers is stupid for both web development and desktop development - I was amazed that MS decided to keep pixels when they unified the forms for desktop and web into one entity.
If we were working on a 1x1 canvas, we could even have anti-aliasing on our desktops.
Check out http://sourceforge.net/buzz-like for an example of an application that is both independent of resolution and allows the user to scale the interface.
Or don't new Slashdot users get to be part of it? And yes, I'm FUCKING serious. Now I've seen this discussion, I don't think I'll bother coming back here. Sounds like this 'Digg' is a much better site. The first informative Slashdot article ever - alternatives to Slashdot.
Someone mod parent down. Its pure fantasy and a troll.
Microsoft 'has become known for' providing timely patches for their software like no-one else. Nobody on the face of the planet invests the amount of time and effort in this area that MS does.
Microsoft may have, at some stage in the past, caused a problem with a fix, but sitting here applying 45 updates to every OEM copy of XP+Office I've sold, I can't say I ever noticed a patch screwing up a machine.
Grrr.
I thought Linux couldn't get viruses! :-S
...voting on a piece of paper is the only way to actually vote.
I hate it so much when /. is spam.
I can see your point. I am guessing they thought that the only people who would be interested were those that recognised the name (or those that were really bored and about to be introduced to it).
I actually thought it was refreshing to see a headline that suggested somebody might know something about what they were talking about.
For all the people that hang around here cranking up points with various insightful posts about spyware, how many could be ignorant of this? 180 solutions is well known by anyone who actually deals with spyware - it's like saying AMD when you're talking about computers: far from an obscure reference.
Not just a dupe, but its a stupid story about using natural phenomena as a truly random data source. Anyone who is even slightly interested (enough to know what a one-time-pad is) will know that this isn't even very interesting.
Obviously the Slashdot editors are not part of this group.
Why use a random source of information *that is available to everyone on your side of the planet*? Kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it?
My Engineering professors all beat this guy by years in proving that Fourier Analyisis works. And they used to routinely prove it and use it on the blackboard during my Electrical Engineering course. In fact, superposition of functions is the basis for many mathematical frameworks, including quantum mechanics.
The basis for my project at http://sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like is Fourier Analysis.
If you're saying Apple felt that this sort of thing would impress anyone who actually has to USE a computer RIGOROUSLY on a DAY TO DAY basis, then I'm disappointed in Apple. I seriously hope that the sort of lack of improvement in general useability those screenshots show is not indicative of what people find great about OSX. (Never used it so I won't say anything.) What I'd like to see from any of the GUI designers out there now is a screenshot of ANY OS allowing me to open a browser or program without it taking focus. Allowing me to browse to Google without having my cursor relocated halfway through typing, using a drop-down list that doesn't malfunction if it happens to drop down over where my mouse is. I'd like to see an interface where when I click on a part of my screen it's interpreted in the context of what is there right now, rather than what is going to be there when my drive stops thrashing (probably from loading a fracken Flash or ActiveX control). Do I need my friggen windows to spin in 3D, or half my desktop real estate taken up by a search that should just have stayed in the damn start menu but gotten some actual functionality about it? Do I need yet bigger icons and spaces between them? More annoying special effects to disable before I get down to work? F*ck no! Why won't anyone listen and do some REAL thinking about GUIs?
that using a NOT gate it is possible to build any logic gate, and hence a computer.