Actually, Java might be the language to look to here. Strictly defined interfaces and forced modularity and object-orientation... For a simple application you would mostly just import the required compontents and glue them together.
Of course Java isn't unique in that, and there's probably languages around now that handles it even better, but it is one of the mature and popular languages, and it's specifically designed for component reuse, not code reuse.
It's strange, though, the summary talks about 'code reuse', noting that 'More often than not, these constituent parts are Open Source software systems and typically not designed to be used as components.' Shouldn't this mean future code should be coded more modular and object-oriented, not that in the future we will be copy/pasting and refactoring code from code repositories?
We have øil, though, sø I'm sure we will be liberated from our evil socialist prime minister any day now, especially once they find out that we harbour weapons of mass disgustion such as 'gammalost' and 'lutefisk'.
I wonder, is Google looking at these alternative search methods? He mentions in the article that to do this to the entire Flicker would take 'some sort of Google-like infrastructure'... I used to assume that, being the current king of text search, Google would be expanding into more intelligent media searches, like this kind of 'similar image'-search, automatic tagging (like automatically indexing a picture 'nature' and 'winter'), and searching for songs by entering a couple of notes. They never did though, and instead began diversifying with maps, mail and office packs. They've been talking about using fingerprint technology in Youtube, though, so I guess we could get some fallout from that.
That does seem a little unlikely. Isn't ext3 still basically ext2 with journaling? How are they still making such progress with it that performance will soon match a modern filesystem like Reiser4, which among other things has a more optimized disk layout and will have transparent compression? If there are patches to bring those to ext3, they're neither stable nor ext2 compatible, which are supposed to be ext3's advantage. (Meh. Upon RTFA'ing I see what they meant was that ext3 will "soon" match the performance of ReiserFS (3), and that it is still more stable than Reiser4. The summary still deserves the rant, and I'm actually curious about how they are improving performance in ext3 nowadays, so I'm still posting this.)
Do you know what search engines are good for searching Japanese, then? There seems to be a soft net culture gap between Japan and the west, and I've been assuming they have their own Google/Myspace/Youtube-equivalents, like the winny/share-thing for file sharing.
Besides the fact that a "cure for cancer" is a wide enough term to be meaningless (there are many different forms of cancer, and we already have effective means to combat many of them,) I can't quite imagine how you would win an ignobel prize for finding such a cure... I guess you'd have to cure cancer, but in a really stupid way. "The anti-carciogenic effects of wearing funny hats, standing on one foot and singing the national anthem while engaging in sexual self-stimulation."?
It's true, you know. Everybody's talking about the black helicopters, but that's just because no-one ever sees the pink ones. Actually, I hear that some Spitfires in World War 2 were light pink to blend in with cloud covers. Never heard anything about it being particularly good against blue sky. Pink is also great for hiding in the desert.
This software is operational and ready to rumble. In fact, I talked to you via VaporStream just yesterday and just as promised, there is no record of it anywhere! The messages couldn't be forwarded, edited, printed, saved or remembered. In fact, it was so secret, neither of us have any recollection of it at all. So don't worry, your embarrasing yet juicy secret is safe with me, all thanks to VaporStream.
Seriously, this does sounds like some kind of vaporware/snakeoil hybrid. There's far to much business speak and not nearly enough tech speak on their webpage, and no hint about how it actually works. Just a lot of "patent pending" and "privacy and confidentiality". Based on the "See VaporStream in action" video, I'd give the "separate header and stream" technique they talk about around 97% chance of being bullshit.
I'd guess the clients connect to the VaporStream server, and thus can't be shown to have spoken directly to another. They could even trickle random data when idle, so you couldn't correlate the time of the packages. It still sounds like snakeoil, but it's not quite as bad as you seem to think.
Maybe the board of directors think successfully claiming incompetence to cover up illegal and immoral activities shows a high competence in of business ethics?
Indeed. This looks like an option that adds some variety to the gameplay. (That is, for fun, not for 'realism') It uses market-theory to adjust the prices until people are willing to use 'inferior' guns for the economic benefits, and diverse equipment should bring diverse tactics.
I'm not sure how the described pricing algorithm would behave, though. Can anyone predict what kind of 'final' prices would come out of that thing? Would it be stable or could start swinging or hyperinflating? I guess they're planning on adjusting it as they go, but it would be nice to get a more in-depth description of how they're calculating it and why they think that'll work.
TFA makes it look kind of obligatory, which I suppose means it will be turned on by default, but surely they wouldn't compromice match gameplay by forcing their unpredictable pricing on everyone... If they did, people would start reporting false statistics to even out prices. (I guess some people will do that anyway... They don't mention any anti-statspamming measures in the article, will they only be taking stats frome some selected and trusted servers?)
Results 1 - 10 of about 365 from myspace.com for propely. Results 1 - 10 of about 72 from myspace.com for poperly. Results 1 - 10 of about 44 from myspace.com for proprely. Results 1 - 10 of about 22 from myspace.com for propelry.... Heh.
It's a more general computer language, though, and doesn't come packaged with standard modules for simple graphics, sounds and a Inkey$-like function. I learned programming in QBasic, and the IDE was just as important as the language for ease of learning. Function-help and a nice and well-organized help file are invaluable for poking around and going 'what does this do?' and 'is there a function for...?'
That's more of a fetish, though. If they kept going on about how Japanese women were very shy, or how they all had very big and bouncy boobs, or how they all pilot mechas, or how much they all enjoyed tentacle rape, that would be a racist generalization.
Get your mind out of the gutter.. I mean, RTFA, it just shows dirty pixels. But you wipe them to see pleasant pictures. And fist butterflyes. Um, that didn't sound right. Anyway, there's no innuendo here. This is a pure and innocent article about helping people with their strokes!
Naming planets after gods gets weird pretty quick, though... As an extreme example, what would happen when they named some insignificant chunk of rock "God" or "Allah" or "Jahwe" or something? You really have to pick out the guaranteed dead ones, or fictional deities. "Yeah, we expect God and Allah to continue in their decaying twin orbit for another century or so, then they'll smash together and be torn apart by the combined gravitational pull of Buddha and Goofy."
Sometimes the project never were in your control. Various kinds of code visualisation/organizing are great for looking over code that you did not write yourself, and for large projects where different teams are working on different modules... That's very different from a simple one-man-project homepage.
You contradict yourself here. First you say changing the passwords would make a brute force attack less desirable since the password would only be valid in a limited timeframe, then you say changing passwords will likely be ineffective when the system is already breached. It's just a nitpick, really, I agree with your main points. Note though, that passwords, especially with enforced complexity, are more difficult to remember than a phone number (did you ever forget how you mixed the case on your phone number?), most persons are already forced to remember dozens of them, not just for work, most people don't change their phone number every 90 days, and if you force me to have one of those crazy uppercase-lowercase-number-sign-mixes for a password I will write it down somewhere (though not on a post-it on my monitor, as some of the more hard-core lusers have been known to do.)
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I foresee heavy bonuses for teachers with degrees in statistics.
Actually, Java might be the language to look to here. Strictly defined interfaces and forced modularity and object-orientation... For a simple application you would mostly just import the required compontents and glue them together.
Of course Java isn't unique in that, and there's probably languages around now that handles it even better, but it is one of the mature and popular languages, and it's specifically designed for component reuse, not code reuse.
It's strange, though, the summary talks about 'code reuse', noting that 'More often than not, these constituent parts are Open Source software systems and typically not designed to be used as components.'
Shouldn't this mean future code should be coded more modular and object-oriented, not that in the future we will be copy/pasting and refactoring code from code repositories?
We have øil, though, sø I'm sure we will be liberated from our evil socialist prime minister any day now, especially once they find out that we harbour weapons of mass disgustion such as 'gammalost' and 'lutefisk'.
I wonder, is Google looking at these alternative search methods? He mentions in the article that to do this to the entire Flicker would take 'some sort of Google-like infrastructure'...
I used to assume that, being the current king of text search, Google would be expanding into more intelligent media searches, like this kind of 'similar image'-search, automatic tagging (like automatically indexing a picture 'nature' and 'winter'), and searching for songs by entering a couple of notes.
They never did though, and instead began diversifying with maps, mail and office packs. They've been talking about using fingerprint technology in Youtube, though, so I guess we could get some fallout from that.
And many of the more geeky ones are listed here at the Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics page: http://intuitor.com/moviephysics/core.html
That does seem a little unlikely. Isn't ext3 still basically ext2 with journaling? How are they still making such progress with it that performance will soon match a modern filesystem like Reiser4, which among other things has a more optimized disk layout and will have transparent compression? If there are patches to bring those to ext3, they're neither stable nor ext2 compatible, which are supposed to be ext3's advantage.
(Meh. Upon RTFA'ing I see what they meant was that ext3 will "soon" match the performance of ReiserFS (3), and that it is still more stable than Reiser4. The summary still deserves the rant, and I'm actually curious about how they are improving performance in ext3 nowadays, so I'm still posting this.)
Do you know what search engines are good for searching Japanese, then? There seems to be a soft net culture gap between Japan and the west, and I've been assuming they have their own Google/Myspace/Youtube-equivalents, like the winny/share-thing for file sharing.
Besides the fact that a "cure for cancer" is a wide enough term to be meaningless (there are many different forms of cancer, and we already have effective means to combat many of them,) I can't quite imagine how you would win an ignobel prize for finding such a cure...
I guess you'd have to cure cancer, but in a really stupid way. "The anti-carciogenic effects of wearing funny hats, standing on one foot and singing the national anthem while engaging in sexual self-stimulation."?
It's true, you know. Everybody's talking about the black helicopters, but that's just because no-one ever sees the pink ones.
Actually, I hear that some Spitfires in World War 2 were light pink to blend in with cloud covers. Never heard anything about it being particularly good against blue sky. Pink is also great for hiding in the desert.
So obviously, if you're fighting Jesus Christ, everyone who is not with you are with the enemy.
Sheesh, this is simple deduction, here.
This software is operational and ready to rumble. In fact, I talked to you via VaporStream just yesterday and just as promised, there is no record of it anywhere! The messages couldn't be forwarded, edited, printed, saved or remembered. In fact, it was so secret, neither of us have any recollection of it at all. So don't worry, your embarrasing yet juicy secret is safe with me, all thanks to VaporStream.
Seriously, this does sounds like some kind of vaporware/snakeoil hybrid. There's far to much business speak and not nearly enough tech speak on their webpage, and no hint about how it actually works. Just a lot of "patent pending" and "privacy and confidentiality". Based on the "See VaporStream in action" video, I'd give the "separate header and stream" technique they talk about around 97% chance of being bullshit.
I'd guess the clients connect to the VaporStream server, and thus can't be shown to have spoken directly to another. They could even trickle random data when idle, so you couldn't correlate the time of the packages. It still sounds like snakeoil, but it's not quite as bad as you seem to think.
"Mutt keys clone".
Maybe the board of directors think successfully claiming incompetence to cover up illegal and immoral activities shows a high competence in of business ethics?
Indeed. This looks like an option that adds some variety to the gameplay. (That is, for fun, not for 'realism')
It uses market-theory to adjust the prices until people are willing to use 'inferior' guns for the economic benefits, and diverse equipment should bring diverse tactics.
I'm not sure how the described pricing algorithm would behave, though. Can anyone predict what kind of 'final' prices would come out of that thing? Would it be stable or could start swinging or hyperinflating? I guess they're planning on adjusting it as they go, but it would be nice to get a more in-depth description of how they're calculating it and why they think that'll work.
TFA makes it look kind of obligatory, which I suppose means it will be turned on by default, but surely they wouldn't compromice match gameplay by forcing their unpredictable pricing on everyone... If they did, people would start reporting false statistics to even out prices. (I guess some people will do that anyway... They don't mention any anti-statspamming measures in the article, will they only be taking stats frome some selected and trusted servers?)
Results 1 - 10 of about 365 from myspace.com for propely. ... Heh.
Results 1 - 10 of about 72 from myspace.com for poperly.
Results 1 - 10 of about 44 from myspace.com for proprely.
Results 1 - 10 of about 22 from myspace.com for propelry.
Or like car batteries, that tend to get buildups of hydrogen gas inside them.
It's a more general computer language, though, and doesn't come packaged with standard modules for simple graphics, sounds and a Inkey$-like function. I learned programming in QBasic, and the IDE was just as important as the language for ease of learning. Function-help and a nice and well-organized help file are invaluable for poking around and going 'what does this do?' and 'is there a function for...?'
That's more of a fetish, though. If they kept going on about how Japanese women were very shy, or how they all had very big and bouncy boobs, or how they all pilot mechas, or how much they all enjoyed tentacle rape, that would be a racist generalization.
I rather thought his question to you was, how does something impact our lives without affecting the economy?
He said 'at best'.
Get your mind out of the gutter..
I mean, RTFA, it just shows dirty pixels. But you wipe them to see pleasant pictures. And fist butterflyes.
Um, that didn't sound right. Anyway, there's no innuendo here. This is a pure and innocent article about helping people with their strokes!
Naming planets after gods gets weird pretty quick, though... As an extreme example, what would happen when they named some insignificant chunk of rock "God" or "Allah" or "Jahwe" or something? You really have to pick out the guaranteed dead ones, or fictional deities.
"Yeah, we expect God and Allah to continue in their decaying twin orbit for another century or so, then they'll smash together and be torn apart by the combined gravitational pull of Buddha and Goofy."
Sometimes the project never were in your control. Various kinds of code visualisation/organizing are great for looking over code that you did not write yourself, and for large projects where different teams are working on different modules... That's very different from a simple one-man-project homepage.
You contradict yourself here. First you say changing the passwords would make a brute force attack less desirable since the password would only be valid in a limited timeframe, then you say changing passwords will likely be ineffective when the system is already breached.
It's just a nitpick, really, I agree with your main points. Note though, that passwords, especially with enforced complexity, are more difficult to remember than a phone number (did you ever forget how you mixed the case on your phone number?), most persons are already forced to remember dozens of them, not just for work, most people don't change their phone number every 90 days, and if you force me to have one of those crazy uppercase-lowercase-number-sign-mixes for a password I will write it down somewhere (though not on a post-it on my monitor, as some of the more hard-core lusers have been known to do.)