The German law firm is not working for Adobe. Adobe apparently has nothing to do with the cease-and-desist letter being sent. Read the article again and be enlightened..:o)
You're kidding me? I am talking about things like microprocessors, ICs and logic circuits. How often does your computer hardware fail compared to the software it runs?
Sorry, but this is a bunch of crap! F00F-bug, anyone? Hardware is as much algorithmic as any software. It's just etched in ROMs or whatever. And it's tested more rigourously. Obviously it has to be. But it's still subject to human error.
Obviously some moderator without the slightest hint of humour read my post and decided - "Not funny, therefore off-topic". Thank you very much for this encouragement to try to make the world a funnier place. I think I'll take my fathers hunting rifle to school tomorrow anyway..
P.S.;o)
What about the physically impaired, or decrepit with age? Why shouldn't they use brain and experience to counter youth and reflexes?
I consider the use of aimbots (I can't say anything about MUD-scripts. Although I was around I never played MUD) to be the equivalent of doping to enhance your abilities when doing professional sports. And yes, I do consider gaming (at least in the form of FPS) to be a sport. It's a game of skill. Artificial enhancement of said skills are cheating. And yes, the skills decrease with age. Too bad.. (And no, I'm not some 16 year old brat myself..:o) )
Would you take away the paraphanalia that Stephen Hawking uses to commincate as an unfair advantage?
Of course not. And that's not even the issue here. Steven Hawkins needs his paraphanalia to be able to communicate with the outside world. He's not trying to gain an advantage. He already has this advantage (his intellect and ideas) and only uses artificial means for communicating his ideas.
Let me ask you: If you had trained for months on end to participate in a sporting event and someone took a shortcut by doping or other illegal means and beat you, would you condone that and say "Hey, he doped himself. What a good display of winning spirit..."? Somehow I don't think you would.
It all comes down to the skills needed to play the game. If the skills needed are fast reflexes and the ability to aim using your mouse/whatever, a program enhancing these skills have to be considered cheating. If the game is CoreWars or something of that nature then coding skills are highly needed. Of course the ability to aim with a mouse is of no use in CoreWars..:o)
For the life of me, I can't see why it is considered cheating.
Excuse me??? You can't see why an automatic always-hit-the-other-gamers program is considered cheating in what otherwise is a game about skills? C'mon.. Noone is that naive.. I'm a coder. I could probably write an aimbot. I will also tell you that absolutely noone (except maybe the cheating b*st*rds) will compliment me for my coding skills if I used it online.
Cheating only destroys the fun in online games for honest people. I really don't see any satisfaction in ruining other peoples fun.
I honestly hope that ASUS is digging their own grave here..
The article actually says more than 10 TB of data..
Lets for fun say 11 TB.. That's 1 TB a year. 1 TB/year = 1024 GB/year = ~2.8 GB/day = ~2878 MB/day = ~120 MB/hour = ~2 MB/min = ~34 KB/sec. Doesn't sound of much does it..? Until you realize that 34 KB/sec is the average data-rate during the last 11 years..:o)
Haapy birthday Hubble. And keep those data coming..:o)
You can't be serious?! You would hire someone with no passion (and essentially no interest) for the job at hand?
I'm the main coder (read: the only coder:o) ) in a small one-year-old company trying to get on the market with a product. We are about to hire another coder for the web-side of our product. We are looking for a person who fit the following:
Pleasant to be around
Important because we have a small office. We are going to be around eachother a lot. Not a "9 to 5"-person
The "9 to 5" concept is destructive for creativity. If we're "on a roll" we go with it. We need someone who "forgets" time when things are going well. Nevermind the days when productivity is at zero. We all have those. Those days we quit early. Creative
Important. We are developing a new, never before seen product. We need someone with ideas. Plays Quake (or other games)
Yes, I'm serious.. Quake 3 is the favorite passtime and "tie-breaker" in our little company. We need someone who will not frown upon games being played in working hours. And preferrably someone who will join in..:o)
A person who fits these criteria needs to have passion for his/her work. And that's the most important criteria of all. We don't need someone who does his/her job mindless and without passion. That just doesn't fit in...
Oh yeah.. And it's the game industry's fault right? Never mind the violence on TV.. Next we'll see these people suing CNN for broadcasting news from conflicts around the world.
"If you consistently expose...". C'mon.. Please.. It's not as if we are talking about kids here that use all their time gaming.. These were high-school kids for crying out loud. And if they really used that much time in front of a computer playing Doom/Quake/whatever maybe the parents should have done something about it? Oh yeah.. Forgot.. They sued them too..
By your definition we should ban all kinds of exposure: games, movies, news, cartoons.. And we can't let the kids play now can we?
This is just another typical example of capitalization on a tradegy.. "Let's get as much money out of this as possible".. I got traumatized reading the article.. Maybe I should sue the suers?
And watch out 'cause I play Q3 on a regular basis. I might shoot you just for the fun of it.. That was sarcasm in case you missed it..
Hmm.. Did you ever think about reading the rest of the message? There's 23 pages you know...
Why extend the binary counting past 10 digits (and not nine as you say) when 10 digits is all we use to represent numbers?
The exponential notation and the minus-sign is explained on subsequent pages. The header is a section-header, this one meaning maths.
I do not agree in "keep it simple". This is not going to be anything else than a one way conversation. We are not going to be able to talk to them over the phone. If they are advanced enough to receive this message they should be advanced enough to understand the math and physics described on the page.
Oh, and btw. This is not sent by NASA.
Not only is it conserving bandwidth, it's also exploiting one of the thought-to-be universally known mathematical concepts: primes. 127 is prime. The symbols are 5x7 pixels. Both primes. All in all this will help (hopefully) the recipients to line up the message.
Hats off to the creators of this message. What frequency did they broadcast it on..? Hydrogen * pi GHz?:o)
You might want to check the movie of it. "Mystery solved". It's on the page.
It's solid alright. I just wonder how someone got 1000 pounds of concrete out onto that island. /S
According to scientists (there ought to be a link, but I can't remember it..), the maximum framerate a human can actually perceive is 76 fps. Higher than that might be easier on the eye (I know 100 Hz is clearly much more comfortable than say 60 Hz), but it's not possible to perceive higher than 76 Hz (fps). /S
The DNS-system scales very well for the exact reason that it's heirarchical. As of now there is 248 TLD's (DNS & BIND, Poul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly Books) and DNS is not even close to being the bottleneck.
That being said, I don't believe it's viable to have arbitrary TLD's. It would cause even more disputes over who gets which name. And a popular TLD would need to be hosted on a solid NS. I doubt most ordinary (and yes, ultra-geeks are included here) people have the ability, bandwidth and hardware to do this.
And for the keyword idea.. It all comes down to the same as.com: "Owning" a word. Who gets "Sun" as a keyword? "Linux"? "Windows"? So either way we're doomed..
Let's see.. I am supposed to be able to send email from this thing..? From a Palm..? While riding..? Yeah.. I could picture myself riding this (probably heavy) bike with one hand while tapping merrily (or writing Graffiti) on the Palm with the other hand watching the road, the traffic and the Palm on the same time.. NOT! Here in Denmark we have a law against talking on a cellphone while driving a car or riding a bike. There is a reason for that..
This is another example of a useless "we-have-nothing-better-to-do-let's-make-a-gadget- because-we-can" toy. Sure it's cool to have a Palm on your bike. But would you really want to..? Can you say "rain"...?
And it's not even fitted with a wireless network. It has to be plugged in d*mmit..! I suppose it doesn't come with 100 km's worth of Cat-5 cabling? /S
>Coud someone who really knows their stuff >explain completely how my copy of Netscape >goes out and finds a domain?
Here is what happens: - You type in www.adomainishere.blarg - Your resolver asks one of the DNS'es you have typed in: "Give me the address of www.adomainishere.blarg" - The nameserver says "WHAT?!" but keeps it to itself..;-) It first checks the zones it's authoritative for. Then the zones it has cached. If it doesn't find an answer, it asks one of the root-servers: "Who is authoritative for.blarg"? - If the root-server can't find an authoritative server for.blarg an error is returned to your nameserver which forwards this error to your resolver which again forwards it to Netscape. Now Netscape tells you that the host is unknown.
"DNS and BIND" by Albitz and Liu (O'Reilly) has everything you would want to know about DNS. Also RFC's 1034 and 1035 would tell you a lot. Goto http://www.rfc.net for those.
Also "DNS Resources Directory" at http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ has a lot of information worth looking at if you want to know more.
I love my optical IntelliMouse Explorer. I haven't had any of the cord-problems that other people talk about. And I play plenty of Quake (1500 samples a second. Split-hair precision with a rail-gun..)...:-) But a cordless version would be preferrable. Before buying the IntelliMouse I preferred Logitechs cordless mice. But the fact that the IntelliMouse has no ball(s;-) ) convinced me to buy one. IMO M$ should make a cordless version soon. People would buy it. I know I would.
What a sad ending to Larry's life.. I mean, you should think that a man with guts enough to sit 16k feet above the ground in a lawn chair had the life-force to get on with life..
Or as Einstein put it: "The more I learn the more I realize I don't know" A good view on life and a good view on programming. My goal in programming is to write the simplest code possible to a given problem. The code should be easily read and maintained. /S
As long as these messages are non-obtrusive(sp?), i.e not requiring any user-interaction I see nothing wrong with it. They could show an ascii-banner filling the screen for all I care. I don't see it anyway as my server boots automatically and with the monitor off...:-b
By being sponsored developers can (and will) put more time into their projects. Result..? Higher quality software (in theory;-) )..
This is the way sponsorship (as this is) and advertising (as this isn't) works. A corp give you money and expect to see their name somewhere. Fair enough. If they want to put advertising in my boot-sequence, fine. As long as the boot-sequence isn't stopped or hindered in any way.
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'm just wondering..? 70 is fast for you? 70 x 1.6 = 112 km/h. That is 2 km/h more than the legal speed limit on freeways here in Denmark. This is considered slow. Most people driving on the freeway is doing 130-140 km/h (~85-90 mph).
While VB is easily maintainable, it is also a weak language
Please justify this.
Easy..: No pointers, no inheritance and no polymorphy.
I have never in my four years developing in VB had a single GPF with it or any of the apps I've written in it.
That describes a robust system. Not a strong language.
People tend to bag VB as if all you can do with it is what the text books teach you. If anything, it makes a fantastic language to hack with because it limits you in very few ways. (I have much code that says you don't need to do things the MS sanctioned way.) You should separate the language, the platform (Windows) and the use of it and critique them separately.
I disagree..! VB limits you in every way possible. Granted, you can do a lot with subclassing, but then you are stressing the system and risking breakdown.
And the idea of a "type-free" language should make most coders vomit in fear...
Do you know how many bugs are introduced by manual memory management? How about obfuscated code?
How about subclassing from VB..? A lot of very weird errors and breakdowns can be the result of a single forgotten line.
I use VB in my everyday work. As a RAD it is great. But as soon as you have 3 developers working on a system with 250+ forms and 400.000+ lines of code in VB you have a problem. VB is totally inept in terms of project management. Source Safe is a feeble attempt to correct the problem. It GPF's more often than not.
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The German law firm is not working for Adobe. Adobe apparently has nothing to do with the cease-and-desist letter being sent. Read the article again and be enlightened.. :o)
And that is informative how? Seen that this is an article about NSA publishing documents about securing Win2K this information hardly seems relevant.
Obviously some moderator without the slightest hint of humour read my post and decided - "Not funny, therefore off-topic". Thank you very much for this encouragement to try to make the world a funnier place. I think I'll take my fathers hunting rifle to school tomorrow anyway.. P.S. ;o)
Of course not. And that's not even the issue here. Steven Hawkins needs his paraphanalia to be able to communicate with the outside world. He's not trying to gain an advantage. He already has this advantage (his intellect and ideas) and only uses artificial means for communicating his ideas.
Let me ask you: If you had trained for months on end to participate in a sporting event and someone took a shortcut by doping or other illegal means and beat you, would you condone that and say "Hey, he doped himself. What a good display of winning spirit..."? Somehow I don't think you would.
It all comes down to the skills needed to play the game. If the skills needed are fast reflexes and the ability to aim using your mouse/whatever, a program enhancing these skills have to be considered cheating. If the game is CoreWars or something of that nature then coding skills are highly needed. Of course the ability to aim with a mouse is of no use in CoreWars..
Excuse me??? You can't see why an automatic always-hit-the-other-gamers program is considered cheating in what otherwise is a game about skills? C'mon.. Noone is that naive.. I'm a coder. I could probably write an aimbot. I will also tell you that absolutely noone (except maybe the cheating b*st*rds) will compliment me for my coding skills if I used it online.
Cheating only destroys the fun in online games for honest people. I really don't see any satisfaction in ruining other peoples fun.
I honestly hope that ASUS is digging their own grave here..
The article actually says more than 10 TB of data..
:o)
:o)
Lets for fun say 11 TB.. That's 1 TB a year. 1 TB/year = 1024 GB/year = ~2.8 GB/day = ~2878 MB/day = ~120 MB/hour = ~2 MB/min = ~34 KB/sec. Doesn't sound of much does it..? Until you realize that 34 KB/sec is the average data-rate during the last 11 years..
Haapy birthday Hubble. And keep those data coming..
You can't be serious?! You would hire someone with no passion (and essentially no interest) for the job at hand?
:o) ) in a small one-year-old company trying to get on the market with a product. We are about to hire another coder for the web-side of our product. We are looking for a person who fit the following:
:o)
I'm the main coder (read: the only coder
Pleasant to be around
Important because we have a small office. We are going to be around eachother a lot.
Not a "9 to 5"-person
The "9 to 5" concept is destructive for creativity. If we're "on a roll" we go with it. We need someone who "forgets" time when things are going well. Nevermind the days when productivity is at zero. We all have those. Those days we quit early.
Creative
Important. We are developing a new, never before seen product. We need someone with ideas.
Plays Quake (or other games)
Yes, I'm serious.. Quake 3 is the favorite passtime and "tie-breaker" in our little company. We need someone who will not frown upon games being played in working hours. And preferrably someone who will join in..
A person who fits these criteria needs to have passion for his/her work. And that's the most important criteria of all. We don't need someone who does his/her job mindless and without passion. That just doesn't fit in...
Oh yeah.. And it's the game industry's fault right? Never mind the violence on TV.. Next we'll see these people suing CNN for broadcasting news from conflicts around the world.
"If you consistently expose...". C'mon.. Please.. It's not as if we are talking about kids here that use all their time gaming.. These were high-school kids for crying out loud. And if they really used that much time in front of a computer playing Doom/Quake/whatever maybe the parents should have done something about it? Oh yeah.. Forgot.. They sued them too..
By your definition we should ban all kinds of exposure: games, movies, news, cartoons.. And we can't let the kids play now can we?
This is just another typical example of capitalization on a tradegy.. "Let's get as much money out of this as possible".. I got traumatized reading the article.. Maybe I should sue the suers?
And watch out 'cause I play Q3 on a regular basis. I might shoot you just for the fun of it.. That was sarcasm in case you missed it..
Sorry.. I didn't see you already was aware of the NASA thing.. Please don't kill me.. ;o)
Hmm.. Did you ever think about reading the rest of the message? There's 23 pages you know...
Why extend the binary counting past 10 digits (and not nine as you say) when 10 digits is all we use to represent numbers?
The exponential notation and the minus-sign is explained on subsequent pages. The header is a section-header, this one meaning maths.
I do not agree in "keep it simple". This is not going to be anything else than a one way conversation. We are not going to be able to talk to them over the phone. If they are advanced enough to receive this message they should be advanced enough to understand the math and physics described on the page.
Oh, and btw. This is not sent by NASA.
Not only is it conserving bandwidth, it's also exploiting one of the thought-to-be universally known mathematical concepts: primes. 127 is prime. The symbols are 5x7 pixels. Both primes. All in all this will help (hopefully) the recipients to line up the message. :o)
Hats off to the creators of this message. What frequency did they broadcast it on..? Hydrogen * pi GHz?
You might want to check the movie of it. "Mystery solved". It's on the page.
/S
It's solid alright. I just wonder how someone got 1000 pounds of concrete out onto that island.
According to scientists (there ought to be a link, but I can't remember it..), the maximum framerate a human can actually perceive is 76 fps. Higher than that might be easier on the eye (I know 100 Hz is clearly much more comfortable than say 60 Hz), but it's not possible to perceive higher than 76 Hz (fps).
/S
Or, as Albert Einstein put it:
/S
"The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know."
The DNS-system scales very well for the exact reason that it's heirarchical. As of now there is 248 TLD's (DNS & BIND, Poul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly Books) and DNS is not even close to being the bottleneck. .com: "Owning" a word. Who gets "Sun" as a keyword? "Linux"? "Windows"? So either way we're doomed..
That being said, I don't believe it's viable to have arbitrary TLD's. It would cause even more disputes over who gets which name. And a popular TLD would need to be hosted on a solid NS. I doubt most ordinary (and yes, ultra-geeks are included here) people have the ability, bandwidth and hardware to do this.
And for the keyword idea.. It all comes down to the same as
Let's see.. I am supposed to be able to send email from this thing..? From a Palm..? While riding..? Yeah.. I could picture myself riding this (probably heavy) bike with one hand while tapping merrily (or writing Graffiti) on the Palm with the other hand watching the road, the traffic and the Palm on the same time.. NOT! Here in Denmark we have a law against talking on a cellphone while driving a car or riding a bike. There is a reason for that..- because-we-can" toy. Sure it's cool to have a Palm on your bike. But would you really want to..? Can you say "rain"...?
/S
This is another example of a useless "we-have-nothing-better-to-do-let's-make-a-gadget
And it's not even fitted with a wireless network. It has to be plugged in d*mmit..! I suppose it doesn't come with 100 km's worth of Cat-5 cabling?
>Coud someone who really knows their stuff
;-) It first checks the zones it's authoritative for. Then the zones it has cached. If it doesn't find an answer, it asks one of the root-servers: "Who is authoritative for .blarg"? .blarg an error is returned to your nameserver which forwards this error to your resolver which again forwards it to Netscape. Now Netscape tells you that the host is unknown.
:-)
>explain completely how my copy of Netscape
>goes out and finds a domain?
Here is what happens:
- You type in www.adomainishere.blarg
- Your resolver asks one of the DNS'es you have typed in: "Give me the address of www.adomainishere.blarg"
- The nameserver says "WHAT?!" but keeps it to itself..
- If the root-server can't find an authoritative server for
"DNS and BIND" by Albitz and Liu (O'Reilly) has everything you would want to know about DNS. Also RFC's 1034 and 1035 would tell you a lot. Goto http://www.rfc.net for those.
Also "DNS Resources Directory" at http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/ has a lot of information worth looking at if you want to know more.
I hope it's useful.
I love my optical IntelliMouse Explorer. I haven't had any of the cord-problems that other people talk about. And I play plenty of Quake (1500 samples a second. Split-hair precision with a rail-gun..)... :-) ;-) ) convinced me to buy one.
But a cordless version would be preferrable. Before buying the IntelliMouse I preferred Logitechs cordless mice. But the fact that the IntelliMouse has no ball(s
IMO M$ should make a cordless version soon. People would buy it. I know I would.
What a sad ending to Larry's life.. I mean, you should think that a man with guts enough to sit 16k feet above the ground in a lawn chair had the life-force to get on with life..
:-(
Life sucks, get a fscking helmet..
>Oh well, I guess he's not doing it for the prize
:-)
>anyway, but it seems like a shame to risk your
>life and not get the honor.
So what you're saying is this: "He was killed, but at least he won the prize..."? Hmmm...
Seriously, this has to be the most brave person on planet Earth. He's got balls the size of Mt.Everest!
I hope he succeeds! GO rocketguy GO!
Or as Einstein put it:
/S
"The more I learn the more I realize I don't know"
A good view on life and a good view on programming.
My goal in programming is to write the simplest code possible to a given problem. The code should be easily read and maintained.
As long as these messages are non-obtrusive(sp?), i.e not requiring any user-interaction I see nothing wrong with it. They could show an ascii-banner filling the screen for all I care. I don't see it anyway as my server boots automatically and with the monitor off...:-b
;-) )..
By being sponsored developers can (and will) put more time into their projects. Result..? Higher quality software (in theory
This is the way sponsorship (as this is) and advertising (as this isn't) works. A corp give you money and expect to see their name somewhere. Fair enough. If they want to put advertising in my boot-sequence, fine. As long as the boot-sequence isn't stopped or hindered in any way.
Sorry for being off-topic, but I'm just wondering..?
70 is fast for you? 70 x 1.6 = 112 km/h. That is 2 km/h more than the legal speed limit on freeways here in Denmark. This is considered slow. Most people driving on the freeway is doing 130-140 km/h (~85-90 mph).
Just wondering..
While VB is easily maintainable, it is also a weak language
Please justify this.
Easy..: No pointers, no inheritance and no polymorphy.
I have never in my four years developing in VB had a single GPF with it or any of the apps I've written in it.
That describes a robust system. Not a strong language.
People tend to bag VB as if all you can do with it is what the text books teach you. If anything, it makes a fantastic language to hack with because it limits you in very few ways. (I have much code that says you don't need to do things the MS sanctioned way.) You should separate the language, the platform (Windows) and the use of it and critique them separately.
I disagree..! VB limits you in every way possible. Granted, you can do a lot with subclassing, but then you are stressing the system and risking breakdown.
And the idea of a "type-free" language should make most coders vomit in fear...
Do you know how many bugs are introduced by manual memory management? How about obfuscated code?
How about subclassing from VB..? A lot of very weird errors and breakdowns can be the result of a single forgotten line.
I use VB in my everyday work. As a RAD it is great. But as soon as you have 3 developers working on a system with 250+ forms and 400.000+ lines of code in VB you have a problem. VB is totally inept in terms of project management. Source Safe is a feeble attempt to correct the problem. It GPF's more often than not.