What was the other one? No buffer overflows? COBOL prevents this by denying the programmer direct access to memory, which I don't consider a virtue. Slowing down everybody's code by checking every array access is not better that requiring programmers to be disciplined. An out-of-bounds array access is still a programmer error, whether it was caught by the run-time environment or not.
If BCD arithmatic (which is inefficient in both speed and storage space) is the only virtue you can find in a language, then the language isn't worth using.
Umm, no, that code had to change because everybody used 2 ASCII characters for the year instead of four, or instead of just using a 16 bit integer that would have taken the same space and lasted another 63k years. At least, I hope so, COBOL really shouldn't have been allowed to survive past 1990.
Maybe those coders were making a point, that being "Anybody who's still using this senseless language in 2000 gets what they deserve."
You are assuming that all control messages cause the interference. The interference is caused by special higher-power transmissions that happen when the phone thinks it is losing the tower and needs to boost power to get through.
In high tower density areas, especially on 70 MPH elevated roads in cities, you might switch towers 3-4 times a minute. You can't wait several minutes between the control messages, because then the system doesn't know which tower has the phone until the phone pings the tower. If that's several minutes there will be a noticeable lag to incoming calls.
When you send an SMS the network sends data that it wouldn't send if idle.
No it doesn't, and that's the point. The control messages will still be sent, only those 160 characters will be blank. All you're doing when texting is changing some of those zeroes to ones - filling in the pad bits with your data. There's no increase in the amount of data being sent from the phone to the tower.
Any new work done with government funding is, in fact, owned by the government. But if that work is not totally new, but is instead derived from inventions or designed under the companies funds, that part funded by the company cannot be compelled to be released to the government or any other party.
It is up to the government to make work they own public domain. Obviously, they're not going to release ICBM designs on the internet, but they do give designs they own to other companies to replicate or improve on.
It's not national security, it's corporate information developed under IRD that prevents the info from going public. The government cannot compel any organization to release privately owned information to it's competitors (except in cases of national security). However, if SpaceX would like to pay Orbital to teach them how to build a missile that works the first time, I'm sure Orbital would love to help out.
And outsourcing to private companies does help by reducing the cost of space launch to other US companies that need to put satellites up.
But I'd much rather see them speed the cores up than endlessly multiply the number of them.
Your idea is not feasible because it screws up too many marketing campaigns. Please revise your idea and run it through sales before submission to management.
Toche'. I think auto lockouts or enforced delays between log in attempts are much better security against guessing than forcing password rotation or complex passwords.
Asuming 1 attempt per second, one would only need 17,000 bots in his net to take every penny in your bank account. Of course, we all know botherders don't read Slashdot.
Can someone tell me on which page he stops the senseless rambling and gets to the point?
I can't imagine having this guy as a professor. He loves to hear himself talk too much.
The saddest thing about big media is how they lock up our culture and refuse to let us have it, even when we are willing to pay them for it.
Having said that, taking something which you have not paid for or earned, and which was not given to you, is still unethical. Write the publisher, asking them to issue the book electronically or release the work from copyright. Write your Congressmen and explain how the unreasonably long-term copyrights are keeping Americans from their culture, and ask them to lower the copyright duration and/or add a clause for abandoned works which are no longer being published.
About 70% of consumers think that hooking up an HDTV to an SDTV cable box makes it HDTV. And 99% of consumers don't realize that the big box stores have a nasty habit of piping SDTV into the cheaper HDTVs while the expensive boxes get the real deal.
They can't tell, but I see a world of difference, and that's all that matters.
Maybe I've been reading too much fiction, but am I the only one thinking: Q Ship?
1. Lure pirate in with tasty looking merchie.
2. Wait until pirate is within range and intentions are clear.
3. Throw the covers off the guns and blast them into next year.
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
Yeah, I think the "step 1, ???, profit" joke has been banned from use by people who live in the year 2006 or later.
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Drats! They've discovered my evil plan!
What was the other one? No buffer overflows? COBOL prevents this by denying the programmer direct access to memory, which I don't consider a virtue. Slowing down everybody's code by checking every array access is not better that requiring programmers to be disciplined. An out-of-bounds array access is still a programmer error, whether it was caught by the run-time environment or not.
If BCD arithmatic (which is inefficient in both speed and storage space) is the only virtue you can find in a language, then the language isn't worth using.
Not to mention boundary conditions.
Umm, no, that code had to change because everybody used 2 ASCII characters for the year instead of four, or instead of just using a 16 bit integer that would have taken the same space and lasted another 63k years. At least, I hope so, COBOL really shouldn't have been allowed to survive past 1990.
Maybe those coders were making a point, that being "Anybody who's still using this senseless language in 2000 gets what they deserve."
I thought the point of Hello World was to teach students how to compile & link.
The military doesn't have, nor have any interest in, rockets that can reach the moon. And NASA has little interest in sub-orbital rockets.
A story I directly heard from an (at the time) Microsofty who was on the Word team and allegedly in the room when it was demoed to Bill:
Bill took one look at it and said "How do I get rid of the f***ing paper clip."
Little did he know, that would be the most popular Google search that year.
Everybody blames the comets. And the Republicans.
Agree, the Apple aluminum keyboards are excellent. Best keyboard I've used, and my first keyboard was on a TRS-80.
You are assuming that all control messages cause the interference. The interference is caused by special higher-power transmissions that happen when the phone thinks it is losing the tower and needs to boost power to get through.
In high tower density areas, especially on 70 MPH elevated roads in cities, you might switch towers 3-4 times a minute. You can't wait several minutes between the control messages, because then the system doesn't know which tower has the phone until the phone pings the tower. If that's several minutes there will be a noticeable lag to incoming calls.
No it doesn't, and that's the point. The control messages will still be sent, only those 160 characters will be blank. All you're doing when texting is changing some of those zeroes to ones - filling in the pad bits with your data. There's no increase in the amount of data being sent from the phone to the tower.
Any new work done with government funding is, in fact, owned by the government. But if that work is not totally new, but is instead derived from inventions or designed under the companies funds, that part funded by the company cannot be compelled to be released to the government or any other party. It is up to the government to make work they own public domain. Obviously, they're not going to release ICBM designs on the internet, but they do give designs they own to other companies to replicate or improve on.
It's not national security, it's corporate information developed under IRD that prevents the info from going public. The government cannot compel any organization to release privately owned information to it's competitors (except in cases of national security). However, if SpaceX would like to pay Orbital to teach them how to build a missile that works the first time, I'm sure Orbital would love to help out. And outsourcing to private companies does help by reducing the cost of space launch to other US companies that need to put satellites up.
Hey, Mitch, your sister's hot, have her call me, mkay?
I wish they would cut this cracking crap out, I'm getting tired of loading new firmware into my player.
Your idea is not feasible because it screws up too many marketing campaigns. Please revise your idea and run it through sales before submission to management.
Toche'. I think auto lockouts or enforced delays between log in attempts are much better security against guessing than forcing password rotation or complex passwords.
Asuming 1 attempt per second, one would only need 17,000 bots in his net to take every penny in your bank account. Of course, we all know botherders don't read Slashdot.
Nope, still rambling. Dude used a 0-based page numbering scheme. That's about as arrogant as a CS prof can get.
Can someone tell me on which page he stops the senseless rambling and gets to the point? I can't imagine having this guy as a professor. He loves to hear himself talk too much.
You've obviously never been to Slashdot before.
The saddest thing about big media is how they lock up our culture and refuse to let us have it, even when we are willing to pay them for it. Having said that, taking something which you have not paid for or earned, and which was not given to you, is still unethical. Write the publisher, asking them to issue the book electronically or release the work from copyright. Write your Congressmen and explain how the unreasonably long-term copyrights are keeping Americans from their culture, and ask them to lower the copyright duration and/or add a clause for abandoned works which are no longer being published.
About 70% of consumers think that hooking up an HDTV to an SDTV cable box makes it HDTV. And 99% of consumers don't realize that the big box stores have a nasty habit of piping SDTV into the cheaper HDTVs while the expensive boxes get the real deal.
They can't tell, but I see a world of difference, and that's all that matters.
Maybe I've been reading too much fiction, but am I the only one thinking: Q Ship? 1. Lure pirate in with tasty looking merchie. 2. Wait until pirate is within range and intentions are clear. 3. Throw the covers off the guns and blast them into next year. 4. ??? 5. Profit!!!
Yeah, I think the "step 1, ???, profit" joke has been banned from use by people who live in the year 2006 or later.