Exactly. I won't even consider switching browsers unless it has the same functionality that's provided by those three add-ons. I know that some of the other browsers have similar features, but the way those features are implemented isn't nearly as convenient. I use a couple of other add-ons as well, but AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock and NoScript are the only ones I refuse to live without.
Re:I know why it's been 10 years
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Programming Erlang
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I agree partly with your sentiments on debugging - although I don't think it would be a huge problem. However, I don't think that the second piece of code is more difficult to understand than the first. I'm able to look at the second piece of code and easily understand exactly what's happening almost instantly. It largely depends on what you're used to. If you're used to writing only in an imperative style, obviously a functional style is going to take some time getting used to. The vice versa is also true. This doesn't mean that one is inherently superior to the other.
In a non-nuclear war the Chinese army would be totally useless against the US. The Chinese have no bases even close to the US that they could effectively launch attacks from, and the US has a far superior Air Force and Navy that would demolish any Chinese attempt to mobilize their army. The entire war would be decided by the Air Force and the Navy, and in that respect the US has the upper hand against any nation, and practically any collection of nations, on the planet.
Obviously, if it went nuclear nobody would win and it would be a disaster for the entire planet.
Nobody said that you had to do it that way. That's only if you want it integrated with the package manager. You could just download the installation file from Google and install it that way if you so desire. Furthermore, I really don't care if it's easy for non-Linux users, or if people "jump over" to Linux. Use whatever operating system you want, I really couldn't care less.
googleearth-package is in the Debian repository and will help to quickly create the deb file for google earth. Just apt-get install googleearth-package and then run make-googleearth-package.
Do you think that an title called 'Nmap From a Hacker's Point of View' would inform most people enough about the content of the article?
Yes. Not that I really care either way, but I would've expected a similar article regardless of whether the title included the word "ethical" or not. I didn't read it all, but it seems like it's pretty much just a basic nmap tutorial.
I care because one of these formats will be prevalent in both desktop and laptop computers in the near future. I would prefer for that to be the better of the two formats (Blu-Ray).
If you work with complete idiots using an ORM might cause problems similar to your example, but I wouldn't count on those same idiots to write efficient SQL and manage caching and connection pooling either.
If I were Google I would simply shut down Google.de and the German GMail and give the whole country the big old middle finger. I bet it would only take months for local public pressure to force g-mail to get out of the way of the real Google GMail.
Tactics like this don't work in the real world. That would be nothing short of a publicity nightmare for Google and would force people in other countries to seriously question whether they should be relying on such a service. Do you honestly think that the people running Google haven't thought about that and come to the conclusion that it would be far worse for them in the long run?
It's the exact same argument that is brought up regularly regarding Microsoft in the EU. "Microsoft should just pull out of the EU instead of paying all the fines. That'll show 'em!!!11"
The thing that annoys me about using the Windows drivers is that there have been several very serious security exploits for them. It's a real pain to have to regularly check whether I'm using the latest Windows drivers or not. I'd rather pay extra for a chipset that works properly under Linux so that I can update them using the package manager like everything else.
I fail to see how reddit is "stupider" than Digg. Perhaps that's because I generally stick to the programming, science and infosec subreddits, but I find it hard to believe that any site has Digg beat when it comes to blatant stupidity. Even when you stay strictly in the programming section, the comments are atrocious and the stories are on the same level I'd expect from someone who just started learning to program earlier in the day.
programming.reddit.com is definitely one of the sites I've been visiting most lately. Sure, it's not perfect, but I still find a lot of very interesting articles there.
President Clinton pardoned a number of convicted drug dealers http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardons6.htm. I don't have a problem with this, it is a power given.
I'm not from the U.S., but please explain to me why so many U.S. citizens don't have a problem with this. If these people commit a crime, I see absolutely no reason why they should be let off. Why does being a contributor to a particular political organization or a friend of the President entitle you to commit crimes? Where's the justice in that?
Re:Time for Sun to Shine
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if Java and OpenSolaris get released with GPL3 things are going to get *very* interesting.
I'm not trolling but I'm genuinely curious at to what exactly you think would get interesting? Unless Linux is able to move to the GPLv3 as well, which is doubtful, I doubt much will change. Java and Solaris are already open source and it hasn't made much of a difference. Java on the desktop is still shunned and it will probably never be adopted significantly outside of enterprise data entry applications. In terms of web applications, there are a plethora of web frameworks that are written in other languages that people seem to be adopting and migrating to. Java, to some degree, is also still tied down to the archaic processes that exist at the JCP. From what I've seen, people seem to be moving away from Java if anything.
In terms of Solaris, while it might be a great operating system, for most use cases it doesn't really offer much incentive to switch away from Linux or one of the various BSDs. The main reason people are excited about it possibly being released under the GPLv3, is because Linus has publicly stated that if that happens he might attempt to push the Linux kernel to the GPLv3. This is simply because people want to see ZFS and dtrace in Linux. From my experience, most people don't seem to care what happens on the Solaris side of the fence.
The main reason I write this is because I know a lot of Sun supporters that seem to think that if Solaris and Java are released under GPLv3 that there will be a significant adoption of the two technologies. I just don't see it happening. It didn't happen when they were released under other open source licenses and I can't see it happening if they're released under the GPLv3. What exactly does the GPLv3 offer that makes people think it will be any different?
I can understand "detriment to performance", but not "overly complicated". Designing a (good) protocol tends to make one think harder about what is really happening and which part has what responsibility.
I agree with your thoughts about a good protocol, but what I was really trying to get at with the "overly complicated" remark was that there comes a point where it becomes very difficult to justify that breaking things down further provides any real benefit. Is this really as reusable as we think it is? Is there any chance that this will actually be used by other services? Does the added benefit of another reusable, well documented service out weigh the potential complexities associated with having multiple services instead of a single more generalized one? In this sense, it can become overly complicated because instead of relying on a single service call to perform a particular high level operation it may be necessary to call multiple services and deal with a number of protocols.
It's much like the difficulties that arise in attempting to create a good API. You want the API to be flexible and support as many use cases as possible, but at the same time you want it to be easy to use. At some point, it's usually necessary to make a compromise.
This "age ain't nothing but a number" saying, when used in this context, is a load of crap. Do you hang out with ten year olds outside of work? Why not? After all, "age ain't nothing but a number." It makes practically no difference that there happens to be a couple of kids who are reasonably mature and a couple of adults that are complete jackasses. The reality is that the vast majority of people mature significantly and change their interests as they get older. You're far more likely to find reasonably mature, intelligent and interesting people when you're dealing with adults.
While some of them may become politicians and business leaders etc., there are a hell of a lot more who just go on to work manual labor and other low wage jobs.
OS's don't seem to be built this way, you have to randomly tweak stuff until the problem (hopefully) goes away.
I never just randomly tweak stuff until the problem goes away. I don't use Windows or OS X though so pretty much everything I use is open source and reasonably well documented. {Open,Free}BSD, Solaris and Linux is built much the way you describe. Important aspects of the OS (using the term loosely) are almost always broken down into relatively small, independent services that have established protocols and logging facilities. I'll admit the documentation on some of these protocols is sketchy at times, but the information is available for those who know how to look. Of course, things could be broken down into independent services even more, but at a certain point that becomes overly complicated and a detriment to performance.
In terms of debugging, dtrace is amazing and I would hope that operating systems besides Solaris and FreeBSD are able to adopt it.
The single main reason why is because the people with the most traffic on YouTube are also usually the people producing the worst actual content; they're populist attention seekers producing mindless drivel, purely for the sake of their own self-promotion.
You couldn't have described the "20-year-old filmmaker" from this article any better... His show is basically a terrible MySpace version of Blind Date. Come to think of it, it's actually quite the feat since I was unaware that it was possible to make a show worse than Blind Date.
Currently I am running KDE and I am at a loss as to how to fix the poorly categorized 100 or so programs in the menu.
Right click on the panel with the "K menu" icon and select "Unlock Panels" (if the panel is already unlocked you can skip this step). Then right click on the "K menu" icon and you'll see an option named "Menu Editor". From there you can drag and drop the programs to whichever category you like. You can also create new categories, rename programs, assign shortcuts etc. When you're done make sure to save the changes and you should be set.
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Exactly. I won't even consider switching browsers unless it has the same functionality that's provided by those three add-ons. I know that some of the other browsers have similar features, but the way those features are implemented isn't nearly as convenient. I use a couple of other add-ons as well, but AdBlock Plus, FlashBlock and NoScript are the only ones I refuse to live without.
I agree partly with your sentiments on debugging - although I don't think it would be a huge problem. However, I don't think that the second piece of code is more difficult to understand than the first. I'm able to look at the second piece of code and easily understand exactly what's happening almost instantly. It largely depends on what you're used to. If you're used to writing only in an imperative style, obviously a functional style is going to take some time getting used to. The vice versa is also true. This doesn't mean that one is inherently superior to the other.
In a non-nuclear war the Chinese army would be totally useless against the US. The Chinese have no bases even close to the US that they could effectively launch attacks from, and the US has a far superior Air Force and Navy that would demolish any Chinese attempt to mobilize their army. The entire war would be decided by the Air Force and the Navy, and in that respect the US has the upper hand against any nation, and practically any collection of nations, on the planet.
Obviously, if it went nuclear nobody would win and it would be a disaster for the entire planet.
Nobody said that you had to do it that way. That's only if you want it integrated with the package manager. You could just download the installation file from Google and install it that way if you so desire. Furthermore, I really don't care if it's easy for non-Linux users, or if people "jump over" to Linux. Use whatever operating system you want, I really couldn't care less.
googleearth-package is in the Debian repository and will help to quickly create the deb file for google earth. Just apt-get install googleearth-package and then run make-googleearth-package.
The tag "haha" hardly qualifies as critique.
I care because one of these formats will be prevalent in both desktop and laptop computers in the near future. I would prefer for that to be the better of the two formats (Blu-Ray).
If you work with complete idiots using an ORM might cause problems similar to your example, but I wouldn't count on those same idiots to write efficient SQL and manage caching and connection pooling either.
It's the exact same argument that is brought up regularly regarding Microsoft in the EU. "Microsoft should just pull out of the EU instead of paying all the fines. That'll show 'em!!!11"
The thing that annoys me about using the Windows drivers is that there have been several very serious security exploits for them. It's a real pain to have to regularly check whether I'm using the latest Windows drivers or not. I'd rather pay extra for a chipset that works properly under Linux so that I can update them using the package manager like everything else.
On a related note, fuck Broadcom.
I fail to see how reddit is "stupider" than Digg. Perhaps that's because I generally stick to the programming, science and infosec subreddits, but I find it hard to believe that any site has Digg beat when it comes to blatant stupidity. Even when you stay strictly in the programming section, the comments are atrocious and the stories are on the same level I'd expect from someone who just started learning to program earlier in the day.
programming.reddit.com is definitely one of the sites I've been visiting most lately. Sure, it's not perfect, but I still find a lot of very interesting articles there.
Thanks for the great response.
In terms of Solaris, while it might be a great operating system, for most use cases it doesn't really offer much incentive to switch away from Linux or one of the various BSDs. The main reason people are excited about it possibly being released under the GPLv3, is because Linus has publicly stated that if that happens he might attempt to push the Linux kernel to the GPLv3. This is simply because people want to see ZFS and dtrace in Linux. From my experience, most people don't seem to care what happens on the Solaris side of the fence.
The main reason I write this is because I know a lot of Sun supporters that seem to think that if Solaris and Java are released under GPLv3 that there will be a significant adoption of the two technologies. I just don't see it happening. It didn't happen when they were released under other open source licenses and I can't see it happening if they're released under the GPLv3. What exactly does the GPLv3 offer that makes people think it will be any different?
It's much like the difficulties that arise in attempting to create a good API. You want the API to be flexible and support as many use cases as possible, but at the same time you want it to be easy to use. At some point, it's usually necessary to make a compromise.
This "age ain't nothing but a number" saying, when used in this context, is a load of crap. Do you hang out with ten year olds outside of work? Why not? After all, "age ain't nothing but a number." It makes practically no difference that there happens to be a couple of kids who are reasonably mature and a couple of adults that are complete jackasses. The reality is that the vast majority of people mature significantly and change their interests as they get older. You're far more likely to find reasonably mature, intelligent and interesting people when you're dealing with adults.
While some of them may become politicians and business leaders etc., there are a hell of a lot more who just go on to work manual labor and other low wage jobs.
In terms of debugging, dtrace is amazing and I would hope that operating systems besides Solaris and FreeBSD are able to adopt it.
Microsoft actually has security researchers? What do they actually do?