This is bullshit. There is always a couple of seconds where your light is red, but the other lights in the intersection are not yet green. Care to guess why it was designed that way?
Sounds good on paper, doesn't it? Imagine a group of people putting up honest and detailed information about the products of big companies. Now imagine what they'll spend on lawyers when the big companies in question find out about it. Even if they can prove they tell the truth, they're going bankrupt.
I really don't get this obsession about sex. Everyone[1] does it, everyone has the appropriate organs, and it's definitely a prerequisite of you being alive. Most people have even seen naked children. What's the problem?
I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather have pedophiles jerking off to Wikipedia than rape some kid. Ditto for child porn[2]. Give them all the animations and drawings they want, so they don't get stupid ideas every time they drive past a playground.
[1] statistically speaking. Cue the Slashdot jokes. [2] actual children being molested is out of the question, of course
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind, because the original author didn't want a sequel to be written (it was written after her death).
That's not a sequel and shouldn't be treated as such. It's fan fiction, and I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's not marketed as canon. From an "official" point of view, it doesn't exist.
I think this is related to the fact that in our culture we really don't like plagiarism.
Plagiarism would be if she wrote a different ending to the story, and published the whole as her own. Meanwhile, did you stop to consider the artistic qualities of the sequel?
See, that's exactly the problem with copyright debates: you're treating the right to use ideas, the right to modify existing works and the right to distribute existing works as one inseparable topic.
I use KDE. 3.5.10 is still unbeatable when you want fast, clean and powerful. However, it's officially dead now, and the 4.x series sucks.
KDE4 is full of tiny little features that look like what you're used to, but do something completely different. Or they removed the most important button on the Konsole window, injected Amarok with featuritis, and k3b simply does not exist. (Wanna guess my three favorite applications?)
I'm starting to think Joel was right. The KDE project wasted two years trying to produce something "better" than what they already had. They failed miserably.
The C language never guaranteed a crash when you dereferenced a NULL pointer.
That might be because it's not part of the C language. However, the whole point of introducing the NULL macro was to provide a pointer that is always invalid.
Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target.
Disabling the root password means now they only need to hijack a normal local user account, not root. You're effectively running as root, with all the security implications.
It's (void *)0 in C, and 0 or 0L in C++. Also, there were architectures way back where memory address 0 wasn't a guaranteed segfault. It had a different value there.
Thinking like yous is what's wrong with business and politics today -- nobody thinks long-term.
For me, a long term plan involves getting a better job, and if the people at IBM think the same, there's nobody left in that company you can blame for anything that happened in 2005.
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This is bullshit. There is always a couple of seconds where your light is red, but the other lights in the intersection are not yet green. Care to guess why it was designed that way?
consumers as a group must be informed
Sounds good on paper, doesn't it? Imagine a group of people putting up honest and detailed information about the products of big companies. Now imagine what they'll spend on lawyers when the big companies in question find out about it. Even if they can prove they tell the truth, they're going bankrupt.
I really don't get this obsession about sex. Everyone[1] does it, everyone has the appropriate organs, and it's definitely a prerequisite of you being alive. Most people have even seen naked children. What's the problem?
I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather have pedophiles jerking off to Wikipedia than rape some kid. Ditto for child porn[2]. Give them all the animations and drawings they want, so they don't get stupid ideas every time they drive past a playground.
[1] statistically speaking. Cue the Slashdot jokes.
[2] actual children being molested is out of the question, of course
That doesn't really help me as long as people are doing disk I/O in the GUI thread.
My money is MySQL.
And here I was thinking my HUF was worthless...
Now 48 CPUs can wait for the disk!
I was going for first post, what makes you think I read the summary?
Don't make me post the form at you.
Because people I've never met annoy the judge?
For example, my sister was very upset that someone wrote a sequel to Gone With the Wind, because the original author didn't want a sequel to be written (it was written after her death).
That's not a sequel and shouldn't be treated as such. It's fan fiction, and I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's not marketed as canon. From an "official" point of view, it doesn't exist.
I think this is related to the fact that in our culture we really don't like plagiarism.
Plagiarism would be if she wrote a different ending to the story, and published the whole as her own. Meanwhile, did you stop to consider the artistic qualities of the sequel?
See, that's exactly the problem with copyright debates: you're treating the right to use ideas, the right to modify existing works and the right to distribute existing works as one inseparable topic.
No, that would mean the headline is related to the summary.
I use KDE. 3.5.10 is still unbeatable when you want fast, clean and powerful. However, it's officially dead now, and the 4.x series sucks.
KDE4 is full of tiny little features that look like what you're used to, but do something completely different. Or they removed the most important button on the Konsole window, injected Amarok with featuritis, and k3b simply does not exist. (Wanna guess my three favorite applications?)
I'm starting to think Joel was right. The KDE project wasted two years trying to produce something "better" than what they already had. They failed miserably.
Many Germans are still pretty upset about the "Dresden disaster".
That wasn't just a disaster, it was a war crime.
He did, it just got drowned out by the sound of breaking chairs.
I suppose 0L might be guaranteed to translate down to 0, but using it instead of 0 has no benefit; it just looks funny.
Yes, it does.
The C language never guaranteed a crash when you dereferenced a NULL pointer.
That might be because it's not part of the C language. However, the whole point of introducing the NULL macro was to provide a pointer that is always invalid.
Disabling the root password means a cracker needs to take the additional step of identifying a valid user account to target.
Disabling the root password means now they only need to hijack a normal local user account, not root. You're effectively running as root, with all the security implications.
Shouldn't be to hard to add some wrappers around the n-series functions to make all your stuff "string safe".
It's easy to add the wrappers.
It's hard to get everyone at the same time to use them exclusively.
It's impossible to ensure a->len is always modified when a->ptr changes.
It's (void *)0 in C, and 0 or 0L in C++. Also, there were architectures way back where memory address 0 wasn't a guaranteed segfault. It had a different value there.
Python has strings. Java has strings. C# has strings.
C has functions that take a pointer and run until they find a \0.
Nah, they just used the Vista file copy dialog to calculate the price.
Making it the new longest gaming record in history. Win-win.
Thinking like yous is what's wrong with business and politics today -- nobody thinks long-term.
For me, a long term plan involves getting a better job, and if the people at IBM think the same, there's nobody left in that company you can blame for anything that happened in 2005.
It's not like the summary was clear on what it was referring to, and you should know how many articles we read.
So you think 20 years is a reasonable time frame for software patents? The ZX Spectrum was still manufactured 20 years ago.
Why would anyone at IBM still remember what they said in 2005? That's ancient history.