Which crazy "laws" does this/. article refer too? The "Report crime through a button" law? No - wait - the "Google may have broken a law" law. Having the ability to report crime simply through facebook is not a law - and it's simply an extension to dialing a number or visiting a police station to report a crime.
As for google - they have deliberately been sniffing WAP's - and the extent of that means that they may have been breaking a law which has existed for a very long time in Aus.
So get off your high horse before you hurt yourself.
Yeah! Because buses, tram and trains can't benefit from studies like this! They don't use fuel and aren't affected by traffic!
And if more were spent on buses etc. then EVERYONE would use them - because it's a perfect world where additional investment in these modes of transportation will result in people being able to travel from every location to every other location whenever they want.
yeah - I'm betting that 90% of the Java questions are "Why the f*** is this happening?" and "Are the java team on drugs?" or "I'm using Netbeans for my java development and it just f***ed everything - are the Netbeans developers on the same drugs as the java devs?"
I wondered this too - given the state change is activated by light - how do you read this "optical" disk?
With a laser? Oh wait...
And you leave the disk sitting on your desk, when someone turns on the light and all your data disappears.
Plus my understanding is that blue-ray disks are possible because of the ability to use blue light (which refracts less making the beam more confined) - what would they need to use for these new disks.
I agree - especially given that these "People" wasting "Person-Hours" are not playing "Pac-Person".
Pac-person - a gender neutral abstract object of a neutral colour moves around a maze not eating vegan dots (or stripes) while not antagonising the neutral "ghosts" (or any ethereal creature) who wish only to have lunch with Pac-person and not harm them in any way. Game does not include a "score" function as scores are considered "competitive" and detract from the non-judgmental attitude of the Pac-person game.
Don't you love the way that someone mentions that they would buy one with Windoze and they get modded "Flamebait". Presumably by an Apple (I don't need features) fanboy or whoever the person is that is using Web OS.
I agree with your choices Mark19960. IMO Android and Windows are much more "Open" than the competition - be it iCrap or Web OS.
Well - when the first side effect is that you (because you are not a mouse) have a 100% chance that you will die in 1 week, you'd probably care.
Sure - it might be the greatest ever discovery in the treatment of cancer - but without proper testing it could be the next Thalidomide, Asbestos, Triple Cheeseburger...
It could also be completely ineffectual in humans and a complete waste of time - which won't be shown without the proper testing.
What are they 2 inches high? Maybe instead of blaming the Wii Fit and Nerve Damage she should be looking for the missing Wiimote - though that might hurt her back.
When I first read the list I thought "Pascal". The reasons are that it's a structured language, it is very easy to use and it's able to teach extremely useful concepts like linked lists, recursive algo's etc.
However... It's nigh on useless these days to have "Pascal" on your CV (I'm sure both the Pascal developers out there will disagree - Yes I'm looking at you Delphi devs...)
I did C, Pascal and COBOL at UNI and since then I have spent some 15 years writing VB (3->.Net), C, C++, C# etc. In the last 2 years I have been working mostly with Java. And I hate it. It's slow, memory hungry, it's tools are Sh*t (Matisse's creators are on drugs).
That being said, pick up your local paper (or go to Seek - also bleh) and look at the proportion of jobs advertised these days that require Java. It's quite significant. That's the sort of thing that you should be looking at when making your decision. Sure, you'll find a few that require any of your listed languages. And sure, when these kids have finished UNI and want to work in IT (poor bastards) Java will be dead and buried, but there'll be a million and one "Legacy" systems lying around that use Java.
Oh and teach them some database skills. The local UNI here puts out graduates that don't know anything but Cross joins and have no idea what a left join is...
Just the fact that people can detect fatty acids in their non-fat milk doesn't imply that there is an actually taste receptor for fat. Could also be the change of texture of the milk or activation of other taste receptors by the fatty acids. I would only call this a specific taste when the associated taste receptor protein is identified.
The fact that I included that part in my comment gives indication that I might not have missed it
Errr - Where? You do know that you have to type the thought, as well as think it...
Microsoft loses credibility by letting the owner of it's chosen open source project die? Ummmm... It's an open source product. They just put a copy of it on their web site and they're covered.
What the HELL are you doing on Slashdot. You don't belong here! Your well thought out, concise post, that takes into consideration the feelings of the dying person is just not heard of!
You're OUT there - way OUT there. There's something wrong...
And your sig almost makes it seem like you CARE about OTHER PEOPLE. Be careful, you might impress someone! Like me...
Wait a minute... Something was said... Something not good...
I lol'd that JayRott thought it was a "new look". I just gave my Win7 a "new look" by changing the background on the desktop and the colour of the Window frames.
Makes me wonder why this is even newsworthy. Surely there's better things that Ubuntu could be doing?
See I read your rant, and the one above it as "I used Norton's once so all virus scanners are bad".
I've been using Avast for the last few years. Free for home use and a damn good product.
A) Sure it updates almost every day - but it has almost no impact on my network (and I'm from Oz where "Broadband" means a bit faster than dial up).
B) Its impact when scanning is not noticable. It scans the file you modify or try to open.
C) WTF? What defaults? The "I can download and run viruses by default" defaults?
D) Avast 99% of the time is a pair of icons in your system tray. If the look and feel of your virus scanner is one of you concerns then your worried about the wrong thing...
E) Avast doesn't constantly use CPU time. A decent virus scanner of any kind would us OS Hooks to identify when it needs to look at files/processes. It won't need to be doing anything unless you are and then it only needs a quick look at the file/process to see if it recognises it.
F) Avasts free license expires every 12 months. It takes around a minute to renew. Big deal.
G) *sigh* Seriously. There are millions of gamers around the world that have virus scanners installed. There's also quite a number of game developers with virus scanners installed. When was the last time that you read that your virus scanner should be disabled before playing game ? Sure the downloads of updates can cause a few moments of lag - but big deal.
H) I'm sorry but WTF? Sure Sony's rootkit can be considered a threat. But REAL threats are actually more things like Confiker, Trojans etc. Viruses etc. that (a) might destroy your PC, (b) be used as part of a botnet, (c) steal your personal data etc.
You're worried about how you virus scanner looks, and a slight interruption to your gaming, but not about the impact of having a virus. The fact that that virus may wipe your machine, cause your machine to be responsible for attacking other machines, or cause masses of SPAM e-mail to be sent out doesn't concern you? I take it then that your ISP doesn't care that you might be responsible for infecting other machines, sending SPAM etc.
Take your tinfoil hat off and go out and get some sunshine.
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Which crazy "laws" does this /. article refer too? The "Report crime through a button" law? No - wait - the "Google may have broken a law" law. Having the ability to report crime simply through facebook is not a law - and it's simply an extension to dialing a number or visiting a police station to report a crime.
As for google - they have deliberately been sniffing WAP's - and the extent of that means that they may have been breaking a law which has existed for a very long time in Aus.
So get off your high horse before you hurt yourself.
Yeah! Because buses, tram and trains can't benefit from studies like this! They don't use fuel and aren't affected by traffic!
And if more were spent on buses etc. then EVERYONE would use them - because it's a perfect world where additional investment in these modes of transportation will result in people being able to travel from every location to every other location whenever they want.
Now get off my lawn!
yeah - I'm betting that 90% of the Java questions are "Why the f*** is this happening?" and "Are the java team on drugs?" or "I'm using Netbeans for my java development and it just f***ed everything - are the Netbeans developers on the same drugs as the java devs?"
Hardly a measure of it's popularity.
I originally modded you up - and then I did a search of my own.
http://countrycode.org/antarctica
Seems Wikipedia is not right about everything - go figure.
Yes and (obscenely) wealthly Movie producers/directors/studios want money from those broke teenage kids.
I wondered this too - given the state change is activated by light - how do you read this "optical" disk?
With a laser? Oh wait...
And you leave the disk sitting on your desk, when someone turns on the light and all your data disappears.
Plus my understanding is that blue-ray disks are possible because of the ability to use blue light (which refracts less making the beam more confined) - what would they need to use for these new disks.
It all sounds like pie in the sky stuff to me.
I agree - especially given that these "People" wasting "Person-Hours" are not playing "Pac-Person".
Pac-person - a gender neutral abstract object of a neutral colour moves around a maze not eating vegan dots (or stripes) while not antagonising the neutral "ghosts" (or any ethereal creature) who wish only to have lunch with Pac-person and not harm them in any way. Game does not include a "score" function as scores are considered "competitive" and detract from the non-judgmental attitude of the Pac-person game.
Don't you love the way that someone mentions that they would buy one with Windoze and they get modded "Flamebait". Presumably by an Apple (I don't need features) fanboy or whoever the person is that is using Web OS.
I agree with your choices Mark19960. IMO Android and Windows are much more "Open" than the competition - be it iCrap or Web OS.
Hmmm - methinks you didn't read the entire post.
Hmm Korean war. There's something new. A pity that game devs don't do "new".
:)
MASH 4077 the FPS.
$0.15 != 0.15 cents.
$0.15 == 15 cents.
You need to carry the one...
Wot - u doant lyk a loose fite? Your know fun!
Well - when the first side effect is that you (because you are not a mouse) have a 100% chance that you will die in 1 week, you'd probably care.
Sure - it might be the greatest ever discovery in the treatment of cancer - but without proper testing it could be the next Thalidomide, Asbestos, Triple Cheeseburger...
It could also be completely ineffectual in humans and a complete waste of time - which won't be shown without the proper testing.
It's pretty easy really. "Fair Use" - is where the author/creator/distributor/publisher is making shite loads of money.
Which assumes that the person being blackmailed reports it. And when has "Legal Means" every bothered the MAFIAA?
What are they 2 inches high? Maybe instead of blaming the Wii Fit and Nerve Damage she should be looking for the missing Wiimote - though that might hurt her back.
When I first read the list I thought "Pascal". The reasons are that it's a structured language, it is very easy to use and it's able to teach extremely useful concepts like linked lists, recursive algo's etc.
However... It's nigh on useless these days to have "Pascal" on your CV (I'm sure both the Pascal developers out there will disagree - Yes I'm looking at you Delphi devs...)
I did C, Pascal and COBOL at UNI and since then I have spent some 15 years writing VB (3->.Net), C, C++, C# etc. In the last 2 years I have been working mostly with Java. And I hate it. It's slow, memory hungry, it's tools are Sh*t (Matisse's creators are on drugs).
That being said, pick up your local paper (or go to Seek - also bleh) and look at the proportion of jobs advertised these days that require Java. It's quite significant. That's the sort of thing that you should be looking at when making your decision. Sure, you'll find a few that require any of your listed languages. And sure, when these kids have finished UNI and want to work in IT (poor bastards) Java will be dead and buried, but there'll be a million and one "Legacy" systems lying around that use Java.
Oh and teach them some database skills. The local UNI here puts out graduates that don't know anything but Cross joins and have no idea what a left join is...
Errr - Where? You do know that you have to type the thought, as well as think it...
"mixed in with nonfat milk to disguise the telltale fat texture"
Perhaps you missed that part of the summary (let alone TFA).
I thought that was RIAA.
Microsoft loses credibility by letting the owner of it's chosen open source project die? Ummmm... It's an open source product. They just put a copy of it on their web site and they're covered.
That's more like it! You just need to start with "1st Post" even if you are replying to someone elses post.
/.er out of you yet. :P
We'll make a
Oh yeah I forgot... 1st post!!!
What the HELL are you doing on Slashdot. You don't belong here! Your well thought out, concise post, that takes into consideration the feelings of the dying person is just not heard of!
You're OUT there - way OUT there. There's something wrong...
And your sig almost makes it seem like you CARE about OTHER PEOPLE. Be careful, you might impress someone! Like me...
Wait a minute... Something was said... Something not good...
I lol'd that JayRott thought it was a "new look". I just gave my Win7 a "new look" by changing the background on the desktop and the colour of the Window frames.
Makes me wonder why this is even newsworthy. Surely there's better things that Ubuntu could be doing?
See I read your rant, and the one above it as "I used Norton's once so all virus scanners are bad".
I've been using Avast for the last few years. Free for home use and a damn good product.
A) Sure it updates almost every day - but it has almost no impact on my network (and I'm from Oz where "Broadband" means a bit faster than dial up).
B) Its impact when scanning is not noticable. It scans the file you modify or try to open.
C) WTF? What defaults? The "I can download and run viruses by default" defaults?
D) Avast 99% of the time is a pair of icons in your system tray. If the look and feel of your virus scanner is one of you concerns then your worried about the wrong thing...
E) Avast doesn't constantly use CPU time. A decent virus scanner of any kind would us OS Hooks to identify when it needs to look at files/processes. It won't need to be doing anything unless you are and then it only needs a quick look at the file/process to see if it recognises it.
F) Avasts free license expires every 12 months. It takes around a minute to renew. Big deal.
G) *sigh* Seriously. There are millions of gamers around the world that have virus scanners installed. There's also quite a number of game developers with virus scanners installed. When was the last time that you read that your virus scanner should be disabled before playing game ? Sure the downloads of updates can cause a few moments of lag - but big deal.
H) I'm sorry but WTF? Sure Sony's rootkit can be considered a threat. But REAL threats are actually more things like Confiker, Trojans etc. Viruses etc. that (a) might destroy your PC, (b) be used as part of a botnet, (c) steal your personal data etc.
You're worried about how you virus scanner looks, and a slight interruption to your gaming, but not about the impact of having a virus. The fact that that virus may wipe your machine, cause your machine to be responsible for attacking other machines, or cause masses of SPAM e-mail to be sent out doesn't concern you? I take it then that your ISP doesn't care that you might be responsible for infecting other machines, sending SPAM etc.
Take your tinfoil hat off and go out and get some sunshine.