Someone was handing out lollypops today. You scored max Insightful with incredibly bad spelling.
...these consoles where given to kids that where anxious to have them...
"Where" and "were" are two different words altogether.
give him a girlfriend and analize what happens
Your browser spell-check would have screamed the obvious: analyse (in English) or analyze (for USA Englizh).
I am sure the results will be the other day
Did you mean, "the other way"?
If you're trying to argue that video games do not influence learning ability or long term concentration you might like to proof read before hitting "submit".
Or, more specifically, no one volunteers for the drudge work so it doesn't get done.
That's where contracting pays off. You agree to do the drudge work and get paid handsomely. Unfortunately you feel like shooting yourself in the process.
In the early days of the Internet there was a mantra along the lines of "be strict in what you send, and liberal in what you receive".
The general idea is that you should expect all kinds of input. It's up to you to ensure that data is fit for purpose inside your program.
There's a whole new generation with little respect for the history of computing and the mistakes endured: data validation, software patents and licensing, open standards and compatibility, etc. But then there's a whole generation of business men who will employ the cheapest "developer" to deliver something that appears functional and brings in money - what incentive have they for fault tolerance, for allowing the fringe that use text browsers to access their site, for preventing distribution of exploits?
It was unstable in a sense that variables sometimes got strange values inexplicably.
Perl doesn't stop you from programming like a rodeo clown (for those who don't even qualify as cowboys...).
If you're going to make zealous use of globals and then use mod_perl you will get hurt.
Universities teach about something called "coupling". Every professional programmer will talk about something called "use strict". If either of these concepts are too difficult you're better off with a language that does its best to help you from yourself (but be aware Java threads are not going to stop any determined doofus from causing real pain).
I don't remember a single instance where a Postal Service, a Telephone Company or a Bank were asked to behave in this manner?
For a start few postal services are private, and they do have screening at border points.
Telephone companies are subject to all manner of requirements including wire-tapping orders from federal agencies and emergency call support.
Banks are subject to money laundering legislation and are required to notify authorities any time a large transaction is made (usually around the 10,000 value of the local currency).
I don't believe ISPs should be working on behalf of the recording industry (another private industry). And for all intents and purposes an ISP is a common carrier - it just ships data regardless of origin or content. If ISPs, however, begin tailoring content, filtering out VoIP, providing custom advertising, etc, then they may be liable to such suits from other industries as such an ISP is very much picking and choosing what content to provide its customers.
If anything the recording industry should be scaring ISPs into remaining common carriers.
The case was definitely part of their agenda to make other organisations spend huge amounts of money to prevent harm to themselves (ie, lawsuits) to in turn to force more money into the music distribution industries already bulging pockets.
Someone needs to bring action to deem the record industry, and in particular AFACT, as a vexatious litigant.
Having recently paid for Windows 7 Professional, I can tell you that Linux offers you so many benefits that it is hard to see how Microsoft will be able to compete in the near future.
For example:
you can install Linux even when there are multiple hard drives in your computer (you can only install Windows 7 if there is one and only one hard drive installed)
you can choose to have your entire Linux partition encrypted - no need to buy Windows 7 Ultimate, or install truecrypt later
Linux will support RAID - 0, 1, 1+0, etc - Windows 7 only supports RAID 0, and RAID 1 for those who buy Professional or Ultimate, and cannot do RAID 1+0
Linux will not magically create a 100MB partition that you cannot erase and is essential to the operating system, unlike Windows 7 that will refuse to boot after removing the 100MB magic partition using Knoppix and cannot repair even with the original installation disks
If it wasn't for games and some professional software being released only for Windows I would not even think about paying money for a product that is far inferior to the free one.
Windows gets really cranky when it doesn't have a pagefile. We tried it for performance reasons and we saw an almost 40% drop in performance despite the server not being under any kind of memory pressure.
And yet when I turn off swap on my 32-bit Vista laptop performance increases 1,000 - 10,000% easily. The difference between waiting 10 minutes for the computer to stop thrashing the swap file and near-instantaneous action is immeasurable.
Typical "don't turn off your pagefile" responses are fraught with lack of experience. There are times when a system performs better with a pagefile. There are many times when a system performs so much better without a pagefile that one wouldn't dream of ever turning it back on.
To start, use a good programming editor/environment (Xcode, Vslick, Visual Studio, etc.) that gives you the ability to easily go to definition or references to variables, functions, structs and such.
I went and bought a 24 inch flat screen monitor with my own money and brought it into work.
If I couldn't have 3 editor windows open side-by-side I would not be able to perform the maintenance required.
I use one editor for the code I'm working on. One editor for the code I'm working from. One editor to look at the file being processed. Sometimes I split my editor windows for more references: sometimes I need to look at different parts of the same file, sometimes I have to view a configuration file for interpreting the data file the script will interpret.
There is no point in rewriting it before you fully understand it.
I fully support this statement.
I recently worked with a guy new to contracting. He came onboard to a project that had a lot of problems. He argued for re-writing it thinking he could do it quickly and simply; I didn't dispute that the system could use significant changes, and I asked him to read through and understand the existing code.
He never did.
Consequently I suggested to senior managers that he should be let go. Reading other people's code, particularly undocumented code, is painful - even for experienced coders. But it is necessary and failure to do so before recommending changes is unprofessional, dangerous, and lazy.
I hate DRM, I have been close to spitting tacks over the multiple mandatory online accounts and SecureROM havoc played with my system by Grand Theft Auto, but I have been longing for Starcraft II for years now.
Wouldn't you really just need to have two accounts, your real life account and then your second one for all the naughty stuff you don't want people to find out about?
The person you're being naughty with has a friend who has a friend who is your real-life serious friend.
Facebook does not hide friends lists. So the circle can easily be followed.
all that said I wait for version 2 of apple products, and I need more configuration in the pad I am looking for.
I had to laugh when people had to pay a fee to enable using their iPhone as a modem. Nokia/Sony/You-name-it phones could do that for free for a long time before.
Then again, look around. No serious technology user would touch Apple products with a barge pole. Apple has a market, and that market is much bigger than the technical elite.
Are you sure that your results are not based on your personal search history:)
How embarrassing for that poster! I did a google search with cookies stripped, as I have a habit of doing, and didn't get any of those questions appear.
Then you're a perfect candidate for jury duty. They like the dumb ones.
In fact all those advocating jurors to be caged and fed controlled information actually believe that jurors are stupid and incapable of their own thoughts. In fact the pompous legal system cannot handle an intelligent jury.
Jurors find this frustrating, but trials do not exist for their entertainment.
Trials do not always exist for the purpose of a just decision, either. How many times have Microsoft conducted confusing court cases in front of ordinary juries in an attempt to prevent justice!
To control what a juror may know or not know is an abuse of human rights; the whole reason a jury is involved is to get a decision from "the people". Putting "the people" in a cage and controlling what they know and how they may rule is the legal system's attempt to remove power from "the power" and place it back in the hands of judges and lawyers.
If a juror is to make a decision then no one may morally impede that juror from their duty to make the best decision they can. If the juror visits the crime scene they should be applauded. If the juror researches the web on a topic relevant to the case they should be applauded.
Only a corrupt member of the legal profession would advocate treating jurors as less than human.
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Someone was handing out lollypops today. You scored max Insightful with incredibly bad spelling.
...these consoles where given to kids that where anxious to have them...
"Where" and "were" are two different words altogether.
give him a girlfriend and analize what happens
Your browser spell-check would have screamed the obvious: analyse (in English) or analyze (for USA Englizh).
I am sure the results will be the other day
Did you mean, "the other way"?
If you're trying to argue that video games do not influence learning ability or long term concentration you might like to proof read before hitting "submit".
Or, more specifically, no one volunteers for the drudge work so it doesn't get done.
That's where contracting pays off. You agree to do the drudge work and get paid handsomely. Unfortunately you feel like shooting yourself in the process.
British law defines all Caucasians as "racist" and, as such, have no rights but the right to be punished!
In the early days of the Internet there was a mantra along the lines of "be strict in what you send, and liberal in what you receive".
The general idea is that you should expect all kinds of input. It's up to you to ensure that data is fit for purpose inside your program.
There's a whole new generation with little respect for the history of computing and the mistakes endured: data validation, software patents and licensing, open standards and compatibility, etc. But then there's a whole generation of business men who will employ the cheapest "developer" to deliver something that appears functional and brings in money - what incentive have they for fault tolerance, for allowing the fringe that use text browsers to access their site, for preventing distribution of exploits?
It was unstable in a sense that variables sometimes got strange values inexplicably.
Perl doesn't stop you from programming like a rodeo clown (for those who don't even qualify as cowboys...).
If you're going to make zealous use of globals and then use mod_perl you will get hurt.
Universities teach about something called "coupling". Every professional programmer will talk about something called "use strict". If either of these concepts are too difficult you're better off with a language that does its best to help you from yourself (but be aware Java threads are not going to stop any determined doofus from causing real pain).
I don't remember a single instance where a Postal Service, a Telephone Company or a Bank were asked to behave in this manner?
For a start few postal services are private, and they do have screening at border points.
Telephone companies are subject to all manner of requirements including wire-tapping orders from federal agencies and emergency call support.
Banks are subject to money laundering legislation and are required to notify authorities any time a large transaction is made (usually around the 10,000 value of the local currency).
I don't believe ISPs should be working on behalf of the recording industry (another private industry). And for all intents and purposes an ISP is a common carrier - it just ships data regardless of origin or content. If ISPs, however, begin tailoring content, filtering out VoIP, providing custom advertising, etc, then they may be liable to such suits from other industries as such an ISP is very much picking and choosing what content to provide its customers.
If anything the recording industry should be scaring ISPs into remaining common carriers.
The case was definitely part of their agenda to make other organisations spend huge amounts of money to prevent harm to themselves (ie, lawsuits) to in turn to force more money into the music distribution industries already bulging pockets.
Someone needs to bring action to deem the record industry, and in particular AFACT, as a vexatious litigant.
I was pretty sure they didn't have servers outside the USA..
Wow, seems they turned on a London data centre on December 7 2009!
I've now got two Linodes, one in the UK and one in Atlanta
.. UK?
I was pretty sure they didn't have servers outside the USA.. which is why my second virtual server is with Bytemark in the UK.
Having recently paid for Windows 7 Professional, I can tell you that Linux offers you so many benefits that it is hard to see how Microsoft will be able to compete in the near future.
For example:
If it wasn't for games and some professional software being released only for Windows I would not even think about paying money for a product that is far inferior to the free one.
SWAP is using the HDD as extra RAM when the system doesn't have any more memory left to use
Windows also copies memory to the swap file (pagefile) during periods of inactivity so that it can quickly flush the main memory for new requests.
Windows gets really cranky when it doesn't have a pagefile. We tried it for performance reasons and we saw an almost 40% drop in performance despite the server not being under any kind of memory pressure.
And yet when I turn off swap on my 32-bit Vista laptop performance increases 1,000 - 10,000% easily. The difference between waiting 10 minutes for the computer to stop thrashing the swap file and near-instantaneous action is immeasurable.
Typical "don't turn off your pagefile" responses are fraught with lack of experience. There are times when a system performs better with a pagefile. There are many times when a system performs so much better without a pagefile that one wouldn't dream of ever turning it back on.
To start, use a good programming editor/environment (Xcode, Vslick, Visual Studio, etc.) that gives you the ability to easily go to definition or references to variables, functions, structs and such.
I went and bought a 24 inch flat screen monitor with my own money and brought it into work.
If I couldn't have 3 editor windows open side-by-side I would not be able to perform the maintenance required.
I use one editor for the code I'm working on. One editor for the code I'm working from. One editor to look at the file being processed. Sometimes I split my editor windows for more references: sometimes I need to look at different parts of the same file, sometimes I have to view a configuration file for interpreting the data file the script will interpret.
There is no point in rewriting it before you fully understand it.
I fully support this statement.
I recently worked with a guy new to contracting. He came onboard to a project that had a lot of problems. He argued for re-writing it thinking he could do it quickly and simply; I didn't dispute that the system could use significant changes, and I asked him to read through and understand the existing code.
He never did.
Consequently I suggested to senior managers that he should be let go. Reading other people's code, particularly undocumented code, is painful - even for experienced coders. But it is necessary and failure to do so before recommending changes is unprofessional, dangerous, and lazy.
Yet another game that you can't play without being tethered to the internet
Heaven forbid you could entertain yourself on a long haul flight, or on a high-speed long distance train journey.
Boycott Starcraft II!
I hate DRM, I have been close to spitting tacks over the multiple mandatory online accounts and SecureROM havoc played with my system by Grand Theft Auto, but I have been longing for Starcraft II for years now.
Wouldn't you really just need to have two accounts, your real life account and then your second one for all the naughty stuff you don't want people to find out about?
The person you're being naughty with has a friend who has a friend who is your real-life serious friend.
Facebook does not hide friends lists. So the circle can easily be followed.
you should be using focus-follows-mouse
Focus-follows-mouse made no sense back in the old days with Solaris work stations. It still makes no sense.
all that said I wait for version 2 of apple products, and I need more configuration in the pad I am looking for.
I had to laugh when people had to pay a fee to enable using their iPhone as a modem. Nokia/Sony/You-name-it phones could do that for free for a long time before.
Then again, look around. No serious technology user would touch Apple products with a barge pole. Apple has a market, and that market is much bigger than the technical elite.
Are you sure that your results are not based on your personal search history :)
How embarrassing for that poster! I did a google search with cookies stripped, as I have a habit of doing, and didn't get any of those questions appear.
Chat is powered by Erlang not PHP
That would explain things. College kids that use esoteric languages have no interest in real-world useability.
Then you're a perfect candidate for jury duty. They like the dumb ones.
In fact all those advocating jurors to be caged and fed controlled information actually believe that jurors are stupid and incapable of their own thoughts. In fact the pompous legal system cannot handle an intelligent jury.
Jurors find this frustrating, but trials do not exist for their entertainment.
Trials do not always exist for the purpose of a just decision, either. How many times have Microsoft conducted confusing court cases in front of ordinary juries in an attempt to prevent justice!
To control what a juror may know or not know is an abuse of human rights; the whole reason a jury is involved is to get a decision from "the people". Putting "the people" in a cage and controlling what they know and how they may rule is the legal system's attempt to remove power from "the power" and place it back in the hands of judges and lawyers.
If a juror is to make a decision then no one may morally impede that juror from their duty to make the best decision they can. If the juror visits the crime scene they should be applauded. If the juror researches the web on a topic relevant to the case they should be applauded.
Only a corrupt member of the legal profession would advocate treating jurors as less than human.
Chat routinely freezes up the browser, and people appear offline when they are online.
I frequently get error messages from pages that won't dynamically load (there is something wrong with the server, or such message).
Facebook doesn't need a half percent increase in performance, they need a lot more!
Because you can not vote on issues, only on parties.
Imagine a parliament filled only with independents. Then having to form a true consensus about an issue with a real debate!