It still seems like a system where an untrusted party could take advantage to drop packets in this manner from non-preferred sources or to non-preferred destinations however.
Nothing stops them from doing it today, just look at all those ISPs that drop Bittorrent packets.
Because my mama taught me to comb my hair, keep my fingernails clean and write code that other humans can understand without wanting to couge their eyes out with a fork.
If it is already cached, shouldn't it stay relatively constant?
I'm a bit simplifying here, but a program has two memory footprints: the executable itself and the variables it uses. I guess what you see is Vista caching the executable (the Firefox exe and the dlls it uses) but not the variables (it is problematic for an OS to cache those - they are, well, vary from usage to usage). Variables here can be pretty big here. A list containing all the data for each site you visit can be such a variable (I'm not saying Firefox has one, it's just an example).
I've seen some Win32 code; it's not pretty, and the way the UI code connects to what's happening on the screen is a complete mystery to me.
So grab a freaking win internals book and read it. I agree that it's not pretty, but to bitch about you not knowing how the internals work when the information is readily available (regarding UI!) is just plain lazy.
Recently when I asked my fifth grade daughter what she had learned in school, she proudly informed me that "everyone in Korea eats kimchi at every meal, every day". In the world of a ten-year-old, things are simpler. Rules don't have exceptions. Generalizations always apply.
This is how we learn. We understand the basic rules first and see the finer points later. First we learn that memory leaks are impossible in the CLR. Later, when our app consumes all available RAM, we learn more.
Would I trust a former black-hat hacker to protect my computers? Possibly. Would I trust someone who has specifically targeted and screwed over his clients in the past- the people who paid him good money to protect them from such behaviour? Would I fuck.
I loved how used it as a rhetorical question. Only on Slashdot.
This is a feature that should be high on anyone's list: the ability to direct someone else to change system settings without having to give them a long GUI script along the lines of "Open this, click here, click there, this should say X, type Y". I just love being able to package up these types of changes into a command-line like that.
Be careful, or whomever you're helping will complain that on "those damn non windows machines you have to type long commands to get anything done". As we all know this is the popular belief today about Linux... I don't think Apple would like the same for Macs.
Canada's judicial system is generally very sympathetic to rulings issued by EU magistrates.
Seriously, what happened to sovereignty? I would have been very disturbed had I been a Canadian... Hell, I find it disturbing as a citizen of a sovereign democracy.
They should have at least supplied a torrent... I'm downloading it right now and it is really really slow (think single digit Kb/s - pointless, really).
We'll see "genetic frameworks" with reusable piece that have well known behavior, and genetical development kits that simulate assemblies' features and behavior much faster than doing full-blown atom-by-atom simulation.
Genetical programming will be born:)
This sounds to me like a great setting for a science fiction book (or a morals-related debate)- a future world where there is proprietary genetic code which only some people can afford and a gpl-style licensed genetic code which everyone can freely use.
If anyone here knows of such work that explores such issues (and not only the popular genetic profiling issue) please comment:)
Because there's too many CS and IT graduates who don't know how their favorite magical IDE works under the hood. They think it's über-complicated and scary to do development in a terminal using emacs/vi/nano and make/gcc/etc. Some of them have graduate degrees, and some of them teach.
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What's new in the server edition? All the articles I've seen so far are desktop-centric.
On departure, Bender was spotted saying
"I'm going to start my own laptop project with blackjack! and hookers!"
It still seems like a system where an untrusted party could take advantage to drop packets in this manner from non-preferred sources or to non-preferred destinations however.
Nothing stops them from doing it today, just look at all those ISPs that drop Bittorrent packets.
With blackjack, and hookers!
With services for developers like EC2 and S3 I feel Amazon is underestimated big time - they are one of the few big companies that really "get it".
Because my mama taught me to comb my hair, keep my fingernails clean and write code that other humans can understand without wanting to couge their eyes out with a fork.
You don't happen to be mrs. roberts's child, do you?
If it is already cached, shouldn't it stay relatively constant?
I'm a bit simplifying here, but a program has two memory footprints: the executable itself and the variables it uses. I guess what you see is Vista caching the executable (the Firefox exe and the dlls it uses) but not the variables (it is problematic for an OS to cache those - they are, well, vary from usage to usage). Variables here can be pretty big here. A list containing all the data for each site you visit can be such a variable (I'm not saying Firefox has one, it's just an example).
I've seen some Win32 code; it's not pretty, and the way the UI code connects to what's happening on the screen is a complete mystery to me.
So grab a freaking win internals book and read it. I agree that it's not pretty, but to bitch about you not knowing how the internals work when the information is readily available (regarding UI!) is just plain lazy.
A nice quote from Eric Sink's Source Control HOWTO:
Recently when I asked my fifth grade daughter what she had learned in school, she proudly informed me that "everyone in Korea eats kimchi at every meal, every day". In the world of a ten-year-old, things are simpler. Rules don't have exceptions. Generalizations always apply.
This is how we learn. We understand the basic rules first and see the finer points later. First we learn that memory leaks are impossible in the CLR. Later, when our app consumes all available RAM, we learn more.
Would I trust a former black-hat hacker to protect my computers? Possibly. Would I trust someone who has specifically targeted and screwed over his clients in the past- the people who paid him good money to protect them from such behaviour? Would I fuck.
I loved how used it as a rhetorical question.
Only on Slashdot.
This is a feature that should be high on anyone's list: the ability to direct someone else to change system settings without having to give them a long GUI script along the lines of "Open this, click here, click there, this should say X, type Y". I just love being able to package up these types of changes into a command-line like that.
Be careful, or whomever you're helping will complain that on "those damn non windows machines you have to type long commands to get anything done". As we all know this is the popular belief today about Linux... I don't think Apple would like the same for Macs.
It's very good for automation though.
Canada's judicial system is generally very sympathetic to rulings issued by EU magistrates.
Seriously, what happened to sovereignty?
I would have been very disturbed had I been a Canadian... Hell, I find it disturbing as a citizen of a sovereign democracy.
Wouldn't it be : In Soviet Russia, you eat black holes ?
No, it should read: Black holes don't suck Chuck Noriss - Chuck Noriss slurps 2000 of them in one afternoon.
They should have at least supplied a torrent... I'm downloading it right now and it is really really slow (think single digit Kb/s - pointless, really).
We'll see "genetic frameworks" with reusable piece that have well known behavior, and genetical development kits that simulate assemblies' features and behavior much faster than doing full-blown atom-by-atom simulation.
:)
:)
Genetical programming will be born
This sounds to me like a great setting for a science fiction book (or a morals-related debate)- a future world where there is proprietary genetic code which only some people can afford and a gpl-style licensed genetic code which everyone can freely use.
If anyone here knows of such work that explores such issues (and not only the popular genetic profiling issue) please comment
Leave the celebrities the fuck alone, they're just people.
Chris?? Is that you??
Cue in the Excel jokes just about... now!
god no! they DID make next generation versions of oregon trail, THEY SUCKED, I'm still playing the original :D
:)
and still no girlfriend!
Thank you, thank you, i'll be here all night
More on Gorman's dissertation here for those interested in the story.
Asteroid collisions are like hard disks crashes. May it happen? Yes, in theory. But the chance that it will actually happen is extremely low
:'(
I hope you're wrong, considering the fact I just had 2 drives go dead on the last month
There is a new discussion management system - on the left side of the page there is a gray panel with a 'reply' link.
"Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb"
Because there's too many CS and IT graduates who don't know how their favorite magical IDE works under the hood. They think it's über-complicated and scary to do development in a terminal using emacs/vi/nano and make/gcc/etc. Some of them have graduate degrees, and some of them teach.
:-\
+1 Sad Truth
For a good first estimate, simply take the US price, and change the $ to a £ symbol.
:P
In Israel, you take the US price, and change the $ to a £ symbol, and only THEN you convert it to sheqels
In fact forget the essay writes!