I have. I don't remember the context, but I had a program that wasn't reading input correctly, and I added a check for EOF (after I had read all the data), and it fixed the bug. Oddly enough, I didn't do any error-handling at all -- I just checked for EOF and continued regardless. Thus, the code had the following form:
/* Why does merely CHECKING for EOF fix the bug??? */ if (stream.eof()) { }
Please remain where you are. The Department of Homeland Security has already pinpointed your location, and agents will be arriving shortly. Resistance is futile.
None of the people responding to your post get it that Linux is a fucking nightmare to get anything installed on.
Maybe because we're all using versions of our favorite distros that were released in the 21st century. I'm partial to Debian and Gentoo, but most of the others have nice and friendly software installation too.
On a slightly different subject, what about maintainability of software installations? Here's how it goes on Windows:
There's a critical vulnerability in IE! No problem, Windows Update automatically downloads and installs the patch for me.
There's a critical vulnerability in Office! No problem-- uh, wait, Office isn't covered by Windows Update. Guess I have to go to Microsoft's web site and download the fix myself.
There's a critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat! Hm, looks like I have to go to Adobe's site to get the patch. And I won't even find out about the patch unless I hear about it somewhere, because Windows Update won't tell me.
There's a bugfix available for Neverwinter Nights! Unless I read the forums or regularly check the web site, I'll never hear about it.
Whereas, here's the situation on Linux:
There's a critical vulnerability in Firefox! No problem, just do "apt-get update" or "emerge sync" or whatever my distro's equivalent is. It downloads new versions and updates and installs them for me. And not just for Firefox -- for every program that the package manager knows about (which is usually a whole lot of programs). There, now my system is entirely up to date. If I don't feel like doing that manually, I can just put it in a cron job. There, now I'm perpetually updated on everything.
You can keep Windows if you want to. I think I'll stick with Linux.
Ordinary people can't be trusted to inform ourselves. We need "professional journalists" like the New York Times (home of Jayson Blair) to tell the rest of us chumps what to believe, because otherwise we might listen to multiple news sources and *gasp* FORM OUR OWN OPINIONS!
That was the subject of an Asimov story. In the future, statistical methods become so precise that the vote of only a single well-selected voter is sufficient to determine the winner of the election.
"I often reflect that if 'privileges' had been called 'responsibilities'
or 'duties', I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people
why they were only gonna get them over my dead body."
I would disagree with your #3. Space flight is still a very dangerous business, and excessive safety regulation might strangle innovation, at least in the early stages. I'd favor an informed consent model -- if the pilot/crew are informed of the possibility of dying in a fiery explosion, and they're willing to take the risk, let them! Of course, you'd still have to make sure your craft doesn't harm anyone else -- no exploding in a populated area, no colliding with other aircraft or buildings, no raining fiery debris on random people, etc. And you'd have to have extra safety regulations if/when you start carrying passengers. But if daredevil space pilots want to risk their lives for a chance to go where no private citizen has gone before, I'm all for it!
There's actually a good reason for that. You see, Jedi carry their lightsabers on their belts, and as we saw in Ep. 1, the power button on a lightsaber is very prominent and easy to push accidentally. One little accidental bump, and suddenly a Jedi can no longer love.:-(
...and that pesky document called "The Constitution"
The Constitution hasn't been an impediment to any previous President. But it would be almost impossible to implement a Libertarian agenda against the will of Congress. The President can issue executive orders, but I don't know how far they can go (and in true Slashdot fashion, I'm not going to look it up).
No, P2P means "peer to peer". "Point to point" refers to a network link between only two hosts, in which packets from one host can only go to (and possibly through) the other one. Filesharing networks have nothing to do with point-to-point.
That, and it's entirely possible to turn a ship at warp. They've done it many times.
Are you sure about that? There was an episode of Voyager that implied turning at warp was impossible. (Tom Paris quoted, "Faster than light, no left or right.") They had to drop out of warp in order to turn, and this was somehow a problem, because they were in hostile space, or something like that. I'm not sure, but I think the method they worked out somehow involved making the computer compute the turns more quickly so they could spend a minimum amount of time in sublight.
Then again, Star Trek has never been very internally consistent, so it's entirely possible they were turning at warp speed for decades (centuries?) before someone realized it was impossible.
Slashdot Mirror
I got redirected to a 404 when I tried to view it. Do you have an alternate source for this file?
Still, there are possibilities...
Obviously, this is the skull of Frodo or Bilbo (or maybe Sam), and Indonesia is where Valinor once existed. That's why they were so far from England.
The last thing humans will ever see will be an intergalactic missile streaking towards earth, inscribed with the alien word for "Unsubscribe".
I have. I don't remember the context, but I had a program that wasn't reading input correctly, and I added a check for EOF (after I had read all the data), and it fixed the bug. Oddly enough, I didn't do any error-handling at all -- I just checked for EOF and continued regardless. Thus, the code had the following form:
Please remain where you are. The Department of Homeland Security has already pinpointed your location, and agents will be arriving shortly. Resistance is futile.
Maybe because we're all using versions of our favorite distros that were released in the 21st century. I'm partial to Debian and Gentoo, but most of the others have nice and friendly software installation too.
On a slightly different subject, what about maintainability of software installations? Here's how it goes on Windows:
- There's a critical vulnerability in IE! No problem, Windows Update automatically downloads and installs the patch for me.
- There's a critical vulnerability in Office! No problem-- uh, wait, Office isn't covered by Windows Update. Guess I have to go to Microsoft's web site and download the fix myself.
- There's a critical vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat! Hm, looks like I have to go to Adobe's site to get the patch. And I won't even find out about the patch unless I hear about it somewhere, because Windows Update won't tell me.
- There's a bugfix available for Neverwinter Nights! Unless I read the forums or regularly check the web site, I'll never hear about it.
Whereas, here's the situation on Linux:- There's a critical vulnerability in Firefox! No problem, just do "apt-get update" or "emerge sync" or whatever my distro's equivalent is. It downloads new versions and updates and installs them for me. And not just for Firefox -- for every program that the package manager knows about (which is usually a whole lot of programs). There, now my system is entirely up to date. If I don't feel like doing that manually, I can just put it in a cron job. There, now I'm perpetually updated on everything.
You can keep Windows if you want to. I think I'll stick with Linux.The Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that pornography is protected speech. So, yes, the network will be used for "protected speech".
I read it twenty years ago in the Time Travellers' Journal.
And the moral of the story is:
Ordinary people can't be trusted to inform ourselves. We need "professional journalists" like the New York Times (home of Jayson Blair) to tell the rest of us chumps what to believe, because otherwise we might listen to multiple news sources and *gasp* FORM OUR OWN OPINIONS!
And perhaps someday the major media will also be fact-checked and reliable. I'm still waiting.
So, they're just like the major media used to be before the conservative media started giving people the other side of the story?
That was the subject of an Asimov story. In the future, statistical methods become so precise that the vote of only a single well-selected voter is sufficient to determine the winner of the election.
-- Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin
I would disagree with your #3. Space flight is still a very dangerous business, and excessive safety regulation might strangle innovation, at least in the early stages. I'd favor an informed consent model -- if the pilot/crew are informed of the possibility of dying in a fiery explosion, and they're willing to take the risk, let them! Of course, you'd still have to make sure your craft doesn't harm anyone else -- no exploding in a populated area, no colliding with other aircraft or buildings, no raining fiery debris on random people, etc. And you'd have to have extra safety regulations if/when you start carrying passengers. But if daredevil space pilots want to risk their lives for a chance to go where no private citizen has gone before, I'm all for it!
Yes it does. You're thinking of the advertising clause, which was deleted some time ago.
No. The term "Open Source" is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative and/or Software in the Public Interest, and it has a very specific meaning.
There's actually a good reason for that. You see, Jedi carry their lightsabers on their belts, and as we saw in Ep. 1, the power button on a lightsaber is very prominent and easy to push accidentally. One little accidental bump, and suddenly a Jedi can no longer love. :-(
Personally, I'm avoiding watching election returns. I'll find out who won tomorrow morning (which is what I told myself four years ago...)
"President Mitnick's first official act was to pardon everyone who had anything to do with his unexpected landslide victory."
IPSec.
The Constitution hasn't been an impediment to any previous President. But it would be almost impossible to implement a Libertarian agenda against the will of Congress. The President can issue executive orders, but I don't know how far they can go (and in true Slashdot fashion, I'm not going to look it up).
What if your text editor has a backdoor?
No, P2P means "peer to peer". "Point to point" refers to a network link between only two hosts, in which packets from one host can only go to (and possibly through) the other one. Filesharing networks have nothing to do with point-to-point.
Are you sure about that? There was an episode of Voyager that implied turning at warp was impossible. (Tom Paris quoted, "Faster than light, no left or right.") They had to drop out of warp in order to turn, and this was somehow a problem, because they were in hostile space, or something like that. I'm not sure, but I think the method they worked out somehow involved making the computer compute the turns more quickly so they could spend a minimum amount of time in sublight.
Then again, Star Trek has never been very internally consistent, so it's entirely possible they were turning at warp speed for decades (centuries?) before someone realized it was impossible.