I think you should learn how to use a pointer before you learn a class. It's really sad that a lot of programmers out there don't even know what a register is. I prefer knowing how something works before I use it. Garbage collection is great, but if you can understand how it works you're only hurting yourself.
With Oracle owning Innodb, and it being GPL, does this mean that MySQL will be removing it to introduce these features? The article only mentioned backup features. Maybe there is more features, but for MySQL online backups can be accomplished by daemons that aren't linked to MySQL in any way. GPL'ed and non-GPL'ed applications can legally communicate through pipes or sockets.
Armed unmanned ground vehicle. Nice name for a gun wielding robot.
So I assume these are radio controlled. Two reason I never thought these would work.
A. It's easy to jam a signal in a relatively close distance.
B. Just like computers once you have physical access to the hardware it's easy to take control of it, like in terminator when they took control of the robot. Much safer for unmanned vehicles to be in the air. Harder to get your hands on them
I know I'm not the first one to say it, but I've had problems getting wireless to work.
Wireless cards have their own firmware. Linux guys borrow the firmware embedded in the windows drivers to make native Linux drivers. Unfortunately the licensing provisions in the windows driver doesn't provide for redistributing the firmware piece, so tools have been created to strip those out.
NDISwrapper is another solution, which also requires borrowing from windows, but instead it uses the whole windows driver and just puts a wrapper around it. I use this because it was the only way I could get wpa working.
Every solutions for wireless on Ubuntu I've seen requires running commands from a command line. Often it requires trial and error and knowledge of Linux. Many Wireless card manufacturers don't care enough about Linux to make it easy for Ubuntu.
Once Linux acquires enough of a market share and enough people complain to the hardware guys then I think we'll start seeing wireless card manufacturers actually release and support Linux drivers.
The only other problems I've had are Flash and Java are not natively supported with the 64-bit FireFox. Theres a work around for flash.
I've noticed though that it's all the closed source pieces that have been causing me problems. In general Ubuntu is very easy to use.
- The competition required them to go 15MPH. Not sure how far they had to go, but it certainly wasn't a gallon of gas! And here I thought I could go cross country on $8 worth of gas.:-(
Don't be fooled. When comcast says p4p they mean Pay 4 Performance. You think they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts? If they could charge you for this they would.
I'm not sure what your point is, but I download files from IRC bots all the time. It's the only way to get some subtitled anime, and it's almost always faster. You're the kind of guy who still uses a rotary phone. Still works don't it?
Natural disaster may be quantifiable, but do we really want some heartless machine deciding who lives and dies in the case of an emergency? Anyone see I-Robot?
I don't mean to sound like a stereotypical paranoid geek, but we give too much power to machines they will start controlling our life.
It will happen soon. It's just guys in a lab drooling at computer screens. I know what you're thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to see a few office buildings crushed into a space no bigger than a pin head. Sorry to burst your bubble. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Micro_Black_Holes
Fortunately those crazy atom smashing mad scientists don't have the power to do that. Someone hears the term mini-black hole and everyone freaks out. The artificial kind blinks out almost immediately. We just can't generate a sustainable singularity.
You're lucky if your IT guy even speaks English well. Often times communicating the problem is hard enough. Then you have to wait for them to schedule time. IT has always been a mess.
I've always been frustrated when an IT guy had to come over and type in a password to change something on my machine. Two days later it's broken again. It's really pointless.
I use IT for network infrastructure and maintenance. Someone has to tend to the server. Individual machines can be handled by power users. Some of us have had computers since we were old enough to speak. We know how to use them. If I need to use a corporate app I'll RDP into a windows server or ssh into a linux server. That solves many problems. The IT guy only has to maintain the server for me, so he becomes more effective. I'm only using the server for corporate apps, so it's not likely to get messed up by me or any other user when trying to install a new game.
All that only works if you're savvy enough to run your own machine. IT doesn't need to spend time with those people. If you can't support yourself then you should request a locked down computer, so IT can handle your problems quickly.
that just 'thinking of the children' and locking the bad stuff away is actually setting them up for failure later in life. Only when danger isn't an issue should you unlock that bad stuff. I wouldn't give a child a chainsaw or a gun without strict supervision, a few rules and an expectation that the child is responsible enough to handle it. I think I shot my first gun when I was like 10.
People don't want to deal with it. The other day I was hearing someone complain about vistas security features. However, a secure architecture is different from a security feature. The idea is to prevent exploits and minimize the damage when things go wrong. Ideally the user won't have to enable a setting. I'd adopt it.
Organic material, eh... We should seed the planet with microbes, come back in a million years and see what evolves there. Would that prove evolution or the god theory?
One connection refused doesn't take up a lot of bandwidth. Thousands of connections refused per day does. Clients often times aren't smart enough to figure out the site is down permanently.
Linux is modular as well as other Unix implementations. Microsoft is trying to compete with that. It is much easier to write a modular design from scratch than it is to rewrite something not modular. Microsoft will be throwing away everything they've worked on. Sure Vista is bloated, slow and expensive, but that is not what windows developers care about. They care about using debuggers instead of printf or printk. They care about Visual Studio, managed code and C#.
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I think you should learn how to use a pointer before you learn a class. It's really sad that a lot of programmers out there don't even know what a register is. I prefer knowing how something works before I use it. Garbage collection is great, but if you can understand how it works you're only hurting yourself.
I know java is more than just a browser plugin, but maybe now finally I can run Java with my 64-bit browser.
Armed unmanned ground vehicle. Nice name for a gun wielding robot.
So I assume these are radio controlled. Two reason I never thought these would work.
A. It's easy to jam a signal in a relatively close distance.
B. Just like computers once you have physical access to the hardware it's easy to take control of it, like in terminator when they took control of the robot. Much safer for unmanned vehicles to be in the air. Harder to get your hands on them
I know I'm not the first one to say it, but I've had problems getting wireless to work.
Wireless cards have their own firmware. Linux guys borrow the firmware embedded in the windows drivers to make native Linux drivers. Unfortunately the licensing provisions in the windows driver doesn't provide for redistributing the firmware piece, so tools have been created to strip those out.
NDISwrapper is another solution, which also requires borrowing from windows, but instead it uses the whole windows driver and just puts a wrapper around it. I use this because it was the only way I could get wpa working.
Every solutions for wireless on Ubuntu I've seen requires running commands from a command line. Often it requires trial and error and knowledge of Linux. Many Wireless card manufacturers don't care enough about Linux to make it easy for Ubuntu.
Once Linux acquires enough of a market share and enough people complain to the hardware guys then I think we'll start seeing wireless card manufacturers actually release and support Linux drivers.
The only other problems I've had are Flash and Java are not natively supported with the 64-bit FireFox. Theres a work around for flash.
I've noticed though that it's all the closed source pieces that have been causing me problems. In general Ubuntu is very easy to use.
Did they give it a push start too?
I'm still waiting for the television broadcast on every channel to say the mad scientist is holding the world hostage.
I want some technical details. Instructions on how to build my own. Hell it didn't even say how fast they were going. Where the juicy information?
Don't be fooled. When comcast says p4p they mean Pay 4 Performance. You think they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts? If they could charge you for this they would.
Yes
Criminalizing file sharing will just drive it underground like the good old days. Whens the last time any of you sent files over IRC?
Plus, it would be almost impossible to enforce a ban. There are already ways to increase anonymity and it's hard to block that kind of traffic.
That diagram looks a little like something I scribbled when I was 2. I was genius then too. ;-)
Is there anything that explains it?
Natural disaster may be quantifiable, but do we really want some heartless machine deciding who lives and dies in the case of an emergency? Anyone see I-Robot?
I don't mean to sound like a stereotypical paranoid geek, but we give too much power to machines they will start controlling our life.
It will happen soon. It's just guys in a lab drooling at computer screens.
I know what you're thinking. Wouldn't it be cool to see a few office buildings crushed into a space no bigger than a pin head.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Micro_Black_Holes
Fortunately those crazy atom smashing mad scientists don't have the power to do that. Someone hears the term mini-black hole and everyone freaks out. The artificial kind blinks out almost immediately. We just can't generate a sustainable singularity.
You're lucky if your IT guy even speaks English well. Often times communicating the problem is hard enough. Then you have to wait for them to schedule time. IT has always been a mess. I've always been frustrated when an IT guy had to come over and type in a password to change something on my machine. Two days later it's broken again. It's really pointless. I use IT for network infrastructure and maintenance. Someone has to tend to the server. Individual machines can be handled by power users. Some of us have had computers since we were old enough to speak. We know how to use them. If I need to use a corporate app I'll RDP into a windows server or ssh into a linux server. That solves many problems. The IT guy only has to maintain the server for me, so he becomes more effective. I'm only using the server for corporate apps, so it's not likely to get messed up by me or any other user when trying to install a new game. All that only works if you're savvy enough to run your own machine. IT doesn't need to spend time with those people. If you can't support yourself then you should request a locked down computer, so IT can handle your problems quickly.
I hate to be cliche, but... Welcome to the Machine.
A little lighter and a little flatter due to the forces made by the largest slingshot on this planet or near this planet for that matter.
People don't want to deal with it. The other day I was hearing someone complain about vistas security features. However, a secure architecture is different from a security feature. The idea is to prevent exploits and minimize the damage when things go wrong. Ideally the user won't have to enable a setting. I'd adopt it.
Organic material, eh... We should seed the planet with microbes, come back in a million years and see what evolves there. Would that prove evolution or the god theory?
One connection refused doesn't take up a lot of bandwidth. Thousands of connections refused per day does. Clients often times aren't smart enough to figure out the site is down permanently.
It automatically gets moved to your spam box.
Linux is modular as well as other Unix implementations. Microsoft is trying to compete with that. It is much easier to write a modular design from scratch than it is to rewrite something not modular. Microsoft will be throwing away everything they've worked on. Sure Vista is bloated, slow and expensive, but that is not what windows developers care about. They care about using debuggers instead of printf or printk. They care about Visual Studio, managed code and C#.