Comment justice in action (Score 1) 2
Funny how TPB is still up, eh?
Comment Re:open or closed ecosystems (Score 1) 497
It's like teaching a programming class in D--yeah, the language is nice, but it's not what people use.
This is a lousy example that works against you. As many programmers have, I learned one programming language (Java) at Uni and have *never* used it since. I have since, however, worked in asp, c, c++, c#, asp.net, perl, sh, vb, vbscript, ruby, python... and probably more that I can't remember; none of these ever presented any problems to me, nor should they to any real programmer, regardless of previous experience.
The point, as many other people have been saying, is that if the principles are taught well, rather than procedure, then the platform becomes absolutely irrelevant.
This is a lousy example that works against you. As many programmers have, I learned one programming language (Java) at Uni and have *never* used it since. I have since, however, worked in asp, c, c++, c#, asp.net, perl, sh, vb, vbscript, ruby, python... and probably more that I can't remember; none of these ever presented any problems to me, nor should they to any real programmer, regardless of previous experience.
The point, as many other people have been saying, is that if the principles are taught well, rather than procedure, then the platform becomes absolutely irrelevant.
Crayon Physics Combines Science and Puzzles 78
IamAHack writes "NPR covered a new game that seems like it would have great appeal to Slashdot readers: Crayon Physics. Quoting: 'A new computer game went on sale this week. It's not a blockbuster like Halo or World of Warcraft. There's no first-person shooting, no sports, no guitar, no microphone. Instead, there's a crayon. The game is Crayon Physics Deluxe. It's a simple, mesmerizing game created by a 25-year-old independent games designer from Finland named Petri Purho. "It's a game where your crayon drawings come to life,' Purho tells NPR's Melissa Block. 'You draw stuff and your drawings behave physically correctly. As soon as you release the last button, the laws of physics are applied to your drawing."' A demo is available, and Opposable Thumbs has a review of the game."
Dell Closes Ireland Plant; 2nd Largest Employer 494
Wide Angle writes in with a PBS report on tough economic news from Ireland: Dell announced that it will relocate its manufacturing plant in Limerick, Ireland to Lodz, Poland. "Dell's announcement... is a severe blow to the Irish economy, which has been hit hard and fast by the global economic crisis. Dell is Ireland's second-largest corporate employer and the country's largest exporter. Nineteen hundred shift workers will lose their jobs. ...Dell's closing is not a result of the economic downturn, but of a pattern all too familiar in the United States — corporations' perennial search for cheaper labor. Since 2000 several companies, such as Procter & Gamble, Intel, Gateway, and NEC Electronics, have moved manufacturing jobs from Ireland to China, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere. When Poland joined the European Union in 2004, it became an attractive place for companies to set up manufacturing plants. ... However, Ireland has managed to maintain and attract... 'knowledge-intensive jobs.' Google's European headquarters are based in Dublin, and Facebook announced late last year that they would locate their international headquarters there. But the overall economic picture for Ireland is bleak."
How Do You Manage Your SD Card Library? 485
txmadman writes "Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children, I have several SD , mini-SD, and micro-SD cards for various purposes: cameras, cell phones, my laptop, etc. These things are handy to have around, offer easy and significant storage, but are very easily lost. We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose, and have also started to see a need for a storage mechanism. I have seen SD card 'wallets' and such, but have never seen anyone actually use one. So: How do you manage and keep track of your SD cards?"
Obama Wants Broadband, Computers Part of Stimulus 901
damn_registrars writes "President-elect Barack Obama announced in his radio address that his administration's economic stimulus package will include investing in computers and broadband for education. 'To help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.'
He also said it is 'unacceptable' that the US ranks 15th in broadband adoption." No doubt with free spyware and internet filtering. You know... for the kids.
Should You Get Paid While Your Computer Boots? 794
An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including AT&T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. ... [A] management-side attorney... who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits... believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."
Comment Re:overkill (Score 1) 333
Remote detonation as soon as you see the guy pick it up. It says in the summary that this thing provides images before it lands; there need be no wait for the video feed to be acquired.
Comment Re:Exclusive blackberry tip! (Score 1) 238
What's an Off button?
Comment Re:Same thing but for 7 year olds (Score 1) 372
Because they don't
Comment Re:"/."liza. (Score 4, Funny) 372
I had to write right handed for a week.
How do you think I feel? I've been made to do it for 25 years!
How do you think I feel? I've been made to do it for 25 years!
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
Similarly, if one of those 5 accounts is compromised, you can see that someone is trying to brute force the root password before it is broken.
If you cant trust someone with root privileges not to rm -rf /var/www then why the hell give them root in the first place?
If you cant trust someone with root privileges not to rm -rf
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
PROTIP: shopt -s dotglob
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
No one wants to feed the troll...
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
... how about "sudo -s"?
