Posts by jwenting

This is completely wrong.

Narue is exactly right. The intrusive nature of the GPL ensures that as soon as you put anything under it, all derived works are under it as well.
AFAIK it's never been tested what size would be considered a derived work (1%, 0.01%?), but you can't simply cut out the GPL headers and call it something else.

Sorry of course it is yearly.

why of course? Depending on your needs you may need to pay tens of thousands a month :)

set up your system path correctly to include the $JAVA_HOME/bin directory (after of course setting the $JAVA_HOME environment variable correctly).

good excuse to buy more RAM though :)

I'm not into this kind of games but I showed this thread to a friend who is into them and he told me that bodyguards are not all that unusual in online gaming, but what is unusual about this one is that the bodyguard is a 15-year-old kid.

in Ryzom there's guilds that offer weekly excursions around the world for new players, where they're shown all the world by enough high level players to safely get them everywhere.
There's no pvp involved, but in Ryzom even the wildlife can be dangerous enough that several maxed out players together can't survive against it :)

sounds like he used a NullLayout or something very similar, with fixed size (in pixels) controls rather than letting the LayoutManager determine the pixel size based on content size.
There won't be a "port" for that, rather it will have to be recreated from scratch.

a VM is for the rest of the network just another computer, no different from a real one.

then still comes the question:
do you want to PLAY the game yourself, or have it played for you while you pay extra for it?

if I understand correctly, this guy is offering a service where you pay him to watch your back while you play, maybe give some tips.

He's not offering a powerlevelling service, which would no doubt be against the terms of service of the game (as it is for most games).

now if only they'd make them for the millions of Android models as well :)
Especially the highend ones like the Galaxy SII which is getting ever more popular (and rightly so) in the corporate world.

Of course it'd mean having to always have the fob and phone with you both, which is rather bothersome if you're like most of us and put the fob on your keyring, but leave the phone at home weekends :)

It's mostly a job for the operators or product designers to make the scripts for those machines.
I wouldn't be surprised if software like AutoCAD can generate the scripts for the more common brands for you based on the design files for parts.

As Vadriaan says, they're mostly simple languages/tools that do little more than allowing the user to put in sequences of movement and tool use.
Something akin to

move left 10.0
move up 1.01
select head 100
activate head
down head
move up 2.05
up head
deactivate head

in my experience, most often this problem has nothing to do with videocards, RAM, CPU, etc. but is just a matter of a cable that's improperly connected :)
Loose cables, always check them first...

I knew more than 6 months in advance what was required of me for my internship (and associated research paper, sort of a mix between an internship and a dissertation I guess).
But then I'd been paying attention to what the university was providing us in guidance, meeting with the staff who'd support me, etc.. As should be expected from a student interested in his work.

Offering an opinion and a reason for a choice is never wrong.

in this case, the reason is utterly bogus and thus wrong.

I'm slightly worried all that wasn't explained to him a long time ago...
Or maybe it was but he wasn't paying attention.

Of course it depends on where in the UK, but in major cities the cost of living is some of the highest in Europe.
In Amsterdam (similar to London if not cheaper), you can expect your rent alone to be 1000-1500 Euro for a small apartment. Cost of living (just food and drink) 100-150 Euro per person per week (for decent food, but certainly not high end).
Mandatory health insurance several hundred Euro a month.
Taxes, other insurance, etc.
At an income of 30k pounds a year, or about 3000 Euro a month, before taxes, you can expect to have about 2-300 a month to spend on clothes, hobbies, training, transportation, and luxuries. Not a lot, if you consider a pair of decent jeans can cost you a hundred, a drink at the pub 5 Euro per glass.

That said, it's not a bad income, on the low side of normal in fact.

the only way to ever keep your source secret (there are deobfuscators, and a human could do it as well given time) is to never distribute anything except data.
That means running your system as a SAAS application, and only exposing some web services for your customers to call.

wrong argument. The exact same thing you claim is the reason .NET is the one to go with is also true for Java :)

native executables can also be decompiled :)

you can indeed call the Java compiler API on the fly from Java code. That's how JSP engines (for example) work to provide runtime compilation of generated Java source into classfiles.

who needs human resources without those humans having something to do, which requires data?
what's human resources going to do without data to act on?
who's going to gather and process data without human resources to handle hiring etc.?

see your compiler documentation. That would be highly system dependent.

what you need is a testing framework like jUnit.

you'd not handle it like that. Rather you'd pass the player and whatever movement input the player has initiated to the physics engine, and get a movement vector as a result.

if you don't find the JVM specs and the JLS convincing, there's little hope for you.

if you use JSP you don't need to change web.xml and typically don't need to restart the server.
Even if you do change web.xml you would just have to redeploy the web application to the server, causing a typical downtime of no more than a few minutes, easy to schedule for night time hours when visitors are unlikely to be inconvenienced.

The same is no doubt true for php as well.

shareware isn't free...

And you won't find a mortgage calculator that's useful for websites unless they're highly localised websites as mortgage rules and laws make the outcome very different across countries or even smaller areas.
And of course different suppliers have different variations, leading to different results again.
Which is why every mortgage supplier writes its own software.

public class LazyHomeworkKiddoClass {
}

there you go

you'd be surprised...
A lot of kids haven't got a life, have unlimited acccess to daddy's credit card, and haven't got a clue as to the value of money or time.

too late...

there's TV documentaries about some similar systems in US cities that used to play on Discovery.

Think SimCity without the animation and buildings, just the road network.
Clickable icons for each and every electronic roadsign so the operators can change them to read what they should (automatically calculated so that surrounding signals are switched to maintain a legal and safe road situation).

Obesity is a problem, poor diet is definitely a contributing factor (I don't know which gov't has been promoting a carb rich diet but Canada emphasizes you need equal or more servings of fruits and vegetables than carbs). And processed sugar is one of the major contributing factors to diabetes not necessarily all carbs.

all western governments promote a carb rich diet.
Just look at the "food pyramid" and similar things put out by health departments across the Americas and Europe.
They push a diet that's something like 80-90% carb laden bread, pasta, fruit, vegetables, and rice.
If you consider that an average person eats about 1-2 kilos of food stuff a day (depending on activity, dietary choices, etc.), if he follows government guidelines he'll be consuming about 700-1500 grams of carbohydrates a day.
Part of that is dietary fiber, a good thing, but the vast majority will be in sugars and starch (and starch is readily converted to sugar inside the body).

It is no surprise that body weight in north America and Europe rapidly went up after WW2.
WW2 (starting before during the depression) saw massive campaigns to increase wheat production in the US (and later Europe after WW2, where under the Marshall plan similar programs were set up), fueled by heavy government subsidies to provide cheap food for the masses as well as the troops.
After WW2 this was pushed in Europe under the idea of a "never again" solution …

and maybe in some places (like India, where I know this was or is the case) some employers indeed want certification in the mistaken idea that it says anything at all about a candidate (and for outsourcing firms, because they think having "100% certified staff" still sways any serious customer).

and even if we knew of a place to download it, we wouldn't give it to you as it would be a repository of pirated software and distribution is violation of several laws.

Fatal Error: NoCodeTagError at: line 1. redo from start

no Chris, the "perfect" BMI is a political construct. In reality it's highly dependent on the individual what his or her "perfect" weight is.
For one thing it's age dependent, something not reflected in BMI calculations (and as a result kids are often malnourished now to the point of starvation because of diet obsessions held by schools, doctors, and parents alike to get them to that holy grail of the government dictated "perfect BMI" (this is especially atrocious in the UK where kids are taken from their parents if parents fail to achieve this, and placed in foster care, the parents being charged with child abuse).
Diabetes is not caused by being overweight, contrary to popular myth. Both are caused by the same root reason, an unstable blood sugar level and overall metabolism caused by a diet way too high in processed carbohydrates (the exact same diet promoted by government health departments, dieticians, and doctors alike).

And it's not "some" overweight people, it's a majority.

What people fail to understand is that there's no "one size fits all" for body shape and size, nor is there for diet.
For example: You might be able to eat 5 cheeseburgers with fries and large sodas a day and not gain a gram of weight, when I have only one I can gain 2-3 pounds even though that meal only has about half a pound of digestible nutrients in it.

yes, it's indeed useless trying to get you to understand that you should do your own thinking.

overweight people are far more offended by being called "fatties" and ridiculed when the vast majority of them aren't overweight by choice but because of medical conditions made worse by the diet industry and completely ignored by medical professionals.

In fact, if you're overweight many doctors won't take any condition you have seriously, you'll be told (and I know that from personal experience) that if you just were to eat less you will be cured of whatever is ailing you.
Never mind that many overweight people are already eating far less than most of those same doctors in attempts to prevent gaining more weight.
And most diets only make things worse, especially the low fat, high carbohydrate diet that's hailed as the ideal "food pyramid", never mind the plethora of "weight loss diets" that cause your metabolism to crash so you gain a lot of weight as soon as you're forced to abandon them when they've completely screwed up your body chemistry.

And oh, "obesity rates" of 34% are blatantly ridiculous. Such numbers only show how overused the qualifier "obese" has become.
Look around you, is a full third of the people you see on an average city street over an average day so fat they can hardly walk let alone stand up?
Of course not, but the qualifier "obese" is now placed on anyone who's more than marginally over the "ideal BMI" (itself a hoax) which is regularly adjusted downward to the point …

That's idiotic, an entry level programmer should also know how to solve algorithmic problems and math problems.

anyone should be able to do that, we're talking about specific skills needed for programmers on top of what's needed to survive.

Using exceptions to catch and handle bad input is ONLY good if either that input is to cause an application crash OR if you have a dedicated framework in place to handle such exceptions at a higher (central) level.
The latter is rarely if ever the case in a small homework assignment.

Statistical analysis shows 90% of all statistics are flawed.

Well looking as he is only 15, I think he's just after some pocket money

maybe, but if it sells he's still offering a needed service :) More power to him for recognising and monetising that need, that's the stuff entrepreneurs are made of.

an entry level programmer should be able to read, should be able to type, and should be able to learn. Anything else is a bonus.

if you can't even come up with ideas, finding solutions will be not just difficult, it will be impossible.

depends on what the address is for...
dean.grobler@deangrobler.com for personal use (or deang@)
webmaster@ for people to contact you about your website is a classic
info@ if you're a company and want a central point of contact
etc. etc. etc.

indeed, and commercial services are strictly against the terms of service of most mmos.
Most such services are run by computer criminals and goldsellers, requiring access to your account details so they can log in and play your toon for you, but in reality to use it for gold farming and scamming other players before stripping it of all its posessions and stealing your creditcard in the process.

This guy however seems to offer an on the face of it genuine service to a community where there is no sense of community (as if there were there'd be no market for people demanding pay for helping each other).

you fail. It's YOUR job, YOUR research, not ours.
So it's YOUR job to come up with ideas, not ours to tell you what to do.

why do you want to use them at all?

Servlets should rarely if ever do anything that requires such low level code that it can't be done entirely in Java, and when they do completely isolating that code from the servlet environment and calling it through some protocol (tcp connection, web service, whatever) is almost always far better than trying to force native code into a servlet application (or indeed any Java application).

The Gates Foundation is a huge charity promoting computer education in schools in poor areas in both the US and abroad by giving grants for those schools to purchase computers and software (and maybe donating equipment directly), as well as funding research into things like HIV cures and vaccination.
I'm not quite sure how much money Bill Gates and his family have put in, but the figure is in the billions of dollars.

can't help you if you can't even figure that out for yourself...
That said, it's a completely incorrect way to "validate" a credit card number. Not only is the number of digits incorrect for some types of cards, there is a strict requirement for the number to be a valid credit card number which has nothing to do with there being some spaces in it.

Would it be plagiarism if the code were in a tutorial written in HTML?

Why do you think a video would be any different?

It's as if there are people walking around without any sense of morality...

"it's on the internet so it's mine" is the prevailing attitude among way too many people...
Exemplified by a usenet post I read years ago on a security list asking for cracks to a system to create key generators for commercial software.
Idiot wanted to pirate anti-piracy tools to protect his own product against piracy.

But this guy at least bothers to ask to make sure :)