Now how difficult is it to make sure the buttons on a drive-through ATM have Braille when you have to make sure the walk-in ATM has Braille? You guys are stirring up a storm in a tea-cup with this discussion..
Granted, I no longer live in the states. But - to see such a bill introduced by a Californian Democrat is quite encouraging. Way to go, Zoe. If this passes, the rest of the world will thank you.
We all know michael is - ehm - intellectually challanged. He's very enthusiastic about these things, just not all that knowledgeable or strong at research. We'll just have to live with that.
A simple parachute would probably do the trick. They are rather slow moving things, as well. I guess it would be possible to evacuate or intercept before the damage occured. Good point, though. Certainly needs looking into..
The Helios project will provide the same functionality, but with cheaper maintenance and launch costs. It is a solar-cell powered flying wing that will soar at about 60000 feet or so, with 200 pounds of payload. It may very well be the specific reason they pulled the plug on Teledisc, since they realize that most satelites will be obsoleted too soon for them to proceed with the project.
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earth was a horribly inhospitable place 4 billion or so years ago. As a matter of fact, life has altered our atmosphere among other things. Oxygene in gas form would not be so abundant were it not for life. Some would speculate that there would be more CO2, making the planet a hotter place.
That brings another point. The temperature range where the chemical reactivity needed for creating life is rather narrow, IIRC. That of course only applies to the chemical reactions we call life. Your extra-terrestial milage may vary.
Frankly, this is plain old blah. I want my cell phone small and simple and cheap, but capable of interacting with PDAs. Then, if I want all that multi-media crap, I'll use my PDA - which happens to be a much better platform for that functionality.
So - gimme a Bluetooth-enabled Tungsten and a small 3G-device, and I might think about it. For now, I'll stick to my regular GSM that I can upgrade to GPRS if I (want|need) to.
I had LASIK done last spring as well. My eyes were -9 and -7.5, so I am biased towards ranting.
My eye doctor asked me whether I had any haloes or starbursts when I wore my contacts. I told him I had some light ones. He told me they would likely get a bit worse, and asked me if the risk was acceptable. I told him it was.
I had my work done, went home and rested, and got up the next morning. Holy clarity! It was just like when you've just had a new set of contacts on a new presription.
Almost year and a half ago, I still see like an eagle! Sure, I got some starburts. 95% of the time, they don't really manifest themselves. Mostly, it's a nuisance when I'm in a high contrast environment, like driving when it's dark. But, it was very much worth it to me, since I was quite helpless without optical hardware.
Know your audience. The type of job you are searching for should form your resume. It should also emphasize your strengths.
Sadly, when employers hire these days, they can truly pick among the best. Out of fourty people who applied for a temporary position I'm hiring for, seven are so talented and well fit that I'm almost down to tossing a die.
Anyhow, you should also make a good application. Write briefly about what skills in your resume you think will enable you to do a good job.
That's all I can tell you. The rest is probably position specific. Tailor yourself to the position as far as possible.
Nitpicking with dissenters is bad form, but screw it.
Frodo certainly grew as a person from he left the shire until he faced Gondor. He left the Shire quite naïve but with a strong sense of duty, and got progressively smarter about people and dealing with danger as the adventure progressed. The rest of the crew also learned some lessons, but I am not compulsive enough to remember them, much less to list them.
I'm for once loooking forward to a couple of sci-fi flicks. Oddly(?), they are both sequels. LOTR/FOTR and Matrix both gave us acting (or casting, in Keanu Reeve's case), storyline and character development. I hope the Sci-fi community notices that the stakes are higher now. We are developing a taste for quality beyond expensive effects.
The fact that the plots in both movies were without gaping holes also contributed to a good experience.
If they haven't heard of you before, they won't give you the time of day.. Don't bet on it. If you have really good references and relevant background, they would consider calling you in for an interview. That being said, I don't think more than just a very few slashdotters would get the call.
In retrospect, I think they will admit that shutting down Napster was a mistake. Napster was a client/server technology, but acted as a P2P application. Today's technology is distributed to a much larger extent, meaning that there is no guaranteed way of blocking or logging content.
With Napster, they had a possible infrastructure for micropayments etc. They also had the possibility of quietly monitoring the activity. Now, they are much more in the dark.
Then again, wisdom and compromise was never something the entertainment industry was very good at.
We should figure out some way to make our P2P apps notify the law enforcement whenever we've downloaded a copyrighted clip. I am thinking about some kind of plugin into Kazaa and gnucleus et al.
It would be such a massive wave of honesty that their mail server would probably collapse.
Power4 by IBM uses two cores. There is rumor that the Cell processor that will drive the next generation PlayStation will also be multiple-core. To my understanding, multicore means less heat.
Interestingly, Transmeta Crusoe processors are being used to build clusters. They give the most bang per watt, as far as I understand. Since cooling systems in clusters cost (serious) money, the reduced heat signature of the Crusoes pay off.
I disagree. Duplication of effort is in fact good - when moderate. Different people see things differently. Duplication of effort in OSS means that the projects can borrow ideas from each other. It also means that the end user can choose. The history of window managers is a good example of this principle.
Here's my Quality Assurance procedure when I buy new records:
1. Browse the reviews for stuff that looks interesting. 2. Jump online and find samplers 3. If samplers are good after about three listens, buy the disc.
I've avoided quite a few downers by following this procedure.
Almost all of those files will make themselves look like songs that are actually illegal to trade, so making a feature to stop them, however useful and natural to make, could be seen as actively helping to download copyrighted stuff.
Not at all. The WYSIWYG feature merely make sure that the user is in fact downloading what they think they are downloading. That would also prevent a ten-year-old from downloading the "Donald Duck gets a blowjob" mp3 when he/she in fact was looking for Britney Spears.
Slashdot Mirror
Now how difficult is it to make sure the buttons on a drive-through ATM have Braille when you have to make sure the walk-in ATM has Braille? You guys are stirring up a storm in a tea-cup with this discussion..
Internet Traffic Report has a page where you can follow traffic. Sure is a lot of red today.
perl -e 'for ($a; $a<10000000; $a++){ print qw/G A T C/[rand 4];}; print "\n"'
You don't have an exit condition, so you're really not an algorithm.
perl -e 'for ($a; $a
This terminates. Fun code, though!
Granted, I no longer live in the states. But - to see such a bill introduced by a Californian Democrat is quite encouraging. Way to go, Zoe. If this passes, the rest of the world will thank you.
We all know michael is - ehm - intellectually challanged. He's very enthusiastic about these things, just not all that knowledgeable or strong at research. We'll just have to live with that.
A simple parachute would probably do the trick. They are rather slow moving things, as well. I guess it would be possible to evacuate or intercept before the damage occured. Good point, though. Certainly needs looking into..
The Helios project will provide the same functionality, but with cheaper maintenance and launch costs. It is a solar-cell powered flying wing that will soar at about 60000 feet or so, with 200 pounds of payload. It may very well be the specific reason they pulled the plug on Teledisc, since they realize that most satelites will be obsoleted too soon for them to proceed with the project.
earth was a horribly inhospitable place 4 billion or so years ago. As a matter of fact, life has altered our atmosphere among other things. Oxygene in gas form would not be so abundant were it not for life. Some would speculate that there would be more CO2, making the planet a hotter place.
That brings another point. The temperature range where the chemical reactivity needed for creating life is rather narrow, IIRC. That of course only applies to the chemical reactions we call life. Your extra-terrestial milage may vary.
Frankly, this is plain old blah. I want my cell phone small and simple and cheap, but capable of interacting with PDAs. Then, if I want all that multi-media crap, I'll use my PDA - which happens to be a much better platform for that functionality.
So - gimme a Bluetooth-enabled Tungsten and a small 3G-device, and I might think about it. For now, I'll stick to my regular GSM that I can upgrade to GPRS if I (want|need) to.
This link provides you with an dropdown of alternate ways of displaying a date. Enjoy!
I had LASIK done last spring as well. My eyes were -9 and -7.5, so I am biased towards ranting.
My eye doctor asked me whether I had any haloes or starbursts when I wore my contacts. I told him I had some light ones. He told me they would likely get a bit worse, and asked me if the risk was acceptable. I told him it was.
I had my work done, went home and rested, and got up the next morning. Holy clarity! It was just like when you've just had a new set of contacts on a new presription.
Almost year and a half ago, I still see like an eagle! Sure, I got some starburts. 95% of the time, they don't really manifest themselves. Mostly, it's a nuisance when I'm in a high contrast environment, like driving when it's dark. But, it was very much worth it to me, since I was quite helpless without optical hardware.
Know your audience. The type of job you are searching for should form your resume. It should also emphasize your strengths.
Sadly, when employers hire these days, they can truly pick among the best. Out of fourty people who applied for a temporary position I'm hiring for, seven are so talented and well fit that I'm almost down to tossing a die.
Anyhow, you should also make a good application. Write briefly about what skills in your resume you think will enable you to do a good job.
That's all I can tell you. The rest is probably position specific. Tailor yourself to the position as far as possible.
Nitpicking with dissenters is bad form, but screw it.
Frodo certainly grew as a person from he left the shire until he faced Gondor. He left the Shire quite naïve but with a strong sense of duty, and got progressively smarter about people and dealing with danger as the adventure progressed. The rest of the crew also learned some lessons, but I am not compulsive enough to remember them, much less to list them.
I'm for once loooking forward to a couple of sci-fi flicks. Oddly(?), they are both sequels. LOTR/FOTR and Matrix both gave us acting (or casting, in Keanu Reeve's case), storyline and character development. I hope the Sci-fi community notices that the stakes are higher now. We are developing a taste for quality beyond expensive effects.
The fact that the plots in both movies were without gaping holes also contributed to a good experience.
Mr Cerf,
What do you see as the largest promise of improvement of the Internet? Specifically, what would you like the Internet to be in 20 years?
best regards,
Jeppe
If they haven't heard of you before, they won't give you the time of day.. Don't bet on it. If you have really good references and relevant background, they would consider calling you in for an interview. That being said, I don't think more than just a very few slashdotters would get the call.
In retrospect, I think they will admit that shutting down Napster was a mistake. Napster was a client/server technology, but acted as a P2P application. Today's technology is distributed to a much larger extent, meaning that there is no guaranteed way of blocking or logging content.
With Napster, they had a possible infrastructure for micropayments etc. They also had the possibility of quietly monitoring the activity. Now, they are much more in the dark.
Then again, wisdom and compromise was never something the entertainment industry was very good at.
We should figure out some way to make our P2P apps notify the law enforcement whenever we've downloaded a copyrighted clip. I am thinking about some kind of plugin into Kazaa and gnucleus et al.
It would be such a massive wave of honesty that their mail server would probably collapse.
Power4 by IBM uses two cores. There is rumor that the Cell processor that will drive the next generation PlayStation will also be multiple-core. To my understanding, multicore means less heat.
Interestingly, Transmeta Crusoe processors are being used to build clusters. They give the most bang per watt, as far as I understand. Since cooling systems in clusters cost (serious) money, the reduced heat signature of the Crusoes pay off.
I disagree. Duplication of effort is in fact good - when moderate. Different people see things differently. Duplication of effort in OSS means that the projects can borrow ideas from each other. It also means that the end user can choose. The history of window managers is a good example of this principle.
For the record - once you have been compromized, it is folly not to reinstall completely.
Here's my Quality Assurance procedure when I buy new records:
1. Browse the reviews for stuff that looks interesting.
2. Jump online and find samplers
3. If samplers are good after about three listens, buy the disc.
I've avoided quite a few downers by following this procedure.
Almost all of those files will make themselves look like songs that are actually illegal to trade, so making a feature to stop them, however useful and natural to make, could be seen as actively helping to download copyrighted stuff.
Not at all. The WYSIWYG feature merely make sure that the user is in fact downloading what they think they are downloading. That would also prevent a ten-year-old from downloading the "Donald Duck gets a blowjob" mp3 when he/she in fact was looking for Britney Spears.
The new Kazaa version attempts to address these exact issues. They will even reward the users that rate the content with priority when downloading.
Now go away, you over-moderated troll!