I know of a time machine that can send messages only into the future, that is, you put messages in it and you get the message back a few days/weeks in the future. It's called the postal service.
Unfortunately, it's still not fully debugged and suffers from two problems: (1) it is not possible to accurately predict the time when then messages will reappear; and (2) some messages get permanently lost.
So it seems those new age, tree-hugging hippies weren't "barking" mad after all. They "yew" what they were doing all along. And I guess that, as far as pharmaceutical companies are concerned, money does grow on trees after all. Hey, that's "tree" of a kind so far. I'd better stop now and see if I can afford a mortgage on a tree house.
Years ago, people predicted that computer technology would result in the "paperless office". Now, people are using paper to create the "computerless video game".
Lots of consultants and sales people in the company where I work have laptops. These people travel a lot and some (like me) work from a home office. Rather than each of us using an external disk drive to do backups, our laptops have software installed that backs up data from the laptop to a website that is run by a third-party company.
The initial backup of data (not.exe files) from my laptop took about 5 GB. Future backups are incremental, but the initial backup would have put me over the Verizon "unlimited" limit without any movies or MP3 files being involved. It's a good thing I'm with a different ISP.
Now all he needs is a couch with a built in toilet and he'll be all set...
Carlsberg is a popular brand of beer in England, and for many years their advertising slogan has been "Carlsberg... probably the best larger in the world." A lot of their TV advertisements are of the form "If Carlsberg did <something>..." and then the advertisement shows how the "best <something> in the world" might look.
One Carlsberg advertisement was "If Carlsberg did Feng Shui..." It shows some pompous interior designers coming into a guy's cluttered apartment, removing lots of furniture, bringing in some new stuff, and finally showing the re-arranged apartment to the guy. The only things in the living room are: (1) a large plasma TV on the wall tuned into a football match, and in the center of the room are: (2) an armchair, (3) a small fridge on one side of it, fully stocked with Carlsberg, and (4) a toilet seat on the other side of the armchair.
I've seen this before. It starts off with steroids, but pretty soon the network sniffer moves on to crack cocaine. A short while later, he takes a job as a fluffer in midget porn movies to feed his habit.
MIT's Open CourseWare program is not "open source" in the sense that the free/libre/open-source software community understands the term. In particular, MIT's courses are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/terms-of-use.htm), which is not an open-source license.
To put this in practical terms, most of MIT's courseware is written using, say, PowerPoint and a word processor. MIT does not make the "source" (PowerPoint and wordprocessor) files available for download. Instead, MIT makes the courseware available in PDF format, which means that you can use the courseware material "as is" but cannot modify it. Also, the license forbids you from making money from the courseware. The inability to modify the "source" and the inability to commercially exploit the courseware mean that it is not open source.
I am not saying that what MIT is doing is bad; far from it. I just want to point out that, despite the impression given by the title of MIT's program, it is not open source.
Both Win32 threads and POSIX Threads provide a low-level API that are many people find confusing. I have written a "Generic Synchronization Policies" (GSP) library that provides a higher-level abstraction that is much easier to use and has been ported to several threading packaged (Win32, POSIX, DCE, Solaris). I do not claim that GSP is a silver bullet but it is a significant step in the right direction. Interested readers can find the software and documentation (HTML, PDF, PowerPoint) at my web site: http://www.ciaranmchale.com/. The software and documentation are released under an MIT-style license.
Quirky though it may be, the tool seems an interesting way to broaden your horizons.
The way I use to broaden my horizons is to buy books in a discount store. In England, a typical novel might cost about £7.00 or £8.00, while some discount stores have a "3 books for £5" offer. Often, these offers are for authors that I have never heard of. I have been buying most of my novels in this way for several years and most of the discount books by authors-unknown-to-me that I have bought have been as entertaining as full-priced books by authors I know. As somebody who reads 100+ books a year, there is the added bonus that it saves me a lot of money.
The poster uses "ie" to list inappropriate content for airplanes, but he is mistaken: instead, he wants "eg".
If you go to the bother of correcting such a mistake then you should take care not to make a similarly common mistake yourself. In particular, you should use "i.e." instead of "ie", and use "e.g." instead of "eg". And don't get me started on the correct placement of commas surrounding them.
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Unfortunately, it's still not fully debugged and suffers from two problems: (1) it is not possible to accurately predict the time when then messages will reappear; and (2) some messages get permanently lost.
So it seems those new age, tree-hugging hippies weren't "barking" mad after all. They "yew" what they were doing all along. And I guess that, as far as pharmaceutical companies are concerned, money does grow on trees after all. Hey, that's "tree" of a kind so far. I'd better stop now and see if I can afford a mortgage on a tree house.
Years ago, people predicted that computer technology would result in the "paperless office". Now, people are using paper to create the "computerless video game".
Lots of consultants and sales people in the company where I work have laptops. These people travel a lot and some (like me) work from a home office. Rather than each of us using an external disk drive to do backups, our laptops have software installed that backs up data from the laptop to a website that is run by a third-party company.
.exe files) from my laptop took about 5 GB. Future backups are incremental, but the initial backup would have put me over the Verizon "unlimited" limit without any movies or MP3 files being involved. It's a good thing I'm with a different ISP.
The initial backup of data (not
One Carlsberg advertisement was "If Carlsberg did Feng Shui..." It shows some pompous interior designers coming into a guy's cluttered apartment, removing lots of furniture, bringing in some new stuff, and finally showing the re-arranged apartment to the guy. The only things in the living room are: (1) a large plasma TV on the wall tuned into a football match, and in the center of the room are: (2) an armchair, (3) a small fridge on one side of it, fully stocked with Carlsberg, and (4) a toilet seat on the other side of the armchair.
This can mean one of two things.
1. Damn, Lusty Linda's car is leaking "lubricant" again.
2. MTV plans new show: "Pimp My Ride for $50".
I've seen this before. It starts off with steroids, but pretty soon the network sniffer moves on to crack cocaine. A short while later, he takes a job as a fluffer in midget porn movies to feed his habit.
To put this in practical terms, most of MIT's courseware is written using, say, PowerPoint and a word processor. MIT does not make the "source" (PowerPoint and wordprocessor) files available for download. Instead, MIT makes the courseware available in PDF format, which means that you can use the courseware material "as is" but cannot modify it. Also, the license forbids you from making money from the courseware. The inability to modify the "source" and the inability to commercially exploit the courseware mean that it is not open source.
I am not saying that what MIT is doing is bad; far from it. I just want to point out that, despite the impression given by the title of MIT's program, it is not open source.
Feisty Fawn is not sexy enough. I'm going to wait for the Nubile Nymph release.
Both Win32 threads and POSIX Threads provide a low-level API that are many people find confusing. I have written a "Generic Synchronization Policies" (GSP) library that provides a higher-level abstraction that is much easier to use and has been ported to several threading packaged (Win32, POSIX, DCE, Solaris). I do not claim that GSP is a silver bullet but it is a significant step in the right direction. Interested readers can find the software and documentation (HTML, PDF, PowerPoint) at my web site: http://www.ciaranmchale.com/. The software and documentation are released under an MIT-style license.
Then, for good measure, I'd punch him in the face for wearing glasses.