But ignorance is vincible. Its stupidity that 'in-'.
I did a search on 'oligodendrocites and remyelination' (I have MS so I'm interested, okay?) and it found things that were actually relevant.
It was extremely strange reading the page's "summary" in English, presumably that was what was searched through, and facing a page in Chinese (on another tab) when I clicked through the page reference on the search results.
Now I gotta learn Chinese (well enough to read what I want to read.)
We're talking death penalty harshly. DON'T get caught by some provincial rube who doesn't know, or want to hear, or know and not care, about the difference between copying bits and putting people into a watery grave, after robbing them of everything else. (Now you know why the penalties for piracy are so harsh.)
I know one person who was still using 3.1, a few that are still using '95, many who are using '98, thousands, okay not personally, who were using NT until is got EOL so now they're using 2000, two people using XP.
Windows may have a 90% share but which windows and how much a share each?
IE7 is a dead isue since it didn't come with the box and most people are scared to install anything new (except viruses that install themselves.)
It'll go on the next box, to replace the current box since its gotten so slow.
Basically, your situation is the same as the guys I met in Bethesda who worked for IBM. The entire building was divided by a glass wall. It had other problems too,like steel plates which made up the outer wall had been installed backward and were rusting way to much.
The glass walls were there to prevent any contact by the researchers working on publishing systems, jouraling file systems and all sorts of neat stuff on one side of the wall from 'infecting' the sales people who were still pushing OS 360.
What's the situation like in Redmond where you have to make sure that no infectious GPL code is even seen by any Microserfs?
Its fairly obvious that Microsoft is trying to coopt the Linux development community without having to actually buy into any Linux philosophy (like open source and all the rest of it.)
He and Stallman are diametric opposites. Now he's trying to get out resources 'for nuttin' by posing, make that by having others pose as 'the good guys'.
I guess things in the Longhorn project are proving too difficult. Watching schedules slip and wosing functionality while increasing the bug count and vulnerabilities must be pretty disheartening.
Its getting difficult to keep turning over the same ground (Windows GUI) while having nothing really to offer.
doesn't even come close to being complete without some discipline. (Sort of like B&D/S&M for your code.:-)
I've found that while you can come up with 'accurate'
class 'noun' names, and sometimes meaningful - class, - classInstance and - instance variable 'moun' names, and sometimes meaningful - class and - instance method 'verb' names, and once in while an insightful - method parameter 'adjective' names, they are NEVER placed in an explicit context.
That gives me 'cerebral hives' when the darn thing blows up because something happens that you weren't expecting.
I write my comments in a class method called 'comment' where I describe all of the other classes that this class is expecting to collaborate with.
Then for each variable, I describe what classes it can be expected to hold as a value.
Then for each method, I describe the inputs, if any, (and what classes they can be expected to hold) outputs, if any, (and what classes they can be expected to hold) and a description of the algorithm implemented (not the algorithm itself).
Whenever, in a method, I have an internal loop of any size (like 2 lines sometimes), I break if into a separate 'loop method' (subject to the same 'verb' naming constraints of the method of origin.)
I use accessor methods (all variables are provided with a 'get' and a 'set' method which really don't need *much* documetation:-)
Sometimes, I create 'aggregator' classes for the parameters in and out in the package or parcel.
Then before I release the code, I go back and make sure that the changes are reflected in the class comment.
If I want to cut my own copy of something I compose, even though its 'identical' to something I just heard, as long as I don't try to make money, they don't have boo to say about it.
He's been dealing with "hard copy" all his existance (when he didn't have a choice) so he's not going to mind DRM as long as he can do what he's been doing all his existance.
That would be a real hoot. If Apple offered a solution for the home 'blessed' by "the industry" while Microsoft's languishing in the office with a whole bunch of boxes that people are scared to upgrade.
Apple, a company with its feet firmly in both camps, would finally have an advantage over a monopolist by siding with the oligopolists. (I don't have a lot of respect for the DRMers, but, they will have their way.)
Personally, I don't care about DRM as long as its the iTunes type so I can write the things to DVD's once or twice.
I've got close of 800 CDs and over 400 vynil albums. 60GBs of music files. That's a sh*t load of CDs', LPs and a couple of DVDs. (It took me over a week to RIP 'em all in. I don't want to spend my vacation RIPping CDs.)
I've also learned the importance of free air delivery around my hard disks after a bad summer when I had four of 'em seize up on me. (I've learned the importance of backups the hard way.)
I never want to go through that again.
As for DRM. I'm okay with that as long as Apple doesn't get stupid and try to region code me and my backups. (I don't download a lot of stuff.)
In the hopes that the 'pre-announcement' would dry up competition's income stream and force them to abandon the playing field (go broke) before he was (practically garanteed since EVERY PC was coming out with Windows, whether they wanted to on not.)
Anybody remember 1995? Just before the Web? MDI? OLE? A whole lot of acronyms?
Mostly crap that was vapour-ware, empty promises made to dry up people's markets.
Microsoft played dirty back then, and it still playing dirty now. He's still able to leverage off of his cash cow.
Gates doesn't care that it will cost him a sale, he can pick it up again 'eventually' as long as he can cost you a sale and you've gone broke waiting for em. (Still waiting for Duke Nukem, like, Forever dude?)
As for delivering on the vapour ware? What are you, nuts? You might as well ask for directions to Cairo.
They're all anti-media as far as that goes. They have "the book", you should learn "the book" by heart, but only to recite, not to interpret, that's a job for the priesthood.
Its possible to take a cell and inject a nucleus into it. That nucleus doesn't even have to be from a single person. It can be engineered from combined DNA.
If that's too 'Blade Runner' for some, it can be the clone from something that we know is not viable. (end of moral argument because we take the cells from the cadaver of the non-viable source and grow function fractions in agar.)
As for Bush's ethics; I'll stay out of that quagmire, thank you.
Bill Gates violates the law and throws lawyers at every loop hole he can carve out in order to maintain the monopoly (with the exception of his reesearch arm, Apple, and the Linux zealots who keep building better products but couldn't sell water to a thirsty man...)
Microsoft is about as likely to open their software as Dell is to innovate their hardware. Just be thankful the Mac happened or far fewer of you would still all be using a CLI.
So they send one up with really BIG panels.
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They could be a target for distant or orbital cameras, and they could be used as wings on a glider (why roll across Mars, inching your way across a hard and harsh terrain [marsain?] if you could take really long hops?)
They could provide shelter for astro/cosmo-nauts or become the roof of some base of operations.
Of course, the airbags used for the landings would have to be really BIG which bwould definitely affect the duration and height of the bouncing.
Keep the Catholics OUT of there!
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And the Brits. And certainly don't let them give you any blankets.
Come to think of it, any Martian life, if there is any, is screwed isn't it?
Well lets try not to blindly repeat the same mistakes. Lets boldly forge on to new and better mistakes.
Not bad science, just bad statistics.
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A single data point doesn't allow any extrapolation.
I'm thinking that oxigen took a very long time to arrive on earth, being excreted by anearobic bacteria first. That there is any free oxigen at all on Mars implies some other process is at work.
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Really would be nice to use it to save my as from somehting real rather than just keeping the aliens(1) fron listening into my head.
1) They're not illegal aliens until after they abduct me.
I ran an identical search through google and got a single ad for 'Myein Repair Research'.
The Bandu one had a few, including an ad for Dell (in RMB, but still Dell.) This had absolutely nothing to do with my search.
Bandu has a while to go to catch up.
But ignorance is vincible. Its stupidity that 'in-'.
I did a search on 'oligodendrocites and remyelination' (I have MS so I'm interested, okay?) and it found things that were actually relevant.
It was extremely strange reading the page's "summary" in English, presumably that was what was searched through, and facing a page in Chinese (on another tab) when I clicked through the page reference on the search results.
Now I gotta learn Chinese (well enough to read what I want to read.)
Kewl. Ignorance as a motivator.
We're talking death penalty harshly. DON'T get caught by some provincial rube who doesn't know, or want to hear, or know and not care, about the difference between copying bits and putting people into a watery grave, after robbing them of everything else. (Now you know why the penalties for piracy are so harsh.)
I know one person who was still using 3.1, a few that are still using '95, many who are using '98, thousands, okay not personally, who were using NT until is got EOL so now they're using 2000, two people using XP.
Windows may have a 90% share but which windows and how much a share each?
IE7 is a dead isue since it didn't come with the box and most people are scared to install anything new (except viruses that install themselves.)
It'll go on the next box, to replace the current box since its gotten so slow.
Basically, your situation is the same as the guys I met in Bethesda who worked for IBM. The entire building was divided by a glass wall. It had other problems too,like steel plates which made up the outer wall had been installed backward and were rusting way to much.
The glass walls were there to prevent any contact by the researchers working on publishing systems, jouraling file systems and all sorts of neat stuff on one side of the wall from 'infecting' the sales people who were still pushing OS 360.
What's the situation like in Redmond where you have to make sure that no infectious GPL code is even seen by any Microserfs?
Its fairly obvious that Microsoft is trying to coopt the Linux development community without having to actually buy into any Linux philosophy (like open source and all the rest of it.)
He and Stallman are diametric opposites. Now he's trying to get out resources 'for nuttin' by posing, make that by having others pose as 'the good guys'.
I guess things in the Longhorn project are proving too difficult. Watching schedules slip and wosing functionality while increasing the bug count and vulnerabilities must be pretty disheartening.
Its getting difficult to keep turning over the same ground (Windows GUI) while having nothing really to offer.
Sadly, I think you're right. Luckily for me, I know what you're talking about.
Anatomy 201 (sex ed, 'the clitoris') guys. Uh guys?
gotten his lawyers to look into it. (He IS a media mogul already. I'm sure some deal had already been struck if a deal was required)
doesn't even come close to being complete without some discipline. (Sort of like B&D/S&M for your code. :-)
:-)
I've found that while you can come up with 'accurate'
class 'noun' names, and sometimes meaningful
- class,
- classInstance and
- instance variable 'moun' names, and sometimes meaningful
- class and
- instance method 'verb' names, and once in while an insightful
- method parameter 'adjective' names,
they are NEVER placed in an explicit context.
That gives me 'cerebral hives' when the darn thing blows up because something happens that you weren't expecting.
I write my comments in a class method called 'comment' where I describe all of the other classes that this class is expecting to collaborate with.
Then for each variable, I describe what classes it can be expected to hold as a value.
Then for each method, I describe the inputs, if any, (and what classes they can be expected to hold) outputs, if any, (and what classes they can be expected to hold) and a description of the algorithm implemented (not the algorithm itself).
Whenever, in a method, I have an internal loop of any size (like 2 lines sometimes), I break if into a separate 'loop method' (subject to the same 'verb' naming constraints of the method of origin.)
I use accessor methods (all variables are provided with a 'get' and a 'set' method which really don't need *much* documetation
Sometimes, I create 'aggregator' classes for the parameters in and out in the package or parcel.
Then before I release the code, I go back and make sure that the changes are reflected in the class comment.
'No Comment'
If I want to cut my own copy of something I compose, even though its 'identical' to something I just heard, as long as I don't try to make money, they don't have boo to say about it.
things don't break in his hands.
He's been dealing with "hard copy" all his existance (when he didn't have a choice) so he's not going to mind DRM as long as he can do what he's been doing all his existance.
That would be a real hoot. If Apple offered a solution for the home 'blessed' by "the industry" while Microsoft's languishing in the office with a whole bunch of boxes that people are scared to upgrade.
Apple, a company with its feet firmly in both camps, would finally have an advantage over a monopolist by siding with the oligopolists. (I don't have a lot of respect for the DRMers, but, they will have their way.)
Personally, I don't care about DRM as long as its the iTunes type so I can write the things to DVD's once or twice.
I've got close of 800 CDs and over 400 vynil albums. 60GBs of music files. That's a sh*t load of CDs', LPs and a couple of DVDs. (It took me over a week to RIP 'em all in. I don't want to spend my vacation RIPping CDs.)
I've also learned the importance of free air delivery around my hard disks after a bad summer when I had four of 'em seize up on me. (I've learned the importance of backups the hard way.)
I never want to go through that again.
As for DRM. I'm okay with that as long as Apple doesn't get stupid and try to region code me and my backups. (I don't download a lot of stuff.)
What's the difference between the ultra-rightist Taliban and the ultra-rightist Catholics and the ultra-rightist Protestants?
Obviously none.
That's would fix everything.
In the hopes that the 'pre-announcement' would dry up competition's income stream and force them to abandon the playing field (go broke) before he was (practically garanteed since EVERY PC was coming out with Windows, whether they wanted to on not.)
Anybody remember 1995? Just before the Web? MDI? OLE? A whole lot of acronyms?
Mostly crap that was vapour-ware, empty promises made to dry up people's markets.
Microsoft played dirty back then, and it still playing dirty now. He's still able to leverage off of his cash cow.
Gates doesn't care that it will cost him a sale, he can pick it up again 'eventually' as long as he can cost you a sale and you've gone broke waiting for em. (Still waiting for Duke Nukem, like, Forever dude?)
As for delivering on the vapour ware? What are you, nuts? You might as well ask for directions to Cairo.
Ths certainly isn't what I expected to see with a subject line like "Dating Methods" on /.
I was looking foward to an FAQ - The inept leading the blind.
to come along and contradict.)
They're all anti-media as far as that goes. They have "the book", you should learn "the book" by heart, but only to recite, not to interpret, that's a job for the priesthood.
doesn't 'end' at the same point. Its all just a continuum. We are not creating life. Merely a terminating branch.
Its possible to take a cell and inject a nucleus into it. That nucleus doesn't even have to be from a single person. It can be engineered from combined DNA.
If that's too 'Blade Runner' for some, it can be the clone from something that we know is not viable. (end of moral argument because we take the cells from the cadaver of the non-viable source and grow function fractions in agar.)
As for Bush's ethics; I'll stay out of that quagmire, thank you.
Bill Gates violates the law and throws lawyers at every loop hole he can carve out in order to maintain the monopoly (with the exception of his reesearch arm, Apple, and the Linux zealots who keep building better products but couldn't sell water to a thirsty man...)
Microsoft is about as likely to open their software as Dell is to innovate their hardware. Just be thankful the Mac happened or far fewer of you would still all be using a CLI.
They could be a target for distant or orbital cameras, and they could be used as wings on a glider (why roll across Mars, inching your way across a hard and harsh terrain [marsain?] if you could take really long hops?)
They could provide shelter for astro/cosmo-nauts or become the roof of some base of operations.
Of course, the airbags used for the landings would have to be really BIG which bwould definitely affect the duration and height of the bouncing.
And the Brits. And certainly don't let them give you any blankets.
Come to think of it, any Martian life, if there is any, is screwed isn't it?
Well lets try not to blindly repeat the same mistakes. Lets boldly forge on to new and better mistakes.
A single data point doesn't allow any extrapolation.
I'm thinking that oxigen took a very long time to arrive on earth, being excreted by anearobic bacteria first. That there is any free oxigen at all on Mars implies some other process is at work.