What a sensible and normal human response to this situation--Rep Sanchez is acting like a human being, ensuring that our rights are protected.
This must mean that Sanchez is toast and will be voted out of office shortly. It always happens. Somebody in power sees the light and attempts to do the right thing. For their sins they are booted out of Washington. Just you watch... Her successor will favor total immunity for Customs.
Since you have not given away any particulars of your idea, we all must reply in the abstract. The question, then, is what is your idea and how valuable is your association with it. Since it sounds like you are a developer, you likely do not know what a long and tortuous process is getting a large open source project off the ground. If it's a new idea, then the idea and the process of implementing that idea are probably not well defined.
Getting at the definition of what you are to build is the hardest part because you can't gloss over it or fake it or hide it behind undefined conjecture as you can in the development phase. So, in the end, what value do you add to the project?
I myself am a developer and I have been at work on my own open-source project that could be the next killer app. But I myself have to drive it, to push it forward, to make it happen and solve the problems. Making the decision to start over from the beginning, refining the design, going through periods of time when you retreat to just defining packages of interfaces without even implementations, to just perform a mental exercise of solving the problems of the design.
Having had the misfortune of getting involved with semi-rich entrepreneurs with great ideas, and the agony that results when you have a non-technical person indiscriminately making technical decision, I would be wary of working with someone who has not even taken the first step down the road of software development.
As if we didn't have enough problems in this world without the idle rich finding new and innovative ways to waste time and money.
Here's the only question that should matter: at the end of your life are you going to wish you spent more time riding in a dolphin? I doubt it.
The Republicans are at it again, trying to hoodwink the American people into thinking the GOP actually cares about Joe Sixpack. In fact, the rich-loving Republicans don't care about anybody except the rich and what they want, precisely, is to have a Network of Zombies in the Religous Right who will follow them over the cliff. Just as long as the rich get theirs--to hell with the country. As long as the Defense Contractors are making out like bandits--to hell with the poor kids supplying cannon fodder.
How can anyone feign surprise at having your entire electronic life be compromised. If you have a device smart enough to keep up with several email accounts and manage them all, of course you've also opened up a pig portal.
If you want to have secrets, fill your world with post it notes under desks.
As the proud owner of my own Google Code project, I can attest to the need for freedom and avoidance of any restrictions of any kind in Google Code. Are they looking to be an incubator of great new ideas? They let the mad scientists play!
With the sad killing off of the GooglePages phenomenon, we're all sad to see the great benefactor turn Corporate on us. Please Google, stop crapping on your brand. Come back from the Dark Side.
How refreshing it is to see judges finally waking up to the abuses our government is making. In the past year the judicial branch has made me want to stand up and cheer, with the pushback against the Bush administration and now--here--trying to stop legislatures from hiding their mistakes.
After fighting for years with the oddities of IE6--the horrid security, the non-compliance with standards--I have found Firefox. Why the hell should I go back to using the browser that was the bane of my life for years (before Firefox)? I have made a personal vow never to bother with another tool from Microsoft. When the Manhattan company where I work switched all of us developers to Mac, the transformation was complete.
We need to do hydrogen AND what you said. We need to seed as many possibles--and don't tell me we can't afford it. If we found the money to pay for this stupid war, then I will not listen to any question of cost. We just amortize the cost. Hydrogen, Solar, Solar Thermal, Wind, EVERYTHING.
This is a softball. We don't need to just make electricity, we need to run a big pipeline and a little one all the way from the Mojave to the Pacific Ocean. Then, pump in Seawater and pump out brine. Use the electricity to desalinate and make hydrogen, which is then liquefied and used to power hydrogen vehicles. This can generate fresh water, electricity and hydrogen, which can power the future. Of course, much smaller and lighter cars too--almost like golf carts.
If the goal is making hydrogen, we can make the industry here and the fuel here. We can reduce pollution--which everybody agrees is a good idea.
Whether the information is coming from fingertips, eyes or the tongue--to the brain it's the same thing: pattern streams. I put it to you that the same process in the brain is at work in all those cases. The right brain looks for overall shapes [in the V1 layer, at least] and then the successive neurons in the cortical stack work in concert to classify what the pattern is. If the pattern is a linear, sequential one--such as we get in language--then the left hemisphere takes the lead. However, language produced by the left hemisphere alone is a never-ending bit of verbal diarrhea. It is the right-hemisphere that assembles sentences. So, really, it does not matter from where that stream of temporal information comes from--the brain interprets it the same way.
This is an actual experiment that was performed. Obviously, now I see the idiocy of my drinking glass example. But it is a way for people to use the great mass of neurons wired to the tongue for another purpose. Again, this is an actual device.
So obviously you haven't heard of the experiment where they created a device with a grid pattern of dull pins. The pins formed a grid pattern that was placed on the tongue. When the pins were raised in the manner of a object that was seen by a video device, the wearer could learn to interpret the pattern of raised pins just as if they had seen the pattern coming in from the eye. In the experiement, wearers could learn to see obstacles and avoid them in walking and also to "see" things like a drinking glass and reach out and grab it.
So, I stand by my statement. We have yet to reach the limit of the various patterns a brain can interpret.
What a fantastic device.
I would note that the success of cochlear implants is attributable to the ability of the brain to recognise and interpret any pattern stream. That's why the next device they are working on is the eye. They will not attempt to recreate all the hardware in the eye. Instead, they will look to supply a pattern stream [cue Jeff Hawkins of "On Intelligence" fame] to the brain.
The same US government that screws everything else up should be expected to screw up the terror DB. It was probably written by a junior developer who had never heard of a SQL injection. Isn't making a search form about the easiest project there is to build?
I hate to say it, but I'm glad our government is so full of screw ups: pity the list exists at all...
Well, if that's your attitude, then I guess we can kiss off any miracle developments coming from you. Why are you so desirous of failure? I find such a defeatist attitude naive and unhelpful. If you swear off aspiration, of course you are stuck in the status quo.
I guess my grudge is against software that is designed with such stupidity and lack of comprehensive foresight that is is continually vulnerable to so many new attach vectors. I look at it as a failing in design imagination, to design such a weak system. I know my gripes extend to the underlying protocolls. You simply cannot watch a parade of weaknesses being found in this public software--I'm just damn disappointed with the limitations of the people who took on the challenge of coding Firefox. As a software developer myself, I know that it remains an art form. Software is crystallized thought. There are usually a thousand different ways to soft a particular problem. But the difference between an "okay" solution and a brilliant, elegant solution is orders of magnitude, not degree.
Then it should not be called an upgrade but what it really is: a bug fix. The current browser should have been secure. Every change we now see is a bug fix. That's different. I should not be forced to upgrade to a new version.
Corporations with weaknesses are screwed. Information wants to be free and once people know there are vulnerabilities, they will be found and exploited. Just drives me nuts how companies expect the law to protect them from the Wild West of the "Internets".
Remember that Darwin had some good ideas that apply to corporations and their predators--hackers. In short, it means the weak get their lunches eaten and the strong do the eating. MBNA should just hand over the keys to their bank accounts to these hackers. All they need is to piss off the hacker community and make it sport going after them.
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I could write the logic myself
if( politician.isAlive() && mouth.isOpen() )
{
isSpinning = true;
return isSpinning;
}
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No, it was a joke--Mr. Pointy Ears.
What a sensible and normal human response to this situation--Rep Sanchez is acting like a human being, ensuring that our rights are protected. This must mean that Sanchez is toast and will be voted out of office shortly. It always happens. Somebody in power sees the light and attempts to do the right thing. For their sins they are booted out of Washington. Just you watch... Her successor will favor total immunity for Customs.
Since you have not given away any particulars of your idea, we all must reply in the abstract. The question, then, is what is your idea and how valuable is your association with it. Since it sounds like you are a developer, you likely do not know what a long and tortuous process is getting a large open source project off the ground. If it's a new idea, then the idea and the process of implementing that idea are probably not well defined.
Getting at the definition of what you are to build is the hardest part because you can't gloss over it or fake it or hide it behind undefined conjecture as you can in the development phase. So, in the end, what value do you add to the project?
I myself am a developer and I have been at work on my own open-source project that could be the next killer app. But I myself have to drive it, to push it forward, to make it happen and solve the problems. Making the decision to start over from the beginning, refining the design, going through periods of time when you retreat to just defining packages of interfaces without even implementations, to just perform a mental exercise of solving the problems of the design.
Having had the misfortune of getting involved with semi-rich entrepreneurs with great ideas, and the agony that results when you have a non-technical person indiscriminately making technical decision, I would be wary of working with someone who has not even taken the first step down the road of software development.
As if we didn't have enough problems in this world without the idle rich finding new and innovative ways to waste time and money. Here's the only question that should matter: at the end of your life are you going to wish you spent more time riding in a dolphin? I doubt it.
The Republicans are at it again, trying to hoodwink the American people into thinking the GOP actually cares about Joe Sixpack. In fact, the rich-loving Republicans don't care about anybody except the rich and what they want, precisely, is to have a Network of Zombies in the Religous Right who will follow them over the cliff. Just as long as the rich get theirs--to hell with the country. As long as the Defense Contractors are making out like bandits--to hell with the poor kids supplying cannon fodder.
How can anyone feign surprise at having your entire electronic life be compromised. If you have a device smart enough to keep up with several email accounts and manage them all, of course you've also opened up a pig portal. If you want to have secrets, fill your world with post it notes under desks.
As the proud owner of my own Google Code project, I can attest to the need for freedom and avoidance of any restrictions of any kind in Google Code. Are they looking to be an incubator of great new ideas? They let the mad scientists play! With the sad killing off of the GooglePages phenomenon, we're all sad to see the great benefactor turn Corporate on us. Please Google, stop crapping on your brand. Come back from the Dark Side.
How refreshing it is to see judges finally waking up to the abuses our government is making. In the past year the judicial branch has made me want to stand up and cheer, with the pushback against the Bush administration and now--here--trying to stop legislatures from hiding their mistakes.
After fighting for years with the oddities of IE6--the horrid security, the non-compliance with standards--I have found Firefox. Why the hell should I go back to using the browser that was the bane of my life for years (before Firefox)? I have made a personal vow never to bother with another tool from Microsoft. When the Manhattan company where I work switched all of us developers to Mac, the transformation was complete.
We need to do hydrogen AND what you said. We need to seed as many possibles--and don't tell me we can't afford it. If we found the money to pay for this stupid war, then I will not listen to any question of cost. We just amortize the cost. Hydrogen, Solar, Solar Thermal, Wind, EVERYTHING.
This is a softball. We don't need to just make electricity, we need to run a big pipeline and a little one all the way from the Mojave to the Pacific Ocean. Then, pump in Seawater and pump out brine. Use the electricity to desalinate and make hydrogen, which is then liquefied and used to power hydrogen vehicles. This can generate fresh water, electricity and hydrogen, which can power the future. Of course, much smaller and lighter cars too--almost like golf carts.
If the goal is making hydrogen, we can make the industry here and the fuel here. We can reduce pollution--which everybody agrees is a good idea.
That's wonderful news. I had not heard that. Well, the brain is capable of a lot.
Thank you! They've improved it to be electrical. Fantastic. (Thank you--also--for showing that I was speaking the truth.)
Whether the information is coming from fingertips, eyes or the tongue--to the brain it's the same thing: pattern streams. I put it to you that the same process in the brain is at work in all those cases. The right brain looks for overall shapes [in the V1 layer, at least] and then the successive neurons in the cortical stack work in concert to classify what the pattern is. If the pattern is a linear, sequential one--such as we get in language--then the left hemisphere takes the lead. However, language produced by the left hemisphere alone is a never-ending bit of verbal diarrhea. It is the right-hemisphere that assembles sentences. So, really, it does not matter from where that stream of temporal information comes from--the brain interprets it the same way.
This is an actual experiment that was performed. Obviously, now I see the idiocy of my drinking glass example. But it is a way for people to use the great mass of neurons wired to the tongue for another purpose. Again, this is an actual device.
So obviously you haven't heard of the experiment where they created a device with a grid pattern of dull pins. The pins formed a grid pattern that was placed on the tongue. When the pins were raised in the manner of a object that was seen by a video device, the wearer could learn to interpret the pattern of raised pins just as if they had seen the pattern coming in from the eye. In the experiement, wearers could learn to see obstacles and avoid them in walking and also to "see" things like a drinking glass and reach out and grab it. So, I stand by my statement. We have yet to reach the limit of the various patterns a brain can interpret.
What a fantastic device. I would note that the success of cochlear implants is attributable to the ability of the brain to recognise and interpret any pattern stream. That's why the next device they are working on is the eye. They will not attempt to recreate all the hardware in the eye. Instead, they will look to supply a pattern stream [cue Jeff Hawkins of "On Intelligence" fame] to the brain.
The same US government that screws everything else up should be expected to screw up the terror DB. It was probably written by a junior developer who had never heard of a SQL injection. Isn't making a search form about the easiest project there is to build? I hate to say it, but I'm glad our government is so full of screw ups: pity the list exists at all...
Well, if that's your attitude, then I guess we can kiss off any miracle developments coming from you. Why are you so desirous of failure? I find such a defeatist attitude naive and unhelpful. If you swear off aspiration, of course you are stuck in the status quo.
I guess my grudge is against software that is designed with such stupidity and lack of comprehensive foresight that is is continually vulnerable to so many new attach vectors. I look at it as a failing in design imagination, to design such a weak system. I know my gripes extend to the underlying protocolls. You simply cannot watch a parade of weaknesses being found in this public software--I'm just damn disappointed with the limitations of the people who took on the challenge of coding Firefox. As a software developer myself, I know that it remains an art form. Software is crystallized thought. There are usually a thousand different ways to soft a particular problem. But the difference between an "okay" solution and a brilliant, elegant solution is orders of magnitude, not degree.
Then it should not be called an upgrade but what it really is: a bug fix. The current browser should have been secure. Every change we now see is a bug fix. That's different. I should not be forced to upgrade to a new version.
Corporations with weaknesses are screwed. Information wants to be free and once people know there are vulnerabilities, they will be found and exploited. Just drives me nuts how companies expect the law to protect them from the Wild West of the "Internets". Remember that Darwin had some good ideas that apply to corporations and their predators--hackers. In short, it means the weak get their lunches eaten and the strong do the eating. MBNA should just hand over the keys to their bank accounts to these hackers. All they need is to piss off the hacker community and make it sport going after them.