From what I've hear, HTML is't exactly the cleanest or elegant of languages and ain't a walk in the park to render. I'm not sure if this means just time or ram, or if it applies to large code too.
In both Java and C++, the signature of a member in a subclass must be identical to the signature in the superclass. Eidola allows a subclass to specialize types when it overrides a member. For example, if StringList extends List, then StringList.add(String item) can legally override List.add(Object item)
Ahh, but this is exactly what inheritance and overloading are for.
if List defines add(Object) then StringList can declare a add(Object) to be private and a publc add(String). This is just one example of their poor C++ complaints in the page.
Sun's claims that Java and XML are joined at the hip violates XML's main benefit- independence from any platform or programming language
Yeah. And you don't NEED a canopener to open an aluminum can. But it's the best tool for the job.
So which one do they clone? I can see this starting fights and breaking up mairages. Mabee they'll have two (a his & hers matched set.)
Or is there someway to artoficialy create genetic crossover from both parents?
There is an iteresting twist to this argument: If a 15yo. legaly is photographed nude in Japan than no laws have been broken. She is old enough to make that decision where she is. Should it then illegal for a person in the United States to posses the image? The pourpose of the ban is to prevent transgresions of the law and abuse of children, but that hasn't happened here. It takes away the only reason for making the image illegal (it's illegal source.)
BTW. I lothe the 'its still immoral' agrument. We should see from history that legislating morality is not a good thing. Besides, this is NOT a culture which finds women more and more attractive the further and further they get from the illegal age of 17. Quite the opposite, we want our girls as young as we can get them (legaly of course) as evidenced by porn sites to playboy.
Is anyone else botherd that moraly is is OK to look at a nude person one day, but not the day before? Note that legaly I do believe we need to put the distinction somewhere.
In japan, the age of consent is only 14. Does this make them all perverts? No. It just means that they have a different value systerm than I do. And while people might be upset by casses with younger girls, what about a picture of a young woman who I claim to be 16? Something like this of a developed woman would probably fall outside what people call 'pedophilic' but would still be considered illegal here (but not in Japan.)
We have to remeber that the justification behind pedo-porn laws is that it necesaraly required the use of someone under legal age who was incapable of making decisions (according to the law) about their sexual conduct. CG images have no such requirement. The 'Encouraging pedophiles' argument is very shakey and not the motivation for the law anyway.
How many of you would object on moral grounds to an artfuly done nude with a matured body if the artist claimed that she was 17 (in his intent when he made the pattern of bits on the hard disk?)
And what exactly is uner 18? It is possible to have a youngish woman and claim she just hasn't matured as quicly as others. Or someone could claim that that CGI picture of yours relay looks like a more mature 17yo. instead of a normal 18yo. (Who get's the final say, the artist or the cops?)
This doesn't even touch fantasy art, which could depict non-human fantasy creatures (nymphs, faries, etc.) Whats to say that a farie that looks like a 12yo. girl isn't 102 (out of a lifespan of 2000 years.) Or that nymphs look young no matter what their age. And don't claim you are an authority on these creatures too.
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Well all of campus is at 100BaseT _except_ for the undergrad dorms. I guess we're just not important enough / they feel we'd just waste it on mp3s and porn.
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Yeah, it's called tunneling here to and most frosh are introduced to it at least once. We have our own cellebrity scare too: supposedly the Queen Mum was visiting and as she and her enterage were walking down the Olive Walk some girl pops up out of a steam tunnel cover. Scared the begeesees out of the security.
Yes. It is a distributed OS. In Laymans terms: the app is what you use to do work and the OS is what lets you run the app on the machine.
I was thinking this too. And to be even more sure the break up is successfull. They need to force the.NET initiative onto the OS side but also need to force the.NET applications onto the other side of the divide.
The article sounds like the.NET initiative is a way to get arround the court's corrective messure and rendering it ineffective..NET doesn't correct the problem, it continues it.
Also, when someone willfully defies the US court, they ususaly are punished (it's called contempt of court.) And I think that's exactly what MS is doing, showing contempt for the Federal court system by trying to weasel arround the verdict.
This isn't the first film to use the digital cameras. Timecode, while a bit of an artsy film did have some top notch actors (Selma, etc.) What made it interesting was that it was filmed continuously (all one take) from four different cameras. We see all four shots at once and they move all about the city to different locations throughout.
All this attention is being given to paper ballots vs. Electroninc polling. But people are ignoring a perfectly valid option that has been available in PG county MD at least since the 80s: Mechanical Voting booths.
They work sort of like glorified babage's calculators. You walk in; pull a lever to close the curtain; flip the switches for the candidate of your choice; pulling the lever back 1) mechanicaly adds the vote to a hidden odometer 2) resets the switches and 3) opens the curtain again.
It's easy, hard to mess up (except with invalid switch combinations but the same problem is on a paper ballot)
The added advantage is that vote counting is easy, just open each machine and look at the counter for each candidate and sum up the 20 or so values for a poling place.
But those weren't cloning I don't think. Those were 'only' endangerd species not extinct ones. I believe that they simply used artoficial insemination. No cloning or anything. And the surogate was so close to the real thing to make things much easier.
Brining back a single animal from a sample of DNA from an extinct species is one thing. Bringing back an entire population is another. One imideate problem is the need for variation in the gene pool.
Trying to bring back an entire population from 1 or 2 samples would lead to inbreading and the like rather quickly. This is a problem for longer exctinct animals where the # samples is small. Animals who died in the last century should have more samples available, we just have to make sure we use a variety of them.
Actualy, If some stupid moron had gotten the charges "right" on the electron a proton, then the direction of positive current flow and the direction of the movement of charge would match.
So antipatents are just another way to register your ideas so that someone else can't take them, only with automatic free licencing to the entire world.
So the two really aren't opposites; and in fact are very similar.
Just like pasta and antipasta.:-)
It seems that a simple way to prevent writing to the return address on the stack would be to simply reverse the direction that buffers (strings) are stored on the stack. In this way if too much data is placed in a buffer, it would simply write past the top of the stack into la la land instead of back down the stack onto useful return addresses etc. Of course this would eventualy overwrite the heap if too much data was supplied, but then you'd only be able to crash the program, not change its execution. It could also be detected if you checked for writing past the end of the stack segment.
There would still be the problem of passing pointers to buffers to lower functions on the stack, but anyone who is passing a buffer this way should also be passing it's length.
BTW, is the way strings are stored (incrementing or decrimenting) a property of the architecture, the OS or the compiler?
> that a once-free press is nearly completely in corporate hands
That the press was ever free and not influenced by corporations is an illusion created by our imperfect memories or histories taught to us. Check out some of the work by George Seldes if you're not sure. He's been traking the press and where it has sold itself out since the 20's.
>Stanley is the product of a mixed marriage: > Valerie is a windows user and I use Linux. > Valerie has agreed for the child to be brought up > as a Linux user:-)
Watch, when he goes through his rebelious stage as a teenager he's gonna start using a Macintosh.
While on campus pranks are fun and good, they usualy don't measure up anywhere close to the humor and coolness of pranks pulled against entities ouside the university (the Hollywood sign for example.) Being at a place like Caltech makes me part of a proud heritage that I can even read about in the bookstore now. But if I wanted to add to it, I'd have to think twice.
The unfortunate fact, is that it is much more dangerous to do pranks today. Things that would have annoyed some people before, today bring on leggal repercusions and lawsuits. The tendancy of people nowdays to sue first and ask questions latter has a really chilling effect on outside pranks. While the administration has made legal counsel and support available to students, they are not abble to fully protect us from those who took the prank too seriously. (Immagine if the FCC had gone after the students who used a radio transmitter to control the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl game.) Or how bout some company suing for deffimation?
While it is possible to leave no traces of who did the prank, the honor code calls for everyone to leave a note explaining the prank and who did it. This avoids wrongfull retaliation (counterpranks) as well as requiring you to help clean up any prank you do. So I expect that there will be no major CIT/MIT type pranks for a while to come.
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From what I've hear, HTML is't exactly the cleanest or elegant of languages and ain't a walk in the park to render. I'm not sure if this means just time or ram, or if it applies to large code too.
In both Java and C++, the signature of a member in a subclass must be identical to the signature in the superclass. Eidola allows a subclass to specialize types when it overrides a member. For example, if StringList extends List, then StringList.add(String item) can legally override List.add(Object item)
Ahh, but this is exactly what inheritance and overloading are for. if List defines add(Object) then StringList can declare a add(Object) to be private and a publc add(String).
This is just one example of their poor C++ complaints in the page.
Sun's claims that Java and XML are joined at the hip violates XML's main benefit- independence from any platform or programming language
Yeah. And you don't NEED a canopener to open an aluminum can. But it's the best tool for the job.
So which one do they clone? I can see this starting fights and breaking up mairages. Mabee they'll have two (a his & hers matched set.)
Or is there someway to artoficialy create genetic crossover from both parents?
Does this make putting a mirror over the bed illegal? Or is it (still) just in bad taste?
There is an iteresting twist to this argument: If a 15yo. legaly is photographed nude in Japan than no laws have been broken. She is old enough to make that decision where she is. Should it then illegal for a person in the United States to posses the image? The pourpose of the ban is to prevent transgresions of the law and abuse of children, but that hasn't happened here. It takes away the only reason for making the image illegal (it's illegal source.)
BTW. I lothe the 'its still immoral' agrument. We should see from history that legislating morality is not a good thing. Besides, this is NOT a culture which finds women more and more attractive the further and further they get from the illegal age of 17. Quite the opposite, we want our girls as young as we can get them (legaly of course) as evidenced by porn sites to playboy.
Is anyone else botherd that moraly is is OK to look at a nude person one day, but not the day before? Note that legaly I do believe we need to put the distinction somewhere.
In japan, the age of consent is only 14. Does this make them all perverts? No. It just means that they have a different value systerm than I do. And while people might be upset by casses with younger girls, what about a picture of a young woman who I claim to be 16? Something like this of a developed woman would probably fall outside what people call 'pedophilic' but would still be considered illegal here (but not in Japan.)
We have to remeber that the justification behind pedo-porn laws is that it necesaraly required the use of someone under legal age who was incapable of making decisions (according to the law) about their sexual conduct. CG images have no such requirement. The 'Encouraging pedophiles' argument is very shakey and not the motivation for the law anyway.
How many of you would object on moral grounds to an artfuly done nude with a matured body if the artist claimed that she was 17 (in his intent when he made the pattern of bits on the hard disk?)
And what exactly is uner 18? It is possible to have a youngish woman and claim she just hasn't matured as quicly as others. Or someone could claim that that CGI picture of yours relay looks like a more mature 17yo. instead of a normal 18yo. (Who get's the final say, the artist or the cops?)
This doesn't even touch fantasy art, which could depict non-human fantasy creatures (nymphs, faries, etc.) Whats to say that a farie that looks like a 12yo. girl isn't 102 (out of a lifespan of 2000 years.) Or that nymphs look young no matter what their age. And don't claim you are an authority on these creatures too.
Well all of campus is at 100BaseT _except_ for the undergrad dorms. I guess we're just not important enough / they feel we'd just waste it on mp3s and porn.
Yeah, it's called tunneling here to and most frosh are introduced to it at least once. We have our own cellebrity scare too: supposedly the Queen Mum was visiting and as she and her enterage were walking down the Olive Walk some girl pops up out of a steam tunnel cover. Scared the begeesees out of the security.
If you're gonna use that joke, say it's from George Carlin.
Yes. It is a distributed OS. In Laymans terms: the app is what you use to do work and the OS is what lets you run the app on the machine.
.NET initiative onto the OS side but also need to force the .NET applications onto the other side of the divide.
I was thinking this too. And to be even more sure the break up is successfull. They need to force the
The article sounds like the .NET initiative is a way to get arround the court's corrective messure and rendering it ineffective. .NET doesn't correct the problem, it continues it.
Also, when someone willfully defies the US court, they ususaly are punished (it's called contempt of court.) And I think that's exactly what MS is doing, showing contempt for the Federal court system by trying to weasel arround the verdict.
This isn't the first film to use the digital cameras. Timecode, while a bit of an artsy film did have some top notch actors (Selma, etc.) What made it interesting was that it was filmed continuously (all one take) from four different cameras. We see all four shots at once and they move all about the city to different locations throughout.
All this attention is being given to paper ballots vs. Electroninc polling. But people are ignoring a perfectly valid option that has been available in PG county MD at least since the 80s: Mechanical Voting booths.
They work sort of like glorified babage's calculators. You walk in; pull a lever to close the curtain; flip the switches for the candidate of your choice; pulling the lever back 1) mechanicaly adds the vote to a hidden odometer 2) resets the switches and 3) opens the curtain again.
It's easy, hard to mess up (except with invalid switch combinations but the same problem is on a paper ballot)
The added advantage is that vote counting is easy, just open each machine and look at the counter for each candidate and sum up the 20 or so values for a poling place.
Ten bucks says that if they ever invent a holodeck that Myst WILL get ported to it at some point.(Of course I want that 10 adjusted for inflation.)
BTW, what ever happened to quicktimeVR? I only ever saw it used for myst, riven and the ST technical manual. Did it just not catch on?
Dude. That quote sounds like it came from the Data Angels from AlpaCentauri (c. Firaxis)
But those weren't cloning I don't think. Those were 'only' endangerd species not extinct ones. I believe that they simply used artoficial insemination. No cloning or anything. And the surogate was so close to the real thing to make things much easier.
Brining back a single animal from a sample of DNA from an extinct species is one thing. Bringing back an entire population is another. One imideate problem is the need for variation in the gene pool. Trying to bring back an entire population from 1 or 2 samples would lead to inbreading and the like rather quickly.
This is a problem for longer exctinct animals where the # samples is small. Animals who died in the last century should have more samples available, we just have to make sure we use a variety of them.
Actualy, If some stupid moron had gotten the charges "right" on the electron a proton, then the direction of positive current flow and the direction of the movement of charge would match.
So antipatents are just another way to register your ideas so that someone else can't take them, only with automatic free licencing to the entire world. :-)
So the two really aren't opposites; and in fact are very similar.
Just like pasta and antipasta.
It seems that a simple way to prevent writing to the return address on the stack would be to simply reverse the direction that buffers (strings) are stored on the stack. In this way if too much data is placed in a buffer, it would simply write past the top of the stack into la la land instead of back down the stack onto useful return addresses etc. Of course this would eventualy overwrite the heap if too much data was supplied, but then you'd only be able to crash the program, not change its execution. It could also be detected if you checked for writing past the end of the stack segment.
There would still be the problem of passing pointers to buffers to lower functions on the stack, but anyone who is passing a buffer this way should also be passing it's length.
BTW, is the way strings are stored (incrementing or decrimenting) a property of the architecture, the OS or the compiler?
> that a once-free press is nearly completely in corporate hands
That the press was ever free and not influenced by corporations is an illusion created by our imperfect memories or histories taught to us. Check out some of the work by George Seldes if you're not sure. He's been traking the press and where it has sold itself out since the 20's.
>Stanley is the product of a mixed marriage: :-)
> Valerie is a windows user and I use Linux.
> Valerie has agreed for the child to be brought up
> as a Linux user
Watch, when he goes through his rebelious stage as a teenager he's gonna start using a Macintosh.
Ah, the good old days....
While on campus pranks are fun and good, they usualy don't measure up anywhere close to the humor and coolness of pranks pulled against entities ouside the university (the Hollywood sign for example.) Being at a place like Caltech makes me part of a proud heritage that I can even read about in the bookstore now. But if I wanted to add to it, I'd have to think twice.
The unfortunate fact, is that it is much more dangerous to do pranks today. Things that would have annoyed some people before, today bring on leggal repercusions and lawsuits. The tendancy of people nowdays to sue first and ask questions latter has a really chilling effect on outside pranks. While the administration has made legal counsel and support available to students, they are not abble to fully protect us from those who took the prank too seriously. (Immagine if the FCC had gone after the students who used a radio transmitter to control the scoreboard at the Rose Bowl game.) Or how bout some company suing for deffimation?
While it is possible to leave no traces of who did the prank, the honor code calls for everyone to leave a note explaining the prank and who did it. This avoids wrongfull retaliation (counterpranks) as well as requiring you to help clean up any prank you do. So I expect that there will be no major CIT/MIT type pranks for a while to come.