I feel sorry for the guy. Instead of building
beautiful and sophisticated systems which thousands people will use every day, he spendshis day goind after people, taking away their cars.
Even if I would have my car reposessed
some day, I would not trade jobs with him.
In a way, I welcome this move by Microsoft.
Let them enforce licensing of their product
and let them win over all pirates. Then, many
people will realize that their software is
expensive and look at some free alternatives
like Linux, StarOffice, etc.
The spacecraft was launched March 2, 1972.
...
"Pioneer 10 lives on," project manager Larry Lasher said in a status report posted Sunday on the mission's Web site.
So, the guy was project manager for this since
1972. They kept project open all this years
expecting to reestablish contact with spacecraft again.
This is nice idea for job security. Send
something into the space and wait for
30 years to hear back from it.
They mention in the article something about tracking the plane progress. This means there is some kind of transmitter on board.
GPS receiver could be pretty small, but radio transmitter having enough power to send signal back half way accross the ocean would be quite heavy. Plus
batteries. I wonder how it is possible to put
it on this tiny model.
According to the poster, it have 320x320 display.
It should break most of existing Palm Software,
since now screen layout is stored in resource database with fixed coordinates.
I was not of very hight opinion of ESR
as programmer and it became even less after
reading these articles. Take, for example, Java.
The guy is clueless! First of all Java is NOT alternative to C, maybe C++. If you look at current patterns of Java usage it becomes more
and more established enterprise server-size application language, not "Web-Language" for applet as he states.
Low power servers means less heating.
Less heating means higher density of elements
on chips. It means no special cooling devices. Even my PIII
laptop now has to come with cooling fan on the side! That means I spend battery energy to produce
heat and to run fan to disperse it.
It is not about power crisis! It is about chip design.
I beleive Sony charging real money
for access to virtual reality
of thier game. I do not see why
this could not be extended to the
participants selling their virtual
stuff for real money.
Make sure you understand the system first!
You mentioned that you are Junior developer.
Many re-design efforts start from not being
able to understand how system works.
8K limit in Postgress makes it unacceptable
for many users. Yes, it will be lifted soon.
So I heard. Let us talk when. Meanwhile MYSQL
is here and does the job.
I have awfull handwriting and was having
problems with it since school. I was so
happy that currently you type almost
everything. Now these guys trying
to resurrect handwrting again! Somebody
please stop them!
I faced similar problem myslef and
find out that seems to be 2 words - PGP
users and X.509 users. Both have some
mechanism within but no way to communicate
securely with another world.
So, here is idea: somebody could establish
service, which will forward email messages,
signed with PGP re-signing it with X.509 and
vice versa.
Suppose PGP user A@a.com wants to send encrypted message to X.509 user B@b.com. In his address book
B is listed as B@forwarding.com and forwarding.com
public key as B public key. So he just send message, which is received at forwarding.com,
decrypted and re-encrypted with X.509 key of B.com
and forwarded to him.
The disadvantage of such scheme is that both parties should trust this forwarding service.
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I imagine how this kind of aircraft
could be used for intelligence gatehring.
I've searched first 6 words of second paragrpah
A +d ecade+ago+it+would+have+been+hard%22&btnG=Google+S earch
of the article using google:
"A decade ago it would have been hard"
and found 5 pages containing exact match!
Check for yourself:
http://www.google.com/search?lr=&safe=off&q=%22
I see no mention of Linux of the :-)
site. Perhaps they just took LILO
from it.
I always thought that it was Gagarin who first orbited the earth, not Glenn.
I feel sorry for the guy. Instead of building
beautiful and sophisticated systems which thousands people will use every day, he spendshis day goind after people, taking away their cars.
Even if I would have my car reposessed
some day, I would not trade jobs with him.
In a way, I welcome this move by Microsoft.
Let them enforce licensing of their product
and let them win over all pirates. Then, many
people will realize that their software is
expensive and look at some free alternatives
like Linux, StarOffice, etc.
My phone is usually silent, but vibrates ;-)
when call comes in. Whan idustry
is losing money here? (I would not rather guess).
So, the guy was project manager for this since
1972. They kept project open all this years
expecting to reestablish contact with spacecraft again.
This is nice idea for job security. Send
something into the space and wait for
30 years to hear back from it.
They mention in the article something about tracking the plane progress. This means there is some kind of transmitter on board.
GPS receiver could be pretty small, but radio transmitter having enough power to send signal back half way accross the ocean would be quite heavy. Plus
batteries. I wonder how it is possible to put
it on this tiny model.
It does not provide any additional functionality
than berkeley sockets and SUN RPC. Just proves that "p2p" is just fashionable marketing buzzword.
I like this one:
http://66.78.14.162/calculator/kalk.shtml
The Playboy has a nice article about lead ball and birds feather
problem which become quite popular among physicists.
You have lead ball and birds feather and drop them down from high
tower. Which one will reach ground first?
Think about it - it's an interesting puzzle.
According to the poster, it have 320x320 display.
It should break most of existing Palm Software,
since now screen layout is stored in resource database with fixed coordinates.
I was not of very hight opinion of ESR
as programmer and it became even less after
reading these articles. Take, for example, Java.
The guy is clueless! First of all Java is NOT alternative to C, maybe C++. If you look at current patterns of Java usage it becomes more
and more established enterprise server-size application language, not "Web-Language" for applet as he states.
Are penguins just frozen woodpeckers?
They anticipate RedHat selling CD 'distro' :)
of their game.
Low power servers means less heating. Less heating means higher density of elements on chips. It means no special cooling devices. Even my PIII laptop now has to come with cooling fan on the side! That means I spend battery energy to produce heat and to run fan to disperse it.
It is not about power crisis! It is about chip design.
I beleive Sony charging real money
for access to virtual reality
of thier game. I do not see why
this could not be extended to the
participants selling their virtual
stuff for real money.
Make sure you understand the system first!
You mentioned that you are Junior developer.
Many re-design efforts start from not being
able to understand how system works.
I am saying it is good news.
I was not able to use indices on
coulymns which could contain NULL.
8K limit in Postgress makes it unacceptable
for many users. Yes, it will be lifted soon.
So I heard. Let us talk when. Meanwhile MYSQL
is here and does the job.
It allows NULL in indexed columns!
Using glue or metal could as well
damage postal mail sorting equipement.
This is something what could get you
into serious trouble.
I have awfull handwriting and was having
problems with it since school. I was so
happy that currently you type almost
everything. Now these guys trying
to resurrect handwrting again! Somebody
please stop them!
I faced similar problem myslef and
find out that seems to be 2 words - PGP
users and X.509 users. Both have some
mechanism within but no way to communicate
securely with another world.
So, here is idea: somebody could establish
service, which will forward email messages,
signed with PGP re-signing it with X.509 and
vice versa.
Suppose PGP user A@a.com wants to send encrypted message to X.509 user B@b.com. In his address book
B is listed as B@forwarding.com and forwarding.com
public key as B public key. So he just send message, which is received at forwarding.com,
decrypted and re-encrypted with X.509 key of B.com
and forwarded to him.
The disadvantage of such scheme is that both parties should trust this forwarding service.