I'm in Zone A in Brooklyn, part of the mandatory evacuation area. I live in a basement apartment that is sure to be flooded. I moved everything I couldn't live without out to a friend's today and am stacking everything else 2-3 feet above the floor just in case.
I suppose more of you would be satisfied if it were a Cat-2 or Cat-3 when it hits NYC, somehow 70mph winds with 15-20 inches of rain and a 10-15 foot swell isn't enough for you. The economic hit of suspending the city for 2 days isn't enough for you. Do you want a Katrina disaster? I don't get it.
No it doesn't. Majority means the highest percentage. If 47% of the readers of Slashdot are from the US, you then carve the remaining percentage across every other country. Unless another country makes up another 47% and the remaining 6% is spread across the rest of the globe, the US makes up the majority of readers on Slashdot.
Requires a little more upfront investment ($79 PCI card) but it makes a huge world of difference speed wise. USB is on the low-end speed-wise, with Firewire @ 400 or 800 mb/s. e-SATA is 3gb/s. So for the price of an enclosure and an off the shelf SATA drive, you can have a very nice, fast external unit that has the same bandwidth potential as your internal drives.
What does.NET have to do with Win32 API? Other than.NET thunking out to it?
Your comparison of POSIX with the Win32 API is a miss as well, considering the number of "systems" represented in the windows api is significantly larger than POSIX.
There is nothing objective or simple or valid about your comparisons.
Naw dude, I'm with you. I think too many people were expecting GoW, when this is really an action game instead of any kind of tactical shooter. There are sequences on the later levels that are completely insane with the amount of action going on, but really the gameplay is a sophisticated take on Contra or even Galaga. Swarms of mindless drones punctuated with tougher mini-bosses and some pretty tough but fun boss fights.
At least that's how I see it and expected it to be, so it's completely satisfied my expectations.
I'm waiting for someone who can explain the "Little Ice Age", and ice ages in general, which seem to have been happening long before there were significant amounts of fossil fuel combustion.
From what I understand, and I'm probably wrong, the current theory about the little ice ages has to do with volcanic eruptions and changes in the earth's orbit. Massive volcanic explosions fill the atmosphere with silica particles which act like giant ray-bans. Our orbit elongates every 10K years which causes a change in the climate. From what I gather, an ice age is the earth's normal climate, and the weather system we have now is always a fairly brief blip.
So, either way, we're totally fucked.
Bring on the H2 with the AC pumped and filled with hot asian babes in tight bikinis. I'm gonna be dead before the shit hits the fan anyways.
Know him pretty well, used to work with him during the dotcom boom in NYC and almost worked with him in London during the fallout.
I doubt, very much, this is some kind of marketing ploy or otherwise, it would be well below Ben's character to participate in such a thing. Besides, I believe he's just a creative director and why would Yahoo tap their CD to do such a thing, doesn't make any sense.
So put the tin foil hats back on, I can 99.9% for certain say this is legit.
Not a personal attack, since I don't know you personally, but I was attacking the attitude that seems prevailant amongst middle america in general. That people believe surrendering basic freedoms in exchange for safety is a good thing, a wise thing - this disgusts and terrifies me.
Your question was "how do we protect ourselves?" The answer is, you can't. By thinking that you can, you allow yourself to start trimming away the rights enjoined to us by the constitution. What we can do is change the way we deal with the Middle East and take a good, long, honest look at all of the things that our country has done, in our name, to destabilize and manipulate the politics of that region.
Look, Osama Bin Laden was nothing before confronting the Russians in Afghanistan. In a cold war pissing contest, the CIA armed and train Bin Laden and his crew so that we could have a puppet war with the Soviet Union. Osama, a very clever person, took this aid and training and when the time was right turned it back on us, because to him, there is no difference between us and Russia. In fact, our behavior is possibly worst. We funded Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war so that we could cause regime change in Iran, and look what happens... Iran was driven into fundamentalist control which has helped pave the way for introducing radical extremist Islam to the mainstream Muslim community in the Middle East.
To further compound the problem, the majority of extremist muslims are under educated, poor and without many choices for a better life. They are driven to extermism because of what extermism can offer. It's exactly how the KKK used to work. Roll into poor towns, convince the uneducated that they are good guys by offering services that give the appearance of improving life. Hitler did it, Hezbollah does it, Al-Qaeda does it, KKK did it, etc.
So how do we protect ourselves? First we hold our government accountable for what it has done in the past. Second we censure/impeach the current administration to demonstrate to the world that the American people are more than its government. Finally, we change our attitudes about the Middle East and instead of antagonizing the situation, we either retreat fully or do a 180-degree turn and approach it from a humanitarian perspective.
If the world can offer these people better options than Hezzbolah or Al-Qaeda, I'd put all my money that they would take it and we could start approaching a dialog that could lead to peace. It's entirely doable, but we have to get rid of our current administration first and we have to start changing our own attitudes.
Simple, by ceasing to meddle to in the affairs of foreign countries and developing a foreign policy based on humanitarian do-gooding, instead of regime changing wrong doing.
Our current state of affairs is largely because of our own shady dealings in the middle east. Your question supposes that we are just innocent victims, but if you look at the history, 9/11, or something like it, was long overdue to occur.
People have died for the right to privacy and the right to freedom, so now we want to give up those rights so we don't have to die? It doesn't work like that and you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking it. That sort of attitude puts to shame all of the blood spilled on our own soil, from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to the World Wars. Millions have fought and died to insure the American idea of basic human freedoms, so to erode them in exchange for safety and comfort is disgusting and cowardly.
The rate at which we are recycling our own culture is increasing at a dramatic pace. I often wonder if this has some deeper meaning as it seems that human culture to this point has only really recycled nostalgia, typically recycling an era 20 years prior, but now we're really starting to eat and recycle our own waste in increasingly shorter periods of time.
At some point, we're going to need to inject depth and meaning into our popular culture, because you can only recycle McDonald's so many times. If you catch my meaning.
Well you certainly have proven that you know nothing about.NET, and I hope you can overcome your attitude about it.
If I was your client, I wouldn't want to know that someone on the team is so smug in their lack of understanding and knowledge about the toolset I'm paying them to use. It's not a professional attitude.
Here's a hint, you're working in a services industry Your client is hiring you to perform services. They are defining the parameters of a problem and hiring you to come up with the solution. If there is no wiggle room on the platform, then there is surely a good reason, that or your tech leads have poor client management skills. More than likely there is a back office integration, or their IT department is really dictating the platform, or this new solution needs to fit into a prexisting system, there are a million reasons why and I'm almost positive your client has a good one.
I do tech spec consulting for a living. Basically, VC's hire me to consult on the tech for something they are about to dump a ton of dough in. It's usually guys like me that dictate the platform, and guys like me, that are professionals, don't carry any slant on which platform is better than the other, because making that sort of generalization is pointless and worthless to our clients. We look at our client's problem, break it down into manageable chunks and then see which platform is a best fit. The last 3 projects I worked on all ended up in BSD/Linux + PHP/Java recommendations, but the 4 prior were.NET recommendations.
So, I guess what I'm saying, is that to help out your career, I'd try to steer you towards platform agnosticism. I would urge you to be open minded and eager about broadening your knowledge about all the major platforms out there. I would urge you to turn that frown upside down. There are no politics in client/services work. Platform zealotry or fanatacism will only narrow your career choices, not expand them. Adaptability insures survival.
How this got moderated up is beyond me. It's obvious that you haven't used Atlas, much less even LOOKED at it.
The whole point of the library is to hide away the details, so XMLHttpRequest and it's ilk are tucked away neatly in the variety of external scripts that ship with Atlas.
There are only 4 or 5 controls that come with Atlas, and they're mostly non-visual anyways. The UpdatePanel is a "panel" like control that can automatically reload it's contents on a postback sent via xmlhttprequest. You don't need to do a thing.
Whomever moderated this all the way to +5 is just as retarded as the original poster.
I wish this test had been around when I blew my top a few times and ended up in the emergency room. Each visit resulted in a different hypothesis on what was wrong with me, from dehydration to renault's syndrome.
The shit is scary enough when you have no idea what is wrong with you. For most anxiety sufferers, the first half dozen of earthquake sized panic attacks are almost always assumed to be physical problems. I believe I had brain cancer, lung cancer, intestinal cancer, heart problems, etc. Had I been shown a test result that read anxiety, I would have saved a lot of additional anxiety worrying about whether or not my ticker was going to go at any given moment.
You make no sense. There is not one valid reason why Microsoft would not want this project to exist. Someone is expanding their market reach for them, for free. What they lose in any kind of sales is more than made up for in mindshare.
Sure they could pull the plug, and, sure, Mono is always going to be playing catch up; but it defies logic that Microsoft would radically mess up the framework for the sole purpose of screwing an open source project. Believe it or not, Microsoft is responsible to their developers. They do listen. To radically alter the framework for no apparent reason would just be idiocy beyond compare. If you've never participated in a beta cycle for Microsoft development tools then you would understand how well that responsibility is played out. Anyone can participate in these cycles and the responsiveness of the different teams working on the tools is impressive and commendable.
For Microsoft to harm Mono in any way would harm their own customers, and what company wants to hurt the customers that generate the need for their OS? I think there is a reason that CrossOver office exists beyond simply being compatible with the outside world for document exchange. It's because linux applications are still playing catch up to Windows applications. Gimp still trails Photoshop for professional grade imaging work. Evolution is still trying to play feature tag with Outlook. OpenOffice is still trying to equal Excel, Word, etc. That is not to say any of these efforts don't outclass the Microsoft products in some regards, because they most certainly do. I merely point this out to be an example of where Microsoft's commitment to their developers touches their economics. For the first time, we're seeing free tools for.NET development that are actually useful. I think this will continue with lower licensing costs.
As for the rest of your comments, I'm going to chalk those up to zealotry, closeted or not and simply being ignorant of what good design really is. And just because you spent a few years with ASP.NET doesn't mean you are at all competent.
And though I may sound like a Microsoft bigot, I am not. There is no fiscal or professional gain in being religious about toolsets. The more tools in that box, the more shit you can fix, and the fatter you can make the wallet. While I mostly do.NET consulting now, I still do PHP projects and, every once in a blue moon, a java project. Sure, sometimes I think about how one feature of another language might make a certain chunk of my work go faster, you also need to balance your concentration towards those things about the tool you are working with that are appreciable. I appreciate how quickly I can bang out a PHP site. I appreciate the massive library support and open source tools for Java. I appreciate C#, the.NET framework and Microsoft's dedication to their developers. If you can't do that than you are severely limiting your brain and your bank account.
Also, consider this: If Sun hadn't taken it to the extreme, there would be no.NET. Had they looked for an agreement, instead of seeking injunction, what a better picture for them that would have been than the picture we are looking at now.
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I'm in Zone A in Brooklyn, part of the mandatory evacuation area. I live in a basement apartment that is sure to be flooded. I moved everything I couldn't live without out to a friend's today and am stacking everything else 2-3 feet above the floor just in case.
I suppose more of you would be satisfied if it were a Cat-2 or Cat-3 when it hits NYC, somehow 70mph winds with 15-20 inches of rain and a 10-15 foot swell isn't enough for you. The economic hit of suspending the city for 2 days isn't enough for you. Do you want a Katrina disaster? I don't get it.
Anyways, fuck you, back to packing for me.
No it doesn't. Majority means the highest percentage. If 47% of the readers of Slashdot are from the US, you then carve the remaining percentage across every other country. Unless another country makes up another 47% and the remaining 6% is spread across the rest of the globe, the US makes up the majority of readers on Slashdot.
If your a systems admin and live in or around NYC, message me. I have plenty of part time work.
I'm the CTO for massify.com.
Drop me a note offline, I'm curious what kind of promotional tools you are looking for and how we can fill that void.
It doesn't float. Blackberry's and Treo's have tons of third party apps.
I think apple wasn't ready for it yet, meaning they didn't have a polished sdk to give to developers.
Requires a little more upfront investment ($79 PCI card) but it makes a huge world of difference speed wise. USB is on the low-end speed-wise, with Firewire @ 400 or 800 mb/s. e-SATA is 3gb/s. So for the price of an enclosure and an off the shelf SATA drive, you can have a very nice, fast external unit that has the same bandwidth potential as your internal drives.
What does .NET have to do with Win32 API? Other than .NET thunking out to it?
Your comparison of POSIX with the Win32 API is a miss as well, considering the number of "systems" represented in the windows api is significantly larger than POSIX.
There is nothing objective or simple or valid about your comparisons.
Naw dude, I'm with you. I think too many people were expecting GoW, when this is really an action game instead of any kind of tactical shooter. There are sequences on the later levels that are completely insane with the amount of action going on, but really the gameplay is a sophisticated take on Contra or even Galaga. Swarms of mindless drones punctuated with tougher mini-bosses and some pretty tough but fun boss fights.
At least that's how I see it and expected it to be, so it's completely satisfied my expectations.
4 out of 5.
From what I understand, and I'm probably wrong, the current theory about the little ice ages has to do with volcanic eruptions and changes in the earth's orbit. Massive volcanic explosions fill the atmosphere with silica particles which act like giant ray-bans. Our orbit elongates every 10K years which causes a change in the climate. From what I gather, an ice age is the earth's normal climate, and the weather system we have now is always a fairly brief blip.
So, either way, we're totally fucked.
Bring on the H2 with the AC pumped and filled with hot asian babes in tight bikinis. I'm gonna be dead before the shit hits the fan anyways.
ianag, ymmv, fwiw, iirc.
Know him pretty well, used to work with him during the dotcom boom in NYC and almost worked with him in London during the fallout.
I doubt, very much, this is some kind of marketing ploy or otherwise, it would be well below Ben's character to participate in such a thing. Besides, I believe he's just a creative director and why would Yahoo tap their CD to do such a thing, doesn't make any sense.
So put the tin foil hats back on, I can 99.9% for certain say this is legit.
Not a personal attack, since I don't know you personally, but I was attacking the attitude that seems prevailant amongst middle america in general. That people believe surrendering basic freedoms in exchange for safety is a good thing, a wise thing - this disgusts and terrifies me.
... Iran was driven into fundamentalist control which has helped pave the way for introducing radical extremist Islam to the mainstream Muslim community in the Middle East.
Your question was "how do we protect ourselves?" The answer is, you can't. By thinking that you can, you allow yourself to start trimming away the rights enjoined to us by the constitution. What we can do is change the way we deal with the Middle East and take a good, long, honest look at all of the things that our country has done, in our name, to destabilize and manipulate the politics of that region.
Look, Osama Bin Laden was nothing before confronting the Russians in Afghanistan. In a cold war pissing contest, the CIA armed and train Bin Laden and his crew so that we could have a puppet war with the Soviet Union. Osama, a very clever person, took this aid and training and when the time was right turned it back on us, because to him, there is no difference between us and Russia. In fact, our behavior is possibly worst. We funded Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war so that we could cause regime change in Iran, and look what happens
To further compound the problem, the majority of extremist muslims are under educated, poor and without many choices for a better life. They are driven to extermism because of what extermism can offer. It's exactly how the KKK used to work. Roll into poor towns, convince the uneducated that they are good guys by offering services that give the appearance of improving life. Hitler did it, Hezbollah does it, Al-Qaeda does it, KKK did it, etc.
So how do we protect ourselves? First we hold our government accountable for what it has done in the past. Second we censure/impeach the current administration to demonstrate to the world that the American people are more than its government. Finally, we change our attitudes about the Middle East and instead of antagonizing the situation, we either retreat fully or do a 180-degree turn and approach it from a humanitarian perspective.
If the world can offer these people better options than Hezzbolah or Al-Qaeda, I'd put all my money that they would take it and we could start approaching a dialog that could lead to peace. It's entirely doable, but we have to get rid of our current administration first and we have to start changing our own attitudes.
Pardon the spelling, I'm high on crack.
Simple, by ceasing to meddle to in the affairs of foreign countries and developing a foreign policy based on humanitarian do-gooding, instead of regime changing wrong doing.
Our current state of affairs is largely because of our own shady dealings in the middle east. Your question supposes that we are just innocent victims, but if you look at the history, 9/11, or something like it, was long overdue to occur.
People have died for the right to privacy and the right to freedom, so now we want to give up those rights so we don't have to die? It doesn't work like that and you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking it. That sort of attitude puts to shame all of the blood spilled on our own soil, from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to the World Wars. Millions have fought and died to insure the American idea of basic human freedoms, so to erode them in exchange for safety and comfort is disgusting and cowardly.
The porn industry is going to decide this one, just like they decided the betamax vs VHS.
My wager is that they'll go HD-DVD, which means the rest of us will too, despite Sony's best efforts.
Training Day wasn't the first HD-DVD, btw, Island Fever 3 with Tera Patrick was.
I think the subject says it all.
The rate at which we are recycling our own culture is increasing at a dramatic pace. I often wonder if this has some deeper meaning as it seems that human culture to this point has only really recycled nostalgia, typically recycling an era 20 years prior, but now we're really starting to eat and recycle our own waste in increasingly shorter periods of time.
At some point, we're going to need to inject depth and meaning into our popular culture, because you can only recycle McDonald's so many times. If you catch my meaning.
Well you certainly have proven that you know nothing about .NET, and I hope you can overcome your attitude about it.
.NET recommendations.
If I was your client, I wouldn't want to know that someone on the team is so smug in their lack of understanding and knowledge about the toolset I'm paying them to use. It's not a professional attitude.
Here's a hint, you're working in a services industry Your client is hiring you to perform services. They are defining the parameters of a problem and hiring you to come up with the solution. If there is no wiggle room on the platform, then there is surely a good reason, that or your tech leads have poor client management skills. More than likely there is a back office integration, or their IT department is really dictating the platform, or this new solution needs to fit into a prexisting system, there are a million reasons why and I'm almost positive your client has a good one.
I do tech spec consulting for a living. Basically, VC's hire me to consult on the tech for something they are about to dump a ton of dough in. It's usually guys like me that dictate the platform, and guys like me, that are professionals, don't carry any slant on which platform is better than the other, because making that sort of generalization is pointless and worthless to our clients. We look at our client's problem, break it down into manageable chunks and then see which platform is a best fit. The last 3 projects I worked on all ended up in BSD/Linux + PHP/Java recommendations, but the 4 prior were
So, I guess what I'm saying, is that to help out your career, I'd try to steer you towards platform agnosticism. I would urge you to be open minded and eager about broadening your knowledge about all the major platforms out there. I would urge you to turn that frown upside down. There are no politics in client/services work. Platform zealotry or fanatacism will only narrow your career choices, not expand them. Adaptability insures survival.
That's why I'm making more money working with Windows than Linux? Good analogy!
You're completely wrong.
Delphi doesn't hide pointers at all and it compiles directly to executable, there is no C-translation phase.
It's also one of the fastest compilers ever.
Nice try though.
(Was a professional Delphi developer for a number of years)
Are you completely retarded?
How this got moderated up is beyond me. It's obvious that you haven't used Atlas, much less even LOOKED at it.
The whole point of the library is to hide away the details, so XMLHttpRequest and it's ilk are tucked away neatly in the variety of external scripts that ship with Atlas.
There are only 4 or 5 controls that come with Atlas, and they're mostly non-visual anyways. The UpdatePanel is a "panel" like control that can automatically reload it's contents on a postback sent via xmlhttprequest. You don't need to do a thing.
Whomever moderated this all the way to +5 is just as retarded as the original poster.
It is Slashdot though ...
No plagiarism, they're both published by the same company and both have identical credits to the author.
http://www.manhattanspecial.com/products_pure_espr esso.html
... maybe a regional thing to NYC though.
Since 1895
It doesn't require auto-run to be disabled or enabled. You have to use the media player software that comes on the CD to play the CD.
PS. iTunes for Windows will turn on auto-run if you have it disabled.
I'm with you, but it should be a choice given to the individual.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
I wish this test had been around when I blew my top a few times and ended up in the emergency room. Each visit resulted in a different hypothesis on what was wrong with me, from dehydration to renault's syndrome.
The shit is scary enough when you have no idea what is wrong with you. For most anxiety sufferers, the first half dozen of earthquake sized panic attacks are almost always assumed to be physical problems. I believe I had brain cancer, lung cancer, intestinal cancer, heart problems, etc. Had I been shown a test result that read anxiety, I would have saved a lot of additional anxiety worrying about whether or not my ticker was going to go at any given moment.
Good news.
You make no sense. There is not one valid reason why Microsoft would not want this project to exist. Someone is expanding their market reach for them, for free. What they lose in any kind of sales is more than made up for in mindshare.
Sure they could pull the plug, and, sure, Mono is always going to be playing catch up; but it defies logic that Microsoft would radically mess up the framework for the sole purpose of screwing an open source project. Believe it or not, Microsoft is responsible to their developers. They do listen. To radically alter the framework for no apparent reason would just be idiocy beyond compare. If you've never participated in a beta cycle for Microsoft development tools then you would understand how well that responsibility is played out. Anyone can participate in these cycles and the responsiveness of the different teams working on the tools is impressive and commendable.
For Microsoft to harm Mono in any way would harm their own customers, and what company wants to hurt the customers that generate the need for their OS? I think there is a reason that CrossOver office exists beyond simply being compatible with the outside world for document exchange. It's because linux applications are still playing catch up to Windows applications. Gimp still trails Photoshop for professional grade imaging work. Evolution is still trying to play feature tag with Outlook. OpenOffice is still trying to equal Excel, Word, etc. That is not to say any of these efforts don't outclass the Microsoft products in some regards, because they most certainly do. I merely point this out to be an example of where Microsoft's commitment to their developers touches their economics. For the first time, we're seeing free tools for .NET development that are actually useful. I think this will continue with lower licensing costs.
As for the rest of your comments, I'm going to chalk those up to zealotry, closeted or not and simply being ignorant of what good design really is. And just because you spent a few years with ASP.NET doesn't mean you are at all competent.
And though I may sound like a Microsoft bigot, I am not. There is no fiscal or professional gain in being religious about toolsets. The more tools in that box, the more shit you can fix, and the fatter you can make the wallet. While I mostly do .NET consulting now, I still do PHP projects and, every once in a blue moon, a java project. Sure, sometimes I think about how one feature of another language might make a certain chunk of my work go faster, you also need to balance your concentration towards those things about the tool you are working with that are appreciable. I appreciate how quickly I can bang out a PHP site. I appreciate the massive library support and open source tools for Java. I appreciate C#, the .NET framework and Microsoft's dedication to their developers. If you can't do that than you are severely limiting your brain and your bank account.
Also, consider this: If Sun hadn't taken it to the extreme, there would be no .NET. Had they looked for an agreement, instead of seeking injunction, what a better picture for them that would have been than the picture we are looking at now.
Anyways, nice troll.
If you think java is safe from this, you're wrong.
Look around for the BlackBox trojan.