So, in summary, make sure you know your state's laws about when the use deadly force is authorized (A concealed handgun course in states that offer it is a great source of information and training) - and shoot to kill, but don't ever admit to shooting to kill, only shooting to stop - and do stop shooting when they stop aggressing. I would personally recommend a double-tap to the chest for your opening and closing volley.
The worst thing about this sort of thing being legal is that it makes people actually believe it's the right thing to do.
What I mean is, if a majority of people in four years find their life is worse, they vote Bush out.
It looks to me like the current government is trying to keep the people scared; or at least they're not actively trying to prevent that. What with the constantly changing terror alerts, telling people they need to buy duct tape against gas attacks, going into wars and constantly linking them to terror, etc.
What I'm afraid of is that this leads to a situation where people a) find their life is worse and b) believe that only Bush has the backbone to do something about it - even though he caused much of it. Keep people scared so they keep voting for the tought president. Which would be very cleverly done, but not very nice.
I cheated and Googled. This horrific Google cache of a PowerPoint file gives numbers of 100,000 for an oak, and 325,000 for an elm tree, "estimated using average branch-to-branchlet technique".
The text is white on white, so it's probably really secret.
but what is the deal with Americans and prison rape?
Apparently, the problem of prison rape is so real in the US, that it is actually one of the worst aspects of going to jail. 1 in 10 males in prison are raped, according to this fact sheet.
Being from Europe (like I assume you are), this sort of thing is completely unbelievable, but there you are.
Is creating a _really_ secure equivalent of the internet chess club. I see this as a serious opportunity for an open source team to demonstrate how they can do security _right_.
Short history, from memory: Way way back, there was only ICS, the Internet chess server. In 1995, it was turned into the commercial server ICC, the Internet Chess Club, which is still around and going strong. It's closed source and costs money unless you're a grandmaster.
As a protest to this, FICS, the Free ICS was started. It is, to this day, free "as in beer" (if for a moment we assume that beer is free of charge). It used to be Free as in GPL and avilable from the FTP site.
However, after others downloaded the Free code and started their own commercial servers with it (and they don't have to distribute their own changes under the GPL, since the software isn't distributed at all, it only runs the server), the code was closed as the developers didn't like working for free for a commercial server. I believe that server was Chess.net.
Later, FICS new main developer recoded all of FICS, so that none of the GPL code remained - or so he claimed when he sold a copy to a company named GamesParlour during the Internet boom, under some license other than the GPL. He also worked for them for a while. Endless FICS flamewars ensued. There is actually a reasonable chance that his claim is true, since he's been the sole developer for many years now.
Anyway, some people thought this was reason enough to start a new, open source chess server. The one I know of is chessd. I have no idea about its status.
To this day, FICS is still the best place to play chess for free for non-GMs, while talking about AI in the religion channel and politics in the politics channel, and everything else in ch 50.
Oh, and keeping track of time client side, and sending the times to ICC is done there with a utility called "timestamp". On FICS, the equivalent is called "timeseal", and I would be really really surprised if it wasn't at least as vulnerable. I believe there is actually some exploit in the wild. Not many people care though.
usb anything won't be a viable replacement for the floppy for 10 more years, when every current PCs will have been made into dust and EVERY pcs can boot off a usb device (most can't right now)
But nor can all computers boot off a floppy - after all, as the article states, many (I'm not sure if it's most, but it will be soon) new computers don't have a floppy drive anymore.
And I haven't done booted off one for years, anyway. There's always a bootable Linux CD lying around. Can you even boot a Windows XP box from a floppy?
Very interesting post. I already thought that the fact that oil is traded in dollars must have been about the only thing keeping the American economy on its feet (with the massive trade balance problems, debt etc), but I didn't know that Iraq had switched to Euros.
That's fine. I realized after posting that our thing wasn't really "big" compared to the sort of thing J2EE can be used for, but Slash doesn't allow editing posts of course. It was big for us since the web app is used for order management, inventory control, etc everywhere in the company (a computer hardware web shop) and is also the site itself. It's about three man years of work, which is the biggest project I have experience with, but indeed not the sort of huge thing you would associate J2EE with.
That said, for someone who can't see the forest for the trees and who needs a place to start, might as well look into that sort of thing and figure out what else to look at later.
I did one big J2EE project. We used Struts. There was one book that was very useful to me, and it's pretty short and affordable - _The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Java Programmers_ by Sue Spielman. I can recommend it, it has a good overview and some details of all the little parts.
I learned what a servlet is and how it works from the Sun tutorials, I think. Using Struts you won't make many pure servlets but it's important to have basic knowledge of what happens. Do the tutorial. Same for JSPs (they get compiled to servlets, you can make a JSP, run it, and look at the source of the servlet, if you really want to).
We simply ran on Tomcat. Just install it and learn by online documentation. It of course has its pros and cons, but I can't really compare since I haven't used any other servers. It's a good start.
Of course, always keep Sun's API reference pages close.
As a layer between the OO Java parts and the database (MySQL in this case) we used a library called Torque. The idea is elegant and Torque is easy to learn, but it's slow and can become quite irritating. There are other options but I can't recall the names right now, and I think they are more complex.
I never did find out what an EJB is.
Oh, and these web apps can be hard to debug because of all the layers - setup Jython (a matter of putting the.jar somewhere and setting up the classpath correctly) so that you can call all your business code from a Python interactive prompt!
Because now the country can claim to have given X amount of money to a third world country, which is nice to be able to tell left-wing voters, has secured orders for their companies, which is nice to be able to tell right-wing voters, and there are probably some treaties as well that say that the US is supposed to spend some amount of money on aid.
First, many countries will not extradite their own citizens.
Second, according to this UN extradition page and the linked PDF morocc.pdf, there is only a treaty for narcotics crimes, terrorism, and "organized crime".
At least with Biodiesel you get out more energy than you put in to make the conversion (the balance of the energy comes from the sun, which the plants have collected and turned into the raw oil).
Even that isn't a given. I wouldn't be surprised if the energy needed to plant sunflowers, reap them, move them, extract oil from them, get rid of the waste, etc is already more than the energy present in the oil. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around either (I just don't know), but people often forget these costs.
I'm exactly the same. I would usually hand in my Internet cable to a neighbour, with instructions to only give it back to me after the exam.
After about two hours of irritating myself by continuing to reload three websites continuously, I'd also give him my spare cable.
But now I have a job, and the old habit is still there... but I constantly need the web too. I might even start using this, to block access to a few specific sites.
Java is used a lot these days. There are three main reasons, in my view, why it became so popular:
In the beginning, there was an amazing amount of marketing and hype.
After that phase, it continued to be popular because by that time there was a large amount of libraries, both free and commercial.
As a language, it's not that hard to learn, and it gives some protections that C++ doesn't have.
So if you look at it purely as a language, it's just not that cool. You don't see amazing Java hacks. It's not great, it's just not bad. Add to that a few really irritating things (that are being addressed) like constant casting and having to check every exception all the time... Why would it be considered "cool"?
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Intels still run faster, even if they don't crunch the big numbers all in one cycle.
For the same price, there is just no contest. AMD slaughters Intel.
The solution is very simple: cut spending, grow the economy, reform Social Security into private accounts. Bush is saying he'll do all those.
But what he actually did the last four years is almost exactly the oppositie - cut taxes and increase spending.
So, in summary, make sure you know your state's laws about when the use deadly force is authorized (A concealed handgun course in states that offer it is a great source of information and training) - and shoot to kill, but don't ever admit to shooting to kill, only shooting to stop - and do stop shooting when they stop aggressing. I would personally recommend a double-tap to the chest for your opening and closing volley.
The worst thing about this sort of thing being legal is that it makes people actually believe it's the right thing to do.
What I mean is, if a majority of people in four years find their life is worse, they vote Bush out.
It looks to me like the current government is trying to keep the people scared; or at least they're not actively trying to prevent that. What with the constantly changing terror alerts, telling people they need to buy duct tape against gas attacks, going into wars and constantly linking them to terror, etc.
What I'm afraid of is that this leads to a situation where people a) find their life is worse and b) believe that only Bush has the backbone to do something about it - even though he caused much of it. Keep people scared so they keep voting for the tought president. Which would be very cleverly done, but not very nice.
The text is white on white, so it's probably really secret.
I don't see what being able to figure out what some computer does has to do with Computer Science.
but what is the deal with Americans and prison rape?
Apparently, the problem of prison rape is so real in the US, that it is actually one of the worst aspects of going to jail. 1 in 10 males in prison are raped, according to this fact sheet.
Being from Europe (like I assume you are), this sort of thing is completely unbelievable, but there you are.
Is creating a _really_ secure equivalent of the internet chess club. I see this as a serious opportunity for an open source team to demonstrate how they can do security _right_.
Short history, from memory: Way way back, there was only ICS, the Internet chess server. In 1995, it was turned into the commercial server ICC, the Internet Chess Club, which is still around and going strong. It's closed source and costs money unless you're a grandmaster.
As a protest to this, FICS, the Free ICS was started. It is, to this day, free "as in beer" (if for a moment we assume that beer is free of charge). It used to be Free as in GPL and avilable from the FTP site.
However, after others downloaded the Free code and started their own commercial servers with it (and they don't have to distribute their own changes under the GPL, since the software isn't distributed at all, it only runs the server), the code was closed as the developers didn't like working for free for a commercial server. I believe that server was Chess.net.
Later, FICS new main developer recoded all of FICS, so that none of the GPL code remained - or so he claimed when he sold a copy to a company named GamesParlour during the Internet boom, under some license other than the GPL. He also worked for them for a while. Endless FICS flamewars ensued. There is actually a reasonable chance that his claim is true, since he's been the sole developer for many years now.
Anyway, some people thought this was reason enough to start a new, open source chess server. The one I know of is chessd. I have no idea about its status.
To this day, FICS is still the best place to play chess for free for non-GMs, while talking about AI in the religion channel and politics in the politics channel, and everything else in ch 50.
Oh, and keeping track of time client side, and sending the times to ICC is done there with a utility called "timestamp". On FICS, the equivalent is called "timeseal", and I would be really really surprised if it wasn't at least as vulnerable. I believe there is actually some exploit in the wild. Not many people care though.
(I'm ElOso on FICS.)
usb anything won't be a viable replacement for the floppy for 10 more years, when every current PCs will have been made into dust and EVERY pcs can boot off a usb device (most can't right now)
But nor can all computers boot off a floppy - after all, as the article states, many (I'm not sure if it's most, but it will be soon) new computers don't have a floppy drive anymore.
And I haven't done booted off one for years, anyway. There's always a bootable Linux CD lying around. Can you even boot a Windows XP box from a floppy?
Come on, don't be so nice, tell us how you really feel!
or does anyone else find it funny that a slashdot comment is linked to in a JSR?
Or that the author of that comment is the same person as the author of the JSR and of this Slashdot article.
You'd think he could find a better place to put his example than a Slashdot comment.
Very interesting post. I already thought that the fact that oil is traded in dollars must have been about the only thing keeping the American economy on its feet (with the massive trade balance problems, debt etc), but I didn't know that Iraq had switched to Euros.
Perhaps, but what IS an EJB?
I know what a bean is - crudely said, an object with properties with getters and setters. A really simple concept.
But start reading about EJBs, and it immediately becomes very very foggy... could you point me towards one really concrete example of a typical EJB?
That's fine. I realized after posting that our thing wasn't really "big" compared to the sort of thing J2EE can be used for, but Slash doesn't allow editing posts of course. It was big for us since the web app is used for order management, inventory control, etc everywhere in the company (a computer hardware web shop) and is also the site itself. It's about three man years of work, which is the biggest project I have experience with, but indeed not the sort of huge thing you would associate J2EE with.
That said, for someone who can't see the forest for the trees and who needs a place to start, might as well look into that sort of thing and figure out what else to look at later.
I did one big J2EE project. We used Struts. There was one book that was very useful to me, and it's pretty short and affordable - _The Struts Framework: Practical Guide for Java Programmers_ by Sue Spielman. I can recommend it, it has a good overview and some details of all the little parts.
I learned what a servlet is and how it works from the Sun tutorials, I think. Using Struts you won't make many pure servlets but it's important to have basic knowledge of what happens. Do the tutorial. Same for JSPs (they get compiled to servlets, you can make a JSP, run it, and look at the source of the servlet, if you really want to).
We simply ran on Tomcat. Just install it and learn by online documentation. It of course has its pros and cons, but I can't really compare since I haven't used any other servers. It's a good start.
Of course, always keep Sun's API reference pages close.
As a layer between the OO Java parts and the database (MySQL in this case) we used a library called Torque. The idea is elegant and Torque is easy to learn, but it's slow and can become quite irritating. There are other options but I can't recall the names right now, and I think they are more complex.
I never did find out what an EJB is.
Oh, and these web apps can be hard to debug because of all the layers - setup Jython (a matter of putting the .jar somewhere and setting up the classpath correctly) so that you can call all your business code from a Python interactive prompt!
Where does he say that?
Since you are stretching your joke to this point, I must assume it is not a joke, and you are actually just mistaken. Excuse me if I misassume.
But anyway, 35 nanometers is the size of the switches, not of the chip.
Because now the country can claim to have given X amount of money to a third world country, which is nice to be able to tell left-wing voters, has secured orders for their companies, which is nice to be able to tell right-wing voters, and there are probably some treaties as well that say that the US is supposed to spend some amount of money on aid.
The big players, like Microsoft, can use pressure form their government.
Use MS software, or you won't get as much aid money.
You should be posting pornography, not links to tech articles.
Most people here would basically never pay for software. But PAY for PORN? That's just fantasy land, why would you do that?
Affected people go crying to Google wanting un-backed-up data back, but Google declares that was "your problem".
Affected people start running RAID-1 on a bunch of Gmail accountsApparently, that CEO guy is still stupid.
First, many countries will not extradite their own citizens.
Second, according to this UN extradition page and the linked PDF morocc.pdf, there is only a treaty for narcotics crimes, terrorism, and "organized crime".
I think he's pretty safe.
At least with Biodiesel you get out more energy than you put in to make the conversion (the balance of the energy comes from the sun, which the plants have collected and turned into the raw oil).
Even that isn't a given. I wouldn't be surprised if the energy needed to plant sunflowers, reap them, move them, extract oil from them, get rid of the waste, etc is already more than the energy present in the oil. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the other way around either (I just don't know), but people often forget these costs.
I'm exactly the same. I would usually hand in my Internet cable to a neighbour, with instructions to only give it back to me after the exam.
After about two hours of irritating myself by continuing to reload three websites continuously, I'd also give him my spare cable.
But now I have a job, and the old habit is still there... but I constantly need the web too. I might even start using this, to block access to a few specific sites.
Java is used a lot these days. There are three main reasons, in my view, why it became so popular:
So if you look at it purely as a language, it's just not that cool. You don't see amazing Java hacks. It's not great, it's just not bad. Add to that a few really irritating things (that are being addressed) like constant casting and having to check every exception all the time... Why would it be considered "cool"?