I'd presume that the device would translate the code into alphanumeric since the point of the article is having a replacement for a keyboard. In Morse code, there are two different kinds of breaks. there is the break between letters, and the break between words. A letter break is roughly the length of a dit, and a word break is roughly the length of a dah. (and a dah is the length of 3 dits). This means that space is just a letter like any other, and fairly efficient without the need of a special break key. On the contrary, having a break key would throw off your rhythm. When you learn Morse, you learn to subdivide like that. It's basically the same as being able to keep the beat when singing a song, it really isn't very difficult.
Fast coders use a device called a keyer. it has 2 paddles. One does a stream of dits, and the other does a solid tone (which you use to manually do dahs). You tune the speed of the stream of dits based on how quickly you can comfortably code.
I think Morse needs to come back for data entry. Only one button needed. Ya just gotta take the time to learn it. It also allows text messages to be "felt" while in vibrate mode.
Anyone ever notice that 9 out of 10 Slashdot book reviews are related to Drupal? One of these days, some other publisher is finally gonna notice that Slashdot will publish most any tech book review, and start also taking advantage of this free visibility...As long as it isn't that one guy who uses Slashdot as his shitty blog...
The refactoring techniques they used were from Fowler's book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code. But it seems like they didn't actually bother to read his book. They are good techniques, and it is an excellent book, I recommend it to anyone stuck working on old crummy codebases. But the book tries to stress that the specific techniques are not nearly as important as determining when it is appropriate to use which technique. It further stresses that the most important thing is to get as much of the codebase covered by well written unit tests as is reasonably achievable. But there was no mention of either of these concepts in this paper. The article made it sound like they just gave a bunch of undergrads the list of techniques and instructed them to apply them. Undergrads generally have zero experience working on legacy code. Most of them only work on assigned programming projects from scratch. The only time I worked with legacy code was tweaking the Linux Kernel for my OS class.
This is the number one question asked on Ask-Slashdot. In my recollection, I believe this is at least the 7th time I've seen it. The answers are always unsatisfying. Such is life.
I was under the impression that no one plays this game. The cities are so tiny that the game gets boring after about 2 hours of playtime. Support for the game has ended. And everyone went back to playing the previous Sim City game, or Cities XL.
God. I seriously miss the PBS before this. I guess I'm in the minority, but I'd love it if more of my tax dollars went to them once again so they didn't have to pull that shit anymore.
Cuban cigars are indeed good. And in the 60s, they were pretty solidly the best. However, the embargo lasted so long, and cigar interest has had big enough explosions in the past 20 years or so that the other countries, and indeed the Cuban manufacturers themselves have figured out how to make cigars that are every bit as good in nearby regions. It'll be great whenever they finally return to the US, but it won't quite be the massive cigar-renaissance in the US that some people expect.
Thanks for providing this, AC. I don't know what Mr. Amash is talking about. Section 309 doesn't grant any blessing of Executive Order 12333, or any other mechanism of collection. It just states that if any collection takes place without a court order, then it must be disposed of within 5 years with a few very-specific exceptions. The sky is not falling people. Do your research before you freak out based on alarmist stuff like this.
Here's the important part: "That type of collection is currently allowed under an executive order that dates back to former President Reagan, but the new stamp of approval from Congress was troubling, Amash said."
In other words, the only issue he has with this bill is that it acknowledges an Executive Order is in place. It doesn't even particularly bless it. Nothing is changing other than a slightly-less tacet approval of an order that has been around for decades. It's not a terribly long bill, check it out yourself
It seems like all of these articles trying to dig up dirt and spread controversy about Wikipedia come from wikipediocracy.com. It also seems like they are a very small group. All mentions of wikipediocracy in this comment section prior to this submission (under my default filter settings; forgive my laziness) are from two users, and one of them, the primary one, is the article submitter. I just have major trouble buying anything from a source whose entire mission is to criticize Wikipedia. That kinda just screams bias. This content is always coming out of wikipediocracy. I can't recall the last article posted to Slashdot critical of Wikipedia that didn't include a link from them. It feels like they are just trying to use the visibility of getting their submissions posted to Slashdot to build controversy. It isn't hard to write up a summary and get it accepted by Slashdot just by knowing to write a summary in the accepted style. People don't click the links often because it isn't very interesting, they just note "wow, people sure sound upset at Wikipedia" and don't notice that it's always this small group of people....
I don't know very much about comic books. With the exception of my parents' Mad Magazines and silver age Superman comics, I never got into them. Transmet has been one of very few exceptions. By about volume 3, I was rather terrified that this might get horribly adapted into a movie. I just couldn't imagine any way the story could be decently converted into a 90-120 minute format. The animated series adaptation idea, on the other hand, rather intrigued me. I was bummed to see it fall through; the animation looked quite promising (I seem to recall Chris Prynoski/Titmouse Inc. was somehow involved, but can't find confirmation on that). I realize nothing is currently in production, but is there any chance of another attempt at such an adaptation in the future?
It'd have to be a bare minimum of 3 unless someone was foolish enough to shrink it. I've got all the graphic novelizations, and they take up many inches of shelf-space.
They can use a great encryption algorithm, but if they continue to not authenticate the basestation, as per 2G specs, then it doesn't really help. It wasn't until LTE that this finally started happening.
You're more than welcome to get emotional about whatever you like. But, you are in the minority of popular opinion on this matter. Even among those informed enough to have looked into the concept, they appreciate that it is an implied power of the court (all the courts, btw, not just the supreme), it is a reasonable implication, and consider it congruent with the intentions of the drafters of the constitution.
I'm not sure I follow your claim about it only applying with the supreme rulers of the land decide it does. Not to say that various leaders didn't overstep their bounds. An easy example is Lincoln suspending habeus corpus, and then ignoring the judicial review against him on the matter. But this merely requires improved enforcement of the checks and balances in the system.
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. . . . [A]ll executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution."
If the constitution is the supreme law, and the judges must support its supremacy, the only way I can perceive of upholding this is by way of judicial review. It might not be explicit in the constitution, but this is a very strong implication.
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Fast coders use a device called a keyer. it has 2 paddles. One does a stream of dits, and the other does a solid tone (which you use to manually do dahs). You tune the speed of the stream of dits based on how quickly you can comfortably code.
I think Morse needs to come back for data entry. Only one button needed. Ya just gotta take the time to learn it. It also allows text messages to be "felt" while in vibrate mode.
And charge $70AUD for one lousy game.
Whoa, no pressure on that kid...
Anyone ever notice that 9 out of 10 Slashdot book reviews are related to Drupal? One of these days, some other publisher is finally gonna notice that Slashdot will publish most any tech book review, and start also taking advantage of this free visibility...As long as it isn't that one guy who uses Slashdot as his shitty blog...
Anyone else notice this? You kinda loose a bit of geek-cred when you mention that you buy into treatments that are not based on evidence...
The X-Prize competition decides what a Tricorder is. Their guidelines are here: http://tricorder.xprize.org/si...
The refactoring techniques they used were from Fowler's book, Working Effectively with Legacy Code. But it seems like they didn't actually bother to read his book. They are good techniques, and it is an excellent book, I recommend it to anyone stuck working on old crummy codebases. But the book tries to stress that the specific techniques are not nearly as important as determining when it is appropriate to use which technique. It further stresses that the most important thing is to get as much of the codebase covered by well written unit tests as is reasonably achievable. But there was no mention of either of these concepts in this paper. The article made it sound like they just gave a bunch of undergrads the list of techniques and instructed them to apply them. Undergrads generally have zero experience working on legacy code. Most of them only work on assigned programming projects from scratch. The only time I worked with legacy code was tweaking the Linux Kernel for my OS class.
This is the number one question asked on Ask-Slashdot. In my recollection, I believe this is at least the 7th time I've seen it. The answers are always unsatisfying. Such is life.
I was under the impression that no one plays this game. The cities are so tiny that the game gets boring after about 2 hours of playtime. Support for the game has ended. And everyone went back to playing the previous Sim City game, or Cities XL.
Do you guys do zero review or investigation before throwing up fear-mongering bullshit? If you haven't read TFA yet, don't even bother.
God. I seriously miss the PBS before this. I guess I'm in the minority, but I'd love it if more of my tax dollars went to them once again so they didn't have to pull that shit anymore.
Cuban cigars are indeed good. And in the 60s, they were pretty solidly the best. However, the embargo lasted so long, and cigar interest has had big enough explosions in the past 20 years or so that the other countries, and indeed the Cuban manufacturers themselves have figured out how to make cigars that are every bit as good in nearby regions. It'll be great whenever they finally return to the US, but it won't quite be the massive cigar-renaissance in the US that some people expect.
Again, this wording adds restrictions to any such collections that may occur. It does not grant permission to do them.
Arg, link fail. I intended to link to the text of H.R. 4681 so you can read section 309 yourself.
Thanks for providing this, AC. I don't know what Mr. Amash is talking about. Section 309 doesn't grant any blessing of Executive Order 12333, or any other mechanism of collection. It just states that if any collection takes place without a court order, then it must be disposed of within 5 years with a few very-specific exceptions. The sky is not falling people. Do your research before you freak out based on alarmist stuff like this.
In other words, the only issue he has with this bill is that it acknowledges an Executive Order is in place. It doesn't even particularly bless it. Nothing is changing other than a slightly-less tacet approval of an order that has been around for decades. It's not a terribly long bill, check it out yourself
It seems like all of these articles trying to dig up dirt and spread controversy about Wikipedia come from wikipediocracy.com. It also seems like they are a very small group. All mentions of wikipediocracy in this comment section prior to this submission (under my default filter settings; forgive my laziness) are from two users, and one of them, the primary one, is the article submitter. I just have major trouble buying anything from a source whose entire mission is to criticize Wikipedia. That kinda just screams bias. This content is always coming out of wikipediocracy. I can't recall the last article posted to Slashdot critical of Wikipedia that didn't include a link from them. It feels like they are just trying to use the visibility of getting their submissions posted to Slashdot to build controversy. It isn't hard to write up a summary and get it accepted by Slashdot just by knowing to write a summary in the accepted style. People don't click the links often because it isn't very interesting, they just note "wow, people sure sound upset at Wikipedia" and don't notice that it's always this small group of people....
I don't know very much about comic books. With the exception of my parents' Mad Magazines and silver age Superman comics, I never got into them. Transmet has been one of very few exceptions. By about volume 3, I was rather terrified that this might get horribly adapted into a movie. I just couldn't imagine any way the story could be decently converted into a 90-120 minute format. The animated series adaptation idea, on the other hand, rather intrigued me. I was bummed to see it fall through; the animation looked quite promising (I seem to recall Chris Prynoski/Titmouse Inc. was somehow involved, but can't find confirmation on that). I realize nothing is currently in production, but is there any chance of another attempt at such an adaptation in the future?
It'd have to be a bare minimum of 3 unless someone was foolish enough to shrink it. I've got all the graphic novelizations, and they take up many inches of shelf-space.
Nope. Look into CALEA.
They can use a great encryption algorithm, but if they continue to not authenticate the basestation, as per 2G specs, then it doesn't really help. It wasn't until LTE that this finally started happening.
I'm not sure what impeachment would have to do with a SCOTUS ruling, but it can be checked by a constitutional amendment, or a future SCOTUS ruling.
I'm not sure I follow your claim about it only applying with the supreme rulers of the land decide it does. Not to say that various leaders didn't overstep their bounds. An easy example is Lincoln suspending habeus corpus, and then ignoring the judicial review against him on the matter. But this merely requires improved enforcement of the checks and balances in the system.
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding. . . . [A]ll executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution." If the constitution is the supreme law, and the judges must support its supremacy, the only way I can perceive of upholding this is by way of judicial review. It might not be explicit in the constitution, but this is a very strong implication.