UML 'seems' biased towards OOP?? Are you serious? UML exists solely for the OOP paradigm.
It sounds to me as though you're trying to fuse a Programming Languages course with a Software Engineering and SE Management course.
While looking at things from a new perspective may be interesting, the IEEE and ACM people will laugh at you for standing on your head for too long.
Functional and other non-imperative programming approaches are, for lack of a better term, academic. I'd suggest keeping them out of a mainstream curriculum course, offering them instead as an elective.
The design process and especially its resultant artifacts are more managerial than scientific in scope, and should also be taught separately.
The application of development processes and patterns form a relatively cohessive whole as it is. They're orthogonal to the language used and the documentation generated.
It looks as if you're trying to go vertically through subjects that are more easily addressed linearly. What you propose is fine fodder for consecutive courses, and could even be hit in one term, but these ideas do not belong in one course.
Then it's only fair that only Citizens be taxed on their income. There's a tit for tat here, that the Corporate sharks are sure to pounce on, and it may prove to be a Pandora's Box.
I'm no lover of Cpororate Greed^TM but one has to realize that the old addage of 'live by the sword, die by the sword' holds as true today as it ever did.
What happens when the governments start screening every child that is born for any inherent form of "weakness"? Will those children never receive the chance to live?
Right.. What's next?? Women, mandated by law to get pregnant each time they ovulate, so as to not deprive that egg of it's chance at life?? What a cruel fate for a potential child, so be soaked up by a tampon... How inhuman!!
Or better yet, picture this: Late evening, quiet suburban neighborhood.. Suddenly a SWAT team bursts through a second story bedroom window, laser targetting dots panning around the room.. A voice booms outside: "EM Emalb!! Put the sock down son!! Step away from the semen, and for God's sake, don't wipe your hands!! That's a potential human you've got there!!"
Depriving unfertilized eggs of the chance for life?? Get real!!
Really.. We can make nanotubes how long now?? And how long would one have to be?
Oh? "Theoretically possible" eh? It's also "theoretically possible" for a fully fueled 1957 Ford Fairlane to appear in my living room out of thin air - running.. With a supermodel in it..
Please, dear editors, 'might become reality' is trolling.
After all, when Hot Topic is trading on NASDAQ (HOTT), you can pretty much write 'punk' off as a profitable industry.. Much like 'grunge' and 'hippie'.
I've never used my @Home email account in the 6 months that I've had the service through Cox.
Now I've been trying for hours to get it to work, via Netscape, Outlook and Outlook Express. Express hangs on load (I've never bothered to run it before, no loss), Outlook hangs whan I try to access the account. Netscape seems to refuse to see the servers altogether. What gives?
The @Home site provides instructions for setting up Outlook Express as the mail client, and for migrating old email from Netscape. Nothing else.. What gives again?
@Home is a plain old POP3 system, right?
What if I want to use Netscape? What am I missing here?
Following you will find some information to address questions you might have about the email communication that you recently received from us.
Q1. What should I do today?
A1. Cox recommends that you use the following precautionary backup procedures.
Check your @Home email daily. Opened messages will be saved automatically to your hard drive.
Download software from a free dial-up Internet service provider. We recommend that you do not install the software unless service is interrupted.
Back up your personal web page.
Watch for more information from Cox on the transition of your service to Cox High Speed Internetsm. At such time that you can make the transition to our new service, Cox will be providing you with all of the information you need so that your transition is as smooth as possible.
In the unlikely event that there is a disruption in service, keep your cable modem connected to your PC until service is restored.
Q2. I need my e-mail; what am I going to do?
A2. Cox is doing everything that we can to ensure that you are never without your email. If our plans are successful, your service will not be interrupted and you will have a comfortable transition period in which you can convert your service to a new Cox-managed network.
Q3. What about my modem?
A3. In the unlikely event that there is a service interruption, you should leave your modem connected to your PC until service is restored.
Q4. What is this dial-up, temporary service?
A4. In the unlikely event that your service is temporarily interrupted, we recommend that you set up Internet access via one of the free dial-up Internet services that are available. We have arranged for temporary, dial-up access to the Internet via NetZero. You may download this software by clicking here. This dial-up access is meant to be a temporary alternative to provide email and connectivity. The free service offers ten hours per month, which should be sufficient to get you through any short-term outages. This service does not currently support MAC, Windows 2000 or XP. If you are a Roanoke or Hampton Roads resident and a NetZero local access number is not available, please visit www.juno.com as a potential alternative.
We do not recommend that you install the software at this time, just download the software and save it so that it may be installed should you have an interruption in service. This is a precautionary measure that would give you access to the Internet via a phone line plugged into your computer.
Q5. What will I get with this service and is it Cox supported?
A5. Unfortunately, Cox cannot speak to the features and benefits of the free dial-up Internet services that are available, nor can we guarantee or support it. We recommend that you explore this temporary backup plan simply as a precautionary measure. We are taking all necessary steps to ensure that your service is uninterrupted, but we thought that you might be interested in a temporary, although not ideal, solution for Internet access in the unlikely event that your service is shut down.
Q6. Will you credit my bill? When will I see a credit?
A6. Cox will credit you for any time that you are without service. This includes reimbursement for equipment leasing fees if you are leasing your cable modem from Cox. Should your service be interrupted, you would see an appropriate credit on the next statement that you next receive from Cox.
Q7. How do I get updates quickly?
A7. You have two ways of getting the latest accurate information quickly.
We've established a special number (1-877-832-4751). When you call this number, you will hear a recording that provides the latest information.
You can also get updated information by visiting www.cox.com/info.
These are the most accurate and up-to-date sources for information on your Cox Internet service.
Q8. How will you communicate with me if my service is down?
A8. Cox will contact you via mail or courier to provide important status updates and service information concerning the new Cox-managed high speed Internet service that will replace your @Home service. You can also call 1-877-832-4751 to hear a recorded message with the latest, accurate and up-to-date information.
Q9. What will happen to my personal Web page?
A9. As a safety precaution, you should always backup your personal Web page to a CD or hard drive. To Transfer Files from WebSpace to your hard drive using the File Manager:
Download the files from WebSpace to your computer by logging in to the WebSpace login page at http://home-members.excite.com/m_webspace/ and clicking File Manager, located at the top-right corner of the screen.
Select Transfer from the File Manager navigation bar. In the window that appears, select the files you want to transfer from your WebSpace account to your computer, and the location to which you want them transferred, then click Transfer.
A window appears telling you when your file has been downloaded.
Click OK to return to the File Manager page.
Once you are finished with File Manager, log out by clicking Logout on the navigation bar. If you do not log out, and you share a computer with other people in your household, they may have access to your files.
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. [Emphasis mine]
What this says is that the members of NATO agree to do whatever they want. The real meaning of Article V is in the second paragraph:
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security (1). [Emphasis mine]
The point of Article V is not mutual defense, it is disclosure of actions and the termination of activity once the Security Council says so.
Article V is not about standing up for each other. It's a safety measure to make sure no member of NATO obliterates an enemy. It's to keep NATO functioning militarily as a unit, to prevent drawn out international conflict.
Having written The Manned Missiles in that same year, using that same premise... My oh my.. Can it be that my two heroes had themselves a little Cartel?
M$ is NOT the better product - they only say they are, and their tactics give them a louder voice.
The cost of using IE isn't just the price of the browser, it's the fact that cookie tracking is now also an 'inseparable' "feature" of the Windows OS.
And that it's not really a faster browser - we pay the browser start-up fee each time we boot up Windows.
And it's not more compliant with Web standards, only with Microsoft extensions to some of those standards.
And the fact that their current position was gained through 'questionable' means...
Yes, I'll agree that Economic Darwinism is the ultimate decision-maker, as in all cases. But then again, isn't it in the consumer's best interest to know the cost of the products that are competing for their attention? What would happen if people chose their Presidential candidate not on the issues and records of those people, or the consequences of their election, but on the number of mispronounciations that they make during speaches... Uhhh... That would be Baaaaaad!
On top of all that's been said; about OS embedding to gain performance and entangle IE in the OS; about the IE lack of standards compliance; the customizability of Mozilla and the like; I'd like to add THIS.
It's exactly the sort of blind regurgitation of opinions, as skillfully demonstrated by the troll message I'm responding to, that has gotten us where we are now.
The road closures matter, they will _actually_ affect your like, the changes in Poland will not.
I'm glad you recanted, since it's entirely possible that during that time, somone living here might have had relatives there. With the Communist controlled media in Poland at the time, a phone-call from Gdansk would likely never make it beyond the national border. The same goes for mail. If anything was ever printed, it was so twisted, phased and burried, that it had absolutely no content.
I lived in Poland during the beginning of the end of Communism, and I can tell you for a fact that State controlled media is worse than no media at all. We got news about riots in nearby cities either by word of mouth (when there wasn't a curfew) or from Radio Free America - never from the papers or local broadcast media.
Censorship on political grounds is a crime against humanity. On moral grounds, it is the wost form of obscenity. The idea that some minority cartel could possibly enforce (through "law") it's sense of what is aesthetically pleasing onto a majority which is powerless to counter-act such attempts at brain-washing is a huge threat to the freedom of thought.
Censorship in any form is an indication of two things. Extreme FEAR and disrespect on part of the censor, directed against the public - since the public is not considered intelligent and competent enough to be 'undamaged' by the information. More important, the public might actually come to some 'undesirable' conclusions based on material that speaks against the censors agenda.
I've grown up in a system where thinking outside the party lines could get you jailed or killed. Belive me, if things such as the DMCA and 'censoring obscenity' succeed in this generation, the next generation will not even be aware that there are other ways of thinking, and it will take a bloody revolution, and a multi-decade economic set-back, to set things right again.
We know they're there by the deformation they cause to their stars. From this we presume they are of gasseous density. But, what if they are solid, but hollow, a Dyson Sphere?
It's an excellent point - whatever we are likely to see, we would tend to presume is 'natural', except if it speaks English. This is a very narrow view. An extra terrestrial intellect would probably seek to communicate with lesser life-forms in the simplest way possible. Maybe we are too arrogant to consider that the rhythmic pulsing of a quasar (as another poster suggested) is to simple, and that ET would never be so condescending.:)
My DeCSS T-shirt arrived at my door-step this afternoon. This afternoon is AFTER the Kaplan ruling. The parcel came complete with a printout of the complete DeCSS source on paper (nice touch). It arrived, courtesy of the U.S. Postal Services Priority Mail option. Another nice touch. Thank you Copyleft.
The parcel clearly stated on the label, that it originated at Copyleft - a known named defendant in the DeCSS case.
So my question is this: Is the Federal Government in violation of the DMCA/Kaplan Ruling, by not only permitting the banned code's distribution, but also by contributing to it?
Perhaps, just to be on the safe side, they should open all correspondence, just to make sure that no DeCSS source code, or references to it are contained therein?
BTW: The shirt is sharp. High quality cotton, very legible, crisp printing. Get yours TODAY - before they're sold out, intercepted, burned or otherwise unavailable. Get a few - get one for Mom, Dad, your friends.. Spread the disease. They can't jail us all.:)
Not only does posthumous liberation get a good product out into the community, it accomplishes one more valuable service. It gives people the source for a technologically better (usually) alternative to whatever M$ has crammed down everyone's throat.
Watcom of years past is better than today's VC++ compiler. Their Fortran was great too. Now they're here and they will benefit gcc - if in no other manner than by letting the gcc developers consider alternative solutions.
There are over 100 nuclear plants in the US, and the typical refuel cycle is 2 years. If you want to hide a staff to keep an eye out for unmarked trucks, great. But I think a few grand to an apropriately morally-challeneged geek would be a lot more cost effective.
As for Dolph, what for? A heist like this only requires that an invoice be fudged, to get "your" crate get loaded on your truck at the dock. No need to shoot people. Really, international espionage is over-dramatized in Hollyweird.
Once the hack tells you who had *bought* it, you'd know whom to crack next. Elementary really. IANASpy BTW, really.:)
Radioactive materials are not only scary because of their bomb-making uses. Would you take a vacation to Chernobyl?
All one has to do is drop a few pounds of powdered Uranium, way up-stream in the Mississippi, and we're all in for a world of hurt.
Remember the stink that the tree-huggers put up over the Cassini probe? That took off with a little under a pound of Plutonium, but if it blew up over the Florida coast...
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UML 'seems' biased towards OOP?? Are you serious? UML exists solely for the OOP paradigm.
It sounds to me as though you're trying to fuse a Programming Languages course with a Software Engineering and SE Management course.
While looking at things from a new perspective may be interesting, the IEEE and ACM people will laugh at you for standing on your head for too long.
Functional and other non-imperative programming approaches are, for lack of a better term, academic. I'd suggest keeping them out of a mainstream curriculum course, offering them instead as an elective.
The design process and especially its resultant artifacts are more managerial than scientific in scope, and should also be taught separately.
The application of development processes and patterns form a relatively cohessive whole as it is. They're orthogonal to the language used and the documentation generated.
It looks as if you're trying to go vertically through subjects that are more easily addressed linearly. What you propose is fine fodder for consecutive courses, and could even be hit in one term, but these ideas do not belong in one course.
Not really.. You see, as soon as they take the humans out of the silos and hook the plane controls directly into the W.O.P.R., it's all over.
Then it's only fair that only Citizens be taxed on their income. There's a tit for tat here, that the Corporate sharks are sure to pounce on, and it may prove to be a Pandora's Box.
I'm no lover of Cpororate Greed^TM but one has to realize that the old addage of 'live by the sword, die by the sword' holds as true today as it ever did.
Right.. What's next?? Women, mandated by law to get pregnant each time they ovulate, so as to not deprive that egg of it's chance at life?? What a cruel fate for a potential child, so be soaked up by a tampon... How inhuman!!
Or better yet, picture this: Late evening, quiet suburban neighborhood.. Suddenly a SWAT team bursts through a second story bedroom window, laser targetting dots panning around the room.. A voice booms outside: "EM Emalb!! Put the sock down son!! Step away from the semen, and for God's sake, don't wipe your hands!! That's a potential human you've got there!!"
Depriving unfertilized eggs of the chance for life?? Get real!!
Really.. We can make nanotubes how long now?? And how long would one have to be?
Oh? "Theoretically possible" eh? It's also "theoretically possible" for a fully fueled 1957 Ford Fairlane to appear in my living room out of thin air - running.. With a supermodel in it..
Please, dear editors, 'might become reality' is trolling.
Come on guys.. You do this on porpoise, don't you?
Ewe purpose philly make spilling mist cakes to git
sum won to cum int a boat bed proof reeding..
Eww half two!!
Considering that 'They' see things thus, how can anyone be surprised?
After all, when Hot Topic is trading on NASDAQ (HOTT), you can pretty much write 'punk' off as a profitable industry.. Much like 'grunge' and 'hippie'.
As always,DIY.
@home went and changed the server names, and never updated the website..
Mail server is no longer just 'mail',
it's now 'mail...home.com'
Would have been nice if they'd made this a bit more clear, somewhere..
Same change applies to the newsgroup servers.. No longer 'news', but as above.
I've never used my @Home email account in the 6 months that I've had the service through Cox.
Now I've been trying for hours to get it to work, via Netscape, Outlook and Outlook Express. Express hangs on load (I've never bothered to run it before, no loss), Outlook hangs whan I try to access the account. Netscape seems to refuse to see the servers altogether. What gives?
The @Home site provides instructions for setting up Outlook Express as the mail client, and for migrating old email from Netscape. Nothing else.. What gives again?
@Home is a plain old POP3 system, right?
What if I want to use Netscape? What am I missing here?
In case that gets swamped, here's a reprint:
Cox Communications @Home Service Update:
Following you will find some information to address questions you might have about the email communication that you recently received from us.
Q1. What should I do today?
A1. Cox recommends that you use the following precautionary backup procedures.
Check your @Home email daily. Opened messages will be saved automatically to your hard drive.
Download software from a free dial-up Internet service provider. We recommend that you do not install the software unless service is interrupted.
Back up your personal web page.
Watch for more information from Cox on the transition of your service to Cox High Speed Internetsm. At such time that you can make the transition to our new service, Cox will be providing you with all of the information you need so that your transition is as smooth as possible.
In the unlikely event that there is a disruption in service, keep your cable modem connected to your PC until service is restored.
Q2. I need my e-mail; what am I going to do?
A2. Cox is doing everything that we can to ensure that you are never without your email. If our plans are successful, your service will not be interrupted and you will have a comfortable transition period in which you can convert your service to a new Cox-managed network.
Q3. What about my modem?
A3. In the unlikely event that there is a service interruption, you should leave your modem connected to your PC until service is restored.
Q4. What is this dial-up, temporary service?
A4. In the unlikely event that your service is temporarily interrupted, we recommend that you set up Internet access via one of the free dial-up Internet services that are available. We have arranged for temporary, dial-up access to the Internet via NetZero. You may download this software by clicking here. This dial-up access is meant to be a temporary alternative to provide email and connectivity. The free service offers ten hours per month, which should be sufficient to get you through any short-term outages. This service does not currently support MAC, Windows 2000 or XP. If you are a Roanoke or Hampton Roads resident and a NetZero local access number is not available, please visit www.juno.com as a potential alternative.
We do not recommend that you install the software at this time, just download the software and save it so that it may be installed should you have an interruption in service. This is a precautionary measure that would give you access to the Internet via a phone line plugged into your computer.
Q5. What will I get with this service and is it Cox supported?
A5. Unfortunately, Cox cannot speak to the features and benefits of the free dial-up Internet services that are available, nor can we guarantee or support it. We recommend that you explore this temporary backup plan simply as a precautionary measure. We are taking all necessary steps to ensure that your service is uninterrupted, but we thought that you might be interested in a temporary, although not ideal, solution for Internet access in the unlikely event that your service is shut down.
Q6. Will you credit my bill? When will I see a credit?
A6. Cox will credit you for any time that you are without service. This includes reimbursement for equipment leasing fees if you are leasing your cable modem from Cox. Should your service be interrupted, you would see an appropriate credit on the next statement that you next receive from Cox.
Q7. How do I get updates quickly?
A7. You have two ways of getting the latest accurate information quickly.
We've established a special number (1-877-832-4751). When you call this number, you will hear a recording that provides the latest information.
You can also get updated information by visiting www.cox.com/info.
These are the most accurate and up-to-date sources for information on your Cox Internet service.
Q8. How will you communicate with me if my service is down?
A8. Cox will contact you via mail or courier to provide important status updates and service information concerning the new Cox-managed high speed Internet service that will replace your @Home service. You can also call 1-877-832-4751 to hear a recorded message with the latest, accurate and up-to-date information.
Q9. What will happen to my personal Web page?
A9. As a safety precaution, you should always backup your personal Web page to a CD or hard drive. To Transfer Files from WebSpace to your hard drive using the File Manager:
Download the files from WebSpace to your computer by logging in to the WebSpace login page at http://home-members.excite.com/m_webspace/ and clicking File Manager, located at the top-right corner of the screen.
Select Transfer from the File Manager navigation bar. In the window that appears, select the files you want to transfer from your WebSpace account to your computer, and the location to which you want them transferred, then click Transfer.
A window appears telling you when your file has been downloaded.
Click OK to return to the File Manager page.
Once you are finished with File Manager, log out by clicking Logout on the navigation bar. If you do not log out, and you share a computer with other people in your household, they may have access to your files.
Click on the link.. Then type "www.replaytv.com or "www.sonicblue.com" into your browser, and find out.
Moderators, this is not Flamebait, it's common (freaking) sense.
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area. [Emphasis mine]
What this says is that the members of NATO agree to do whatever they want. The real meaning of Article V is in the second paragraph:
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security (1). [Emphasis mine]
The point of Article V is not mutual defense, it is disclosure of actions and the termination of activity once the Security Council says so.
Article V is not about standing up for each other. It's a safety measure to make sure no member of NATO obliterates an enemy. It's to keep NATO functioning militarily as a unit, to prevent drawn out international conflict.
Having written The Manned Missiles in that same year, using that same premise... My oh my.. Can it be that my two heroes had themselves a little Cartel?
But isn't that exactly the point?
M$ is NOT the better product - they only say they are, and their tactics give them a louder voice.
The cost of using IE isn't just the price of the browser, it's the fact that cookie tracking is now also an 'inseparable' "feature" of the Windows OS.
And that it's not really a faster browser - we pay the browser start-up fee each time we boot up Windows.
And it's not more compliant with Web standards, only with Microsoft extensions to some of those standards.
And the fact that their current position was gained through 'questionable' means...
Yes, I'll agree that Economic Darwinism is the ultimate decision-maker, as in all cases. But then again, isn't it in the consumer's best interest to know the cost of the products that are competing for their attention? What would happen if people chose their Presidential candidate not on the issues and records of those people, or the consequences of their election, but on the number of mispronounciations that they make during speaches... Uhhh... That would be Baaaaaad!
On top of all that's been said; about OS embedding to gain performance and entangle IE in the OS; about the IE lack of standards compliance; the customizability of Mozilla and the like; I'd like to add THIS.
It's exactly the sort of blind regurgitation of opinions, as skillfully demonstrated by the troll message I'm responding to, that has gotten us where we are now.
The road closures matter, they will _actually_ affect your like, the changes in Poland will not.
I'm glad you recanted, since it's entirely possible that during that time, somone living here might have had relatives there. With the Communist controlled media in Poland at the time, a phone-call from Gdansk would likely never make it beyond the national border. The same goes for mail. If anything was ever printed, it was so twisted, phased and burried, that it had absolutely no content.
I lived in Poland during the beginning of the end of Communism, and I can tell you for a fact that State controlled media is worse than no media at all. We got news about riots in nearby cities either by word of mouth (when there wasn't a curfew) or from Radio Free America - never from the papers or local broadcast media.
Censorship on political grounds is a crime against humanity. On moral grounds, it is the wost form of obscenity. The idea that some minority cartel could possibly enforce (through "law") it's sense of what is aesthetically pleasing onto a majority which is powerless to counter-act such attempts at brain-washing is a huge threat to the freedom of thought.
Censorship in any form is an indication of two things. Extreme FEAR and disrespect on part of the censor, directed against the public - since the public is not considered intelligent and competent enough to be 'undamaged' by the information. More important, the public might actually come to some 'undesirable' conclusions based on material that speaks against the censors agenda.
I've grown up in a system where thinking outside the party lines could get you jailed or killed. Belive me, if things such as the DMCA and 'censoring obscenity' succeed in this generation, the next generation will not even be aware that there are other ways of thinking, and it will take a bloody revolution, and a multi-decade economic set-back, to set things right again.
What if they're not gas-giants at all?
:)
We know they're there by the deformation they cause to their stars. From this we presume they are of gasseous density. But, what if they are solid, but hollow, a Dyson Sphere?
It's an excellent point - whatever we are likely to see, we would tend to presume is 'natural', except if it speaks English. This is a very narrow view. An extra terrestrial intellect would probably seek to communicate with lesser life-forms in the simplest way possible. Maybe we are too arrogant to consider that the rhythmic pulsing of a quasar (as another poster suggested) is to simple, and that ET would never be so condescending.
Well ladies and laddies,
:)
My DeCSS T-shirt arrived at my door-step this afternoon. This afternoon is AFTER the Kaplan ruling. The parcel came complete with a printout of the complete DeCSS source on paper (nice touch). It arrived, courtesy of the U.S. Postal Services Priority Mail option. Another nice touch. Thank you Copyleft.
The parcel clearly stated on the label, that it originated at Copyleft - a known named defendant in the DeCSS case.
So my question is this: Is the Federal Government in violation of the DMCA/Kaplan Ruling, by not only permitting the banned code's distribution, but also by contributing to it?
Perhaps, just to be on the safe side, they should open all correspondence, just to make sure that no DeCSS source code, or references to it are contained therein?
BTW: The shirt is sharp. High quality cotton, very legible, crisp printing. Get yours TODAY - before they're sold out, intercepted, burned or otherwise unavailable. Get a few - get one for Mom, Dad, your friends.. Spread the disease. They can't jail us all.
Not only does posthumous liberation get a good product out into the community, it accomplishes one more valuable service. It gives people the source for a technologically better (usually) alternative to whatever M$ has crammed down everyone's throat.
Watcom of years past is better than today's VC++ compiler. Their Fortran was great too. Now they're here and they will benefit gcc - if in no other manner than by letting the gcc developers consider alternative solutions.
No, but we might get to see an extension in the life-cycle of those millions of Fortran apps still in use today.
What? Not a single Asian among the authors? :)
It can't possibly be true, they got their math wrong for sure.
There are over 100 nuclear plants in the US, and the typical refuel cycle is 2 years. If you want to hide a staff to keep an eye out for unmarked trucks, great. But I think a few grand to an apropriately morally-challeneged geek would be a lot more cost effective.
:)
As for Dolph, what for? A heist like this only requires that an invoice be fudged, to get "your" crate get loaded on your truck at the dock. No need to shoot people. Really, international espionage is over-dramatized in Hollyweird.
Once the hack tells you who had *bought* it, you'd know whom to crack next. Elementary really. IANASpy BTW, really.
Radioactive materials are not only scary because of their bomb-making uses. Would you take a vacation to Chernobyl?
All one has to do is drop a few pounds of powdered Uranium, way up-stream in the Mississippi, and we're all in for a world of hurt.
Remember the stink that the tree-huggers put up over the Cassini probe? That took off with a little under a pound of Plutonium, but if it blew up over the Florida coast...