the speed is difficult to control. i'm using a 450 mhz g4, which probably isn't fast enough, as it is
frustratingly jerky -- i think the distribution of speed with respect to distance from the center is unsuitable, perhaps linear -- it really should be customizable. i find it quite difficult to select low-probability choices. i think this is due to an interaction between the unwanted square corners and the scaling of the character areas -- it would be nice to be able to customize the function mapping probabilities to areas. the square regions are deceptive at first -- expanding wedges might have been more intuitive.
Real men build their 802.11b from old microwave magnetrons and discarded DirectTV dishes. I figure, if crows don't drop steaming to the ground, it ain't strong enough yet.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Doctors are like viruses and nurses are like Outlook -- an attractive nuisance. Thing is, people get hooked on the nurses because they are so useful, and then they end up dragging along their parasites, the doctors, and running up a big bill as a result -- a very costly, high-maintenance situation.
If only people would wise up and go with open-source masseuses instead of the starchy nurses, the whole "skyrocketing cost of medical care" issue could be dealt with so easily...
> If anything, this article would hopefully make > people aware of how easy this is, prompting them > to demand greater security in their > applications...
And that is precisely why it is likely to be decried as irresponsible.
You are correct that the presumption of criminal innocence is not damaged by this ruling.
What is in fact damaged is the right to due process. The loss of privacy is a material harm, and to be deprived of privacy without judicial review is an infringement of the guaranteed right to due process of law.
I know that some PHB might very well get hung up on the lack of cert, so that there is a good case for acquiring cert, but I think it's worthwhile to point out that the *major* reason for getting a product certified is to insure portability. But in the case of an open-source application server, there is another, arguably more important portability layer: The *imported* API, taken from the implementation platform, rather than the *exported* API delivered to the applications.
With JBoss, cert or no cert, you are guaranteed application portability because it is pure Java, and your application server will move with you.
In practical terms, J2EE cert means very little to a JBoss developer, because (1) it is real compatibility that matters, not certification, and (2) there is a huge comfy safety net inherent in the use of an open-source delivery platform.
This really devastates the credibility of CalTech as an institution. It seems clear that some group at CalTech pumped this to the media, to the point where a categorically deceptive series of fluff pieces entered the news stream.
Compare this to the "cold fusion" debacle in '89: Pons and Fleischman reported valid, and eventually reproducible results without hype, but the media pumped it with speculation. Pons and Fleischman, excellent, highly competent and productive stars in their field, were essentially tainted by no fault of their own, and run out of town on a rail.
My daughter takes her high school instruction entirely online. The organization which runs the school is extremely high calibre, and I would urge anyone with a child who's skill set and character are not suited to public schooling to investigate such an arrangement.
My daughter's school is a bit too affected by the traditional paradigms of quality education, in my opinion -- after all, we homeschooled her in her elementary years precisely because we wanted the flexibility and control which homeschooling implies, so that it doesn't take a great deal of teacher involvement to overflow our preferred boundaries. But in view of the excellence of the instruction and the benefits of rigorous deadlines (which always tended to slide a bit too much when two busy parents were in charge of managing them), it's well worthwhile to make the trade-off in our case.
This particular school is only suitable to a student with highly involved parents or superhuman autonomous motivation, and a high level of native ability, but I think the range of choices out there today are wide enough to accomodate a wide variety of life- and learning- styles.
I'm sorry you got a bad apple. Usually, only the best instructors get the opportunity to teach classes on a telecommuting basis, with all of the personal benefits that implies, but anyone can choose to slack off at any time, so it is inevitable that some people will have substandard experiences with distance education.
Actually, if you review my comment you will see that those structural engineers did not take a view which conflicts with my statements. None of the points you raised in any way conflicts with my substantive observation that it was not jet fuel that took those towers down.
The problem with food production in China lies largely in the organizational scheme being applied. Factory-style grain farming is efficient, if nothing else, while subsistence farmers tend to do just that, subsist, and generally fail to produce enough surplus to market to support an industrial society. On the east coast, where capital investment is available, large industrial farm tracts (dreary as they are) produce very well. In the west, where it isn't desert, by contrast, the land is divided into small irregular human-powered plots which barely keep food in the mouths of those who cultivate it.
The Yangtze doesn't silt up anything like the Huang Ho. The north of China is replete with dry loess which blows all over and makes life generally miserable for everyone. But yes, the silt is still an enormous factor in the 3 Gorges project, and the desilting systems for the damn and its resevoir are experimental at best, necessarily.
Whatever it was that took down those towers, it certainly wasn't jet fuel. If you do the numbers, even a full fuel load would only have pushed the temperature of the trusses up a couple of hundred degrees -- no where near the point where steel begins to soften. Moreover, almost all of the fuel from the second hit (the one that went through the corner of one tower instead of striking the face directly like the first one) burned in the air on the other side of the building -- yet that tower went down first.
The Ruhr valley dambusters were 7,000lb bombs. One semi trailer full of Ammonium Nitrate and Nitromethane could easily destroy the 3 Gorges dam, at a cost under 1M RMB.
It is a mistake to confuse criticism of the 3 Gorges project with criticism of hydroelectric production and flood control on the Yangtze.
If the PRC opted to build 20 dams on the Yangtze instead of one massive, devastating, boondogle of a monument to communist ego, the response would have been much more positive.
> If the Mississippi or the Missouri killed a > thousand people this year, there'd the twenty dams > on it within five years.
There already are.
The problem with 3 Gorges is not that they are building dams. The problem is that they are building a DAM. If they built 20 dams on valid engineering and economic principles, everyone would be cheering. Instead, they are building a vast monument to communist ego, destroying the lives and livelihoods of thousands, the historical heritage of thousands of years and millions of lives, the ecological heritage of millions of years and the billions of humanity. In the process they are creating a steaming cesspool of corruption, and threatening the lives of millions of people.
I'd be quite happy to see 20 dams on the Yangtze. Those 20 dams would achieve a much better effect at a much lower cost, and in the process preclude the 3 Gorges project.
Actually, you do have the right to tell them what to do, and they have the right to ignore you. They don't have the right to shut you up, but if you are inside of China, they almost certainly have the power to do so, and might even conceivably have the will to exercise that power.// aminorex -- supplying the uninterested with remedial moral education since 1985
Your use of "n" (which carries the cachet of an operational parameter) rather than "k" (which makes clear that the value in question is a constant, and therefore O(k) ~ O(1)) is misleading. Unless, of course, you are using a machine with a variable address length.
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overall, it's a great demo.
But if the polling station uses an electronic
system, and does not provide a receipt, do not
bother, just walk away.
Real men build their 802.11b from old microwave
magnetrons and discarded DirectTV dishes.
I figure, if crows don't drop steaming to the ground, it ain't strong enough yet.
Somehow, I can't imagine that I'd get the same
enjoyment out of a freedom kiss, or a freedom
tickler.
You forgot the SparcBook. Does it have to have
been a commercial for-profit venture to qualify?
As anyone who reads the J2SDK javadoc should know,
the name of the thirteenth month is undecimber.
Hexadecember would be the 18th month, therefore.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Doctors are like
viruses and nurses are like Outlook -- an attractive
nuisance. Thing is, people get hooked on the
nurses because they are so useful, and then they
end up dragging along their parasites, the doctors,
and running up a big bill as a result -- a very
costly, high-maintenance situation.
If only people would wise up and go with open-source
masseuses instead of the starchy nurses, the whole
"skyrocketing cost of medical care" issue could be
dealt with so easily...
One would hope that they would be clever enough
to make use of the existing work, rather than
reproducing it all from scratch.
> If anything, this article would hopefully make
> people aware of how easy this is, prompting them
> to demand greater security in their
> applications...
And that is precisely why it is likely to be
decried as irresponsible.
You are correct that the presumption of criminal
innocence is not damaged by this ruling.
What is in fact damaged is the right to due
process. The loss of privacy is a material harm,
and to be deprived of privacy without judicial
review is an infringement of the guaranteed
right to due process of law.
I know that some PHB might very well get hung up
on the lack of cert, so that there is a good case
for acquiring cert, but I think it's worthwhile to
point out that the *major* reason for getting a
product certified is to insure portability. But in
the case of an open-source application server,
there is another, arguably more important
portability layer: The *imported* API, taken
from the implementation platform, rather
than the *exported* API delivered to the
applications.
With JBoss, cert or no cert, you are guaranteed
application portability because it is pure Java,
and your application server will move with you.
In practical terms, J2EE cert means very little
to a JBoss developer, because (1) it is real
compatibility that matters, not certification,
and (2) there is a huge comfy safety net inherent
in the use of an open-source delivery platform.
This really devastates the credibility of CalTech
as an institution. It seems clear that some group
at CalTech pumped this to the media, to the point
where a categorically deceptive series of fluff
pieces entered the news stream.
Compare this to the "cold fusion" debacle in '89:
Pons and Fleischman reported valid, and eventually
reproducible results without hype, but the media
pumped it with speculation. Pons and Fleischman,
excellent, highly competent and productive stars in
their field, were essentially tainted by no fault
of their own, and run out of town on a rail.
It's galling.
My daughter takes her high school instruction
entirely online. The organization which runs
the school is extremely high calibre, and I would
urge anyone with a child who's skill set and
character are not suited to public schooling to
investigate such an arrangement.
My daughter's school is a bit too affected by the
traditional paradigms of quality education, in my
opinion -- after all, we homeschooled her in her
elementary years precisely because we wanted the
flexibility and control which homeschooling implies,
so that it doesn't take a great deal of teacher
involvement to overflow our preferred boundaries.
But in view of the excellence of the instruction
and the benefits of rigorous deadlines (which
always tended to slide a bit too much when two
busy parents were in charge of managing them),
it's well worthwhile to make the trade-off in our
case.
This particular school is only suitable to a
student with highly involved parents or superhuman
autonomous motivation, and a high level of native
ability, but I think the range of choices out
there today are wide enough to accomodate a
wide variety of life- and learning- styles.
I'm sorry you got a bad apple. Usually, only the
best instructors get the opportunity to teach
classes on a telecommuting basis, with all of the
personal benefits that implies, but anyone can
choose to slack off at any time, so it is
inevitable that some people will have substandard
experiences with distance education.
Actually, if you review my comment you will see
that those structural engineers did not take a
view which conflicts with my statements. None of
the points you raised in any way conflicts with my
substantive observation that it was not jet fuel
that took those towers down.
The problem with food production in China lies
largely in the organizational scheme being applied.
Factory-style grain farming is efficient, if nothing
else, while subsistence farmers tend to do just
that, subsist, and generally fail to produce enough
surplus to market to support an industrial society.
On the east coast, where capital investment is
available, large industrial farm tracts (dreary as
they are) produce very well. In the west, where it
isn't desert, by contrast, the land is divided into
small irregular human-powered plots which barely
keep food in the mouths of those who cultivate
it.
It's a *lack* of air that goes without saying.
As long as there is air, plenty of folks will
rise to heat it up.
In space, no one can hear "Oops, I did it again".
The Yangtze doesn't silt up anything like the Huang
Ho. The north of China is replete with dry loess
which blows all over and makes life generally
miserable for everyone. But yes, the silt is still
an enormous factor in the 3 Gorges project, and the
desilting systems for the damn and its resevoir are
experimental at best, necessarily.
Whatever it was that took down those towers, it
certainly wasn't jet fuel. If you do the numbers,
even a full fuel load would only have pushed the
temperature of the trusses up a couple of hundred
degrees -- no where near the point where steel
begins to soften. Moreover, almost all of the
fuel from the second hit (the one that went
through the corner of one tower instead of striking
the face directly like the first one) burned in the
air on the other side of the building -- yet
that tower went down first.
The Ruhr valley dambusters were 7,000lb bombs.
One semi trailer full of Ammonium Nitrate and
Nitromethane could easily destroy the 3 Gorges
dam, at a cost under 1M RMB.
It is a mistake to confuse criticism of the 3 Gorges
project with criticism of hydroelectric production
and flood control on the Yangtze.
If the PRC opted to build 20 dams on the Yangtze
instead of one massive, devastating, boondogle
of a monument to communist ego, the response would
have been much more positive.
> If the Mississippi or the Missouri killed a
> thousand people this year, there'd the twenty dams
> on it within five years.
There already are.
The problem with 3 Gorges is not that they are
building dams. The problem is that they are
building a DAM. If they built 20 dams on valid
engineering and economic principles, everyone
would be cheering. Instead, they are building a
vast monument to communist ego, destroying the
lives and livelihoods of thousands, the historical
heritage of thousands of years and millions of
lives, the ecological heritage of millions of
years and the billions of humanity. In the
process they are creating a steaming cesspool of
corruption, and threatening the lives of millions
of people.
I'd be quite happy to see 20 dams on the Yangtze.
Those 20 dams would achieve a much better effect
at a much lower cost, and in the process preclude
the 3 Gorges project.
Actually, you do have the right to tell them what // aminorex -- supplying the uninterested with remedial moral education since 1985
to do, and they have the right to ignore you.
They don't have the right to shut you up, but if
you are inside of China, they almost certainly have
the power to do so, and might even conceivably have
the will to exercise that power.
The process itself can setrlimit. In a J2EE server,
make it an optional ThreadGroup parameter.
Your use of "n" (which carries the cachet of an
operational parameter) rather than "k" (which
makes clear that the value in question is a
constant, and therefore O(k) ~ O(1)) is misleading.
Unless, of course, you are using a machine with
a variable address length.
Actually, as I recall, he was selected by five
undead jurists in black robes.