Euclid's Window The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace Leonard Mlodinow
I've always considered myself a math retard (cant do anything more complicated than algebra) and I try to avoid math stuff because I never felt I 'got it'.
However, while reading this book, I kept finding myself saying "Why didn't they tell me this stuff in high school and college? It would have made things so much easier to understand."
And while you might think that any book about mathmatics/geometry must be pretty boring, I actually found this book hard to put down - its under 300 pages and I had read most of it in three days.
REST is not a standard - it is an architectural style - much like client-server or RPC.
As for REST being some bit of hype, perhaps you should spend a little time reading Fielding's thesis (Oh, I forgot -this is slashdot). In fact, REST quite accurately and usefully describes the architeucture of the web. Further, REST had a large impact on the HTTP spec (or is it just coincidence that Fielding was one of the authors of RFC 2396)
You might also want to take a gander at the W3C TAG's latest Architecture of the World Wide Web draft - Section 5.2 basically says that understanding REST is a good practice for web protocol designers.
Anyway, its interesting so see them finally bring it to life (or at least something similar).
In 1998 (I think), we worked with Time Warner on a beta rollout of their FSN in Orlando - Their 'cable box' was a modified SGI box with an R5000 in it. We were porting various PC games (Descent, Virtual Pool, Chess) to the box for their Playway service so they could offer 'online' games with head-to-head competitions. Unfortunately, one of the first thing Ted did was cancel the project.
Seems that there is already some organized Speedpass theivery going on in the valet world. Give your key chain to the attendant, and he swaps your speedpass with a disabled or broken one. You'll never know until you try to use it. Worse, if they just want to mess with you (or frame you), they just swap yours with someone else's. Probably wont be very easy to convince the authorities that you didn't steal it yourself.
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Euclid's Window
The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
Leonard Mlodinow
I've always considered myself a math retard (cant do anything more complicated than algebra) and I try to avoid math stuff because I never felt I 'got it'.
However, while reading this book, I kept finding myself saying "Why didn't they tell me this stuff in high school and college? It would have made things so much easier to understand."
And while you might think that any book about mathmatics/geometry must be pretty boring, I actually found this book hard to put down - its under 300 pages and I had read most of it in three days.
It seems your knowledge of REST is quite lacking.
REST is not a standard - it is an architectural style - much like client-server or RPC.
As for REST being some bit of hype, perhaps you should spend a little time reading Fielding's thesis (Oh, I forgot -this is slashdot). In fact, REST quite accurately and usefully describes the architeucture of the web. Further, REST had a large impact on the HTTP spec (or is it just coincidence that Fielding was one of the authors of RFC 2396)
You might also want to take a gander at the W3C TAG's latest Architecture of the World Wide Web draft - Section 5.2 basically says that understanding REST is a good practice for web protocol designers.
Wasnt that FSN. - Full Service Network
Anyway, its interesting so see them finally bring it to life (or at least something similar).
In 1998 (I think), we worked with Time Warner on a beta rollout of their FSN in Orlando - Their 'cable box' was a modified SGI box with an R5000 in it. We were porting various PC games (Descent, Virtual Pool, Chess) to the box for their Playway service so they could offer 'online' games with head-to-head competitions. Unfortunately, one of the first thing Ted did was cancel the project.
Seems that there is already some organized Speedpass theivery going on in the valet world. Give your key chain to the attendant, and he swaps your speedpass with a disabled or broken one. You'll never know until you try to use it. Worse, if they just want to mess with you (or frame you), they just swap yours with someone else's. Probably wont be very easy to convince the authorities that you didn't steal it yourself.
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