I find it fascinating that when I used to play tq back on Indigos in '94 that I would get unbelievably angry. Whenever I missed a square (sometimes because the poor Indy couldn't keep up with frame rates) I would want to go around punching walls and yelling at people.
In contrast, an hour or eight of Doom made me feel surprisingly refreshed and calm.
Which in turn is really a rip off of the 1985 Buick Wildcat concept car.
I'm very disappointed this never went anywhere. It had a HUD, steering-wheel-mounted shifter, mid-mounted engine, and a one-piece lift-up canopy. Very cool.
plus if the gvmnt didnt want them sold they should have kept hold of them in the first place, instead of losing them like the abomb in sum of all fears.
Um, I hope they didn't change the story that much from the book.
The plot was that originally the nuke was from India or Pakistan, who lost it off a plane that crashed. They couldn't look for it because they weren't letting on they had nuclear capabilities. The bomb was then reworked by some Soviet-era scientist working for one of the Evil-Doer Countries.
They aren't paying 12.9% on income after deductions. They are paying roughly 35% on income after deductions. There is no difference between an individual and a corporation in this respect - business expenses are deducted from income before computing tax liability. Far from a loophole, this is one of the most basic ideas of tax law.
Yeah, I know I phrased that wrong. I meant "paying 12.9% fed tax calculated using gross income, acknowledging the fact that your taxable income is reduced by deductions."
I personally paid 18.1% last year (based on tax/gross) and was ecstatic (I had unbelievable amounts of deductions).
1Q01: $903M income before tax, $320M income tax expense.
2Q01: $1.32B income before tax, $470M income tax expense.
3Q01: $785M income before tax, $275M income tax expense.
4Q01: $845M income before tax, $295M income tax expense.
Your political bias is showing. (OK, so's mine. Guilty as charged.;-) But corporations pay assloads of tax too.
So, all that happens now, is that the kid *does* get abducted, and one of three things happens:
1. The abductor is an idiot and doesn't discover the 'watch'
2. The abductor manages to defeat the lock.
3. The abductor removes the kids hand *and* watch.
That is, unless your kid has seen Pulp Fiction.
"You see mommy, I knew that that bastard kidnapper would take my watch; so I hid it where I knew he wouldn't find it. Up my ass.
I waited 6 long days in a stuffy car truck with this GPS hunk of plastic up my ass...
Java by itself is an OOP that doesn't suck as much as it could (it's better than Satan^H^H^H^H^HC++, and is palatable to managers in the same way Smalltalk isn't).
Add AspectJ, and you're really cooking! What do you get? Custom profiling and tracing/logging support. Method dispatch re-writing (yes I know this is the cure, not the disease, which is policy or contract enforcement), mixins, inheritence hierarchy re-writing...
Of course, you could look at Erlang instead. It's a neat functional language that solves multi-threading, communication, event handling, and other issues that you long for when switching from an imperative language. I'm still trying to make this one fly with my bosses...
Same thing with electronic gear. That first millisecond of power-on is a bit of a strain on everything, and the first few minutes of getting everything up to running temperatures is another stressor.
You know, one little-praised or -mentioned advantage to having a laptop is the built-in UPS.
I mean, my entire system is designed to run off of battery power. I can unplug and plug back in my charger cord, willy-nilly, and it doesn't care in the slightest.
I've actually had several brown-outs that took down my OpenBSD firewall, while there wasn't even a hiccup on my laptop.
Mike
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It doesn't, and that was exactly my point. The data haven-Crytpo OS-m.o.o.t people are NOT your friends, they are your foes. If you want your data protected from their prying eyes, you must encrypt it with a key they do not have.
And there's no good mechanism for that in their documentation.
The problem is, for a user to have any security within the data haven, she must provide a symmetric-cypher key (like type it in!) at runtime before the file is sent across the network.
Why? Well, you want to encrypt your files so only you (and not the haven) can read them. You can't change the layout of the CD, because it's protected against man-in-the-middle attacks by being signed. Besides, you don't want your keys recorded anywhere.
That's a lot of overhead. Also, users tend to pick silly passphrases, and don't change them a lot. It's conceivable that the data haven (hey, don't trust anybody) could crack all files for a particular user because he chose the passphrase "goober."
I think someone really ought to review this from cryptological feasiblity standpoint before anyone spends too much time on it.
Yeah, Maryland has had 10-digit dialing for years now (started in like '94 or so?). Now Virginia has it. I don't think it's that big a problem...just suck it up.
As far as IPV6/symbolic phone numbers go, didn't we just have a discussing on that recently? Sounds like a bad idea...how do you type "jane_doe@123.main.st.anytown.usa" on your cell phone while you're driving? I know that's a little silly, but still, I think that we have a better time remember a short sequence (i.e. 10 digits!) of numbers than somebody's URL.
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I find it fascinating that when I used to play tq back on Indigos in '94 that I would get unbelievably angry. Whenever I missed a square (sometimes because the poor Indy couldn't keep up with frame rates) I would want to go around punching walls and yelling at people.
In contrast, an hour or eight of Doom made me feel surprisingly refreshed and calm.
Which in turn is really a rip off of the 1985 Buick Wildcat concept car.
I'm very disappointed this never went anywhere. It had a HUD, steering-wheel-mounted shifter, mid-mounted engine, and a one-piece lift-up canopy. Very cool.
The plot was that originally the nuke was from India or Pakistan, who lost it off a plane that crashed. They couldn't look for it because they weren't letting on they had nuclear capabilities. The bomb was then reworked by some Soviet-era scientist working for one of the Evil-Doer Countries.
I personally paid 18.1% last year (based on tax/gross) and was ecstatic (I had unbelievable amounts of deductions).
Um, Bullshit on you. Look at gross proceeds:
4Q01: 2.357 BILLION
3Q01: 2.242 BILLION
2Q01: 3.263 BILLION
1Q01: 2.674 BILLION
That's an average tax rate of 12.9% on gross income.
When's the last time anyone who isn't on WIC paid only 12.9% federal tax on their gross income after deductions?
"You see mommy, I knew that that bastard kidnapper would take my watch; so I hid it where I knew he wouldn't find it. Up my ass.
I waited 6 long days in a stuffy car truck with this GPS hunk of plastic up my ass...
In many states, your driver's license number is your Social Security Number.
Um...
public static void assert(boolean b) {
if(!b) throw new RuntimeException("failed assertion");
}
What's the big deal?
I'd suggest Java, with AspectJ rolled in.
Java by itself is an OOP that doesn't suck as much as it could (it's better than Satan^H^H^H^H^HC++, and is palatable to managers in the same way Smalltalk isn't).
Add AspectJ, and you're really cooking! What do you get? Custom profiling and tracing/logging support. Method dispatch re-writing (yes I know this is the cure, not the disease, which is policy or contract enforcement), mixins, inheritence hierarchy re-writing...
Of course, you could look at Erlang instead. It's a neat functional language that solves multi-threading, communication, event handling, and other issues that you long for when switching from an imperative language. I'm still trying to make this one fly with my bosses...
The little icon says the topic is "Linux Mandrake", but the story is about the Open Source movement.
I don't think Linux Mandrake has a monopoly on Open Source.
Nothing further to add, your honor.
You know, one little-praised or -mentioned advantage to having a laptop is the built-in UPS.
I mean, my entire system is designed to run off of battery power. I can unplug and plug back in my charger cord, willy-nilly, and it doesn't care in the slightest.
I've actually had several brown-outs that took down my OpenBSD firewall, while there wasn't even a hiccup on my laptop.
Mike
And there's no good mechanism for that in their documentation.
The problem is, for a user to have any security within the data haven, she must provide a symmetric-cypher key (like type it in!) at runtime before the file is sent across the network.
Why? Well, you want to encrypt your files so only you (and not the haven) can read them. You can't change the layout of the CD, because it's protected against man-in-the-middle attacks by being signed. Besides, you don't want your keys recorded anywhere.
That's a lot of overhead. Also, users tend to pick silly passphrases, and don't change them a lot. It's conceivable that the data haven (hey, don't trust anybody) could crack all files for a particular user because he chose the passphrase "goober."
I think someone really ought to review this from cryptological feasiblity standpoint before anyone spends too much time on it.
As far as IPV6/symbolic phone numbers go, didn't we just have a discussing on that recently? Sounds like a bad idea...how do you type "jane_doe@123.main.st.anytown.usa" on your cell phone while you're driving? I know that's a little silly, but still, I think that we have a better time remember a short sequence (i.e. 10 digits!) of numbers than somebody's URL.