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Yeah, um, it's just Java, a word, not JAVA. It's not an acronym for anything, like SQL (Standard [English] Query Language). It's not all caps for no good reason, like.NET. It's not even a witty recursive acronym like GNU (GNU is Not Unix) or PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor). Just a word for coffee commandeered for another use.</nitpic>
I have a BS in Architecture from UVa. I did get a certification from Sun in Java, though.
With 5yrs experience in web app development, I've just gotten a new job for great money and benefits with SAIC. I also have been working for quite some time now on a team of great developers with backgrounds in chemestry, mathmatics, and biology.
That being said, the President is the head of his party. Since almost all government work is partisan, his influence over party members is very strong. He is also going to be able to set party policies, to some extent.
The president wants a bill introduced? Make a phone call.
Referring to stuff that happens on TV is pretty cheesy, but on West Wing, they've on several occasions called around to different legislators to get someone to do this for them.
Yeah, Brain. But once after the wedding how will we get all those little penguins' tuxedos back to the rental shop? And anyway, Bill Gates is already married! Zarg!
Remember, folks this is the same part of the world where they have their own version of the Lock Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo-Brazzaville, I heard a lot about it. National Geographic couldn't get guides to take them into the swampy area northwest of the Congo river once the guides heard what they were looking for.
Mokele Mbembe is reported to kill elephants. As to the whole killing a planes lion when this is a jungle ape, lions and elephants live in forested areas as well.
Plain google search on book titles
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Searching google on book titles returns a Print match if they have the book in their records. Not too many yet, it seems.
Actually, this is the hand of one of our uncles across the pond. The British (long thought of as the crazy black sheep of the Anglophonic community) imagine that a company must be composed of many people, and are therefore always function as a pleural subject. Since I don't think they do the same thing for countries, I'm surprised they haven't imploded from the inconsistency. Usually the differences between American English and British are attributable to their crazy desire to be French (colour, flavour) but in this case, the French match the Americans. I can't imagine a French newspaper reporting on a new Coke factory like this: Les Coca-colas constuissent une nouvelle usine...
Teens are constantly depressed?
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Didn't say teens WERE depressed a lot. I said there's a lot to be depressed about. There are lots and lots of ADULTS who are plenty depressed. Plenty of teens, too. The book's targeted at "Young Adults", that's why I mentioned teens.
Also, I'm only 30 and not suffering from memory loss, so I remember plenty of times my friends or I were depressed between ages 13 and 20. We had a lot of genuine happiness, too.
I think I've read this before
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Hmm sounds like most of the books about dystopian future Americas out there... Since this one seems even less likely than the nuclear war caused one in the books I read as a kid, and even THAT one was thwarted by humanity, I'm only wishing kids had more books of inspiring futures than angst-riddled depressing ones. Last think a teen needs, another thing to be depressed about.
I can almost imagine the thoughts of the author as he sat down to write this: "Hmmm... there used to be a lot of fear-the-future books 20 years ago. They sold really well. But we've fixed the threat of world war three, nuclear disaster, and this terrorist thing doesn't seem tangible enough to write about. Guess I'll just have to make up something about a capitalistic conspiracy gone awry and hope no one stops to think about how many people would have to abandon their ethics to participate in setting up this conspiracy."
Blah!
I'm tired of being told to be afraid. Hurray for hope.
There are enough police who rely on "racial profiling" that it's worth mentioning. Which is to say, it's implied by including the skin tone of the victim that if the it had been a white kid, the law enforcement officer in question wouldn't have been so quick to shoot to kill.
You're not alone. I read the summery to see who was publishing this new game! It really sounds like the plot for a video game: "You're the Hotel Tycoon eager for a monopoly in space! Beat out other hotel chains for that exclusive contract with the X-prize winner to provide affordable suites in the stars (R)."
You have to use the secret[shhhh] config options.
Type about:config in the location bar.
Filter on image.
You're looking for image.animation_mode. The value I use is once. I'm not sure what the other values are (true, false?).
Good luck.
Lucene is Java and Open Source, so an app written to search a workstation should be able to run on any OS with a Java VM, and you can be sure it's not reporting any personal information to anyone.
I'd love to see it on my task bar. And, heck, it could probably be ready before Puffin
I wouldn't, personally, call it spin. The point is that FLOSS has the greatest potential to affect change, vs. commercial licenses. Because they're not selling their software, it is more able to affect change, but for the same reason, they don't have some of the resources other developers do to overcome the chalanges listed.
A for profit small scale software shop could theoretically get a loan that would be paid off through sales.
However, a well organized team of FLOSS developers could apply for grants that aren't available to a commercial business. But these are hard to come by without experience.
I know this is slightly off topic, but I can't believe that when Dot Net came out, all the hosting companies with blah.net domain names didn't get together and do SOMETHING about M$ appropriating what is essentially part of the branding of many companies. With M$ Dot Net technology out there, it's as if any.net domain is running their code on their servers!
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Yeah, um, it's just Java, a word, not JAVA. It's not an acronym for anything, like SQL (Standard [English] Query Language). It's not all caps for no good reason, like .NET. It's not even a witty recursive acronym like GNU (GNU is Not Unix) or PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor). Just a word for coffee commandeered for another use.</nitpic>
... or cliche?
... or meme??
We've just ushered in a new X-tream-nerdy(tm) age of mixed-memes!
I have a BS in Architecture from UVa. I did get a certification from Sun in Java, though.
With 5yrs experience in web app development, I've just gotten a new job for great money and benefits with SAIC. I also have been working for quite some time now on a team of great developers with backgrounds in chemestry, mathmatics, and biology.
Darn, I thought we were headed for an era of dirt cheep chocolate.
That being said, the President is the head of his party. Since almost all government work is partisan, his influence over party members is very strong. He is also going to be able to set party policies, to some extent.
The president wants a bill introduced? Make a phone call.
Referring to stuff that happens on TV is pretty cheesy, but on West Wing, they've on several occasions called around to different legislators to get someone to do this for them.
Slashdot's nondiscrimination policy prevents them from excluding dupes on the basis of topic of origin.
> no one will ever need a desktop PC with a hard drive.
It has a 10Gb hard drive...
> Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Yeah, Brain. But once after the wedding how will we get all those little penguins' tuxedos back to the rental shop? And anyway, Bill Gates is already married! Zarg!
Remember, folks this is the same part of the world where they have their own version of the Lock Ness Monster, Mokele Mbembe. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Congo-Brazzaville, I heard a lot about it. National Geographic couldn't get guides to take them into the swampy area northwest of the Congo river once the guides heard what they were looking for.
Mokele Mbembe is reported to kill elephants. As to the whole killing a planes lion when this is a jungle ape, lions and elephants live in forested areas as well.
Searching google on book titles returns a Print match if they have the book in their records. Not too many yet, it seems.
Ask adults who use compuers a lot and can't touch type if they wish they could. I hear a lot of, "Yes, I wish I could type."
60 WPM isn't necessary. 25 would be better than hunt-and-peck.
Actually, this is the hand of one of our uncles across the pond. The British (long thought of as the crazy black sheep of the Anglophonic community) imagine that a company must be composed of many people, and are therefore always function as a pleural subject. Since I don't think they do the same thing for countries, I'm surprised they haven't imploded from the inconsistency. Usually the differences between American English and British are attributable to their crazy desire to be French (colour, flavour) but in this case, the French match the Americans. I can't imagine a French newspaper reporting on a new Coke factory like this: Les Coca-colas constuissent une nouvelle usine...
Didn't say teens WERE depressed a lot. I said there's a lot to be depressed about. There are lots and lots of ADULTS who are plenty depressed. Plenty of teens, too. The book's targeted at "Young Adults", that's why I mentioned teens.
Also, I'm only 30 and not suffering from memory loss, so I remember plenty of times my friends or I were depressed between ages 13 and 20. We had a lot of genuine happiness, too.
Hmm sounds like most of the books about dystopian future Americas out there... Since this one seems even less likely than the nuclear war caused one in the books I read as a kid, and even THAT one was thwarted by humanity, I'm only wishing kids had more books of inspiring futures than angst-riddled depressing ones. Last think a teen needs, another thing to be depressed about.
I can almost imagine the thoughts of the author as he sat down to write this: "Hmmm... there used to be a lot of fear-the-future books 20 years ago. They sold really well. But we've fixed the threat of world war three, nuclear disaster, and this terrorist thing doesn't seem tangible enough to write about. Guess I'll just have to make up something about a capitalistic conspiracy gone awry and hope no one stops to think about how many people would have to abandon their ethics to participate in setting up this conspiracy."
Blah!
I'm tired of being told to be afraid. Hurray for hope.
AOL merged the AIM and ICQ protocols a year or so ago. If you're usign ICQ, you're really using AIM with a different client.
There are enough police who rely on "racial profiling" that it's worth mentioning. Which is to say, it's implied by including the skin tone of the victim that if the it had been a white kid, the law enforcement officer in question wouldn't have been so quick to shoot to kill.
Since there were reports a couple weeks ago that theves are targeting iPods, sounds like Dell wants to make it easy to fence them!
Let me be the first to say;
I welcome our new Canadian Overlords.
I don't know what you're going to do, but I just took 10 minutes and wrote Sen. Allen asking him to keep this legislation on "a short leash".
Use the Senate web site to contact them electronically. Postal mail costs a stamp and can be delayed 6 weeks by decontamination procedures.
You're not alone. I read the summery to see who was publishing this new game! It really sounds like the plot for a video game: "You're the Hotel Tycoon eager for a monopoly in space! Beat out other hotel chains for that exclusive contract with the X-prize winner to provide affordable suites in the stars (R)."
> How long until that ability is either abused or hijacked?
Hmm... Sounds like our next Slashdot Poll! (or at least a pool. Dibs on 24 hours!)
You have to use the secret[shhhh] config options.
Type about:config in the location bar. Filter on image.
You're looking for image.animation_mode. The value I use is once. I'm not sure what the other values are (true, false?).
Good luck.
This sounds like a great place for Jakarta Lucene.
Lucene is Java and Open Source, so an app written to search a workstation should be able to run on any OS with a Java VM, and you can be sure it's not reporting any personal information to anyone.
I'd love to see it on my task bar. And, heck, it could probably be ready before Puffin
I wouldn't, personally, call it spin. The point is that FLOSS has the greatest potential to affect change, vs. commercial licenses. Because they're not selling their software, it is more able to affect change, but for the same reason, they don't have some of the resources other developers do to overcome the chalanges listed.
A for profit small scale software shop could theoretically get a loan that would be paid off through sales.
However, a well organized team of FLOSS developers could apply for grants that aren't available to a commercial business. But these are hard to come by without experience.
I know this is slightly off topic, but I can't believe that when Dot Net came out, all the hosting companies with blah.net domain names didn't get together and do SOMETHING about M$ appropriating what is essentially part of the branding of many companies. .net domain is running their code on their servers!
With M$ Dot Net technology out there, it's as if any