If you choose to go the contracting route, we have had good luck in our limited experience with Magenic. We currently contract with one of their people who was on the expensive end because he claimed to be able to help mentor our team. In fact, he brings quite a bit of depth and is worth every penny. They are a M$ shop. If you don't like M$, you can look elsewhere right off the bat.
I agree. My mentally handicapped brother clearly processes emotions and concepts for which he has no language.
My graduate studies involve hermeneutics (interpreting texts). There is always a chicken-and-the-egg debate in linguistic fields about whether language shaped the thinking or thinking shaped the language. I doubt whether there are any black-and-white answers, but to declare that if someone is denied language for some concept they will therefore never comprehend the concept is a non sequitur.
Look at the good science fiction of the past, for example, Jules Verne's "Round The Moon." He got many things right about space travel, including predicting blasting off from Florida and Texas. So in a way, he predicted Kennedy Space Center.
He did this by paying attention to the real science of the day and extending it logically. He did not use wildly conjured images of what might possibly be.
I disagree with the time frame of this latest prediction and further disagree with the idea that things will look so drastically different so quickly.
I really like the idea of USB. However, I just ripped my optical mouse out of the USB port and plugged it into the PS/2 port via an adapter. Why? Mouse kept getting jerky and then dying, requiring a reboot. Decently late model machine; Win2000 Pro.
Also, we have a laptop that locks up every couple hours or so when a USB keyboard and/or mouse are being used. It has Win98, though.
What does that prove? Nothing, except that I personally am nervous about losing the PS/2 ports.
This is why I like Pascal so much. I really believe I saw a difference between students who learned Pascal as a first language vs. those who were dropped right into C/C++.
At first, you hate the structure that it forces on you. After looking at some freshman's C++ code that is barely better than spaghetti BASIC, though, you begin to pine away for the Good Old Days of Pascal!
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That attitude right there is what peeves me about Open Source. Supposedly, there are newsgroups and rank-and-file geeks that will help you out when you get stuck. But then when you ask an honest question, 18 know-it-alls just jump up and down on your head for being so stupid that you actually needed to ask for help.
If that attitude does not change then I worry about the future viability of Open Source.
You get the executable, not the source code. Can you trust an.exe when you haven't seen the source? Am i missing something, or would i have to be real trusting to run this? (I mean run the program after decoding. I got it decoded -- that is as far as i went)
How a person treats their family is a huge indicator of what kind of a person they are in general.
If you are able to observer a person with his/her family in an unguarded moment and this person treats the family with respect, making them feel special, then the odds are that this is a quality person.
This has been an unofficial rule of mine for many years, and as times goes by and I get to know people better, it has been confirmed and re-confirmed.
Amen. When your three-year-old looks up at you with big eyes and says, "What you like to do?" asking what you like to do, you will be amazed. Try taking a look at your life from the eyes of a toddler. It is a refreshing perspective.
Children speak to a deep part in the soul. Well, they speak a lot of gibberish and an occasional gem. But those gems make you wish you could just pause life and enjoy the moment forever.
I was researching for a slightly different project some time ago and found some cool stuff by talking to a Philips salesman.
This may not scale for your project, but Philips (one L not two) has some ethernet cameras. Here a while back, I believe they had some cameras with built in Linux servers. This way, the stream was digital and you had a lot of power over it. You could view it over the web, archive it forever, etc. etc.
A great example of this is the Coen Bros. "Barton Fink." The more you think about the talented writer being forced into this MOTSS (in this case a wrestling pic) the funnier and more poignant it gets.
And given that you think that "without quick thinking and quick action, we will all be dead", I'd say that you're pretty damned scared.
I am not scared of the terrorists. I am not scared because we will win and they will lose. I support my country beating them. I have complete confidence that we are winning and will continue to win because we are doing what it takes. They got several thousand of us in NYC, but that is the end of their victories. We will do the winning from here on out, BECAUSE we will do what it takes to win.
You see, their goal is not to kill as many of us as they can. Their goal is to cause is to hurt ourselves through our fear of them.
You are mistaken. They are irrational. They want you dead and me dead. This article discusses it.
It is their desire for America to cease to exist. Nevertheless, America will outlast them. This means, WE WIN -- THEY LOSE. simple.
If I had to give up my internet access for the next 10 years (this is reducing to ridiculous extreme) in order to destroy them so that I could live in free America, then I would gladly do so. This of course is not necessary and it won't be necessary for Somolia to do without for very long.
However, for a short time, in order to disrupt enemy communications, it is necessary to disrupt Internet traffic to Somolia. It is unfortunate, but it will aid in winning the war faster. The sooner we win the war, the less innocent people die on both sides.
Again, Human Life > Internet Access.
I for one would far rather that innocent people continue to die than for email and internet access to infringed upon.
This war, people. This is not an intellectual excercise. This is not a point-counterpoint trial where each person has time to prove their allegations in an organized manner. This is a war. We are the targets. Without quick thinking and quick action, we will all be dead. We are under a very real threat at this very moment.
I would like for you to have the continued freedom to question our capable military advisors, even though you don't know half of what they do. If you would like to have that continued freedom, then you better hope they do a good job beating the enemy. Winning a war somtimes takes drastic action.
I am in full support of this war effort, even if it means some internet access is taken down for a while.
2. The best you can do is eliminate the *motives* for terrorism. This involves trying to deal more fairly with people everywhere. People who live comfortable lives generally do not want to die for causes. If everyone were a little more comfortable and a little less fearful, we'd be better off. This means not being greedy with our wealth, and being more compassionate and even-handed in our foreign policy.
You live in a dream world. The people who do this kind of thing are animals. They are not reasonable people who have a reasonable point of view. They kill and love it. They are happy for people to die. They are the truest fanatics. They are engaged in a Holy War. The solution you suggest might be great for logical people who have in diplomacy. Fanatics who regard human life as nothing are not diplomats. They have decalared war. Cute solutions like yours will make you feel good but it will do NOTHING to save human lives from terrorist fanatics.
You are wrong. Chamberlain kept thinking, "Just a little more land, and Hitler will be happy." Hitler would not have been content with the whole world. He had to be killed to be stopped.
War is horrible. War is hell. However, there are people in this world who will not stop hurting and killing other people until they themselves are killed.
Whoever did this (not the suicide terrorists, but the big bosses) must die. They will continue to kill until they are killed. They will be content with the same amount of concession that would have contented Hitler -- No concession is enough.
I will not cheer in the streets like the Palistinians (sp?) did when my fellow Americans died, but I will be somberly satisfied that justice has been done.
The blood of innocent Americans cries out of the ground for justice. To walk away deaf to that cry is wrong.
Until now, modelers had been forced to dice the atmosphere into a grid where each box was about 185 miles on a side. The best ocean models right now are composed of cubes about 85 miles across. The Hadley Center is creating a new model that will take the ocean resolution to cubes about 20 miles on a side, which is detailed enough to capture the important eddies that shunt heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into the depths.
I wrote a reasearch paper in college for about Global Warming. One of the major problems is that all the models were using these 200 square mile matrices. So it is either raining or not raining in a 200 square mile area.
No matter what else you do, you have an innacurate model at that point. Rain simply does not occur in 200 mile squares. It happens in small, localized patches much of the time. Thus, it is really not kown how rain would be affected by, or how it would affect, global warming.
I am more scared of Uncle Sam as a controlling force than i am of Microsoft. Remember, Big Blue faced a similar lawsuit, but by the time it actually came to trial Big Blue had been naturally de-fanged.
M$ has caused a lot of pain. However, they have benefited the industry as well. The fact that there is consistancy in OSs (windows) is often a good thing for programmers like me. Imagine the early days of the eighties when the PC first began to appear. Writing a program for a single OS and expecting it to work in 90% of homes and offices was a pipe dream then.
I am more worried about the Government overstepping its bounds in "protecting" me than i am about Microsoft hurting me. Believe it or not, M$ will not last forever. It will some day naturally falter. The Government on the other hand, will not give back the ground it has taken. I do not need the headache of Uncle Sam regulating my industry. Don't think the Government will stop at breaking up Microsoft. It won't stop! It wants to regulate more and more.
The government is a bigger concern to me than Microsoft. That is why this ruling does not ruin my day.
Consider WordPerfect vs. Microsoft Word. WP had a hold line with a DJ on it that would announce the estimated hold times for the various lines. Their service was awesome. Good upgrade plans. They innovated a wonderful product with service to back it up. But what is the ubiquitous product in offices today?
Word is the dominant product. All becuase of marketing and the business side of things. Word was not a better product, it just fought a better battle selling itself to the public. Heck, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, even TRS-80 and TI, all good products in their time. None of them have a major impact on the marketplace. The business side of things matters.
Limiting the products as suggested to only free OSes would ensure they will become obsolete.
I understand that the creative and intelligent giants of the past intended work to be public domain. I also understand that M$ will screw you silly at any possible moment.
However, I make a living programming proprietary "stuff" for our clients. We put copy protection in our programs because if we don't get paid for our work, then we can't keep working. We charge for our work and I will not apologize for doing so.
I know that Microsoft is flailing about trying to make money anywhere they can, but I do not necessarily hate the idea of charging people for your product.
This isn't some new conclusion to an old debate, just my musing out loud, sharing some thoughts with the world.
For the next 85 seconds, pure hydrogen peroxide will pour out of a giant fuel tank and over a silver screen, creating a violent chemical reaction that will push the rocket upward at four times the speed of sound - about 2,200 mph.
Either that, or the violent reaction will spread his ashes from here to the Gobi Desert.
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If you choose to go the contracting route, we have had good luck in our limited experience with Magenic. We currently contract with one of their people who was on the expensive end because he claimed to be able to help mentor our team. In fact, he brings quite a bit of depth and is worth every penny. They are a M$ shop. If you don't like M$, you can look elsewhere right off the bat.
I agree. My mentally handicapped brother clearly processes emotions and concepts for which he has no language.
My graduate studies involve hermeneutics (interpreting texts). There is always a chicken-and-the-egg debate in linguistic fields about whether language shaped the thinking or thinking shaped the language. I doubt whether there are any black-and-white answers, but to declare that if someone is denied language for some concept they will therefore never comprehend the concept is a non sequitur.
In other news, there was a mass suicide today among the flat earth society.
Look at the good science fiction of the past, for example, Jules Verne's "Round The Moon." He got many things right about space travel, including predicting blasting off from Florida and Texas. So in a way, he predicted Kennedy Space Center.
He did this by paying attention to the real science of the day and extending it logically. He did not use wildly conjured images of what might possibly be.
I disagree with the time frame of this latest prediction and further disagree with the idea that things will look so drastically different so quickly.
I really like the idea of USB. However, I just ripped my optical mouse out of the USB port and plugged it into the PS/2 port via an adapter. Why? Mouse kept getting jerky and then dying, requiring a reboot. Decently late model machine; Win2000 Pro.
Also, we have a laptop that locks up every couple hours or so when a USB keyboard and/or mouse are being used. It has Win98, though.
What does that prove? Nothing, except that I personally am nervous about losing the PS/2 ports.
This is why I like Pascal so much. I really believe I saw a difference between students who learned Pascal as a first language vs. those who were dropped right into C/C++.
At first, you hate the structure that it forces on you. After looking at some freshman's C++ code that is barely better than spaghetti BASIC, though, you begin to pine away for the Good Old Days of Pascal!
Yeah...
That attitude right there is what peeves me about Open Source. Supposedly, there are newsgroups and rank-and-file geeks that will help you out when you get stuck. But then when you ask an honest question, 18 know-it-alls just jump up and down on your head for being so stupid that you actually needed to ask for help.
If that attitude does not change then I worry about the future viability of Open Source.
Actually, I always suspected 90% of /. readers were below average, sort of an anti-Lake Webegone.
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Hey -- Thanx for laugh! You put an amused smile on my face.
You get the executable, not the source code. Can you trust an .exe when you haven't seen the source? Am i missing something, or would i have to be real trusting to run this? (I mean run the program after decoding. I got it decoded -- that is as far as i went)
May your love grow and may you find much happiness in the days ahead!
If you are able to observer a person with his/her family in an unguarded moment and this person treats the family with respect, making them feel special, then the odds are that this is a quality person.
This has been an unofficial rule of mine for many years, and as times goes by and I get to know people better, it has been confirmed and re-confirmed.
Amen. When your three-year-old looks up at you with big eyes and says, "What you like to do?" asking what you like to do, you will be amazed. Try taking a look at your life from the eyes of a toddler. It is a refreshing perspective.
Children speak to a deep part in the soul. Well, they speak a lot of gibberish and an occasional gem. But those gems make you wish you could just pause life and enjoy the moment forever.
I was researching for a slightly different project some time ago and found some cool stuff by talking to a Philips salesman.
This may not scale for your project, but Philips (one L not two) has some ethernet cameras. Here a while back, I believe they had some cameras with built in Linux servers. This way, the stream was digital and you had a lot of power over it. You could view it over the web, archive it forever, etc. etc.
Some of their products here.
A great example of this is the Coen Bros. "Barton Fink." The more you think about the talented writer being forced into this MOTSS (in this case a wrestling pic) the funnier and more poignant it gets.
is that what the network neighborhood icon is for?
I am not scared of the terrorists. I am not scared because we will win and they will lose. I support my country beating them. I have complete confidence that we are winning and will continue to win because we are doing what it takes. They got several thousand of us in NYC, but that is the end of their victories. We will do the winning from here on out, BECAUSE we will do what it takes to win.
You see, their goal is not to kill as many of us as they can. Their goal is to cause is to hurt ourselves through our fear of them. You are mistaken. They are irrational. They want you dead and me dead. This article discusses it. It is their desire for America to cease to exist. Nevertheless, America will outlast them. This means, WE WIN -- THEY LOSE. simple.
If I had to give up my internet access for the next 10 years (this is reducing to ridiculous extreme) in order to destroy them so that I could live in free America, then I would gladly do so. This of course is not necessary and it won't be necessary for Somolia to do without for very long.
However, for a short time, in order to disrupt enemy communications, it is necessary to disrupt Internet traffic to Somolia. It is unfortunate, but it will aid in winning the war faster. The sooner we win the war, the less innocent people die on both sides.
Again, Human Life > Internet Access.
I for one would far rather that innocent people continue to die than for email and internet access to infringed upon.
This war, people. This is not an intellectual excercise. This is not a point-counterpoint trial where each person has time to prove their allegations in an organized manner. This is a war. We are the targets. Without quick thinking and quick action, we will all be dead. We are under a very real threat at this very moment.
I would like for you to have the continued freedom to question our capable military advisors, even though you don't know half of what they do. If you would like to have that continued freedom, then you better hope they do a good job beating the enemy. Winning a war somtimes takes drastic action.
I am in full support of this war effort, even if it means some internet access is taken down for a while.
2. The best you can do is eliminate the *motives* for terrorism. This involves trying to deal more fairly with people everywhere. People who live comfortable lives generally do not want to die for causes. If everyone were a little more comfortable and a little less fearful, we'd be better off. This means not being greedy with our wealth, and being more compassionate and even-handed in our foreign policy.
You live in a dream world. The people who do this kind of thing are animals. They are not reasonable people who have a reasonable point of view. They kill and love it. They are happy for people to die. They are the truest fanatics. They are engaged in a Holy War.
The solution you suggest might be great for logical people who have in diplomacy. Fanatics who regard human life as nothing are not diplomats. They have decalared war. Cute solutions like yours will make you feel good but it will do NOTHING to save human lives from terrorist fanatics.
You are wrong. Chamberlain kept thinking, "Just a little more land, and Hitler will be happy." Hitler would not have been content with the whole world. He had to be killed to be stopped.
War is horrible. War is hell. However, there are people in this world who will not stop hurting and killing other people until they themselves are killed.
Whoever did this (not the suicide terrorists, but the big bosses) must die. They will continue to kill until they are killed. They will be content with the same amount of concession that would have contented Hitler -- No concession is enough.
I will not cheer in the streets like the Palistinians (sp?) did when my fellow Americans died, but I will be somberly satisfied that justice has been done.
The blood of innocent Americans cries out of the ground for justice. To walk away deaf to that cry is wrong.
I wrote a reasearch paper in college for about Global Warming. One of the major problems is that all the models were using these 200 square mile matrices. So it is either raining or not raining in a 200 square mile area.
No matter what else you do, you have an innacurate model at that point. Rain simply does not occur in 200 mile squares. It happens in small, localized patches much of the time. Thus, it is really not kown how rain would be affected by, or how it would affect, global warming.
M$ has caused a lot of pain. However, they have benefited the industry as well. The fact that there is consistancy in OSs (windows) is often a good thing for programmers like me. Imagine the early days of the eighties when the PC first began to appear. Writing a program for a single OS and expecting it to work in 90% of homes and offices was a pipe dream then.
I am more worried about the Government overstepping its bounds in "protecting" me than i am about Microsoft hurting me. Believe it or not, M$ will not last forever. It will some day naturally falter. The Government on the other hand, will not give back the ground it has taken. I do not need the headache of Uncle Sam regulating my industry. Don't think the Government will stop at breaking up Microsoft. It won't stop! It wants to regulate more and more.
The government is a bigger concern to me than Microsoft. That is why this ruling does not ruin my day.
I agree with you completely.
Word is the dominant product. All becuase of marketing and the business side of things. Word was not a better product, it just fought a better battle selling itself to the public. Heck, Commodore, Atari, Amiga, even TRS-80 and TI, all good products in their time. None of them have a major impact on the marketplace. The business side of things matters.
Limiting the products as suggested to only free OSes would ensure they will become obsolete.
However, I make a living programming proprietary "stuff" for our clients. We put copy protection in our programs because if we don't get paid for our work, then we can't keep working. We charge for our work and I will not apologize for doing so.
I know that Microsoft is flailing about trying to make money anywhere they can, but I do not necessarily hate the idea of charging people for your product.
This isn't some new conclusion to an old debate, just my musing out loud, sharing some thoughts with the world.
Either that, or the violent reaction will spread his ashes from here to the Gobi Desert.