The killer feature for this shopping cart (at least for me) would be a search function... the ability to search for a food item, and then show me where the item is located in the store.
The 911 recording from your call reporting your wife's tragic pool accident, has been played, re-played, and played again on radio stations throughout the country. In fact, I heard it just the other day. In the weeks following the accident, the recording was played almost constantly.
Usually when I hear the recording, its associated with classless humor, usually radio talk show hosts trying to be funny, cracking "shatner jokes" and similiar.
I know personally that if my wife met a tragic and untimely death, I would despise all those making jokes about it!
How has this public attention (mockery) to the incident effected your life?
Some essential reading for the less enlightened among us:
http://users.erols.com/scambos/ta05001.htm
In 1895, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the Income Tax of 1894 unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust, Co., 157 US 429, 158 US 601).
Also, you might want to check out http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/incomtax.htm
Yeah, lets have another sales tax! Alright! Party time!
So lets enumerate a typical pay check on a typical day...
Federal Income Tax (unconstitutional BTW) Unemployment Tax Soc Sec. tax medicaid tax State Income Tax (likewise) Gas Tax Cigarette Tax Excise Taxes Sales Taxes Personal Property Tax Prepared meals tax highway tolls FCC charges... and more! Oh the joy!
The thing I find troubling, almost ironic with almost every tax, especially sales taxes, is that I'm paying these taxes with income that has already been taxed. WTF.
And what do I get for the 50% of my income that goes to the government??
I get to wait in a long line at the supermarket while DaSheeki sorts her grocieries in 3 separate piles... one for WIC, one for Food Stamps, and one for cigarettes (which she purchases with a $100 bill). What a pleasure that can be.
I get to have my annual IRS harassment.
I get to have my annual BMV harassment.... and so on...
Can anybody name one thing besides internet (mail order) sales that IS NOT taxed? Bueller?
How many of you gainfully employed lemmings actually study your pay stub every time you get paid, and identify the amount of money the government stole from you that week?
Following the recent DOS attacks against the root servers, it wouldn't surprise me if this move is only a small part of a bigger story. I'm willing to bet that modifications are being made to the networking and security of the root servers that will better prepare the entire root system for future attacks. The move of J. is probably just the tip of the clandestine "ice berg".
As an ex army cannoneer, I'd like to know more about the artillery shell that was destroyed by the laser.
Here's what I can tell you...
I worked on the m198 Howitzer, which can fire a 100 pound 155mm HE (high explosive) shell at a muzzle velocity of around 750m/s. With other combinations of propellants and rounds, the velocity could easily reach 1 kilometer per second or greater. Not too shabby for a 100+ pound piece of steel going down range into a target the size of a 5 gallon bucket.
The inherent problem with an artillery shell is that its trajectory is highly predictable... its all about math. So, for the purposes of a high powered laser, as long as it can perform some really nifty calculations in a split second, and point itself right into the path of a traveling artillery shell, then the shell will actually fly into the laser if everything goes according to plan.
Artillery shells can also be detected with radar... we used radar at night to track where our shells were landing.
So, whats next... assuming that the laser works by calculating the trajectory of the shell, and positions itself ahead of the shell, would the next advancement in artillery be shells that wobble to avoid running into a high powered laser?
Besides these basic artillery shells, there are also laser guided and rocket assisted shells, whos trajectories may be a bit harder to calculate.
Here are just some of the factors that go into calculating the trajectory of an artillery shell...
1. The exact weight of the shell. 2. The type, amount, and temperature of the propellent. 3. Resistence of travel (air friction) based on weather conditions and altitude. 4. Curvature of the earth and gravity.
So there you have it folks... this laser is an amazing piece of technology.
He carves giant pumpkins, and they don't look like the standard run-o-the-mill jack-o-lanterns, thats for sure!
... I disagree with a few points
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Yahoo Moving to PHP
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· Score: 3, Insightful
I read their presentation, and its good. They make a good case for PHP, and I believe PHP is well suited for the task. However, I have to disagree with one of the slides.
Looking at the "Coding PHP Takes Discipline" slide, they make a point that "The drawback of using a code in template system, is that your code and HTML output quickly become forever intertwined"
Well, I disagree captain! PHP can be coded in many different styles. Coding PHP directly into your HTML files is common, but a really poor way of doing things. In fact, there is a better coding style.
I do a lot of development with PHP. In almost everything I do, I separate the code from the output, meaning that the HTML takes the form of a template, and contains no PHP. The PHP scripts perform all data processing, and then pass the data through an abstracted interface to a templating system. Whatever the templating system does with the output is beyond the scope of the PHP scripts themselves.
This is a similiar principle as ODBC... database is abstracted from the code.
For example, yahoo's new scripts could pass the processed data into XSLT transforms, then out through any other page display mechanisms they choose.
I do have to give credit to them however, because they did mention using "smarty". For those that don't know, smarty is a popular PHP templating system, one of many. But it seems like their mention of Smarty is more of an afterthought, than the attention they gave to discussion their dicipline in coding PHP inline with the HTML.
To make this point short, PHP is far more capable than the inline style of coding that a few PHP developers use. In fact, that stems from PHP's old school days. Now that the product is extremely mature, the code can stand completely by itself. Since PHP has C/c++ style semantics, and contains most standard ANSI C functions, converting their existing codebase ought to be a rather boring task. I hope Yahoo! takes a serious look at the fundamentals of engineering their new system.
I may wrong about this, but I believe the dog was used as a sort of mascot during the old-school original episodes. I caught an extremely old episode of 'scrapheap challenge' (yes, SC, not junkyard wars) on TLC one day, and the dog was in the show.
Somehow this implies to me that anti-abortion views (read: pro-life, anti-murder) are supposedly "evil" just as pro-nazi views are assumed to be "evil"... at least according to the French government. Its a simple assumption to make.
First of all, nobody controls the free speech (supposedly) of US entities. Secondly, who decided that Anti-abortion, Pro-nazi propaganda is offensive? Are the french people that weak that their government decides whats offensive to them?
I happen to find pro-abortion sites offensive, but I don't rally for google to block those sites from their index! My respect of free speech and other people's opinions to be far more important that the content of their views.
So, lets think about the implications of this for a moment. The French government has the power to remove listsing from the internet's most popular search engine. Ok, so there are a couple hundred governments in the world that could do the same. [sarcasm]Wouldn't it be great if other governments hopped on the bandwagon and reduced the quality and accuracy of search results for the entire world? [/sarcasm]
What if another country decides that chickens are offensive? Do they now have the "right" to lobby Google for removal of chicken websites from the index?
Vixie said he kept the server at Internet Software Consortium operating by "pushing" the flood of data far enough away from his servers that legitimate traffic could flow around the obstruction. Such clogs still affect some Internet users by gumming up Internet communications somewhere else in the network. ... 2nd to last paragraph in the article. I can't even touch that. wow. I can make up shit like that too... can I have a job at the washington post please?
Samba browsing (SMB, "Network Neighborhood") is supported in the version of Nautilus supplied in Red Hat 8.0... in the address bar, simply type "smb://" to start. Have fun kiddies
I love the innovations in Nautilus, such as the hover-over mp3 previews, and icon emblems. Besides the boring everyday file managing aspects, what cool new innovations are in store for the future?
I work for a company with 2 medical practice management software packages. These packages each sell for big bucks... a single installation can be $100,000, with annual fees on top of that.
HIPAA isn't new news. We've known about HIPAA for a long time, and only now, as the deadline stares us in the face, are we beginning to make our software HIPAA compliant.
This late action comes from a long stem of procrastination. Updating expensive software to be HIPAA compliant is a time consuming task... from the standpoint of a software manager (an incompetent one), why make the software HIPAA compliant today, when today could be used to implement a new requested feature?
After pushing off HIPAA compliancy day after day after day, we're now finally getting around to implementing the mandated changes. This isn't easy for other people in the healthcare industry, namely people working at the practices that need to teach HIPAA to billing clerks.
The delays of software authors cause delays at the practice, which causes healthcare costs to rise.
Don't thank me, thank my managers. Only a few days ago I enlightened my Technical Operations Manager that "HIPAA" isn't spelled "HIPPA". I guess he didn't get the memo yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds kinda redudant to me ... isn't this what the new dept. of homeland security is going to do?
The killer feature for this shopping cart (at least for me) would be a search function... the ability to search for a food item, and then show me where the item is located in the store.
Did I miss a memo? Why does this matter? There's a NOC on every street corner these days.. why is this one so special?
The 911 recording from your call reporting your wife's tragic pool accident, has been played, re-played, and played again on radio stations throughout the country. In fact, I heard it just the other day. In the weeks following the accident, the recording was played almost constantly.
Usually when I hear the recording, its associated with classless humor, usually radio talk show hosts trying to be funny, cracking "shatner jokes" and similiar.
I know personally that if my wife met a tragic and untimely death, I would despise all those making jokes about it!
How has this public attention (mockery) to the incident effected your life?
Some essential reading for the less enlightened among us:
http://users.erols.com/scambos/ta05001.htm
In 1895, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled the Income Tax of 1894 unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust, Co., 157 US 429, 158 US 601).
Also, you might want to check out http://www.uhuh.com/taxstuff/incomtax.htm
Right on!! I was being generous with my 50% estimate
--csb
Yes, and no state income tax either. New Hampshire... LIVE FREE OR DIE baby!!
Yeah, lets have another sales tax! Alright! Party time!
... and more! Oh the joy!
... and so on ...
So lets enumerate a typical pay check on a typical day...
Federal Income Tax (unconstitutional BTW)
Unemployment Tax
Soc Sec. tax
medicaid tax
State Income Tax (likewise)
Gas Tax
Cigarette Tax
Excise Taxes
Sales Taxes
Personal Property Tax
Prepared meals tax
highway tolls
FCC charges
The thing I find troubling, almost ironic with almost every tax, especially sales taxes, is that I'm paying these taxes with income that has already been taxed. WTF.
And what do I get for the 50% of my income that goes to the government??
I get to wait in a long line at the supermarket while DaSheeki sorts her grocieries in 3 separate piles... one for WIC, one for Food Stamps, and one for cigarettes (which she purchases with a $100 bill). What a pleasure that can be.
I get to have my annual IRS harassment.
I get to have my annual BMV harassment.
Can anybody name one thing besides internet (mail order) sales that IS NOT taxed? Bueller?
How many of you gainfully employed lemmings actually study your pay stub every time you get paid, and identify the amount of money the government stole from you that week?
What are you going to do about it?
Now that the site is slashdotted, I can only make assumptions regarding what this post is really about.
Did he use the decaying vegitables as a power source for his server perhaps?
(knock knock on the door)
"Who is it?"
(mumbles)
"Who?"
"Unicef"
"Oh, why didn't you say that before!"
(landshark attacks woman who opens the door)
Following the recent DOS attacks against the root servers, it wouldn't surprise me if this move is only a small part of a bigger story. I'm willing to bet that modifications are being made to the networking and security of the root servers that will better prepare the entire root system for future attacks. The move of J. is probably just the tip of the clandestine "ice berg".
I know you were probably being sarcastic, but you know... thats not a half-bad idea.
--csb
As an ex army cannoneer, I'd like to know more about the artillery shell that was destroyed by the laser.
...
... we used radar at night to track where our shells were landing.
Here's what I can tell you
I worked on the m198 Howitzer, which can fire a 100 pound 155mm HE (high explosive) shell at a muzzle velocity of around 750m/s. With other combinations of propellants and rounds, the velocity could easily reach 1 kilometer per second or greater. Not too shabby for a 100+ pound piece of steel going down range into a target the size of a 5 gallon bucket.
The inherent problem with an artillery shell is that its trajectory is highly predictable... its all about math. So, for the purposes of a high powered laser, as long as it can perform some really nifty calculations in a split second, and point itself right into the path of a traveling artillery shell, then the shell will actually fly into the laser if everything goes according to plan.
Artillery shells can also be detected with radar
So, whats next... assuming that the laser works by calculating the trajectory of the shell, and positions itself ahead of the shell, would the next advancement in artillery be shells that wobble to avoid running into a high powered laser?
Besides these basic artillery shells, there are also laser guided and rocket assisted shells, whos trajectories may be a bit harder to calculate.
Here are just some of the factors that go into calculating the trajectory of an artillery shell...
1. The exact weight of the shell.
2. The type, amount, and temperature of the propellent.
3. Resistence of travel (air friction) based on weather conditions and altitude.
4. Curvature of the earth and gravity.
So there you have it folks... this laser is an amazing piece of technology.
Simple solution... don't use public libraries. Don't forget to send a big thank-you note to your congressman.
Check out this guy's carvings... http://www.grumpkins.com
He carves giant pumpkins, and they don't look like the standard run-o-the-mill jack-o-lanterns, thats for sure!
I read their presentation, and its good. They make a good case for PHP, and I believe PHP is well suited for the task. However, I have to disagree with one of the slides.
Looking at the "Coding PHP Takes Discipline" slide, they make a point that "The drawback of using a code in template system, is that your code and HTML output quickly become forever intertwined"
Well, I disagree captain! PHP can be coded in many different styles. Coding PHP directly into your HTML files is common, but a really poor way of doing things. In fact, there is a better coding style.
I do a lot of development with PHP. In almost everything I do, I separate the code from the output, meaning that the HTML takes the form of a template, and contains no PHP. The PHP scripts perform all data processing, and then pass the data through an abstracted interface to a templating system. Whatever the templating system does with the output is beyond the scope of the PHP scripts themselves.
This is a similiar principle as ODBC... database is abstracted from the code.
For example, yahoo's new scripts could pass the processed data into XSLT transforms, then out through any other page display mechanisms they choose.
I do have to give credit to them however, because they did mention using "smarty". For those that don't know, smarty is a popular PHP templating system, one of many. But it seems like their mention of Smarty is more of an afterthought, than the attention they gave to discussion their dicipline in coding PHP inline with the HTML.
To make this point short, PHP is far more capable than the inline style of coding that a few PHP developers use. In fact, that stems from PHP's old school days. Now that the product is extremely mature, the code can stand completely by itself. Since PHP has C/c++ style semantics, and contains most standard ANSI C functions, converting their existing codebase ought to be a rather boring task. I hope Yahoo! takes a serious look at the fundamentals of engineering their new system.
I may wrong about this, but I believe the dog was used as a sort of mascot during the old-school original episodes. I caught an extremely old episode of 'scrapheap challenge' (yes, SC, not junkyard wars) on TLC one day, and the dog was in the show.
--csb
dude, STOP!! You're going to slashdot slashdot
--csb
Somehow this implies to me that anti-abortion views (read: pro-life, anti-murder) are supposedly "evil" just as pro-nazi views are assumed to be "evil"... at least according to the French government. Its a simple assumption to make.
First of all, nobody controls the free speech (supposedly) of US entities. Secondly, who decided that Anti-abortion, Pro-nazi propaganda is offensive? Are the french people that weak that their government decides whats offensive to them?
I happen to find pro-abortion sites offensive, but I don't rally for google to block those sites from their index! My respect of free speech and other people's opinions to be far more important that the content of their views.
So, lets think about the implications of this for a moment. The French government has the power to remove listsing from the internet's most popular search engine. Ok, so there are a couple hundred governments in the world that could do the same. [sarcasm]Wouldn't it be great if other governments hopped on the bandwagon and reduced the quality and accuracy of search results for the entire world? [/sarcasm]
What if another country decides that chickens are offensive? Do they now have the "right" to lobby Google for removal of chicken websites from the index?
Vixie said he kept the server at Internet Software Consortium operating by "pushing" the flood of data far enough away from his servers that legitimate traffic could flow around the obstruction. Such clogs still affect some Internet users by gumming up Internet communications somewhere else in the network. ... 2nd to last paragraph in the article. I can't even touch that. wow. I can make up shit like that too... can I have a job at the washington post please?
Samba browsing (SMB, "Network Neighborhood") is supported in the version of Nautilus supplied in Red Hat 8.0 ... in the address bar, simply type "smb://" to start. Have fun kiddies
I love the innovations in Nautilus, such as the hover-over mp3 previews, and icon emblems. Besides the boring everyday file managing aspects, what cool new innovations are in store for the future?
I work for a company with 2 medical practice management software packages. These packages each sell for big bucks... a single installation can be $100,000, with annual fees on top of that.
HIPAA isn't new news. We've known about HIPAA for a long time, and only now, as the deadline stares us in the face, are we beginning to make our software HIPAA compliant.
This late action comes from a long stem of procrastination. Updating expensive software to be HIPAA compliant is a time consuming task... from the standpoint of a software manager (an incompetent one), why make the software HIPAA compliant today, when today could be used to implement a new requested feature?
After pushing off HIPAA compliancy day after day after day, we're now finally getting around to implementing the mandated changes. This isn't easy for other people in the healthcare industry, namely people working at the practices that need to teach HIPAA to billing clerks.
The delays of software authors cause delays at the practice, which causes healthcare costs to rise.
Don't thank me, thank my managers. Only a few days ago I enlightened my Technical Operations Manager that "HIPAA" isn't spelled "HIPPA". I guess he didn't get the memo yet.
I got this one when working in VB6 one day...
"Not enough memory to display error message"
Ahhh.. the bookmobile... isn't that the one where the driver goes around town in a rainbow colored jumpsuit, screwing chickens?
I think we've got 'em Barbrady.