NASA will have to make due. At this point it is absolutely unreasonable for the Federal Government to ask taxpayers to provide more funds. If the Feds really wanted to supplement NASA, it could simply pick one of the many client states that receive billions of dollars a year in US military aid, cut them off, and bring the dollars home. May I suggest South Korea? Maybe Egypt.
Unless your home is wired for cat5, or you are using wireless ethernet, having rackmounted boxes in another room doesn't make sense. Most rackmount systems won't make any consideration for low power useage (Energy Star, etc.), so likely these systems aren't even appropriate for home use.
.Net is more than just the C# language, runtime, and libraries. There is the entire web services enagle, the emphasis on Passport authenitcation, and the Hailstorm services. Sun ONE attempts to counter each of these, and uses Java as its competing language.
While your arg is valid, it is still an apples and orages comparison.
Adobe is a term to describe a style for building dwellings popular in the southwest US.
Do you have issues with the fact that the company name is registered as a trademark? If so, you are essentially saying that one can only trademark words or phrases not in the accepted lexicon.
Maybe if you found out why they acted, you might actually support them - they were blacklisted due to business disputes that had nothing to do with spam. Thats why ORBS was brought down - one dickhead using it as his dispute resolution mechanism,
Kubrick films not meant to be entertainment
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After seeing AI I can say I was very intetested in the film and the plot although I wouldn't recommend it as entertainment per se.
Like Clockwork Orange and 2001, this film is more about exploration than entertainment.
And yes, I realize Spielberg directed it, but it is Kubrick's vision.
Compaq promoted and marketed Alpha systems for three years, even though it was essentially dead when they took it over from DEC. They did their due dilligence for a stillborn platform.
Give me a break, Compaq fronted the Alpha architecture for a good three years, even when it was obvious that it was more or less dead. How many of their Alpha systems did you buy during that time? Thats what I thought.
Newsflash - EPA is being gentrified. Within fifteen years all the low income residents will be gone. Anyone looking to gamble on Bay Area real estate is buying up lots in EPA now...they're already fetching $500k and up.
I just bought a Penguin Computing desktop and I can't stand to turn it on for any period of time, the box is as loud as a hair dryer. I understand the geek value in over-engineering the air circulation, but come on folks, I want to be able to hear myself think.
While there have been prominent stories about.com failures in the news recently, con't forget the vast number of people owning MSFT, CSCO, YHOO, AOL and other stocks granted in a timely fashion who have become incredibly wealthy.
The tenor of the responses here are incredibly risk-averse. Obviously you shouldn't forsake eating or paying your rent for stock options, but if the company pans out, that 20% salary you gave up for options could end up coming back to you a hundred fold over the long run. I'm not strictly advocating options to everyone, but you only live once...why not roll the dice?
The linux community in general has no intention of marketing to or designing for the core Microsoft markets - home users and business desktops, so why all the hubub? Linux is making impressive progress in the market for low to mid-range serving, and the geek market.
There is still plenty of time to compete in the web services sphere, unfortunately the non-Microsoft world is divided (Sun, IBM, and the open communitieis each taking slightly different approaches), which makes Microsoft domination easier over time.
Remember that when you move to a foreign country, you forsake a number of privileges you probably take for granted. Voting. Using social services. The ability to move aout freely (internationally). Added to which, you will be brining home less income in Europe than you would here.
If you just want to see Europe, take a vacation, you'll get more out of it with time dedicated strictly to tourism. I've known many people who have gone to Europe to work and not had time to tour around with work and other issues keeping them pinned down. I think that most expats overestimate their ability to organize leisure time while they are working - you'll end up doing the same thing after work you do here - watch TV...except in Europe the TV is crappier and often in a language you don't understand.
On the positive side, there is a lot of culture to see there if you can make the time, but on the other hand Europe tends to be dirtier and more crowded than the US. Little things will bother you. My wife stayed in Europe for a few months in college and bemaoned how unsanitary and antiquated French lavatories are. ITs the little things that will bug you. Stay in the US.
Lisp is nice from the naive point of view, but try implementing a large piece of real code in it. You find out very quickly that LISP is really nothing more than a syntax - there is nothing there to build on - you get to rebuild every library you might have ever wanted all over again.
This is but one reason Lisp is just an academic curiosity these days.
What I couldn't figure out yet, is why anybody spends a ton of Money on database licenses, when Postgresql provides a very viable alternative.
You pay money for support. When your entire company rides on the sanctity of a huge database (like a bank, for example), newsgroups just don't cut it for support. Oracle offers time-assured support (i.e., you database will be up in x hours under this support level).
Headers are for other programmers, so they know the interface they are to use when programming with that module, WITHOUT laying bare the sum total of the module's source code. Very necessary if you're in the business of selling precompiled libraries you don't want copied.
Yet Java trivially gets around this problem - y ou can see the signatures and even formatted odcumentation for a module without seeing the implementation...and all without header files.
As a senior developer in a Java shop, one of the things I often ask interviewees is what they would miss most if forced to use C++ instead of Java. Anyone who answers anything other than 'the libraries' gets a big black mark next to their name in my book.
Well, there is a large body of libraries available through the STL and through third-party vendors such as RogueWave. Admittedly this isn't an out-of-the-box solution, but there it is. Added to which, the STL is a much more meaningful implementation of extensible libraries.
Exactly. When starting to work on the project that has now become Venice, I picked Java to implement it in because that's what I know. My Perl is rusty at best, and my PHP and Python are nil.
Come on folks, you can pick up PHP in a day. You can read the entire online documentation guide in four hours.
If you're going to hold this party line of avoiding new tools, just keep it in mind next time you crack on a forty-something who insists on doing the job in COBOL.
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NASA will have to make due. At this point it is absolutely unreasonable for the Federal Government to ask taxpayers to provide more funds. If the Feds really wanted to supplement NASA, it could simply pick one of the many client states that receive billions of dollars a year in US military aid, cut them off, and bring the dollars home. May I suggest South Korea? Maybe Egypt.
No, we won't pay for Slashdot.
Unless your home is wired for cat5, or you are using wireless ethernet, having rackmounted boxes in another room doesn't make sense. Most rackmount systems won't make any consideration for low power useage (Energy Star, etc.), so likely these systems aren't even appropriate for home use.
While your arg is valid, it is still an apples and orages comparison.
Do you have issues with the fact that the company name is registered as a trademark? If so, you are essentially saying that one can only trademark words or phrases not in the accepted lexicon.
Maybe if you found out why they acted, you might actually support them - they were blacklisted due to business disputes that had nothing to do with spam. Thats why ORBS was brought down - one dickhead using it as his dispute resolution mechanism,
Like Clockwork Orange and 2001, this film is more about exploration than entertainment.
And yes, I realize Spielberg directed it, but it is Kubrick's vision.
Don't delude yourself, Windows occupies the desktops of 90% of the world's PCs.
Palm still dominates the PDA market.
...and is flaming out at a rapid rate. Will Palm be in business in two years? This is the real question.
Microsoft is rapidly becoming irrelevant.
hahaa, yeah right.
Added to which, no government that approves a merger like AOL-TW can break up MS.
Compaq promoted and marketed Alpha systems for three years, even though it was essentially dead when they took it over from DEC. They did their due dilligence for a stillborn platform.
Give me a break, Compaq fronted the Alpha architecture for a good three years, even when it was obvious that it was more or less dead. How many of their Alpha systems did you buy during that time? Thats what I thought.
Please don't tell me you are so naive as to not know that it has always been this way.
Newsflash - EPA is being gentrified. Within fifteen years all the low income residents will be gone. Anyone looking to gamble on Bay Area real estate is buying up lots in EPA now...they're already fetching $500k and up.
I remember a proposal to get 100MB connections to the home in Palo Alto, subsidized by the dity as a pilot project. Whatever happened to that?
1997 - Personalization
1998 - Push
1999 - Streaming Media
2000 - WAP
2001 - P2P
Next year it will be the "X Internet". You can safely avoid all of these fads and still enjoy a healthy networked computing experience.
I just bought a Penguin Computing desktop and I can't stand to turn it on for any period of time, the box is as loud as a hair dryer. I understand the geek value in over-engineering the air circulation, but come on folks, I want to be able to hear myself think.
The tenor of the responses here are incredibly risk-averse. Obviously you shouldn't forsake eating or paying your rent for stock options, but if the company pans out, that 20% salary you gave up for options could end up coming back to you a hundred fold over the long run. I'm not strictly advocating options to everyone, but you only live once...why not roll the dice?
There is still plenty of time to compete in the web services sphere, unfortunately the non-Microsoft world is divided (Sun, IBM, and the open communitieis each taking slightly different approaches), which makes Microsoft domination easier over time.
If you just want to see Europe, take a vacation, you'll get more out of it with time dedicated strictly to tourism. I've known many people who have gone to Europe to work and not had time to tour around with work and other issues keeping them pinned down. I think that most expats overestimate their ability to organize leisure time while they are working - you'll end up doing the same thing after work you do here - watch TV...except in Europe the TV is crappier and often in a language you don't understand.
On the positive side, there is a lot of culture to see there if you can make the time, but on the other hand Europe tends to be dirtier and more crowded than the US. Little things will bother you. My wife stayed in Europe for a few months in college and bemaoned how unsanitary and antiquated French lavatories are. ITs the little things that will bug you. Stay in the US.
Obviously this book is for bio folks who are non-programmers.
This is but one reason Lisp is just an academic curiosity these days.
You pay money for support. When your entire company rides on the sanctity of a huge database (like a bank, for example), newsgroups just don't cut it for support. Oracle offers time-assured support (i.e., you database will be up in x hours under this support level).
Yet Java trivially gets around this problem - y ou can see the signatures and even formatted odcumentation for a module without seeing the implementation...and all without header files.
Well, there is a large body of libraries available through the STL and through third-party vendors such as RogueWave. Admittedly this isn't an out-of-the-box solution, but there it is. Added to which, the STL is a much more meaningful implementation of extensible libraries.
Come on folks, you can pick up PHP in a day. You can read the entire online documentation guide in four hours.
If you're going to hold this party line of avoiding new tools, just keep it in mind next time you crack on a forty-something who insists on doing the job in COBOL.