Wow. Although, that's fairly typical of a lot of sourceforge projects. But, come on, guys? A little politeness goes a long way.
I can't say I blame them. "Bug Reports" and "Feature Requests" from users are almost never polite. Here you are, giving away your code for the common good, and all the users do is whine and complain. The only group worse than the Mac users is the university professors.
You're right, they could be more polite - but knowing where they're coming from, I can't say I blame them.
Correct, CDMA is spread-spectrum and the encryption is relatively difficult to crack. Nobody's been able to demonstrate real-time listening capabilities (yet).
Where do you get this stuff? CDMA is 2G tech to allow multiple subscribers to share a frequency. Rather than multiplexing by timeslots (TDMA), each mobile subscriber transmits a code so the tower can distinguish between different calls on that frequency.
It has nothing to do with security. It is one solution to the problem of having more subscribers in a cell than frequencies for them to talk on.
Hey, I loaded up IE and typed "about:Mozilla" in the address bar. I got a special page (res://mshtml.dll/about.moz) but it was just blank and blue. The contents were:
I use Dreamhost too, on the "Sweet Dreams" plan, and have nothing but praise.
They are a little more expensive than the "budget" hosts, but they have a wealth of features and extras.
What really sets them apart, though, is their communication. Every host has downtime and misconfigurations, but Dreamhost does not evade your questions with cryptic responses. They are not too proud to tell you what went wrong.
That is not to say that they go down more than anyone else, but that, when they do, they don't leave you in the dark.
but to believe that the entire world media system managed to keep quiet for the past 30+ years is pretty far-fetched.
I'm not saying that world media knows the truth and is lying to us. That would be pretty silly. The original poster asked why the Russians didn't have doubts, and I said maybe they did have doubts and it just wasn't widely reported over here.
I'm not privy to the doubts of Russians. Someone would have to tell me about them.
hey, um, you didn't happen to see the masscare of the jews, did you? WW2? no? guess that didn't happen either, you ignorant fuck.
You've missed the point entirely.
Just because I didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It means that to gain any information about the event I have to rely on the testimony of others. Everything I know about WW2 was told to me by someone else, through words, pictures, film, etc. Each time someone else relates information about the war, I have to decide if I believe them. To believe everything that anyone ever told me would be folly.
The real question for you is this: If you did not experience WW2 yourself, and no one ever told you about it, how would you know that it happened? This is the true power of the media - deciding which news does not get reported.
For instance, do you know what a bombie is? Probably not. It was all over the British press a few years ago, but there was not a word spoken in US media.
To stay topical, I know that not everything the media tells me is true. In the case of the lunar landing, I believe them. But I am not so naive to think that there isn't a possibility that I've been had, and that maybe the Russians know something I don't. After all, if the Russians did know something like that, who would have told me about it?
You make a basic assumption that US media can be trusted. The greatest power of the media is not in a biased story, but in no story at all. Perhaps the Soviets did publicly doubt the lunar landings. Maybe they yelled and screamed for years and no one told us.
Each of your points assumes that you have been told the truth. Personally, I (a) have not witnessed companies producing moon rocket parts, (b) did not track the trajectory myself, and (c) don't have the expertise to tell a moon rock from asphalt. To believe NASA went to the moon, I have to trust others to verify these statements.
Now, I believe in the lunar landing. I think we went up there, stuck a flag in it, and came home. I find the conspiracy theorey interesting, however, because it is possible. Not very likely, but possible.
I found Dune utterly uninvolving. Heavy, ponderous, dull, stilted, and just bloody painful reading. I had no interest in characters, stories, or outcomes in it.
F. Herbert was really into the psychology and motivations of his characters. It's even worse in his non-dune books, like The White Plague. That's one that, after several hundred pages, I couldn't finish - after the first few chapters, nothing ever happened. It just went on and on about how this guy felt about what he'd done. Destination: Void was another one I tried to read, several times, but never got past the first few chapters.
I did read the first 5 Dune books, and enjoyed them. Some are better than others. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and Heretics of Dune were the best. I always meant to read Chapterhouse but never got around to it. God Emporer was pretty bad.
You have a document that holds the data, and different views that display the data contained in the document. The document has a defined API that the views can use to find out about the data that the document is storing.
The document could store the data itself, get it from a database, it does not matter. As far as the views are concerned, they don't know and they don't care. The document itself knows nothing about GUIs or windows, or checkboxes or anything. All it knows is how to find/store its data, and make that data known when a veiw asks for it.
You need to decide if your application can handle more than one document at a time. If not, you have a SDI (single document interface) application. If so, you have an MDI (multiple document interface) application. MDI is a little more complex, because your application has to know something about how to best organize views of different documents (using tabs, splitters, etc).
One thing to watch out for - make sure you never store your data in a view. That defeats the whole purpose of the document/view design. The view always gets the data from the document. That way, if you have multiple views on the same document, they are always showing the same data.
Example: You're making a portfolio tracking application. You have a document that stores all your transactions in some data structure. Then you have multiple views of the same document - a graph view, a spreadsheet view, and a report view. The data is only stored in one place -- the document -- and all 3 of these very different views access the same data from the same document.
Add to the list that a lot of credit card machines actually print your number and expiration date on the recipt. People are very careless with their recipts. I know some who always leave the "customer copy" behind at restaurants, leaving the waitstaff/busstaff a nice printed card number that no one will miss and doesn't need to be snuck off, copied, and returned.
Wal-Mart used to (and may still, I donno) print card numbers on recipts, and people are very careless with their Wal-Mart recipts. A guy could walk around the Wal-Mart parking lot picking up recipts and get quite a few card numbers fairly quickly.
I try to keep my recipts and shred them when I get home. If I'm travelling, I fold the recipt so that the crease goes straight through the card number. Then I tear along the fold, tear up the remaining pieces, and throw them away.
Of course, it would still be trivial for some malicious salesperson to get my number, but at least I'm not leaving printed copies around where ever I go.
Those greeting cards that let you record a personal greeting to be played back to the recipient when they open the card.
Funny thing about those cards - the storage and playback was so clear that we used to red box with them. The microphone sucked, so you had to wire it directly into your sound card to record the tones, but after that you could disconnect the mic leads, put it in an altoids box, and go to town.
Now just imagine if we had recorded 30 seconds of the latest Britney Spears song. We could have really caused some trouble!
Geez, I hope there is something a bit more current and available than J++
Yeah, no joke. Why not just go for J2ME. It's not like it's brand new or anything... Then people could develop for it in a text editor, instead of having to purchase an IDE. You can bet I'm not going to buy a HipTop if I have to buy an IDE to develop for it.
Is there an SDK for it? I looked but couldn't find anything. You would think they would take a lesson from Palm and encourage 3rd party applications.
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CmdrTaco had written some wharf apps for AfterStep 1.0, and I found/. while looking for those. It must have been late '97 or '98 sometime. I didn't pay it much attention until after college, when I started to care about the news a little more than I used to.
In windows you are constrained to the GUI but in linux its most often just a matter of sending a normal command from the gui to linux.
Actually, both of them work the same way, and neither of them work either way that you've described. Windows or Linux, when you activate that shortcut icon or click that start menu item, you are passing a command to the shell.
And get this: When you double click on a Word document on your Windows desktop, the program manager looks up the file association in the registry (hopefully finding out that you want to open.doc files with word) and then sends the command "winword.exe/o something.doc" to the shell - the/o is the command line argument for "open".
It is possible to run all your windows software from the "Command Prompt." You can even set up your $PATH variable so you can run winword.exe no matter what your current working directory is. Most people agree that "Command Prompt" is a crappy shell, though. Some people replace it with bash. Most of us don't bother and just use the GUI. Here is some info about replacing the shell.
Very true, but how else are you going to get someone with a philosophy degree to program? The same fool would be out of his element on Linux.
Heh. I have a BS in Computer Science, and minored in Philosophy. They don't seem that related, but you'd be surprised. It was a weird deja vu to walk out of a compsci class discussing Noam Chomsky and into a Philosophy class discussing Noam Chomsky.
Linguistics, aesthetics, logic.. there is a large and healthy overlap between the two. I agree that a lot of philosophy majors seem to be more inclined to the liberal arts, but I think that is because a lot of the technically inclined are missing out on part of their education.
I use my own email address for AIM. I have never recv'd a piece of spam from them. I have posted about this before I believe, but I must be one of the ONLY people in the world that recv's less than 5 pieces of spam a year.
I don't know who hosts your email, but it's quite possible they already have a spam filter in place. Evidently a quite good one.;)
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They use IPv6 a lot in Japan.
Wow. Although, that's fairly typical of a lot of sourceforge projects. But, come on, guys? A little politeness goes a long way.
I can't say I blame them. "Bug Reports" and "Feature Requests" from users are almost never polite. Here you are, giving away your code for the common good, and all the users do is whine and complain. The only group worse than the Mac users is the university professors.
You're right, they could be more polite - but knowing where they're coming from, I can't say I blame them.
High speed, short range, low power use, no line of sight?
Also, if you are thinking about 802.11x as a wireless ethernet cable, think of BlueTooth as a wireless USB cable. They've got different purposes.
Correct, CDMA is spread-spectrum and the encryption is relatively difficult to crack. Nobody's been able to demonstrate real-time listening capabilities (yet).
Where do you get this stuff? CDMA is 2G tech to allow multiple subscribers to share a frequency. Rather than multiplexing by timeslots (TDMA), each mobile subscriber transmits a code so the tower can distinguish between different calls on that frequency.
It has nothing to do with security. It is one solution to the problem of having more subscribers in a cell than frequencies for them to talk on.
I'd argue that the internet *is* TCP/IP.
After all, IP does stand for "Internet Protocol."
You can't use the "dot" in C, only C++. You have to dereference the pointers manually.
Wait until later in the semester when they teach you about structs.
Hey, I loaded up IE and typed "about:Mozilla" in the address bar. I got a special page (res://mshtml.dll/about.moz) but it was just blank and blue. The contents were:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#000080" text="#FFFFFF">
</BODY>
</HTML>
That was in IE 6.0.2800.1106.
I'm guessing that since you put it in your sig, there's some other version that has something better... What was it?
I use Dreamhost too, on the "Sweet Dreams" plan, and have nothing but praise.
They are a little more expensive than the "budget" hosts, but they have a wealth of features and extras.
What really sets them apart, though, is their communication. Every host has downtime and misconfigurations, but Dreamhost does not evade your questions with cryptic responses. They are not too proud to tell you what went wrong.
That is not to say that they go down more than anyone else, but that, when they do, they don't leave you in the dark.
but to believe that the entire world media system managed to keep quiet for the past 30+ years is pretty far-fetched.
I'm not saying that world media knows the truth and is lying to us. That would be pretty silly. The original poster asked why the Russians didn't have doubts, and I said maybe they did have doubts and it just wasn't widely reported over here.
I'm not privy to the doubts of Russians. Someone would have to tell me about them.
hey, um, you didn't happen to see the masscare of the jews, did you? WW2? no? guess that didn't happen either, you ignorant fuck.
You've missed the point entirely.
Just because I didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen. It means that to gain any information about the event I have to rely on the testimony of others. Everything I know about WW2 was told to me by someone else, through words, pictures, film, etc. Each time someone else relates information about the war, I have to decide if I believe them. To believe everything that anyone ever told me would be folly.
The real question for you is this: If you did not experience WW2 yourself, and no one ever told you about it, how would you know that it happened? This is the true power of the media - deciding which news does not get reported.
For instance, do you know what a bombie is? Probably not. It was all over the British press a few years ago, but there was not a word spoken in US media.
To stay topical, I know that not everything the media tells me is true. In the case of the lunar landing, I believe them. But I am not so naive to think that there isn't a possibility that I've been had, and that maybe the Russians know something I don't. After all, if the Russians did know something like that, who would have told me about it?
You make a basic assumption that US media can be trusted. The greatest power of the media is not in a biased story, but in no story at all. Perhaps the Soviets did publicly doubt the lunar landings. Maybe they yelled and screamed for years and no one told us.
Each of your points assumes that you have been told the truth. Personally, I (a) have not witnessed companies producing moon rocket parts, (b) did not track the trajectory myself, and (c) don't have the expertise to tell a moon rock from asphalt. To believe NASA went to the moon, I have to trust others to verify these statements.
Now, I believe in the lunar landing. I think we went up there, stuck a flag in it, and came home. I find the conspiracy theorey interesting, however, because it is possible. Not very likely, but possible.
I found Dune utterly uninvolving. Heavy, ponderous, dull, stilted, and just bloody painful reading. I had no interest in characters, stories, or outcomes in it.
F. Herbert was really into the psychology and motivations of his characters. It's even worse in his non-dune books, like The White Plague. That's one that, after several hundred pages, I couldn't finish - after the first few chapters, nothing ever happened. It just went on and on about how this guy felt about what he'd done. Destination: Void was another one I tried to read, several times, but never got past the first few chapters.
I did read the first 5 Dune books, and enjoyed them. Some are better than others. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and Heretics of Dune were the best. I always meant to read Chapterhouse but never got around to it. God Emporer was pretty bad.
What they don't realize is that as soon as metered bandwidth becomes a reality, ad-blocking software will become a big market.
This is funny, because AOL/TW sell (and place) a LOT of ads.
It works with Mozilla and the Linux flash plug-in.
And also in Konqueror 3.0.x, with the plugin.
Anybody else breeze through the blue maze area?
Straight to the black castle, first try.
I miss the harder levels, though.. With the catacombs and the white castle.
And where's the bridge?
You have a document that holds the data, and different views that display the data contained in the document. The document has a defined API that the views can use to find out about the data that the document is storing.
The document could store the data itself, get it from a database, it does not matter. As far as the views are concerned, they don't know and they don't care. The document itself knows nothing about GUIs or windows, or checkboxes or anything. All it knows is how to find/store its data, and make that data known when a veiw asks for it.
You need to decide if your application can handle more than one document at a time. If not, you have a SDI (single document interface) application. If so, you have an MDI (multiple document interface) application. MDI is a little more complex, because your application has to know something about how to best organize views of different documents (using tabs, splitters, etc).
One thing to watch out for - make sure you never store your data in a view. That defeats the whole purpose of the document/view design. The view always gets the data from the document. That way, if you have multiple views on the same document, they are always showing the same data.
Example: You're making a portfolio tracking application. You have a document that stores all your transactions in some data structure. Then you have multiple views of the same document - a graph view, a spreadsheet view, and a report view. The data is only stored in one place -- the document -- and all 3 of these very different views access the same data from the same document.
Add to the list that a lot of credit card machines actually print your number and expiration date on the recipt. People are very careless with their recipts. I know some who always leave the "customer copy" behind at restaurants, leaving the waitstaff/busstaff a nice printed card number that no one will miss and doesn't need to be snuck off, copied, and returned.
Wal-Mart used to (and may still, I donno) print card numbers on recipts, and people are very careless with their Wal-Mart recipts. A guy could walk around the Wal-Mart parking lot picking up recipts and get quite a few card numbers fairly quickly.
I try to keep my recipts and shred them when I get home. If I'm travelling, I fold the recipt so that the crease goes straight through the card number. Then I tear along the fold, tear up the remaining pieces, and throw them away.
Of course, it would still be trivial for some malicious salesperson to get my number, but at least I'm not leaving printed copies around where ever I go.
Those greeting cards that let you record a personal greeting to be played back to the recipient when they open the card.
Funny thing about those cards - the storage and playback was so clear that we used to red box with them. The microphone sucked, so you had to wire it directly into your sound card to record the tones, but after that you could disconnect the mic leads, put it in an altoids box, and go to town.
Now just imagine if we had recorded 30 seconds of the latest Britney Spears song. We could have really caused some trouble!
Geez, I hope there is something a bit more current and available than J++
Yeah, no joke. Why not just go for J2ME. It's not like it's brand new or anything... Then people could develop for it in a text editor, instead of having to purchase an IDE. You can bet I'm not going to buy a HipTop if I have to buy an IDE to develop for it.
Is there an SDK for it? I looked but couldn't find anything. You would think they would take a lesson from Palm and encourage 3rd party applications.
CmdrTaco had written some wharf apps for AfterStep 1.0, and I found /. while looking for those. It must have been late '97 or '98 sometime. I didn't pay it much attention until after college, when I started to care about the news a little more than I used to.
In windows you are constrained to the GUI but in linux its most often just a matter of sending a normal command from the gui to linux.
.doc files with word) and then sends the command "winword.exe /o something.doc" to the shell - the /o is the command line argument for "open".
Actually, both of them work the same way, and neither of them work either way that you've described. Windows or Linux, when you activate that shortcut icon or click that start menu item, you are passing a command to the shell.
And get this: When you double click on a Word document on your Windows desktop, the program manager looks up the file association in the registry (hopefully finding out that you want to open
It is possible to run all your windows software from the "Command Prompt." You can even set up your $PATH variable so you can run winword.exe no matter what your current working directory is. Most people agree that "Command Prompt" is a crappy shell, though. Some people replace it with bash. Most of us don't bother and just use the GUI. Here is some info about replacing the shell.
So, because two of your classes discussed Noam Chomsky, that makes people who major in philosophy qualified to program?
No, you're missing the point. Majoring in philosophy and being qualified to program are not mutually exclusive.
Very true, but how else are you going to get someone with a philosophy degree to program? The same fool would be out of his element on Linux.
Heh. I have a BS in Computer Science, and minored in Philosophy. They don't seem that related, but you'd be surprised. It was a weird deja vu to walk out of a compsci class discussing Noam Chomsky and into a Philosophy class discussing Noam Chomsky.
Linguistics, aesthetics, logic.. there is a large and healthy overlap between the two. I agree that a lot of philosophy majors seem to be more inclined to the liberal arts, but I think that is because a lot of the technically inclined are missing out on part of their education.
I use my own email address for AIM. I have never recv'd a piece of spam from them. I have posted about this before I believe, but I must be one of the ONLY people in the world that recv's less than 5 pieces of spam a year.
;)
I don't know who hosts your email, but it's quite possible they already have a spam filter in place. Evidently a quite good one.