I have long respected him as a writer and as a reviewer, my taste and his seem to line up alot, I guess thats why I like his books. Not my choice of religion, but then nobody's is...
I loved Serenity, it was a great movie, its about the story, take it for what its the story and what the story is saying. Is it high cinema, NO it not goona win any awards for its camera work. Thats what card is saying too, its about the story and the characters in the story. I also agress if Ender's game can't be made at least this good, then its not worth making.
I am sure that one of the many K5 cross overs will undoubtedly meantion the "Card is an Asshat" Story overthere...Personally I like the guy who wrote it for is fiction, but take is review of Card with a pound of Salt if you like over there and read it....
...I have been thinking about this alot where I work...or current knowledge managment solution...well in a word SUCKS! Whatever you do stay away from Peregrine(hp soon) Get.Answers....
I have done a basica architecting of a solution that I think would work excellently. Its all based off a Google Search appliance...dump the docs in a few directories tell the Mini google to go to town....
Domains should be like cars. How is that? Well you buy a car, but it has to be registered with some authority inorder for you to drive it down the street, or in most places even in the back woods for that matter.
Even if that registration expires you still own it, however in most places your now required to remove it from public streets. Even sitting in front of your house its illegal to have it on a public street.
Domains should be the same way, you own it from the moment its created. Registration is just the way that you make it legal for public view.
I somehow think that this might have even been the original intent...ICANN and Netsol perverted it in the name of profit.
Seeing that your married I am going to assume that you and yours have a queen size bed? A full at least? Anyway the foot print of the bed is a huge amount of unused and potentially un discovered space.
1. Lift the Bed on blocks as high as you dare go with it. My wife and I have two queens in our house One of which is an antique cast iron frame. That bed as a good 1.5 feet of clearance under it Alot of stuff fits in that space. (or at least when we had a 1200sft house it did, with nearly 4500sft including the garage and basement now under bed storage space isn't nearly so as important.) The other bed was once upon a time before I meet my wife the one I had in my 1000sft house, at one point I had a 2.5 foot lift goinf with that one practically needed a ladder to get into it. LOTs of storage space there.
2. Use all the typically wasted space. Get those wire (usually closet) shelf setups from Lowes run the around the top of the walls in whatever rooms you can stand them. They have a width thats perfect for CD's/DVD's/VHS (hint laying a strip of cardboard on then putting the objects on works best.) If you have the space do more than one row. That gets the media out of the way.
...In a recent programming skills update class the instructor who works on both Vegas and Online gaming programming as much as admitted that the programs are purposely written to give the House a better than average advantage in the Odds. Or example in his inplimentation of Video poker the odds of pulling a royal stright flush are about 1,000,000,000 to 1.
7 or so years ago when it was the Neostar retail group after the merger of Babbage's and Software, ETC the company was miss-managed into the ground...saved only at the last minute (Literally the last minute, Chapter 7 liquidation was to start pretty much the next day) by a buyout of the company assets from the founder of Barnes and Noble.
Depending on how long the student has to learn these things in, I would recommend the following things in the following order.
1/2 Year of Pascal...yes you heard me Pascal...its out dated, however it is great language to teach students about modularization, the importance of Subroutines and Functions and how to wrap their heads around Procedural program execution.
PHP/Javascript/XHTML/SQL programming...builds on the lessons learned in Pascal teaches interface design and event driven programming as well as basic classes and methods without requiring totally wrapping their heads around OO concepts. Also makes for a great intoduction into code libraries. SQL is just an added bonus as to do anything usful with the rest of these "languages" your going to need to talk to databases. SQL brings a good understanding of data structure and handling as well.
C Programming, takes the already learned concepts and moves them to a higher level. Students now have to start thinking about how to use the lanagauge to do things that were provided for them previously. However previous exposure to proper coding technique as well as to what IS possible and C like syntax will well prepare them for the leap to "real" programming.
C++ and/or C# and/or Java C type Syntax and OO Closes the loop...
I am curious just how well you have the systems in you lab integrated and interoperating. Are you pushing the envelope of what is possible? Are you potentially even discovering new things that are possible integration wise.
For example I have a domain setup where there is a Microsoft Box acting as the Domain controller for the AD (and as PDC emulator). Several Linux boxes are acting as member servers. Serveral windows boxes act as member servers. DNS/DDNS is setup on both the Windows AD DC, and on a Linux Box using bind, with full resource record exchange. Wins is also available again on both a the Windows AD DC and through record exchange on a linux box. The Linux machines users are all AD user accounts they hold no logins other than the root user.
Are you folks playing with stuff like that? Perhaps maybe even documenting things like that, or even finding ways to make such things easier for people who ar enot like us and create things like this playing "because we can"...?
Don't buy in to the RIAA/MPAA mindshare, their koolaid is bad for you. Music is meant to be shared, don't worry about your friends and coworkers sneaking your files off your DMP and just give them the tunes.
You make me want to puke! Don't legitimize DRM technologies and such forth. No one needs the RIAA and such forth to actually think its a good idea.
I recently discovered I have a knack for woodworking. I have always had a knack for construction in general I suppose. Legos ya know!
I suppose before the light bulb (which in turn brought the vac tube, and the transistor)...I probably would have been attracted to a profession that involved building things.
I have changed to TMDA http://www.tmda.net/ whitelist/blacklist to handle spam blocking. Filters and having to tune them/update them just got to annoying. It keeps the mails where they are viewable (with a CGI utility) so I can look through them if I think I have missed something by blocking it. I can optionally send out confirmation notices to the tune of "This addess is not on my whitelist please hit your replay button to send this message back to allow the mail through" I have this turned off it was a waste of bandwidth really.
I have always wanted to conbine this approach with a filter such that incoming mail hits the filter first, then if it makes it past the filter the whitelist/blacklist gets applied. I figure it would cut down on the number of messages I needed to double check from time to time.
...They will be using Pentium 4/M/whatever's next processors. However the motherboard will not be 100% PC compatible, will use an Apple Bios ROM just like the PPC Macs only ment for booting on x86 arch. This will form the basis of a North and southbridge which will be Mac Specific. The OS flatly will not boot on a standard PC Beige Box (or Back box if its Dell/IBM), They make reference to a developers kit being available with a pre-release 10.4.1 OS version. That Developers kit is I believe the Hint that It will not work on just any x86 PC.
Pretty much what you say is the truth... Lets face it.com has the primary mindshare if your going to register a domain you'll want.com first. If thats not available maybe.net or.org. However its likely that the guy with.com is going to come after you and attempt to shut you down for having a similar name.
Netsol actively encourages you when you put in a name or even go there to check your record to purchase the same name upder all available TLDs...
$80+ for a 200-300 page book that gets printed for $5.00 a copy...and you have to buy that book because the professor wrote it specifically for this class...
That was a great controller however I never got my 99 bucks out of it thats for sure. It was supported by a few games (Notably Mechwarrior 2, which it was the perfect control for)...but eventually it got abandoned after about a year. Logitech quietly dropped all support for it. Same happened with several of my Gravis products. The pheniox was a great stick but they never shipped a control software suite for anything beyong win 3.1 for it. I wish companies would once source the software or at least release the specs when they drop products that need special support. Maybe this project will bring new life to some of these.
I was a manager in the Boston Area for the Babbage's chain before they morphed into Gamestop. I can say first hand that if they are still using the same distro system they used when i was there they will be a serious powerhouse with even more outlets. The system at the wharehouse rarely missed in sending just what we needed when we needed it.
I have a shoutcast stream which is done as follows.
I have a shoutcast server which is feed by winamp ruiing on a windows box. It plays back my files in random mode, and with the shout plugin for winamp shouts the stream into the shoutcast sever. The shoucast server then broad casts on the internet. Been up and running for 3 years now zero issues. It just works.
I have also added a freeware product called wwwinamp from Halo 8 productions (The original was actually made by the winamp/shoutcast guys as well, but they droped it and the Halo 8 guy picked it up). The wwwinamp allows be to contol the feed over the internet from a browser.
...Same old RMS... Everytime I read something he has written I realize just how far in the sky his thought really are...Yes Free software is wonderful...I'm all for it if it has a solution to the problem I have...however is something commercial solves the problem better than, thats what I am going to use.
I hate to say it but this is one area windows has it all over Linux. On a windows machine I can setup a printer in under 10 seconds. On my Linux box I still have yet to make it work.
In windows setting up a printer is as easy as \\servername\printersharename
On the server adding that printer to be available to clients is just a matter of knowing what port, or IP its on (which configures a "port" when you provide the IP during setup). This again is a minor job.
I've tried, several times to get CUPS working and ave found it the stupidest sub system in all of UNIX. There has got to be a better way, but I haven't found it yet, has anyone else?
I have been able to get everything I have ever needed working in Linux in the past simply bu reading the man pages and how-to's but neither seems to have the answers for CUPS.
My printer in my house is on a printer server box. Configuring printing should be trivial. Privide a printer type and an IP and GO.
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I have long respected him as a writer and as a reviewer, my taste and his seem to line up alot, I guess thats why I like his books. Not my choice of religion, but then nobody's is...
I loved Serenity, it was a great movie, its about the story, take it for what its the story and what the story is saying. Is it high cinema, NO it not goona win any awards for its camera work. Thats what card is saying too, its about the story and the characters in the story. I also agress if Ender's game can't be made at least this good, then its not worth making.
I am sure that one of the many K5 cross overs will undoubtedly meantion the "Card is an Asshat" Story overthere...Personally I like the guy who wrote it for is fiction, but take is review of Card with a pound of Salt if you like over there and read it....
This sounds like something right out of the Cory Doctorow Novel. I say if they ever try to claim a patent, he has the Prior art all locked up.
...I have been thinking about this alot where I work...or current knowledge managment solution...well in a word SUCKS! Whatever you do stay away from Peregrine(hp soon) Get.Answers....
I have done a basica architecting of a solution that I think would work excellently. Its all based off a Google Search appliance...dump the docs in a few directories tell the Mini google to go to town....
Now users can google for what they need!
Domains should be like cars. How is that? Well you buy a car, but it has to be registered with some authority inorder for you to drive it down the street, or in most places even in the back woods for that matter.
Even if that registration expires you still own it, however in most places your now required to remove it from public streets. Even sitting in front of your house its illegal to have it on a public street.
Domains should be the same way, you own it from the moment its created. Registration is just the way that you make it legal for public view.
I somehow think that this might have even been the original intent...ICANN and Netsol perverted it in the name of profit.
Seeing that your married I am going to assume that you and yours have a queen size bed? A full at least? Anyway the foot print of the bed is a huge amount of unused and potentially un discovered space.
1. Lift the Bed on blocks as high as you dare go with it. My wife and I have two queens in our house One of which is an antique cast iron frame. That bed as a good 1.5 feet of clearance under it Alot of stuff fits in that space. (or at least when we had a 1200sft house it did, with nearly 4500sft including the garage and basement now under bed storage space isn't nearly so as important.) The other bed was once upon a time before I meet my wife the one I had in my 1000sft house, at one point I had a 2.5 foot lift goinf with that one practically needed a ladder to get into it. LOTs of storage space there.
2. Use all the typically wasted space. Get those wire (usually closet) shelf setups from Lowes run the around the top of the walls in whatever rooms you can stand them. They have a width thats perfect for CD's/DVD's/VHS (hint laying a strip of cardboard on then putting the objects on works best.) If you have the space do more than one row. That gets the media out of the way.
...In a recent programming skills update class the instructor who works on both Vegas and Online gaming programming as much as admitted that the programs are purposely written to give the House a better than average advantage in the Odds.
Or example in his inplimentation of Video poker the odds of pulling a royal stright flush are about 1,000,000,000 to 1.
7 or so years ago when it was the Neostar retail group after the merger of Babbage's and Software, ETC the company was miss-managed into the ground...saved only at the last minute (Literally the last minute, Chapter 7 liquidation was to start pretty much the next day) by a buyout of the company assets from the founder of Barnes and Noble.
Depending on how long the student has to learn these things in, I would recommend the following things in the following order.
1/2 Year of Pascal...yes you heard me Pascal...its out dated, however it is great language to teach students about modularization, the importance of Subroutines and Functions and how to wrap their heads around Procedural program execution.
PHP/Javascript/XHTML/SQL programming...builds on the lessons learned in Pascal teaches interface design and event driven programming as well as basic classes and methods without requiring totally wrapping their heads around OO concepts. Also makes for a great intoduction into code libraries. SQL is just an added bonus as to do anything usful with the rest of these "languages" your going to need to talk to databases. SQL brings a good understanding of data structure and handling as well.
C Programming, takes the already learned concepts and moves them to a higher level. Students now have to start thinking about how to use the lanagauge to do things that were provided for them previously. However previous exposure to proper coding technique as well as to what IS possible and C like syntax will well prepare them for the leap to "real" programming.
C++ and/or C# and/or Java
C type Syntax and OO Closes the loop...
I am curious just how well you have the systems in you lab integrated and interoperating. Are you pushing the envelope of what is possible? Are you potentially even discovering new things that are possible integration wise.
For example I have a domain setup where there is a Microsoft Box acting as the Domain controller for the AD (and as PDC emulator). Several Linux boxes are acting as member servers. Serveral windows boxes act as member servers. DNS/DDNS is setup on both the Windows AD DC, and on a Linux Box using bind, with full resource record exchange. Wins is also available again on both a the Windows AD DC and through record exchange on a linux box. The Linux machines users are all AD user accounts they hold no logins other than the root user.
Are you folks playing with stuff like that? Perhaps maybe even documenting things like that, or even finding ways to make such things easier for people who ar enot like us and create things like this playing "because we can"...?
Yeah..useless..pointless, and all around stupid, I can't believe the moderators even posted this stupidity.
What are you some kind of ass monkey media nazi!
Don't buy in to the RIAA/MPAA mindshare, their koolaid is bad for you. Music is meant to be shared, don't worry about your friends and coworkers sneaking your files off your DMP and just give them the tunes.
You make me want to puke! Don't legitimize DRM technologies and such forth. No one needs the RIAA and such forth to actually think its a good idea.
...That should pretty much nail the coffin of that ever getting made.
I recently discovered I have a knack for woodworking. I have always had a knack for construction in general I suppose. Legos ya know!
I suppose before the light bulb (which in turn brought the vac tube, and the transistor)...I probably would have been attracted to a profession that involved building things.
I have changed to TMDA http://www.tmda.net/ whitelist/blacklist to handle spam blocking. Filters and having to tune them/update them just got to annoying. It keeps the mails where they are viewable (with a CGI utility) so I can look through them if I think I have missed something by blocking it. I can optionally send out confirmation notices to the tune of "This addess is not on my whitelist please hit your replay button to send this message back to allow the mail through" I have this turned off it was a waste of bandwidth really.
I have always wanted to conbine this approach with a filter such that incoming mail hits the filter first, then if it makes it past the filter the whitelist/blacklist gets applied. I figure it would cut down on the number of messages I needed to double check from time to time.
...They will be using Pentium 4/M/whatever's next processors. However the motherboard will not be 100% PC compatible, will use an Apple Bios ROM just like the PPC Macs only ment for booting on x86 arch. This will form the basis of a North and southbridge which will be Mac Specific. The OS flatly will not boot on a standard PC Beige Box (or Back box if its Dell/IBM), They make reference to a developers kit being available with a pre-release 10.4.1 OS version. That Developers kit is I believe the Hint that It will not work on just any x86 PC.
Pretty much what you say is the truth... .com has the primary mindshare if your going to register a domain you'll want .com first. If thats not available maybe .net or .org. .com is going to come after you and attempt to shut you down for having a similar name.
Lets face it
However its likely that the guy with
Netsol actively encourages you when you put in a name or even go there to check your record to purchase the same name upder all available TLDs...
Give it to the Gnome Project so they can buy a clue about how to write a proper GUI.
$80+ for a 200-300 page book that gets printed for $5.00 a copy...and you have to buy that book because the professor wrote it specifically for this class...
F-U...
That was a great controller however I never got my 99 bucks out of it thats for sure. It was supported by a few games (Notably Mechwarrior 2, which it was the perfect control for)...but eventually it got abandoned after about a year. Logitech quietly dropped all support for it. Same happened with several of my Gravis products. The pheniox was a great stick but they never shipped a control software suite for anything beyong win 3.1 for it. I wish companies would once source the software or at least release the specs when they drop products that need special support. Maybe this project will bring new life to some of these.
I can't find adecent board with more than 2 or 3 PCI slots these days.
I was a manager in the Boston Area for the Babbage's chain before they morphed into Gamestop. I can say first hand that if they are still using the same distro system they used when i was there they will be a serious powerhouse with even more outlets. The system at the wharehouse rarely missed in sending just what we needed when we needed it.
I have a shoutcast stream which is done as follows.
I have a shoutcast server which is feed by winamp ruiing on a windows box. It plays back my files in random mode, and with the shout plugin for winamp shouts the stream into the shoutcast sever. The shoucast server then broad casts on the internet. Been up and running for 3 years now zero issues. It just works.
I have also added a freeware product called wwwinamp from Halo 8 productions (The original was actually made by the winamp/shoutcast guys as well, but they droped it and the Halo 8 guy picked it up). The wwwinamp allows be to contol the feed over the internet from a browser.
He revealed that it was him a few days back, I had a feeling before he revealed it. It had a Cheeseburgerbrownesqe quality to it.
...Same old RMS...
Everytime I read something he has written I realize just how far in the sky his thought really are...Yes Free software is wonderful...I'm all for it if it has a solution to the problem I have...however is something commercial solves the problem better than, thats what I am going to use.
I hate to say it but this is one area windows has it all over Linux. On a windows machine I can setup a printer in under 10 seconds. On my Linux box I still have yet to make it work.
In windows setting up a printer is as easy as \\servername\ printersharename
On the server adding that printer to be available to clients is just a matter of knowing what port, or IP its on (which configures a "port" when you provide the IP during setup). This again is a minor job.
I've tried, several times to get CUPS working and ave found it the stupidest sub system in all of UNIX. There has got to be a better way, but I haven't found it yet, has anyone else?
I have been able to get everything I have ever needed working in Linux in the past simply bu reading the man pages and how-to's but neither seems to have the answers for CUPS.
My printer in my house is on a printer server box. Configuring printing should be trivial. Privide a printer type and an IP and GO.