Is there a plugin (possibly for emacs) that would allow you to hide/unhide comments? they already handle coloring and all that stuff for comments, so how hard would it be to show them to people who want to see them, but hide them from those who know/don't care? I'm an anti-commentor, but mostly because I think it clutters up code. I know this doesn't help with people who don't comment in the first place, but maybe more people like me would do it if they didn't have to look at it.
Gotta love statistics. So basically video games cure ADD in children with it, but it causes ADD in "normal" children? I guess it probably depends on the game, like Tetris versus Street Fighter or StarCraft vs Quake (thinking vs reacting games is what I'm going for here).
I was going to post this article from cnn.com about the future explorations of Saturn and Jupiter's moons, but didn't because I didn't think it was interesting enough.
It covers most of the "interesting" moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Titan. It's pretty interesting to hear how the scientists have changed their opinions of these moons as our technology has improved. This may be a case of improvement without any real benefit, but it still goes to show that they will freely admit they don't know everything and sometimes get things wrong.
or driving someone to Home Depot to buy hammers. Now, what they do with those hammers isn't my problem. I might have mentioned that a hammer could be used to break someone's window.
I'm just hoping the RIAA doesn't figure out their version of this and a bunch of guys take back all my cd's because 1. I'm playing them on my computer, which is not the intended software and 2. my trial license has expired. I think I'm moving to England to get out of this lawsuit-happy, puritanical, PAC-controlled, undereducated, inconsiderate, overweight... country. Atleast I'll finally be able to buy an Imprezza WRX or Mirage Evo VI or Focus Cosworth (which there is NO reason not to be in the US other than it would not be proper for Ford to have a "economy" car WASTING it's precious 20 year old Mustang)
wow, that's a rant. I'd better post this as AC. That's another thing: why doesn't meta-moderation punish the idiot moderators who mark everything Flamebait/Troll/Overrated? Screw it, I'll take the hit.
I had a feeling the Russians were testing something. Otherwise why would they release so much disinformation to keep everyone away until they ran out of options (made sure there wasn't anything noticable)?
The fact that the disinformation came from the higher-ups makes the case stronger. I mean, how would the Secretary of the Navy KNOW everyone is dead, please go away? But he sure would know what was going on and want to keep everyone away. I'll be really surprised if the salvage effort goes ahead if there is anything left of the front of that sub.
slightly related, did I hear correctly that the explosion was heard as a 3 on the Richter scale, or did I just dream that up again?
"Yuri, you've lost ANOTHER one?" -Red October quote of the day
Hey, what did I ever do? I haven't gotten to make this joke yet. Jon Stewart stole my name! I'm suing the RIAA, the MPAA, the NBA, the CIA, and the TLA for unfair use of my God(ok, Parent)-given name. Who's with me?
yeah, right. with all the mac-lovers in the special effects business today? did you ever stop to wonder why so many macs are in movies, even with their "massive" marketshare?
my favorite is still the "UNIX" system in Jurassic Park. Anyone got a user interface to the filesystem like that one???
Anyway, gettting back on topic, if the Microsoft show does come about, I hope it's titled "Everyone Hates Clippy"
that must be the effective vaccuum-sealing size of duct tape (as determined in a multimillion dollar test by NASA).
come to think of it, you probably wouldn't need adhesive at all, just a new piece of metal and stick it to the wall and let air pressure hold it in place. now there's a headline: "Space Station rams satellite, astronauts stuck to the wall."
This is increasingly one of my main complaints about the American judicial system: the judge is one of the uncontrollable aspects of the trial process. The jury is selected to be impartial, but nothing stops the judge from controlling the trial with his/her personal bias.
Now, IANAL, and haven't followed this case that closely, but reading the judge's statement about the defendants, I agree that he is definately showing bias.
The case was about the industry contolling and limiting access to their product using only approved hardware. To me, this case sounds similar to the airlines saying "you can only fly with us if you use Brand X luggage." or, more directly, the Bleem/et. al. cases where the console makers say you may only play our games on their console. I don't know what makes a monopoly, but how is this different from the phone or cable companies saying "you may only use our equipment to use our systems" which was ruled to be illegal?
Looks like I may have to move to England soon. Go Arsenal!
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but the Java event model seems to allow this. For example, if you type in one text window, you can send the KeyPressedEvents to another window and handle them differently there. I've never messed around with anything more complicated than forwarding MouseEvents (moving the mouse in one window recenters a map in a different window.) Also, with the JVM design, different JFrames can communicate with each other simply through object references.
I guess the same idea could be done with X by registering for and dispatching callbacks to other panels in the same way.
I had a feeling cnn.com wasn't the best source for the story, but a quick yahoo/google search didn't find anything better. I was a little curious how the FBI could turn over a totally classified system to a university. And what do they think the university is going to find? "Yup, it's a packet sniffer with a really cool decryption chip built in..."
After working on a (possibly related) similar project for 2 years and seeing the security required as a contractor, I was a little doubtful of the effectiveness of the review. What project? Well, it was mostly for these folks. Atleast we know the government knows we want someone to watch the watchers.
I propose a more human concept be applied to this topic. Software that hasn't been worked on/supported/sold in x years can be declared brain dead/legally dead.
This would keep the rights to release the thing to the public domain in the hands of the company. But if the company goes out of business without passing the software on or no longer uses any code (question: is Windows 2000 still using any Windows 3.1 code?) the code is declared dead and public.
On a different note, would that make GPL like right-to-die groups?
I prefer to work with embedded servlets using the servlet tag rather than jsps, if only for the size of the servlets I'm making at work. Yeah, I agree that writing a whole page with a servlet sucks. Try writing javascript with a servlet. out.println("document.write('hello')"); yuck.
To answer the perl/servlet question browse this. Again, I have no idea of any credibility of the author, but the times are comparable or atleast close. I'm really starting to like yahoo/google...
and that's only on the application level. I have been hearing for over a year (1.2 release?) that servlets perform much better than cgi. Here's a couple links to evaluated benchmarks. Note the servlet link is from sun, so keep that in mind. java and
servlets
Wow. So I guess making a movie about it "U-571" convinced the government that it might be ok to let the people know we actually had this thing. Oh wait, the movie theory doesn't work. X-Files/Independance Day/et. al.
At this rate, I think I'm going to build a time capsule to ask my great-grandkids what really happened in Roswell, who shot Kennedy, and who killed Vince Foster.
It seems like almost once a week we get news that a new planet has been found. I agree with the statement that NOT finding planets is news. I mean, we're in the middle of nowhere galaxtically speaking, and we've got 9 or so planets orbiting ol' sol. And 3 or 4 planets/moons that may have life? Maybe it's just me, but I would be just as surprised to find that we are the only intelligent life around as I would have been to have find there are no other planets.
I don't know if any of this is correct, but there is a Neo-Geo faq here. For the geeks (from the faq):
Processor: Motorola 68000(12 Mhz, 16-bit), Zilog-80A(4 Mhz, 8-bit)
(technically a 16-bit machine, not 24-bit)
Resolution: 320x224
Color Palette: 65,536
Maximum Colors On-Screen: 4,096
Maximum Sprites On-Screen: 380
Minimum Sprite Size: 1x2
Maximum Sprite Size: 16x512
Maximum Amount of Game Planes: 3
Sound Channels: 4-FM synthesis, 7-Digital, 3-PSG, 1-Noise channel
Internal RAM: Work RAM: 64Kb
Video RAM: 68Kb
Z80 RAM: 2Kb
Memory Card(see below)
The NEOGEOCD has all, including a single-speed CD-ROM drive,
64Kb of Static RAM, 512Kb Video RAM, cool loading screens, and 56 Mbits of D-RAM! The
CDZ, likewise, except with more cache and a faster CD controller.
I seem to remember them being much better than that. Maybe it was just the cd-rom that was so cool.
Your spacecraft digging a hole in the surface of mars because some asshole company decided to do english units is not a random event.
Um, minor corrections needed here. 1. The problem with the units was not Lockheed Martin Astronautics using english units. The problem was LMCO and JPL not both not noticing that they were using different units during unit testing and integration. The problem was that JPL issued a course correction using x units of thrust, which happened to be the wrong amount.
2. You have the Mars Polar Lander confused with the Mars Climate Orbiter. The english/metric units problem was not on the mission that "dug a hole into the surface." That was the landing legs problem. Which, btw, was seen in testing but not corrected (unexcusable). The english/metric units problem was on one of the mapping satellites that burned up into the atmosphere because of the thrust problem.
fwiw, I worked at LMCO during all this but not on those projects (I got to work with the TLA's in DC. That's why I left.)
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Is there a plugin (possibly for emacs) that would allow you to hide/unhide comments? they already handle coloring and all that stuff for comments, so how hard would it be to show them to people who want to see them, but hide them from those who know/don't care? I'm an anti-commentor, but mostly because I think it clutters up code. I know this doesn't help with people who don't comment in the first place, but maybe more people like me would do it if they didn't have to look at it.
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Gotta love statistics. So basically video games cure ADD in children with it, but it causes ADD in "normal" children? I guess it probably depends on the game, like Tetris versus Street Fighter or StarCraft vs Quake (thinking vs reacting games is what I'm going for here).
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I was going to post this article from cnn.com about the future explorations of Saturn and Jupiter's moons, but didn't because I didn't think it was interesting enough.
It covers most of the "interesting" moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Titan. It's pretty interesting to hear how the scientists have changed their opinions of these moons as our technology has improved. This may be a case of improvement without any real benefit, but it still goes to show that they will freely admit they don't know everything and sometimes get things wrong.
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or driving someone to Home Depot to buy hammers. Now, what they do with those hammers isn't my problem. I might have mentioned that a hammer could be used to break someone's window.
I'm just hoping the RIAA doesn't figure out their version of this and a bunch of guys take back all my cd's because 1. I'm playing them on my computer, which is not the intended software and 2. my trial license has expired. I think I'm moving to England to get out of this lawsuit-happy, puritanical, PAC-controlled, undereducated, inconsiderate, overweight... country. Atleast I'll finally be able to buy an Imprezza WRX or Mirage Evo VI or Focus Cosworth (which there is NO reason not to be in the US other than it would not be proper for Ford to have a "economy" car WASTING it's precious 20 year old Mustang)
wow, that's a rant. I'd better post this as AC. That's another thing: why doesn't meta-moderation punish the idiot moderators who mark everything Flamebait/Troll/Overrated? Screw it, I'll take the hit.
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I had a feeling the Russians were testing something. Otherwise why would they release so much disinformation to keep everyone away until they ran out of options (made sure there wasn't anything noticable)?
The fact that the disinformation came from the higher-ups makes the case stronger. I mean, how would the Secretary of the Navy KNOW everyone is dead, please go away? But he sure would know what was going on and want to keep everyone away. I'll be really surprised if the salvage effort goes ahead if there is anything left of the front of that sub.
slightly related, did I hear correctly that the explosion was heard as a 3 on the Richter scale, or did I just dream that up again?
"Yuri, you've lost ANOTHER one?" -Red October quote of the day
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My karma is still less than my age.
this isn't necessarily better. for n less than 8, n^3 is less than n64 anyway.
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Hey, what did I ever do? I haven't gotten to make this joke yet. Jon Stewart stole my name! I'm suing the RIAA, the MPAA, the NBA, the CIA, and the TLA for unfair use of my God(ok, Parent)-given name. Who's with me?
(Don't stop him, he's rolling.)
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yeah, right. with all the mac-lovers in the special effects business today? did you ever stop to wonder why so many macs are in movies, even with their "massive" marketshare?
my favorite is still the "UNIX" system in Jurassic Park. Anyone got a user interface to the filesystem like that one???
Anyway, gettting back on topic, if the Microsoft show does come about, I hope it's titled "Everyone Hates Clippy"
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that must be the effective vaccuum-sealing size of duct tape (as determined in a multimillion dollar test by NASA).
come to think of it, you probably wouldn't need adhesive at all, just a new piece of metal and stick it to the wall and let air pressure hold it in place. now there's a headline: "Space Station rams satellite, astronauts stuck to the wall."
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"...is the judge just and idiot?"
This is increasingly one of my main complaints about the American judicial system: the judge is one of the uncontrollable aspects of the trial process. The jury is selected to be impartial, but nothing stops the judge from controlling the trial with his/her personal bias.
Now, IANAL, and haven't followed this case that closely, but reading the judge's statement about the defendants, I agree that he is definately showing bias.
The case was about the industry contolling and limiting access to their product using only approved hardware. To me, this case sounds similar to the airlines saying "you can only fly with us if you use Brand X luggage." or, more directly, the Bleem/et. al. cases where the console makers say you may only play our games on their console. I don't know what makes a monopoly, but how is this different from the phone or cable companies saying "you may only use our equipment to use our systems" which was ruled to be illegal?
Looks like I may have to move to England soon. Go Arsenal!
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a: as many as you can afford.
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I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but the Java event model seems to allow this. For example, if you type in one text window, you can send the KeyPressedEvents to another window and handle them differently there. I've never messed around with anything more complicated than forwarding MouseEvents (moving the mouse in one window recenters a map in a different window.) Also, with the JVM design, different JFrames can communicate with each other simply through object references.
I guess the same idea could be done with X by registering for and dispatching callbacks to other panels in the same way.
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Will the new 666 Apple Special Edition be available in black with flames? will the cost show up on the invoice as:
(1) soul + 4.95 shipping?
And everyone gives Microsoft/Intel crap for being evil?
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I had a feeling cnn.com wasn't the best source for the story, but a quick yahoo/google search didn't find anything better. I was a little curious how the FBI could turn over a totally classified system to a university. And what do they think the university is going to find? "Yup, it's a packet sniffer with a really cool decryption chip built in..."
After working on a (possibly related) similar project for 2 years and seeing the security required as a contractor, I was a little doubtful of the effectiveness of the review. What project? Well, it was mostly for these folks. Atleast we know the government knows we want someone to watch the watchers.
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My karma is still less than my age.
I propose a more human concept be applied to this topic. Software that hasn't been worked on/supported/sold in x years can be declared brain dead/legally dead.
This would keep the rights to release the thing to the public domain in the hands of the company. But if the company goes out of business without passing the software on or no longer uses any code (question: is Windows 2000 still using any Windows 3.1 code?) the code is declared dead and public.
On a different note, would that make GPL like right-to-die groups?
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My karma is still less than my age.
can I petiton that instead of it being pronounced l-i-seek-you, it shall be pronounced lick-you?
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My karma is still less than my age.
I prefer to work with embedded servlets using the servlet tag rather than jsps, if only for the size of the servlets I'm making at work. Yeah, I agree that writing a whole page with a servlet sucks. Try writing javascript with a servlet. out.println("document.write('hello')"); yuck.
To answer the perl/servlet question browse this. Again, I have no idea of any credibility of the author, but the times are comparable or atleast close. I'm really starting to like yahoo/google...
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My karma is still less than my age.
and that's only on the application level. I have been hearing for over a year (1.2 release?) that servlets perform much better than cgi. Here's a couple links to evaluated benchmarks. Note the servlet link is from sun, so keep that in mind.
java and servlets
That must be one really fast vm!
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My karma is still less than my age.
I don't remember what processor it was, but years ago a SUN admin I know used the box for his SPARC as the case. Pretty cool.
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My karma is still less than my age.
Wow. So I guess making a movie about it "U-571" convinced the government that it might be ok to let the people know we actually had this thing. Oh wait, the movie theory doesn't work. X-Files/Independance Day/et. al.
At this rate, I think I'm going to build a time capsule to ask my great-grandkids what really happened in Roswell, who shot Kennedy, and who killed Vince Foster.
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My karma is still less than my age.
It seems like almost once a week we get news that a new planet has been found. I agree with the statement that NOT finding planets is news. I mean, we're in the middle of nowhere galaxtically speaking, and we've got 9 or so planets orbiting ol' sol. And 3 or 4 planets/moons that may have life? Maybe it's just me, but I would be just as surprised to find that we are the only intelligent life around as I would have been to have find there are no other planets.
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My karma is still less than my age.
Just when I thought that Eastern Michigan University was good at something other than bowling.
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My karma is still less than my age.
I'm still trying to get the quarters out of my 3.5" drive...
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My karma is still less than my age.
I don't know if any of this is correct, but there is a Neo-Geo faq here.
For the geeks (from the faq):
Processor: Motorola 68000(12 Mhz, 16-bit), Zilog-80A(4 Mhz, 8-bit)
(technically a 16-bit machine, not 24-bit)
Resolution: 320x224
Color Palette: 65,536
Maximum Colors On-Screen: 4,096
Maximum Sprites On-Screen: 380
Minimum Sprite Size: 1x2
Maximum Sprite Size: 16x512
Maximum Amount of Game Planes: 3
Sound Channels: 4-FM synthesis, 7-Digital, 3-PSG, 1-Noise channel
Internal RAM: Work RAM: 64Kb
Video RAM: 68Kb
Z80 RAM: 2Kb
Memory Card(see below)
The NEOGEOCD has all, including a single-speed CD-ROM drive,
64Kb of Static RAM, 512Kb Video RAM, cool loading screens, and 56 Mbits of D-RAM! The
CDZ, likewise, except with more cache and a faster CD controller.
I seem to remember them being much better than that. Maybe it was just the cd-rom that was so cool.
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My karma is still less than my age.
Um, minor corrections needed here. 1. The problem with the units was not Lockheed Martin Astronautics using english units. The problem was LMCO and JPL not both not noticing that they were using different units during unit testing and integration. The problem was that JPL issued a course correction using x units of thrust, which happened to be the wrong amount.
2. You have the Mars Polar Lander confused with the Mars Climate Orbiter. The english/metric units problem was not on the mission that "dug a hole into the surface." That was the landing legs problem. Which, btw, was seen in testing but not corrected (unexcusable). The english/metric units problem was on one of the mapping satellites that burned up into the atmosphere because of the thrust problem.
fwiw, I worked at LMCO during all this but not on those projects (I got to work with the TLA's in DC. That's why I left.)
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My karma is still less than my age.