I'm a 27 year old Computer Scientist, and I have lately noticed that my handwriting skills are deteriorating. The very few times I have to write something with a pen and paper I feel wierd because I notice that I'm writing slower and worse than I think I did a few years ago.
I someone was caught trying to sell children a dildo in the street that person would probably serve jail time for that. Cant see how offering dildos to kids through the internet is different.
It's a good thing Microsoft still includes options to turn off all the new crap features (from hide file extensions to cant share "Program Files" directory.
I still wish they would just sum them up in one "I'm not retarded or anything like that." checkbox. With every new windows version it takes me longer and longer to find the switches to turn off the silly features.
After trying this it seems the thing only picks the songs I have already played and plays them in a slightly more random order than I did.
What I thought/was hoping this thing was is something that picks songs from my 30 GB mp3 collection based on similarity (it does rate song similarity). But all it seems to do is repeat the songs I have already played.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer! Rockets carry oxygen to reach geosynchronous orbit all the time, and a lot more than needed to climb the wire. The weight of the oxygen needed is probably very similar to the weight of the fuel.
THE LASER: The climber is powered using a laser that beams at photo cells on the climber's underside. The power is converted to electricity, which is used by conventional electric motors and set of rollers to pull the climber up the ribbon at speeds up to 200 km/hr.
What happened to fossil fuel piston/turbine engines?
I often get pricelists from manufacturers I deal with sent via snailmail on floppy's. I could not live without them and my floppy drive is worth much more than $10 to me.
Tim Wissemans "VGA Planets is a a turn based strategy game where 11 players compete to build an galactic empire.
In VGA Planets the player must divide his limited number of colonists between his colonies to produce as much resources as possible, and build supply lines to move them to the front. Each player is playing a different race so they must each rely on totally a different strategy. And since you don't always play the same race and are playing against different opponents each game will require you to use a different strategy.
The game is as the name suggests hideously old but is still IMHO the by far best strategy game available and is still played by thousands of players.
Titanium is just a meaningless buzzword, like turbo was a few years ago. The turbo button on my 386 didin't turn on any turbines in the box, I checked.:-)
The simple rule of thumb to follow regarding things like this is:
One mans right ends where another mans right begins.
This means that allthough it is the spammers right to send as many emails to as many people as he likes, it is also my right not to get unwanted emails.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
I think colleges should'nt restrict themselves to one language for the first 2 and future courses. Using Java for the first course and then C/C++ for the second course seems to be a good idea (or other way around). Possibly using two more different languages would be better.
This allows the stundents to learn about the differences in the two languages. Still the first few programing courses should be about programming techniques, algorithms and such, not programming languages.
I realy cant see how the performance and excessive resource use of Java has anything to do with the programing done in the first few courses in programing since those are usually very simple programs.
I used C++ in my first programming course but have never used it since (I do most my development with Java). But what I learned in the course, determinging the speed of algorithms, different styles of programing OO vs. functional and such have been very usefull still.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
It seems that americans, and some europeans even think that USA's part in WWII was very big. This comes mostly from watching american war movies that are almost all about american soldiers.
However for a realistic view of their input, compared for instance with the soviets, you can veiw the casualty numbers from the war:
WWII casualties millitary and civilian
I'm not saying USA's part in the war is little, just that they seem to make a lot more fuss about their part than nations that played a far bigger role in wining the war.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
My point exactly!
The lawmakers should be making laws protecting the cloned individuals from possible harmfull intent of the cloner(scientist). And making shure all clones are adopted by good families at birth. The law alredy states in most countries that cloned humans have the same right as other humans. And so does the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 2
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
Violation of human rights of cloned individuals
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Send out the Clones?
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All this law does is make cloned individuals second class citizens. Anti cloning laws are a clear violation of cloned peoples rights.
The laws should have been about insuring that cloned people have the same human rights as other people and making sure cloned children have parents and an ordinary life.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
In 1996 a company called Oz Interactive had already published software (Oz Virtual) that does exactly what is described in the patent. I'm not sure but does'nt this invaildate the patent? Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
There is no mention of JSP, the current standard for generating HTML with Java Servlets. Just this makes the article loose all its credability. People use Java Servlets without JSP mainly to generate non HTML content, such as images or sound. Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
I live in New York and from the looks of it here the payphones are used alot. And they are frankly more reliable than cellphones come to think of it. I often find my self using a payphone because I cant get a line on the cellular.
I think the payphone isnt going to disapear, and neither are the regular land line phones. Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
This is not just paranoia, the us government has done this kind of thing before, see:
this article
So this would not be the first time a US company has spied for the country.
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I'm a 27 year old Computer Scientist, and I have lately noticed that my handwriting skills are deteriorating. The very few times I have to write something with a pen and paper I feel wierd because I notice that I'm writing slower and worse than I think I did a few years ago.
I someone was caught trying to sell children a dildo in the street that person would probably serve jail time for that. Cant see how offering dildos to kids through the internet is different.
I wonder if Spammers use spam filters for their mail.
And since a spammers e-mail list is probably automatically generated with a crawler you might be sending spam to yourself!
It's a good thing Microsoft still includes options to turn off all the new crap features (from hide file extensions to cant share "Program Files" directory.
I still wish they would just sum them up in one "I'm not retarded or anything like that." checkbox. With every new windows version it takes me longer and longer to find the switches to turn off the silly features.
Its simple to screen your brain from hidden brain scanners with an aluminum foil hat.
After trying this it seems the thing only picks the songs I have already played and plays them in a slightly more random order than I did.
What I thought/was hoping this thing was is something that picks songs from my 30 GB mp3 collection based on similarity (it does rate song similarity). But all it seems to do is repeat the songs I have already played.
IP can also stand for Idiotic Property
Netscape 4.76 on system 9 until last week is an immoral!
And this guy tries to discourage them from doing it. WTF is he doing that?
Bzzzt! Wrong answer! Rockets carry oxygen to reach geosynchronous orbit all the time, and a lot more than needed to climb the wire. The weight of the oxygen needed is probably very similar to the weight of the fuel.
THE LASER: The climber is powered using a laser that beams at photo cells on the climber's underside. The power is converted to electricity, which is used by conventional electric motors and set of rollers to pull the climber up the ribbon at speeds up to 200 km/hr.
What happened to fossil fuel piston/turbine engines?
I often get pricelists from manufacturers I deal with sent via snailmail on floppy's. I could not live without them and my floppy drive is worth much more than $10 to me.
The link got messed up!
www.vgaplanets.com
Tim Wissemans "VGA Planets is a a turn based strategy game where 11 players compete to build an galactic empire.
In VGA Planets the player must divide his limited number of colonists between his colonies to produce as much resources as possible, and build supply lines to move them to the front. Each player is playing a different race so they must each rely on totally a different strategy. And since you don't always play the same race and are playing against different opponents each game will require you to use a different strategy.
The game is as the name suggests hideously old but is still IMHO the by far best strategy game available and is still played by thousands of players.
Titanium is just a meaningless buzzword, like turbo was a few years ago. The turbo button on my 386 didin't turn on any turbines in the box, I checked. :-)
One mans right ends where another mans right begins.
This means that allthough it is the spammers right to send as many emails to as many people as he likes, it is also my right not to get unwanted emails.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
This allows the stundents to learn about the differences in the two languages. Still the first few programing courses should be about programming techniques, algorithms and such, not programming languages.
I realy cant see how the performance and excessive resource use of Java has anything to do with the programing done in the first few courses in programing since those are usually very simple programs.
I used C++ in my first programming course but have never used it since (I do most my development with Java). But what I learned in the course, determinging the speed of algorithms, different styles of programing OO vs. functional and such have been very usefull still.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
It seems that americans, and some europeans even think that USA's part in WWII was very big. This comes mostly from watching american war movies that are almost all about american soldiers.
However for a realistic view of their input, compared for instance with the soviets, you can veiw the casualty numbers from the war:
WWII casualties millitary and civilian
I'm not saying USA's part in the war is little, just that they seem to make a lot more fuss about their part than nations that played a far bigger role in wining the war.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
My point exactly!
The lawmakers should be making laws protecting the cloned individuals from possible harmfull intent of the cloner(scientist). And making shure all clones are adopted by good families at birth. The law alredy states in most countries that cloned humans have the same right as other humans. And so does the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
All this law does is make cloned individuals second class citizens. Anti cloning laws are a clear violation of cloned peoples rights.
The laws should have been about insuring that cloned people have the same human rights as other people and making sure cloned children have parents and an ordinary life.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
In 1996 a company called Oz Interactive had already published software (Oz Virtual) that does exactly what is described in the patent. I'm not sure but does'nt this invaildate the patent?
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
The story is public domain and is freely available at project gutenberg.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
There is no mention of JSP, the current standard for generating HTML with Java Servlets. Just this makes the article loose all its credability. People use Java Servlets without JSP mainly to generate non HTML content, such as images or sound.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
I live in New York and from the looks of it here the payphones are used alot. And they are frankly more reliable than cellphones come to think of it. I often find my self using a payphone because I cant get a line on the cellular.
I think the payphone isnt going to disapear, and neither are the regular land line phones.
Sindri Traustason
"It takes two to lie, one to lie and one to listen"
This is not just paranoia, the us government has done this kind of thing before, see: this article
So this would not be the first time a US company has spied for the country.