true, but you have to hope you can convert it to a number that has credits left on it. (or, if you are lucky, you could figure out the id number for one of the monthly passes)
this assumes that the agency issuing the cards uses sequential id's, and doesn't make use of "trap" id's, unissued id's that indicate to the machine/person/whomever handling the cards that any card with that id should be confiscated and not returned to the customer.
i've seen xp blue screen regularly on multiple different computers. mostly while using photoshop or autocad, but there were other programs that would do it. maybe they've fixed it in SP2 (haven't tried), but at least through SP1 if you used the Windows XP style (as opposed to the classic style) with certain nvidia video cards, you were likely to see blue screens once a week or more. resuming from hibernate or suspend caused a lot of problems for my wife too.
i agree. i liked AotC the first time i saw it (mainly i think because my expectations were so low going in) but when i watched it the second time, i realized just how painfully bad the scenes with anakin and padme on naboo really were.
i wouldn't blame it entirely on the actor though. even the people who we know to be good actors from their other work (ewan mcgregor, natalie portman, samuel jackson, etc.) were amazingly awkward in that movie. i think christopher lee was the only non-digital actor in the whole movie that really managed to pull off a convincing character.
i have friends in all three income brackets: $20k, $60k, and $180k. from what i have seen of their lifestyles, i'd say the difference from $20k to $60k is far more substantial than the difference between $60k and $180k. the jump from $20k to $60k usually equates to a substantial improvement in the avaialability of basic necessities and financial security. the jump from $60k to $180k usually only allows people to spend money on a lot of stupid sh*t that they don't really need anyway.
The decentralized design was chosen to maximize the price to redundancy ratio.
you probably meant that they were trying to minimize the price to redundancy ratio, but this is the US government we are talking about, so maybe you are right after all...
i don't know where you live, but in chicago, where a friend of mine worked on a project with the cta, all the cards store is an id number. the number of trips is only stored in the transit agencies computer system.
happened to my wife too. she put her id in her ski jacket when we went skiing and forgot to put it back in her wallet before we flew to visit her parents a few days later.
all you have to do is tell them you don't have your id. they probably won't even ask why.
i flew to washington dc about three months after 9/11, and my ID fell out of my pocket on the airplane. the airline mailed it to my home address, but i still had to get on the plane to go home without it. i flashed my (expired) college student id at the ticket checker, and she let me through without even blinking.
If you're going to encourage them into a field, why not one that's more profitable. Tell them to become architects or businesspeople.
architects? seriously.... either you are joking, or you know absolutely nothing about architecture. the only way to make money in architecture is if you have your own firm, and even then the good money is if you are also a developer (which requires you to have a lot of money up front to make any money) or have made enough of a name for yourself to get the really high profile projects (e.g. frank gehry, santiago calatrava). even in this economy, a mediocre computer programmer can still make more money straight out of college than a good architect with years of experience.
actually i'd say the parent is right on. notice he refered "qualified professional programmer" and cs graduates "with a hint of passion". i don't think he was describing the cs grads you've dealt with. i know a lot of cs grads, myself included, who went into cs because they really loved it, and were good at it. i knew a lot more like you describe, people who went into cs because it was hyped up as an easy degree that would get you a good paying job. the trick, of course, is how to tell the first group from the second group, but don't discount the first group just becase the second group has become more prominent recently...
i don't think that the parent meant to say a degree is a job. notice in the first part sentence he said "qualified professional programmer", and he qualified the cs graduate statement with "and a hint of passion for IT".
even at the relatively prestigious engineering school i went to, the CS department was a degree factory. they churned out hundreds of cs diplomas to people who cared nothing about computers or programming but heard that cs was an easy ticket to a big paycheck. those were the people who were having problems finding jobs when the market got tight. even during the worst parts of the post dot com bust, good programmers that i knew with a passion for what they were doing never went unemployed for long unless they weren't really trying.
Because Avogadro's number is JUST an artifact of the definition of the (kilo)gram, not a fundamental constant - it's (been originally) defined as the number of atoms in 12 grams (or, whatever, 0.012 kilogram) of Carbon-12. Talk about circular references then...
wouldn't be the first time it happened...
how do you think the meter came to be defined as the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 of a second? they took the original definition of the meter, and defined it in terms of a consistent natural property.
the idea is that they want to define the unit we know as a kilogram in terms of something that never changes. 6.02*10^23 atoms of C-12 will have the same mass in 2000 years as it does now. a lump of platinum-iridium will not- as someone else points out further down, the current prototype has lost 50 micrograms in the last 100 years. it's also a measuer that could be (in theory, at least) reproduced anywhere in the world, as opposed to having your weights calibrated against the one official definition. whether that definition is based of the current definition of the kilogram, (as were the meter and the second before it) is not really relevant.
Interstingly, in my very first college CS course, my professor suggested that we should get in the habit of putting constants on the left, as the grandparent mentioned, so that mixing up =/== would result in a compile error rather than a difficult to diagnose bug.
In my second CS class, I had points deducted for doing this in one of my projects because the teacher (or maybe the TA) said it made the code more awkward to read....
most likely the rights will either go to one of troika's investors, or they will be sold off in bankruptcy court for a pittance. i've worked for a lot of failed start up companies, and i've never heard of the rights to any developed technology just being set free. somebody always takes them, regardless of whether they see any real value in them. of course if they do end up being sold in bankruptcy court (doubtful, as their investors will get first pickings) i don't think there would be anything keeping you (or some similarly motivated person) from trying to buy them up and letting them go.
it does happen- see crack dot com- but that is a rare case. in that case, i think crack dot com was entirely self funded, and made the decision to close down before they went to bankruptcy. even then, releasing the source code was an incredibly rare act on the part of ddt (i forget his actual name), as crack could easily have gone on to exist as a corporate shell with a zero balance sheet forever, and the end result with regard to the availability of the copyrights they owned would have been about the same.
it's unfortunate thangs work that way, because i would have loved to keep working on the project i had at my first job after college as open source. it would have made gmail look pretty lame by comparison. but such is life...
No, if it were then it would make sense. Insurance only pays out when the event you're insuring against actually happens, but Bill Gates will be eligible for Social Security benefits.
i may be wrong, but i was under the impression that, although everyone of retirement age is eligible for Social Security benefits, the actual benefits you receive are determined by a sliding scale which depends on income among other things. presumably, when bill gates retires, he will still be earning substantial income off of existing investments, and therefore would qualify for very little in the way of social security benefits.
First of all, did I just read a story that gave all the background to Rasterman's response, but left out the actual response itself? Nice.
try clicking the very first link, if it's accessible. hasn't been for me all day, though...
E is not really a valid option for the OSS world - I wouldn't be surprised if more people were using XFce or Rox than E at this point.
i don't think marketshare or mindshare was ever raters goal. raster's (and enlightenment's) role in the community is more exploratory. enlightenment is a platform to do cool stuff. stuff that no one has ever done before. i suspect that's part of the reason he's thrown away the code and started from scratch so many times. almost every version of enlightenment has been revolutionary in some way, not to menion a lot of the side projects that have sprung up along the way- imlib, for example, and terminals with image backgrounds and later (pseudo-)transparent backgrounds.
no, e will probably never take over the linux desktop, but it has inspired a lot of great projects by people with more of a mind for software engineering. for that reason alone, it's continued existence and development is priceless to the community. a lot of what exists in gnome today can be traced back to raster's influence, and i would be very surprised if many of the items seth listed off in his blog post weren't at least partially inspired by the work that has gone into e17 over the last 5 years.
and i don't think this is entirely a case of sour grapes- i think he is trying to point out to people who intend to bring these developments to the mainstream that a lot of work has already been done in the area, and they would do well to at least look at what's been done, lest they go and make mistakes he could have warned them away from. that is, of course, my interpretation, and i can't speak for what raster really thinks....
somebody should tell this guy who wrote about this in 2002, or some of my old coworkers, who have been doing similar application development using frames instead of xmlhttprequest since about 1998.
It seems like ever since google released gmail, everyone has suddenly been preaching about the next wave of web applications. give me a break.... i don't mean to slam google- the interface on gmail is definitely amazing, and they should be proud of themselves. but revolutionary, it is not.
i'm in boulder. apparently the company that owns the space is pretty desperate- although i don't know the exact numbers, the ceo told me last week that the lease payments at the end of the 10 year lease will be lower than the rate they started paying for our current office space when the company moved here from new york ~8 years ago.
If you're still in touch with any of the managers from xor, tell them thanks for wasting all their money building out their office space rather than working on a solid business plan. the company i work for is about to sign a ten year lease on that space for a price that i couldn't believe when i heard it.
hmm... and how many spending bills has bush vetoed in his first term?
oh yes. none. so the democrats in congress may or may not be the ones pushing for the money, but it's not like w couldn't have stopped them if he actually cared about fiscal responsibility.
while the plutonium bomb that was dropped on nagasaki was rather complicated, the uranium bomb that was used at hiroshima was quite simple- so simple in fact that it was dropped without ever having done any testing. (although this was as much due to the fact that we only had enough material for one bomb as to our confidence in the design.)
there were a large number of precision components in both bombs, but only because they were necessary to make the bomb small enough to be delivered in a conventional manner- i.e. dropped from an airplane. a person who was less concerned about size and aerodynamics could do without pretty much all of the precision machining and triggering if they were building a uranium device.
I gotta get it back, or someone's gonna have my ass.
when i saw this movie in the theater, this line was followed by the guy sitting next to me saying "oh, i wish it was me". the entire theater burst out laughing to the point that i entirely missed the next 30 seconds or so of the movie.
he told me later he hadn't realized he said it out loud, and just thought everyone was lauging at the movie....
It's still not news. I know people who have been doing the same thing with Rhapsody for over a year. But Napster has been getting a lot more media attention than Rhapsody ever did.
Slashdot Mirror
true, but you have to hope you can convert it to a number that has credits left on it. (or, if you are lucky, you could figure out the id number for one of the monthly passes)
this assumes that the agency issuing the cards uses sequential id's, and doesn't make use of "trap" id's, unissued id's that indicate to the machine/person/whomever handling the cards that any card with that id should be confiscated and not returned to the customer.
i've seen xp blue screen regularly on multiple different computers. mostly while using photoshop or autocad, but there were other programs that would do it. maybe they've fixed it in SP2 (haven't tried), but at least through SP1 if you used the Windows XP style (as opposed to the classic style) with certain nvidia video cards, you were likely to see blue screens once a week or more. resuming from hibernate or suspend caused a lot of problems for my wife too.
i agree. i liked AotC the first time i saw it (mainly i think because my expectations were so low going in) but when i watched it the second time, i realized just how painfully bad the scenes with anakin and padme on naboo really were.
i wouldn't blame it entirely on the actor though. even the people who we know to be good actors from their other work (ewan mcgregor, natalie portman, samuel jackson, etc.) were amazingly awkward in that movie. i think christopher lee was the only non-digital actor in the whole movie that really managed to pull off a convincing character.
if i were an oracle dba i would gladly switch to a product that allowed me to do 1/4th the work for 2/3rds the pay....
i have friends in all three income brackets: $20k, $60k, and $180k. from what i have seen of their lifestyles, i'd say the difference from $20k to $60k is far more substantial than the difference between $60k and $180k. the jump from $20k to $60k usually equates to a substantial improvement in the avaialability of basic necessities and financial security. the jump from $60k to $180k usually only allows people to spend money on a lot of stupid sh*t that they don't really need anyway.
The decentralized design was chosen to maximize the price to redundancy ratio.
you probably meant that they were trying to minimize the price to redundancy ratio, but this is the US government we are talking about, so maybe you are right after all...
When Adobe's methods of taking on "complex GUI issues" result in products like Photoshop and Acrobat Reader... Sorry, I'll pass. Thanks, anyway.
sure, i do. my freebsd box is the router...
i don't know where you live, but in chicago, where a friend of mine worked on a project with the cta, all the cards store is an id number. the number of trips is only stored in the transit agencies computer system.
happened to my wife too. she put her id in her ski jacket when we went skiing and forgot to put it back in her wallet before we flew to visit her parents a few days later.
all you have to do is tell them you don't have your id. they probably won't even ask why.
i flew to washington dc about three months after 9/11, and my ID fell out of my pocket on the airplane. the airline mailed it to my home address, but i still had to get on the plane to go home without it. i flashed my (expired) college student id at the ticket checker, and she let me through without even blinking.
If you're going to encourage them into a field, why not one that's more profitable. Tell them to become architects or businesspeople.
architects? seriously.... either you are joking, or you know absolutely nothing about architecture. the only way to make money in architecture is if you have your own firm, and even then the good money is if you are also a developer (which requires you to have a lot of money up front to make any money) or have made enough of a name for yourself to get the really high profile projects (e.g. frank gehry, santiago calatrava). even in this economy, a mediocre computer programmer can still make more money straight out of college than a good architect with years of experience.
(says the husband of an architect...)
actually i'd say the parent is right on. notice he refered "qualified professional programmer" and cs graduates "with a hint of passion". i don't think he was describing the cs grads you've dealt with. i know a lot of cs grads, myself included, who went into cs because they really loved it, and were good at it. i knew a lot more like you describe, people who went into cs because it was hyped up as an easy degree that would get you a good paying job. the trick, of course, is how to tell the first group from the second group, but don't discount the first group just becase the second group has become more prominent recently...
i don't think that the parent meant to say a degree is a job. notice in the first part sentence he said "qualified professional programmer", and he qualified the cs graduate statement with "and a hint of passion for IT".
even at the relatively prestigious engineering school i went to, the CS department was a degree factory. they churned out hundreds of cs diplomas to people who cared nothing about computers or programming but heard that cs was an easy ticket to a big paycheck. those were the people who were having problems finding jobs when the market got tight. even during the worst parts of the post dot com bust, good programmers that i knew with a passion for what they were doing never went unemployed for long unless they weren't really trying.
Because Avogadro's number is JUST an artifact of the definition of the (kilo)gram, not a fundamental constant - it's (been originally) defined as the number of atoms in 12 grams (or, whatever, 0.012 kilogram) of Carbon-12.
Talk about circular references then...
wouldn't be the first time it happened...
how do you think the meter came to be defined as the distance light travels in 1/299 792 458 of a second? they took the original definition of the meter, and defined it in terms of a consistent natural property.
the idea is that they want to define the unit we know as a kilogram in terms of something that never changes. 6.02*10^23 atoms of C-12 will have the same mass in 2000 years as it does now. a lump of platinum-iridium will not- as someone else points out further down, the current prototype has lost 50 micrograms in the last 100 years. it's also a measuer that could be (in theory, at least) reproduced anywhere in the world, as opposed to having your weights calibrated against the one official definition. whether that definition is based of the current definition of the kilogram, (as were the meter and the second before it) is not really relevant.
Interstingly, in my very first college CS course, my professor suggested that we should get in the habit of putting constants on the left, as the grandparent mentioned, so that mixing up =/== would result in a compile error rather than a difficult to diagnose bug.
In my second CS class, I had points deducted for doing this in one of my projects because the teacher (or maybe the TA) said it made the code more awkward to read....
most likely the rights will either go to one of troika's investors, or they will be sold off in bankruptcy court for a pittance. i've worked for a lot of failed start up companies, and i've never heard of the rights to any developed technology just being set free. somebody always takes them, regardless of whether they see any real value in them. of course if they do end up being sold in bankruptcy court (doubtful, as their investors will get first pickings) i don't think there would be anything keeping you (or some similarly motivated person) from trying to buy them up and letting them go.
it does happen- see crack dot com- but that is a rare case. in that case, i think crack dot com was entirely self funded, and made the decision to close down before they went to bankruptcy. even then, releasing the source code was an incredibly rare act on the part of ddt (i forget his actual name), as crack could easily have gone on to exist as a corporate shell with a zero balance sheet forever, and the end result with regard to the availability of the copyrights they owned would have been about the same.
it's unfortunate thangs work that way, because i would have loved to keep working on the project i had at my first job after college as open source. it would have made gmail look pretty lame by comparison. but such is life...
No, if it were then it would make sense. Insurance only pays out when the event you're insuring against actually happens, but Bill Gates will be eligible for Social Security benefits.
i may be wrong, but i was under the impression that, although everyone of retirement age is eligible for Social Security benefits, the actual benefits you receive are determined by a sliding scale which depends on income among other things. presumably, when bill gates retires, he will still be earning substantial income off of existing investments, and therefore would qualify for very little in the way of social security benefits.
First of all, did I just read a story that gave all the background to Rasterman's response, but left out the actual response itself? Nice.
try clicking the very first link, if it's accessible. hasn't been for me all day, though...
E is not really a valid option for the OSS world - I wouldn't be surprised if more people were using XFce or Rox than E at this point.
i don't think marketshare or mindshare was ever raters goal. raster's (and enlightenment's) role in the community is more exploratory. enlightenment is a platform to do cool stuff. stuff that no one has ever done before. i suspect that's part of the reason he's thrown away the code and started from scratch so many times. almost every version of enlightenment has been revolutionary in some way, not to menion a lot of the side projects that have sprung up along the way- imlib, for example, and terminals with image backgrounds and later (pseudo-)transparent backgrounds.
no, e will probably never take over the linux desktop, but it has inspired a lot of great projects by people with more of a mind for software engineering. for that reason alone, it's continued existence and development is priceless to the community. a lot of what exists in gnome today can be traced back to raster's influence, and i would be very surprised if many of the items seth listed off in his blog post weren't at least partially inspired by the work that has gone into e17 over the last 5 years.
and i don't think this is entirely a case of sour grapes- i think he is trying to point out to people who intend to bring these developments to the mainstream that a lot of work has already been done in the area, and they would do well to at least look at what's been done, lest they go and make mistakes he could have warned them away from. that is, of course, my interpretation, and i can't speak for what raster really thinks....
somebody should tell this guy who wrote about this in 2002, or some of my old coworkers, who have been doing similar application development using frames instead of xmlhttprequest since about 1998.
It seems like ever since google released gmail, everyone has suddenly been preaching about the next wave of web applications. give me a break.... i don't mean to slam google- the interface on gmail is definitely amazing, and they should be proud of themselves. but revolutionary, it is not.
i'm in boulder. apparently the company that owns the space is pretty desperate- although i don't know the exact numbers, the ceo told me last week that the lease payments at the end of the 10 year lease will be lower than the rate they started paying for our current office space when the company moved here from new york ~8 years ago.
If you're still in touch with any of the managers from xor, tell them thanks for wasting all their money building out their office space rather than working on a solid business plan. the company i work for is about to sign a ten year lease on that space for a price that i couldn't believe when i heard it.
hmm... and how many spending bills has bush vetoed in his first term?
oh yes. none. so the democrats in congress may or may not be the ones pushing for the money, but it's not like w couldn't have stopped them if he actually cared about fiscal responsibility.
while the plutonium bomb that was dropped on nagasaki was rather complicated, the uranium bomb that was used at hiroshima was quite simple- so simple in fact that it was dropped without ever having done any testing. (although this was as much due to the fact that we only had enough material for one bomb as to our confidence in the design.)
there were a large number of precision components in both bombs, but only because they were necessary to make the bomb small enough to be delivered in a conventional manner- i.e. dropped from an airplane. a person who was less concerned about size and aerodynamics could do without pretty much all of the precision machining and triggering if they were building a uranium device.
I gotta get it back, or someone's gonna have my ass.
when i saw this movie in the theater, this line was followed by the guy sitting next to me saying "oh, i wish it was me". the entire theater burst out laughing to the point that i entirely missed the next 30 seconds or so of the movie.
he told me later he hadn't realized he said it out loud, and just thought everyone was lauging at the movie....
It's still not news. I know people who have been doing the same thing with Rhapsody for over a year. But Napster has been getting a lot more media attention than Rhapsody ever did.