The article says "web services" about 10 times over and says many companies have been using them license free for ages and yet they won't say exactly what those web services are. If any cover Active Directory or LDAP (personal thing) I'm going to laugh. If any cover XML-RPC or SOAP I'll cry.
Wait. I wouldn't cry. I have an assignment due tomorrow morning and I've been using XML-RPC to get it done. If they hurried up and threatened litigation I could probably get out of it...
I'm of the opinion that if everyone believes the economy is weakening, global warming is happening, and we can see oil prices rising then there will be a push to replace our fossil fuel burners with things that don't hurt so much.
As for the Kyoto Treaty, that was negotiated for the US by the same guy who invented the internet so how could it really be that bad?
Yeah, oops on the 20' by 20' thing. 20" by 20" or whatever size you want to make it.
Basically, by measuring out the wood to be 20 by 20 of some unit you can have a 1 unit border around a board that has 1 unit of space between lines. My baord was actually made to be 21" by 21" with 1.5" borders. Really good wood is nice and cheap in these sizes too. My next project will be inlays.
I strongly suggest making a Go board. Take a piece of wood 20' by 20' and draw 19x19 lines on it. Add whatever personalizing touched you want to it and lacquer the sucker. I did this in a weekend and the board is absolutely wonderful.
Then go to Wal-Mart or some other bargain store and get in 200 of each color glass drops. They make great stones until you can afford a real set. Plastic stones are available online for $20 or so. Real shell Go stones will reach into the $200 range.
Google, of course, has more information including some designs for round Go boards and hex based boards.
This could be some bizarre case where the Representative was trying to persuade people he knew that electronic voting wasn't to be trust and could be rigged. So he got a vote rigging device installed on a voting machine and showed it off to his buddies and they all immediately knew that electronic voting would be a bad thing if vote rigging software could so easily be tossed in. Electronic voting nevertheless was rolled out thanks to the millions of dollars already invested in it so they decided that rather than raise public fears and insecurities they'd sit on the knowledge and wait it out.
I still don't see how this guys software could have been anything but prototype. Did he get a copy of the voting software used in the Florida machines? Were they left unguarded so that someone could have slipped this sort of thing in?
The analogue to gravity exhibited in evolution is a much larger set of rules than "mass attracts mass." Start with the attraction betweek molecules which probably requires electromagnetic, strong, and weak forces. It's the molecules which provide us with catalysts which allows metabolisms which requires cells which form organs which make up bodies which combine into societies, etc etc. I guess you could say that survival of the fittest is pitting two metabolisms against each other and seeing which one can continue reacting after their encounter. Evolution decides which chain of reactions will continue and which will stop.
The US was founded by people who did not want to have hereditary rulers.
Correction: The US was founded by upper class white guys who turned the people against the current government in order to give themselves more power. Ever since then it's just been a trick of playing all the lower classes off of each other (servants against slaves by making laws not allowing the two groups to interact, poor farmers against indians by sticking the farmers on land the government promised to the indians, and for the last 100 years it's been lower class against middle class) in order to keep the heat off of themselves. There's really no place in the world where this doesn't happen.
So long as our powerful elite can keep everyone reasonably sedate it's all ok. Ours apparently isn't doing its job.
I should mention that Bellsouth *did* help me with my router. And they supported anything available at the Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Circuit City in the area. The guy on the phone was ready to help me with everything involved in using their DSL modem and my network router. I doubt he was ready to give Linux support, but it was still quite a bit and I was happy.
They can afford to spend lots of time on the phone with their customers now. The technical help call center was outsourced.
I should have added that this auction will set a price on a realistically free medium. It'll be nothing but an economic bubble protected from collapse by our tax dollars because collapsed economies drive the dollar down.
Software also falls under this economic category more often than not, except that Microsoft didn't buy in an FCC auction the chance to fill 90% of the computers in the country with their operating system. Thanks to that other operating system are able to edge into the market. See what happens when the FCC sees you try to edge into the airwaves after they've just been paid billions to keep you out.
Short term, it should improve the quality of Cell-phone, long term, it should open up opportunities for so-called 3G services to take off.... and ultimately it'll prevent people from setting up long distance, flexible, high bandwidth national and international wireless networks devoid of government oversight.
Hear that soft rumble? It's the bureaucracy expanding to fill in the gaps.
In Microsoft's case, I don't think the biggest complaint is that people can't make modifications to the system's source code. It's more about not knowing what sort of things are provided by the system in the form of *complete* APIs and such.
Where in history has scientific advancement *not* removed the need for some jobs? When we're basically working towards efficiency the end product of all the technological revolutions will be no one needing any jobs. Self fixing machines leads to a whole mechanical metabolism for the world which humans will be able to leech off of ad infinitum.
Until, of course, our more luddite/conservative/squeemish types rise up and destroy the atmosphere trying to kill all the machines, in which case we'll all get stuck in glass tubes with machines leeching power off of us.
World of Warcraft just sold a record number of units in their first day. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and Doom 3 have all just hit the store shelves. With so many awesome games out there that people are buying so often I wonder if this is a sign of people being otherwise discomforted by life.
Is there any historical evidence showing leisure activities blossom when so much else in the world seems to be in disarray?
What media-free non-polarized nation are you living in? The 2004 U.S. Presidential election voting day was better known this year to Tuareg camel caravaners in the remotes of the Sahara than it was in Washington D.C. in 2000.
I thought of this earlier this semester. I must admit I'm a little upset about being beaten to the punch. One of the classes I'm taking right now is software engineering and we're doing everything in Python. Our final assignment is (due next week) to basically extend an existing Python program or write our own. Bittorrent has really needed some sort of Gnutella-like network to drive it.
I've changed project ideas since then (it was going to be called Rain, btw) but I'm still rather interested in getting this sort of thing running. Do you know anything about whether or not this will be Open Sourced? The marketability of an application that can handily destroy all other filesharing programs is apparent, but SuprNova.org appears to be a non-profit organization so I can't tell where they might go with this.
In any case, the cat is out of the bag. I see in the not too distant future people referring to this sort of system as "the net." I'd really like to know if I can get involved with this project or if they're going to be releasing protocol specifications. It'd warrent an RFC if they're open about it, and I'd certainly like to work with it.
I'm going to go find all the friends I mentioned Rain to and complain about not being the one to first realize this system. It's like the lightbulb. I'd imagine there are plenty of others out there just like me doing the same already.
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War of the Worlds linky.
Ha, I got modded offtopic, but look at the fun that's resulted!
...modulo court challenges.)
2/3 of Slashdot just had their eyes glaze over at the sight of weird computer speak.
The other 1/3 is still trying to figure out what the result of that function would be. Is it a function? What were the parameters again? Dammit.
What did they have patents on???
The article says "web services" about 10 times over and says many companies have been using them license free for ages and yet they won't say exactly what those web services are. If any cover Active Directory or LDAP (personal thing) I'm going to laugh. If any cover XML-RPC or SOAP I'll cry.
Wait. I wouldn't cry.
I have an assignment due tomorrow morning and I've been using XML-RPC to get it done. If they hurried up and threatened litigation I could probably get out of it...
Viva la Cucarachas!
I'm of the opinion that if everyone believes the economy is weakening, global warming is happening, and we can see oil prices rising then there will be a push to replace our fossil fuel burners with things that don't hurt so much.
As for the Kyoto Treaty, that was negotiated for the US by the same guy who invented the internet so how could it really be that bad?
Yeah, oops on the 20' by 20' thing. 20" by 20" or whatever size you want to make it.
Basically, by measuring out the wood to be 20 by 20 of some unit you can have a 1 unit border around a board that has 1 unit of space between lines. My baord was actually made to be 21" by 21" with 1.5" borders. Really good wood is nice and cheap in these sizes too. My next project will be inlays.
I strongly suggest making a Go board. Take a piece of wood 20' by 20' and draw 19x19 lines on it. Add whatever personalizing touched you want to it and lacquer the sucker. I did this in a weekend and the board is absolutely wonderful.
Then go to Wal-Mart or some other bargain store and get in 200 of each color glass drops. They make great stones until you can afford a real set. Plastic stones are available online for $20 or so. Real shell Go stones will reach into the $200 range.
Google, of course, has more information including some designs for round Go boards and hex based boards.
This could be some bizarre case where the Representative was trying to persuade people he knew that electronic voting wasn't to be trust and could be rigged. So he got a vote rigging device installed on a voting machine and showed it off to his buddies and they all immediately knew that electronic voting would be a bad thing if vote rigging software could so easily be tossed in. Electronic voting nevertheless was rolled out thanks to the millions of dollars already invested in it so they decided that rather than raise public fears and insecurities they'd sit on the knowledge and wait it out.
I still don't see how this guys software could have been anything but prototype. Did he get a copy of the voting software used in the Florida machines? Were they left unguarded so that someone could have slipped this sort of thing in?
Gravity pulls debris into planets and stars.
The analogue to gravity exhibited in evolution is a much larger set of rules than "mass attracts mass." Start with the attraction betweek molecules which probably requires electromagnetic, strong, and weak forces. It's the molecules which provide us with catalysts which allows metabolisms which requires cells which form organs which make up bodies which combine into societies, etc etc. I guess you could say that survival of the fittest is pitting two metabolisms against each other and seeing which one can continue reacting after their encounter. Evolution decides which chain of reactions will continue and which will stop.
The US was founded by people who did not want to have hereditary rulers.
Correction: The US was founded by upper class white guys who turned the people against the current government in order to give themselves more power. Ever since then it's just been a trick of playing all the lower classes off of each other (servants against slaves by making laws not allowing the two groups to interact, poor farmers against indians by sticking the farmers on land the government promised to the indians, and for the last 100 years it's been lower class against middle class) in order to keep the heat off of themselves. There's really no place in the world where this doesn't happen.
So long as our powerful elite can keep everyone reasonably sedate it's all ok. Ours apparently isn't doing its job.
I should mention that Bellsouth *did* help me with my router. And they supported anything available at the Wal-Mart, Best Buy, or Circuit City in the area. The guy on the phone was ready to help me with everything involved in using their DSL modem and my network router. I doubt he was ready to give Linux support, but it was still quite a bit and I was happy.
They can afford to spend lots of time on the phone with their customers now. The technical help call center was outsourced.
They seem to lay off shows that come on after 10. Time before that is "family time" and that's their space.
How do I deal with my own computer use?
It's exam week and I'm posting to Slashdot.
Get a babysitter, not a TV.
Jerks.
I should have added that this auction will set a price on a realistically free medium. It'll be nothing but an economic bubble protected from collapse by our tax dollars because collapsed economies drive the dollar down.
Software also falls under this economic category more often than not, except that Microsoft didn't buy in an FCC auction the chance to fill 90% of the computers in the country with their operating system. Thanks to that other operating system are able to edge into the market. See what happens when the FCC sees you try to edge into the airwaves after they've just been paid billions to keep you out.
Short term, it should improve the quality of Cell-phone, long term, it should open up opportunities for so-called 3G services to take off. ... and ultimately it'll prevent people from setting up long distance, flexible, high bandwidth national and international wireless networks devoid of government oversight.
Hear that soft rumble? It's the bureaucracy expanding to fill in the gaps.
In Microsoft's case, I don't think the biggest complaint is that people can't make modifications to the system's source code. It's more about not knowing what sort of things are provided by the system in the form of *complete* APIs and such.
Who the fuck is Texas A&M?
Just don't forget what it may do to your job.
Where in history has scientific advancement *not* removed the need for some jobs? When we're basically working towards efficiency the end product of all the technological revolutions will be no one needing any jobs. Self fixing machines leads to a whole mechanical metabolism for the world which humans will be able to leech off of ad infinitum.
Until, of course, our more luddite/conservative/squeemish types rise up and destroy the atmosphere trying to kill all the machines, in which case we'll all get stuck in glass tubes with machines leeching power off of us.
World of Warcraft just sold a record number of units in their first day. Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and Doom 3 have all just hit the store shelves. With so many awesome games out there that people are buying so often I wonder if this is a sign of people being otherwise discomforted by life.
Is there any historical evidence showing leisure activities blossom when so much else in the world seems to be in disarray?
I thought no-overtime non-comp work was illegal for entertainment companies.
If they're working over their salaried time then they are required by law to recieve overtime or comp.
Decrease public awareness of "voting day".
What media-free non-polarized nation are you living in? The 2004 U.S. Presidential election voting day was better known this year to Tuareg camel caravaners in the remotes of the Sahara than it was in Washington D.C. in 2000.
I thought of this earlier this semester. I must admit I'm a little upset about being beaten to the punch. One of the classes I'm taking right now is software engineering and we're doing everything in Python. Our final assignment is (due next week) to basically extend an existing Python program or write our own. Bittorrent has really needed some sort of Gnutella-like network to drive it.
I've changed project ideas since then (it was going to be called Rain, btw) but I'm still rather interested in getting this sort of thing running. Do you know anything about whether or not this will be Open Sourced? The marketability of an application that can handily destroy all other filesharing programs is apparent, but SuprNova.org appears to be a non-profit organization so I can't tell where they might go with this.
In any case, the cat is out of the bag. I see in the not too distant future people referring to this sort of system as "the net." I'd really like to know if I can get involved with this project or if they're going to be releasing protocol specifications. It'd warrent an RFC if they're open about it, and I'd certainly like to work with it.
I'm going to go find all the friends I mentioned Rain to and complain about not being the one to first realize this system. It's like the lightbulb. I'd imagine there are plenty of others out there just like me doing the same already.