I'm glad that you brought up the "Cut and Paste" idea. If you are duplicating code, you should be refactoring it out into a function, not creating more lines to maintain. The code will become cleaner and more readable, no matter what the language. You shouldn't have to depend on clever IDE features to defend bad practice.
Python might have problems, but intentional whitespace isn't the biggest.
I know for a fact that at least one of DARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicles already has a hybrid power system. That beast can sneak up on you. Glad to see that tech also going into the manned vehicles.
I was with you up to the ML part. I like it. I've used it. I'm sure the one hundred and eighty two SML programmers out there *want* to be working on a web browser. C++ is a good choice because a large number of programmer, both good and bad, know how to use it. The reality is that it is better to have something ugly that many can participate in than something beautiful that only a few understand.
Where he "could have been" isn't the problem. The problem is where he was when the completing the transactions. He did not own a business. He was a student and in the country to be a student. Instead, he acted like a businessman. It does not matter that the items for sale were virtual, money was changing hands. Since he didn't have a work visa, but a student visa, he was deported. If he was only making small change, say $300k or so, he might not have been noticed and slipped through the cracks. But he didn't. He was successful enough to be noticed, which is the worst thing to do when doing something that is illegal.
Sure, he can go back to China and do the same thing, but he won't have the same support structure (dorm, finical aid for housing or whatever, free unblocked internet, etc) that he had when pretending to be a student.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=future+combat +system&btnG=Google+Search is what I have to say. The thing that I'd worry about is *increased* politician apathy to the value of the resources being sent to war. It is one thing to send a person who you've invested some number of months and dollars training when you could just send dollars.
Currently, Verizon is required by law to allow other ISPs to provide service over thier DSL lines. I'm currently paying slightly more for a third party to provide better "service" as in static IP and easy to reach tech support. With fiber, my only choice is Verizon. If I want a static IP, I need to pay the Business DSL priceses.
Yeah, profit in four years should be easy for them.
How long till they are armed? Do a google or wikipedia search for Future Combat Systems and you'll find out all that there is to know about the timeline. Look for key words like Armed Ground Vehicle. That might give you the first hint as to what they will be doing.
Microsoft very honestly see a market that they can provide with service. A smart CEO will notice that if Microsoft does not take that market, another business can. The morality of the service is not coming into play, only the profit. This could be a case where the Ethics Committee was not consulted. And yes, I'm being generous in assuming that Microsoft has one of those.
Install Gaim or Trillian or any of the other multisystem chats, then turn off the sound. Plus, things like Trillian let you use profiles so you can keep your account seperate from your girlfriend's. Works like a charm for me and my girlfriend.
Mr Schachter is an intelligent man with his own vision. Many companies were bidding on del.icio.us. I have faith that he joined the company that allowed him to keep as much of his original vision as possible.
Ok, I really offended by the suggestion to release something that hasn't finished the QA process. There could be something dangerously broken with the mystical "patch" you speak of (which might or might not exist), but you want it out in the world anyway. If they did release something that caused more problems than it solved (has happened before) you'd be crying bloody murder at them for releasing something before it was ready.
It isn't like they have a wall of potions and just mixing the right combination would solve a problem.
If you really want to know what is in store for the armed forces, do a Google search for "Future Combat Systems". Here, I'll link to the first hit. There are alot of smart people working on this. The military is planning ahead.
Psst: there are application fees. And only a small amount of them actually goes to the USPTO. The rest is taken to fund other parts of the government, usually pork. This is why the USPTO is screwed.
Perhaps I've been out of college for too long, but the idea of a "high stakes long distance drinking game" just seems silly. What is at stake other then liver damage?
Actually, they are using the same tech that allows preteens to send snide remarks to each other during class. No, not the folded up note, but the SMS feature of every damn cell phone. User A sends a message to the server with the location you are at "@joe's bar". The server knows where that is and keeps track of you. Don't want to be in the system? Don't send an update. Nifty idea.
Look for GPGPU. They are trying to use the graphics processor for general purpose operations. It runs as any CG script would run. Just realize that it is focused more on parallel math operations then procedural. Please note that I have nothing to do with this project and haven't tried it yet.
Want to buy stock in China? Purchase stock in Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, Best Buy, Old Navy/The Gap/Banana Republic or any other retail store you see in America.
IBM would be essentially saying "well, we're going to buy generic white box PCs from China instead of supplying our quality systems from now on."
I just looked on the bottom of my Thinkpad. It sings to me these words: "Manufactured for IBM Corperation; Armonk New York, USA; Made In China". Where was that point you were making? I can't seem to find it.
Microsoft Research China is where almost all of MSFT's multimedia researchers live. When competing in NIST's Video TREC, MSR China are the people who go. Granted, all the cool stuff comes from either IBM (New York), Berkerley, or CMU.
However, GNUCash will run on all the platforms listed
How can you sleep at night when you tell us such lies? No where on the site do I see anything about running on Windows. If you are trying to move people from away from MS software, you have to do it slowly to give them a chance to cope.
Take a few of your back catalog of music and make MIDI files of them. Release them as Public Domain for music search engine research, like what is done here. What is truely keeping searching technology down is the lack of a standard large and public corpus that can be used to compare different techniques. RIAA won't allow any of thier catalogue to be used. If only non-RIAA people show up in these public research indices, then only non-RIAA artists will be findable from them. And if people like the midi, they might look for/purchase the originals. Something to think about.
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I'm glad that you brought up the "Cut and Paste" idea. If you are duplicating code, you should be refactoring it out into a function, not creating more lines to maintain. The code will become cleaner and more readable, no matter what the language. You shouldn't have to depend on clever IDE features to defend bad practice.
Python might have problems, but intentional whitespace isn't the biggest.
I wonder when we will see people trying to purchase Vegan Hydrogen. Because I could probably sell it for a 2x markup and have a ready made audience.
I know for a fact that at least one of DARPA Unmanned Ground Vehicles already has a hybrid power system. That beast can sneak up on you. Glad to see that tech also going into the manned vehicles.
I was with you up to the ML part. I like it. I've used it. I'm sure the one hundred and eighty two SML programmers out there *want* to be working on a web browser. C++ is a good choice because a large number of programmer, both good and bad, know how to use it. The reality is that it is better to have something ugly that many can participate in than something beautiful that only a few understand.
Where he "could have been" isn't the problem. The problem is where he was when the completing the transactions. He did not own a business. He was a student and in the country to be a student. Instead, he acted like a businessman. It does not matter that the items for sale were virtual, money was changing hands. Since he didn't have a work visa, but a student visa, he was deported. If he was only making small change, say $300k or so, he might not have been noticed and slipped through the cracks. But he didn't. He was successful enough to be noticed, which is the worst thing to do when doing something that is illegal.
Sure, he can go back to China and do the same thing, but he won't have the same support structure (dorm, finical aid for housing or whatever, free unblocked internet, etc) that he had when pretending to be a student.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=future+combat +system&btnG=Google+Search is what I have to say.
The thing that I'd worry about is *increased* politician apathy to the value of the resources being sent to war. It is one thing to send a person who you've invested some number of months and dollars training when you could just send dollars.
Currently, Verizon is required by law to allow other ISPs to provide service over thier DSL lines. I'm currently paying slightly more for a third party to provide better "service" as in static IP and easy to reach tech support. With fiber, my only choice is Verizon. If I want a static IP, I need to pay the Business DSL priceses.
Yeah, profit in four years should be easy for them.
How long till they are armed? Do a google or wikipedia search for Future Combat Systems and you'll find out all that there is to know about the timeline. Look for key words like Armed Ground Vehicle. That might give you the first hint as to what they will be doing.
Microsoft very honestly see a market that they can provide with service. A smart CEO will notice that if Microsoft does not take that market, another business can. The morality of the service is not coming into play, only the profit. This could be a case where the Ethics Committee was not consulted. And yes, I'm being generous in assuming that Microsoft has one of those.
Install Gaim or Trillian or any of the other multisystem chats, then turn off the sound. Plus, things like Trillian let you use profiles so you can keep your account seperate from your girlfriend's. Works like a charm for me and my girlfriend.
Mr Schachter is an intelligent man with his own vision. Many companies were bidding on del.icio.us. I have faith that he joined the company that allowed him to keep as much of his original vision as possible.
Ok, I really offended by the suggestion to release something that hasn't finished the QA process. There could be something dangerously broken with the mystical "patch" you speak of (which might or might not exist), but you want it out in the world anyway. If they did release something that caused more problems than it solved (has happened before) you'd be crying bloody murder at them for releasing something before it was ready.
It isn't like they have a wall of potions and just mixing the right combination would solve a problem.
If you really want to know what is in store for the armed forces, do a Google search for "Future Combat Systems". Here, I'll link to the first hit. There are alot of smart people working on this. The military is planning ahead.
Psst: there are application fees. And only a small amount of them actually goes to the USPTO. The rest is taken to fund other parts of the government, usually pork. This is why the USPTO is screwed.
Perhaps I've been out of college for too long, but the idea of a "high stakes long distance drinking game" just seems silly. What is at stake other then liver damage?
Actually, they are using the same tech that allows preteens to send snide remarks to each other during class. No, not the folded up note, but the SMS feature of every damn cell phone. User A sends a message to the server with the location you are at "@joe's bar". The server knows where that is and keeps track of you. Don't want to be in the system? Don't send an update. Nifty idea.
Look for GPGPU. They are trying to use the graphics processor for general purpose operations. It runs as any CG script would run. Just realize that it is focused more on parallel math operations then procedural. Please note that I have nothing to do with this project and haven't tried it yet.
Want to buy stock in China? Purchase stock in Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, Best Buy, Old Navy/The Gap/Banana Republic or any other retail store you see in America.
I just looked on the bottom of my Thinkpad. It sings to me these words: "Manufactured for IBM Corperation; Armonk New York, USA; Made In China". Where was that point you were making? I can't seem to find it.
When the creativity starts to dry up, would you rather ride out the decline [garfield] or end in the top of your game [bloom county ignoring opus]?
Microsoft Research China is where almost all of MSFT's multimedia researchers live. When competing in NIST's Video TREC, MSR China are the people who go. Granted, all the cool stuff comes from either IBM (New York), Berkerley, or CMU.
However, GNUCash will run on all the platforms listed
How can you sleep at night when you tell us such lies? No where on the site do I see anything about running on Windows. If you are trying to move people from away from MS software, you have to do it slowly to give them a chance to cope.
Read the article. This is Mad Hatter, as was introduced by Sun in a press release in Jan 2003.
How often has slashdot been any indication of the market on a whole? Please cite three examples. Otherwise, watch them do as they please.
Take a few of your back catalog of music and make MIDI files of them. Release them as Public Domain for music search engine research, like what is done here. What is truely keeping searching technology down is the lack of a standard large and public corpus that can be used to compare different techniques. RIAA won't allow any of thier catalogue to be used. If only non-RIAA people show up in these public research indices, then only non-RIAA artists will be findable from them. And if people like the midi, they might look for/purchase the originals. Something to think about.