That Java applet packaged up all the information, signed and encrypted it with credentials that were uniquely assigned to you. This provided end to end (from your browser all the way to the backend database) encryption and integrity protection, which is something that banking web sites do not have. Banks don't need it because if there is a problem, you will notice pretty quickly, pick up the phone, and do something about it. For the census, on the other hand, how would you know whether or not your data has ben tampered with? They put the high security up front because they knew there would be nobody verifying its correctness down the road.
It took me all of 5 minutes to complete the online form, so you must have run into some sort of server load problem.
At the Ubuntu Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at the recent OSCON, I was surprised to hear how many people were running Ubuntu as a server, and how positive their feedback was. Like many people I had always assumed that Ubuntu was a serious distro on the desktop only.
And more telling is that at the meeting it was obvious that Jeff Waugh was keenly interested on hearing about peoples' experience with Ubuntu server. I will not be surprised if Ubuntu starts a big push to establish itself as a server distro in the near future.
I did play with HDR, but I don't recall being completely overwhelmed by brightness more than once. Yeah the reactor was cool looking, but not something that I would hang around and look at.
In the reactor I found that it was rather obvious where and when you would be attacked, so dealing with the bad guys was not a problem. The only surprise was when they sent manhacks after me as well, but you can hear those coming before they get to you.
My favourite part of the game (with respect to game play) was battling with the strider in the train station. I just love going against those things. It was like a dynamic puzzle.
That is one glowing review. Myself, although I enjoyed Episode 1 a lot, didn't think it was *that* great.
For one, it was relatively easy. I played it through on Normal skill, and died very few times. None of the puzzles were difficult enough to delay me more than a minute, and I found that the new zombine enemies just blew themselves up.
I found the music annoying, to say the least. I considered turning the music off, but quickly realized that the start of dramatic music always foreshadowed an unexpected twist.
I was disappointed that there were no "Wow" moments as far as graphics were concerned. During the original HL2 there were times (like at the bridge) when I just had to stop and admire the scenery. Most of Episode 1 happens indoors.
Also, is Alyx invincable? While I was playing she occassionally got overrun by baddies, but alway came through without a scratch.
In summary, I was disappointed. I enjoyed playing the game but was not wowed by it. I will probably get Episode 2, but I will hardly be waiting with bated breath for it.
I hope the kid's first words are something to be proud of.
I once saw a Mother eating some take-out fast food with her gurgling offspring. The kid was very vocal but couldn't say anything more than "goo" and "ga ga." The mother was doing the traditional "say Mommy, say Mommmmeeeee" thing when the kid pointed at the logo on the paper cup and said, very clearly, "McDonalds."
There are two specific experiences that have improved my writing.
The first was reading "The Elements of Style", by Strunk and White. This book taught me the building blocks of the English language, and gave me an appreciation for putting together clear and non-ambiguous sentences.
The second experience occurred during a co-op term. I had written a document and given it to the engineer in charge. After a few minutes he handed it back to me, with a big question mark against one of my paragraphs. When I read the paragraph I realized the it made absolutely no sense at all, though at the time I wrote it I thought it made perfect sense. From that experience I learned to power of taking the time to read my own words from another person's point of view. A lot of written communication problems occur because people only write down a portion of what they are thinking. When you look at your words from another person's point of view, you are verifying that your words can stand on their own, without requiring any extra knowledge that resides in the back of your head.
Unfortunately neither of these experiences have taught me how to spell.:-\
I studied engineering in university, and it involved a lot of advanced math. If I had known that leaving high-school I probably would not have taken it, since when I left high-school math was *definitely* not one of my interests. Had I followed my academic talents I would have chosen music or journalism.
That would have been a big mistake, since it was not until 2nd year university that I discovered I had a previously unknown interest quite a talent in advanced math, and achieved straight As in all my match courses.
Don't let thoughts like "that will be too hard" or "I'm not interested in all the courses" deflect you from your end goal. If a CS degree is what you think you want, go for it. It is no sin to enter something and *then* decide it is not for you. But if you never even try, you will always be wondering "what if..."
Oh, it's a groovy implementation of AJAX, but I found it was very awkward to use. It was restrictive enough to be frustrating, yet flexible enough to be confusing. I think Google was shooting for that perfect balance between usability and features, and missed.
I used to believe this, but I know now that it's wrong.
Student are in school to learn generalities, not specifics. They need to learn how to learn, and not to be taught specific actions using a specific tools.
If you teach students to use Word, you get a bunch of students who can use Word, and nothing else. You teach students how to use a *word processor*, they will feel comfortable using any word processor, because knowing what the capabilities of a word processor should they will know what to look for.
I also graduated with a Masters in Aerodynamics, and I worked for an engineering company that required us to program. They adopted choice (a), and I will tell you (a) just doesn't work.
Our code was crap and our applications extremely fragile. Nothing we produced was scalable or easily transferable from one client to another. Oh, everything worked after a fashion, but the architecture was comparable to a house of cards.
I agree that our engineering background was essential, but what they should have done is hire an *experienced* CS major to be the system architect (a task that requires CS knowledge), and let us engineers work on the specific pieces that required engineering knowledge.
It gives them a lot more influence than if there were not there at all. They will be serving Chinese people and employing Chinese workers.
Now perhaps Google is just going to sit on their rumps in China and collect money. The influence they can promote is up to them. But Google has a history of bringing change to society and the business landscape, why would they not do this in China also?
Of course it is a brave decision. Google has put its "Don't be evil" mantra on the chopping block and has left it up to the public whether or not to let the axe fall. Do you think they don't know this? Do you think they are surprised by the reaction? I don't think so.
I have a lot of relatives who lived in apartheid South Africa. They fell into 2 distinct camps: those who would try to work with the government to influence change and those who would have nothing to do with it. Both camps were significant in the breaking up of apartheid. Google has faced the same decision in China. Should it work with the government, and perhaps get the opportunity in influence change, or should it just walk away? In this case, walking away would do nothing. Some people might be surprised to hear this, but the Internet works just fine without Google. Instead Google has taken the hard choice. They've put their cherished reputation on the line in order to be in the position to influence change.
Maybe, and only time will tell, Google made this decision just to make a buck. But I don't think so.
Entrust wrote the first commercially available PKI back in 1994, and have only improved on it since then. It's scalable to millions of users, and is used by many governments on financial institutions. Worth a look if you are looking for a large enterprise PKI solution.
I just upgraded my Thunderbird client (Windows 2K), and now it won't start. I double-click on the icon and nothing happens. If I look at the process list, I see thunderbird.exe show up for a second and then disappear.
This book is on my shelf and is a must read for anybody working in tech.
It is not a technical book. It is a non-fiction novel about a team of engineers building a mini-computer back in the early 1980s. The book might be 25 years out of date from the technical point of view, but few books capture the essence of the engineer's mind and commitment as well as this one does.
It is only some types of comments that are unnecessary. While it is true that you can figure out *what* is happening just by looking at the code, what you cannot see is *why* something is happening. And it is the *why* that is the most important.
I suspect that since our species has been blasting out so much noise (radio, TV broadcast, radar) in the past 50 years or so that our presence can hardly be overlooked. That is, if anybody is looking.
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Maybe *you* do, but I click [Applications][Accessories][Text Editor].
That Java applet packaged up all the information, signed and encrypted it with credentials that were uniquely assigned to you. This provided end to end (from your browser all the way to the backend database) encryption and integrity protection, which is something that banking web sites do not have. Banks don't need it because if there is a problem, you will notice pretty quickly, pick up the phone, and do something about it. For the census, on the other hand, how would you know whether or not your data has ben tampered with? They put the high security up front because they knew there would be nobody verifying its correctness down the road.
It took me all of 5 minutes to complete the online form, so you must have run into some sort of server load problem.
At the Ubuntu Birds-of-a-Feather meeting at the recent OSCON, I was surprised to hear how many people were running Ubuntu as a server, and how positive their feedback was. Like many people I had always assumed that Ubuntu was a serious distro on the desktop only.
And more telling is that at the meeting it was obvious that Jeff Waugh was keenly interested on hearing about peoples' experience with Ubuntu server. I will not be surprised if Ubuntu starts a big push to establish itself as a server distro in the near future.
O'Reilly itself taped all the keynotes. Anybody have any idea whether O'Reilly will release their own tapes?
Chris DiBona has grown a beard, which he says gives him a more "evil" look. Since evil and Google don't go together, he probably didn't recognize him.
Isn't this like say TV networks and radio stations have a bad business model, because all they sell are commercials?
No no. That's Microsoft. SCO is more slimy than bratty.
I did play with HDR, but I don't recall being completely overwhelmed by brightness more than once. Yeah the reactor was cool looking, but not something that I would hang around and look at.
In the reactor I found that it was rather obvious where and when you would be attacked, so dealing with the bad guys was not a problem. The only surprise was when they sent manhacks after me as well, but you can hear those coming before they get to you.
My favourite part of the game (with respect to game play) was battling with the strider in the train station. I just love going against those things. It was like a dynamic puzzle.
That is one glowing review. Myself, although I enjoyed Episode 1 a lot, didn't think it was *that* great.
For one, it was relatively easy. I played it through on Normal skill, and died very few times. None of the puzzles were difficult enough to delay me more than a minute, and I found that the new zombine enemies just blew themselves up.
I found the music annoying, to say the least. I considered turning the music off, but quickly realized that the start of dramatic music always foreshadowed an unexpected twist.
I was disappointed that there were no "Wow" moments as far as graphics were concerned. During the original HL2 there were times (like at the bridge) when I just had to stop and admire the scenery. Most of Episode 1 happens indoors.
Also, is Alyx invincable? While I was playing she occassionally got overrun by baddies, but alway came through without a scratch.
In summary, I was disappointed. I enjoyed playing the game but was not wowed by it. I will probably get Episode 2, but I will hardly be waiting with bated breath for it.
I hope the kid's first words are something to be proud of.
I once saw a Mother eating some take-out fast food with her gurgling offspring. The kid was very vocal but couldn't say anything more than "goo" and "ga ga." The mother was doing the traditional "say Mommy, say Mommmmeeeee" thing when the kid pointed at the logo on the paper cup and said, very clearly, "McDonalds."
The mother did not look pleased.
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There are two specific experiences that have improved my writing.
:-\
The first was reading "The Elements of Style", by Strunk and White. This book taught me the building blocks of the English language, and gave me an appreciation for putting together clear and non-ambiguous sentences.
The second experience occurred during a co-op term. I had written a document and given it to the engineer in charge. After a few minutes he handed it back to me, with a big question mark against one of my paragraphs. When I read the paragraph I realized the it made absolutely no sense at all, though at the time I wrote it I thought it made perfect sense. From that experience I learned to power of taking the time to read my own words from another person's point of view. A lot of written communication problems occur because people only write down a portion of what they are thinking. When you look at your words from another person's point of view, you are verifying that your words can stand on their own, without requiring any extra knowledge that resides in the back of your head.
Unfortunately neither of these experiences have taught me how to spell.
I studied engineering in university, and it involved a lot of advanced math. If I had known that leaving high-school I probably would not have taken it, since when I left high-school math was *definitely* not one of my interests. Had I followed my academic talents I would have chosen music or journalism.
That would have been a big mistake, since it was not until 2nd year university that I discovered I had a previously unknown interest quite a talent in advanced math, and achieved straight As in all my match courses.
Don't let thoughts like "that will be too hard" or "I'm not interested in all the courses" deflect you from your end goal. If a CS degree is what you think you want, go for it. It is no sin to enter something and *then* decide it is not for you. But if you never even try, you will always be wondering "what if..."
I tried it yesterday, and didn't like it.
Oh, it's a groovy implementation of AJAX, but I found it was very awkward to use. It was restrictive enough to be frustrating, yet flexible enough to be confusing. I think Google was shooting for that perfect balance between usability and features, and missed.
I used to believe this, but I know now that it's wrong.
Student are in school to learn generalities, not specifics. They need to learn how to learn, and not to be taught specific actions using a specific tools.
If you teach students to use Word, you get a bunch of students who can use Word, and nothing else. You teach students how to use a *word processor*, they will feel comfortable using any word processor, because knowing what the capabilities of a word processor should they will know what to look for.
I also graduated with a Masters in Aerodynamics, and I worked for an engineering company that required us to program. They adopted choice (a), and I will tell you (a) just doesn't work.
Our code was crap and our applications extremely fragile. Nothing we produced was scalable or easily transferable from one client to another. Oh, everything worked after a fashion, but the architecture was comparable to a house of cards.
I agree that our engineering background was essential, but what they should have done is hire an *experienced* CS major to be the system architect (a task that requires CS knowledge), and let us engineers work on the specific pieces that required engineering knowledge.
It gives them a lot more influence than if there were not there at all. They will be serving Chinese people and employing Chinese workers.
Now perhaps Google is just going to sit on their rumps in China and collect money. The influence they can promote is up to them. But Google has a history of bringing change to society and the business landscape, why would they not do this in China also?
Of course it is a brave decision. Google has put its "Don't be evil" mantra on the chopping block and has left it up to the public whether or not to let the axe fall. Do you think they don't know this? Do you think they are surprised by the reaction? I don't think so.
I have a lot of relatives who lived in apartheid South Africa. They fell into 2 distinct camps: those who would try to work with the government to influence change and those who would have nothing to do with it. Both camps were significant in the breaking up of apartheid. Google has faced the same decision in China. Should it work with the government, and perhaps get the opportunity in influence change, or should it just walk away? In this case, walking away would do nothing. Some people might be surprised to hear this, but the Internet works just fine without Google. Instead Google has taken the hard choice. They've put their cherished reputation on the line in order to be in the position to influence change.
Maybe, and only time will tell, Google made this decision just to make a buck. But I don't think so.
According to this article, they were the first University to do so.
Entrust wrote the first commercially available PKI back in 1994, and have only improved on it since then. It's scalable to millions of users, and is used by many governments on financial institutions. Worth a look if you are looking for a large enterprise PKI solution.
Yep. I just tried the same thing and it works now.
Didn't see anything about this in the release notes, but maybe I missed it.
I just upgraded my Thunderbird client (Windows 2K), and now it won't start. I double-click on the icon and nothing happens. If I look at the process list, I see thunderbird.exe show up for a second and then disappear.
Any ideas?
This book is on my shelf and is a must read for anybody working in tech.
It is not a technical book. It is a non-fiction novel about a team of engineers building a mini-computer back in the early 1980s. The book might be 25 years out of date from the technical point of view, but few books capture the essence of the engineer's mind and commitment as well as this one does.
It is only some types of comments that are unnecessary. While it is true that you can figure out *what* is happening just by looking at the code, what you cannot see is *why* something is happening. And it is the *why* that is the most important.
I suspect that since our species has been blasting out so much noise (radio, TV broadcast, radar) in the past 50 years or so that our presence can hardly be overlooked. That is, if anybody is looking.