"There are plenty of books that are out of print with no copyright restrictions on them. Since google has plenty of resources and aims to put all available information in the hands of users, would they please consider putting up the entire text of such books online? "
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as if Google can search Gutenberg texts. In this case, you could always download the texts from Gutenberg and index them yourself. Gutenberg texts have expired copyrights.
Cooper's not the only astronaut to tell strange tales.
Edgar Mitchell claimed that he was one with the universe or some such crap on his return from the moon on Apollo 14. Since then he has become involved in pseudo-science/religion.
After James Irwin finished his moon trip on Apollo 15, he founded some religious organization and went on trips to Mt. Ararat in Turkey to try to find Noah's Ark.
The last I heard was that two galaxies were colliding with the Milky Way and we just weren't aware of it until astronomers looked at the data the right way.
Enquiring minds want to know why he believes in ET.
From Wired magazine:
He grabs a plate of mashed potatoes and roast beef and heads over to a floor-to-ceiling mural depicting three large white pyramids glowing against a lush tropical background; toward the front, a strange creature strides across a white veranda. The mural was painted a week ago, and everyone is ogling it. "Giza plaza, 17,000 years ago," he explains. "See, I think
the pyramids were made by aliens before the last ice age, and the ice destroyed them and they were just put back together by the Egyptians." Is he serious? "I've seen them and I'm an engineer, and you can't tell me that the technology is ancient Egyptian. If you were a superior race and you knew your time on Earth was ending, wouldn't you build something really big so people would know you'd been there?"
Someone should MOD the parent UP as FUNNY!
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It's really quite funny especially if you read the reply by the grandparent's poster.
"Of course, I was pretty sure at that stage that I wasn't actually going to win, and so I had a great time and zero stress."
That's cool. It would have been seriously funny if you'd been all laid back and then won the damn thing.
Programming Pearls is a nice little book. It's very useful to a beginner but is probably a waste of money if you're already an established programmer. A lot of the tricks that are demonstrated in the book are common sense (for an experienced programmer).
If we do find an advanced alien civilization then they may merely decide that we are a violent race and decide to exterminate us for their own safety on the other hand if we were to find an alien race that was technologically inferior to us then no doubt some country or some people would either try to destroy them or abuse them because they could.
Consider how many wars are ongoing right here on Earth right now. There is no reason why we would necessarily have peaceful relations with aliens.
EA I'm curious about a couple of other languages. My favorite language to hate is Perl. It seems like no real thought was given to the language. It kind of grew over the years. So it's just really deeply, deeply ugly.
This is a boneheaded remark. You could say the same thing about Sendmail. Perhaps he's just trolling?
JG Well, yes, but that's part of its charm. It's sort of the resurrection of TECO. Everything in it is about text, so if the data you care about is text, it's pretty nice. I actually like Perl. I can't say I'm real good at it, and I certainly wouldn't want to do any big projects in it. It's sort of a maintenance nightmare. It has very little in the way of structuring and abstraction and all the other things that one would need to do truly industrial-strength software. But as a language to do narrowly defined mind puzzles, it's pretty entertaining.
You clearly do not understand the power of Perl. As Graham likes to say "succinctness is power" and Perl is as succinct as you can get.
If you choose to follow the path of Perl then you will eventually understand just how powerful it is. I can say this from experience. I know many programming languages and Perl is one of the most powerful. Python comes close but its syntax is ugly because it forces you to treat nearly everything as an object.
That's *grammar* not grammer! Can you follow this??
Love,
Steve
Damn! That's funny. Wish I had mod points!
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Yeah, a lot of that is true but if you want your IT organization to be valued (and you by extension as well) you should treat the user (your customer) as king.
"I do. But sometimes it's not so simple as just editing one line in the Makefile. Lots of software expect themselves to be in/usr or/usr/local."
AFAIK, most open source software comes with the GNU configure script. It accepts something like --PREFIX=/your/install/directory for the whole package. Sure you'd have to do this for every package you install but it's a workable solution if you don't have admin rights on your computer.
Indeed you shouldn't do it if you don't need to. I recall a show where they profiled some ophthalmologists. One had the laser thing done to his eyes and promoted it. Another ophthalmologist wore glasses and said that he would not do it since he depended upon his vision and the procedure does carry some risk.
"I'm sick of waiting for ages for a page to render just because the designer put the whole page in one large table."
I know this is probably a bad thing to say but IE does provide a mechanism to "speed up" table layout. You specify the size of the columns immediately after declaring the <TABLE> tag. This provides a substantial boost in the perceived rendering of the table because the browser "knows" how wide the columns are and can proceed to render rows.
At any rate, you're probably better off at this point using Mozilla Firefox or just plain Mozilla.
The memo may or may not have said that they were going to attack the WTC but this episode of FRONTLINE may open your eyes to what was known beforehand and what could've been done if roadblocks had not been put in the way.
The irony of the situation is that this FBI agent suspected that Al Queda would attack the WTC again and when he quit the FBI he got a job as the Chief of Security at the WTC.
One of his friends asked him the night before 9/11 (and I'm paraphrasing) "John, when are they going to attack?" he replied. "I don't know when but soon."
Product Activation was one of the reasons why I moved to Mac OS X. Other reasons were UNIX + nice GUI. A surprise bonus reason that I discovered after switching was how easy it was to connect peripherals to my Mac. It just recognizes them! No more fighting with reinstalling device drivers and downloading the latest version. It just works.
You think plants are crazy? Check out humans. They swap so much bacteria its unbelievable. And if the bacteria kills that human, well, it's been selected against. That won't prevent them from picking up bacteria elsewhere.
I once read a history of the Star Trek universe that said Archer was the first captain of the Enterprise with his wife as the Chief medical officer, then Pike, then Kirk.
So we don't have his wife in the current series? Oh well....
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Gee, I miss the old old Netscape logo that was simply the Mozilla monster exhaling flame as the page loaded.
Project Gutenberg already does this.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as if Google can search Gutenberg texts. In this case, you could always download the texts from Gutenberg and index them yourself. Gutenberg texts have expired copyrights.
Edgar Mitchell claimed that he was one with the universe or some such crap on his return from the moon on Apollo 14. Since then he has become involved in pseudo-science/religion.
After James Irwin finished his moon trip on Apollo 15, he founded some religious organization and went on trips to Mt. Ararat in Turkey to try to find Noah's Ark.
and his jump then read this book. It is truly excellent.
The God Emperor of XML, Tim Bray, doesn't seem to know of any such software so he posted a challenge.
The last I heard was that two galaxies were colliding with the Milky Way and we just weren't aware of it until astronomers looked at the data the right way.
From Wired magazine:
It's really quite funny especially if you read the reply by the grandparent's poster.
That's cool. It would have been seriously funny if you'd been all laid back and then won the damn thing.
Programming Pearls is a nice little book. It's very useful to a beginner but is probably a waste of money if you're already an established programmer. A lot of the tricks that are demonstrated in the book are common sense (for an experienced programmer).
If we do find an advanced alien civilization then they may merely decide that we are a violent race and decide to exterminate us for their own safety on the other hand if we were to find an alien race that was technologically inferior to us then no doubt some country or some people would either try to destroy them or abuse them because they could.
Consider how many wars are ongoing right here on Earth right now. There is no reason why we would necessarily have peaceful relations with aliens.
what adam said
This is a boneheaded remark. You could say the same thing about Sendmail. Perhaps he's just trolling?
Wow, is Gosling really that clueless?
If you choose to follow the path of Perl then you will eventually understand just how powerful it is. I can say this from experience. I know many programming languages and Perl is one of the most powerful. Python comes close but its syntax is ugly because it forces you to treat nearly everything as an object.
Damn! That's funny. Wish I had mod points!
Yeah, a lot of that is true but if you want your IT organization to be valued (and you by extension as well) you should treat the user (your customer) as king.
AFAIK, most open source software comes with the GNU configure script. It accepts something like --PREFIX=/your/install/directory for the whole package. Sure you'd have to do this for every package you install but it's a workable solution if you don't have admin rights on your computer.
Indeed you shouldn't do it if you don't need to. I recall a show where they profiled some ophthalmologists. One had the laser thing done to his eyes and promoted it. Another ophthalmologist wore glasses and said that he would not do it since he depended upon his vision and the procedure does carry some risk.
I know this is probably a bad thing to say but IE does provide a mechanism to "speed up" table layout. You specify the size of the columns immediately after declaring the <TABLE> tag. This provides a substantial boost in the perceived rendering of the table because the browser "knows" how wide the columns are and can proceed to render rows.
At any rate, you're probably better off at this point using Mozilla Firefox or just plain Mozilla.
Poor saps thought they could survive isolated from the world under a two mile sheet of ice. Hah!
Just imagine all those wonderful ice castles buried under tons of ice!!!
The Man Who Knew.
The irony of the situation is that this FBI agent suspected that Al Queda would attack the WTC again and when he quit the FBI he got a job as the Chief of Security at the WTC.
One of his friends asked him the night before 9/11 (and I'm paraphrasing) "John, when are they going to attack?" he replied. "I don't know when but soon."
Got news for ya. They're already working on it.
Alcubierre Warp Drive
Check out this screenshot.
Product Activation was one of the reasons why I moved to Mac OS X. Other reasons were UNIX + nice GUI. A surprise bonus reason that I discovered after switching was how easy it was to connect peripherals to my Mac. It just recognizes them! No more fighting with reinstalling device drivers and downloading the latest version. It just works.
You think plants are crazy? Check out humans. They swap so much bacteria its unbelievable. And if the bacteria kills that human, well, it's been selected against. That won't prevent them from picking up bacteria elsewhere.
So we don't have his wife in the current series? Oh well....