A Toyota Prius or Honda Civic Hybrid model that I could plug into a wall outlet for the night to reduce fuel consumption even further. It's a pity they can't recharge like that.
Even better, a _diesel_ Toyota Prius that can recharge the same way. That thing would get 50mpg from the engine alone, plus synergy drive would probably drive fuel consumption down even further.
1. Do a test confirming that oxytocin makes people dumber 2. Launch large scale manufacturing of oxytocin impregnated sprays to be used in conference rooms nationwide 3. Profit!
Why do I need a cellphone with two dozen non-phone related features that I don't need? Why can't I buy a lower-clocked PDA with longer battery life? Blaming battery manufacturers for power requirements is like suing McDonalds for making people fat. Doesn't make any sense.
Considering the nuclear arsenals many countries on this planet have, you could get billions of people out off planet in about 15 minutes. They'd have to burn alive, though, to get out of here.
What Stallman should do instead is put together a LARGE portfolio of patents based on GNU software. I'm sure there's a ton of patentable inventions in FOSS, and I'm also sure many developers wouldn't mind patenting their stuff to protect it from being ripped off by large corporations, given that FSF holds the patent and provides a perpetual, royalty free license to whoever wants to use it for developing open source, GPL/LGPL licensed software.
Let's face it, software patents as ridiculous as they are, are here to stay. This is why to stay in the game an organization like FSF needs a large protective patent portfolio (kinda like the one Microsoft has).
This also creates some money making opportunities for FSF, because they could sue the most vehement opponents of FOSS software pretty much at will for infringement on FSF and its contributors' "intellectual property" and request ridiculous sums of money in damages.
It depends on what the term RAD means to you. If it means using safe language with verifiable intermediate code, garbage collection and a large, managed library of well designed components available to it, then.NET (and Java) is a RAD tool. It cuts down significantly on boilerplate code which no one can deny is a good thing.
If it means Borland Delphi, then no, I wouldn't advise to use THAT for this system either.
Quite frankly, I'd rather see this system implemented in a managed language, be it Java or one of.NET languages, for the reasons of security. A language that by design doesn't have buffer overflows, pointer errors or memory leaks (I know you can still have them, but you have to make a conscious effort).
Its other benefits pertinent to this task are: 1. Unicode, l10n and i18n awareness "baked in". 2. Future-proof, will run on 64bit hardware once 64 bit URT comes out 3. As efficient as unmanaged code written without "shortcuts". Gets compiled into machine code when executed. 4. Easy to deploy and maintain. IIS6 on Windows 2003 is the most secure among the commonly used web servers according to Secunia.
>> That is the driving force behind many of the >> police powers that the state has frightened the >> public into approving.
Nah, nobody has frightened "public" into approving anything. Public simply doesn't give a shit anymore, and even if it did, it would not be able to affect the voting outcomes in the House or Senate. Write to your representative, but please choose soft paper, because the guy is very likely to wipe his ass with whatever you wrote.
What we need to do now is abolish taxation, because there should be no taxation without representation.
Think of all you learn as of power tools. Sure you can go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of tools. Will this make you a good carpenter? No. You don't know how to use the tools and how to produce stuff people may find useful.
Same with science. In order to do research you have to know your tools. Math, physics, chemistry, etc. Four years is not enough to give you these things even on the most basic level. I've spent 6 years getting my M.Sc. degree (not in the US) and I wish I could go back and spend a couple of years more, knowing what I will need in the field.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I now have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay off, so going back to school is not an option financially.
If you're a student right now, absorb the knowledge as efficiently as you can. Go really deep into subjects, understand them on the most fundamental level. Know how to use your tools. You sure won't be able to recall the most intricate details of what you're studying right now three years down the road, but you'll at least know where to look.
They scale well enough if you understand what you're doing. If you just mindlessly sit there and write code without scalability in mind, then you'll have problems with any other language.
And try to write a large (by large I mean more than 200K lines of code), componentized, interoperable, maintainable system in Perl or Python and see how that scales for you.
You should have started with.NET when it came out, i.e. 4 years ago. Half a year of experience doesn't lend much weight to your words.
.NET is the most advanced RAD environment on the market today. It's a joy to program in, and it's so well designed that in 99.5% of cases you don't even need documentation. Things are just done the way they should be done..NET is also standardized with open, publicly available specification available to anyone. Whidbey release gets even more things right (generics, partial classes, nullable types, etc.)
The only downside is that.NET only runs on Windows. I know about Mono, but it's not quite there yet, and my guess is it'll always be at least one year behind and not ready for deployment.
If they want to see my hairy ass for five secons, that's fine with me. Just don't ask me to take off my fucking jacket and shoes and go through the metal detector three times.
I don't even perceive this as invasion of privacy. If airlines (or TSA) were smart, they'd run both "old fashioned" and "X-ray" things in parallel. X-ray line would move much faster, so people would be going there even though this means showing someone their hairy asses.
The last Logitech product that was worth its price was TrackMan Marble FX trackball. I have three of them. Two at home and one at work. Whenever anyone says they have wrist pain, I just recommend them to use Marble FX.
Too bad Logitech is no longer making it. The wireless POS they're currently making doesn't even come close.
Yup, but he's also one of the wealthiest and most connected men in Russian political elite. He won't be running for president, that's for sure. But he can get someone else elected. Russian people are sheep, they'll vote for whoever does better PR (as demonstrated by Putin).
One thing is what he "states", and another is what he really does. There's very little in common between Putin's speeches and the stuff he does after giving speeches.
Consider the "dictature of law" doctrine that he so vehemently supported when he came into office. For some reason, dictature of law applies only to his (or his buddy oligrachs') political opponents. Khodorkovsky was an opponent, Chubais is an opponent, Berezovsky, Gusinsky, you can continue this list yourself. Abramovich, Deripaska, Mamut, etc. however didn't get any attention at all from DOJ even though every Russian knows these fellas can be sentenced to at least 10 years each without trial. Just dig a little bit and you'll find some "tax obligations". Please note, I'm not saying Khodorkovsky is not a thief, because he obviously is. However, of all the billionaire Russian thieves he's probably the most humane one. His only mistake was to take on Putin.
So don't judge Putin by what he says. He says one thing and does another.
There's a Russian politician of Yeltsin era, Anatoly Chubais who is in charge of RAO UES Russia (which is an uber-organization controlling production and distribution of energy in Russia).
While the guy is not as powerful as he was a few years ago, he still poses a significant threat to Putin's third (and fourth, and so on) term presidency, and further concentration of power in Putin's hands.
So within half a few hours of outage, Putin blamed Chubais directly for this, and Russian justice dept opened up a criminal case against him. If you know anything about Russia, you know that Russian DOJ (Prokuratura) doesn't start criminal cases against wealthy and powerfull businessmen and politicians unless instructed to do so by Putin.
So I'd bet dollars against donuts that this outage was caused by folks from Lubyanka (FSB aka KGB) purely to remove Chubais, and if cards play well maybe even give him a lengthy prison term.
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A Toyota Prius or Honda Civic Hybrid model that I could plug into a wall outlet for the night to reduce fuel consumption even further. It's a pity they can't recharge like that.
Even better, a _diesel_ Toyota Prius that can recharge the same way. That thing would get 50mpg from the engine alone, plus synergy drive would probably drive fuel consumption down even further.
1. Do a test confirming that oxytocin makes people dumber
2. Launch large scale manufacturing of oxytocin impregnated sprays to be used in conference rooms nationwide
3. Profit!
Why do I need a cellphone with two dozen non-phone related features that I don't need? Why can't I buy a lower-clocked PDA with longer battery life? Blaming battery manufacturers for power requirements is like suing McDonalds for making people fat. Doesn't make any sense.
By the time you get through their formulae you'll develop a tumor.
Considering the nuclear arsenals many countries on this planet have, you could get billions of people out off planet in about 15 minutes. They'd have to burn alive, though, to get out of here.
What Stallman should do instead is put together a LARGE portfolio of patents based on GNU software. I'm sure there's a ton of patentable inventions in FOSS, and I'm also sure many developers wouldn't mind patenting their stuff to protect it from being ripped off by large corporations, given that FSF holds the patent and provides a perpetual, royalty free license to whoever wants to use it for developing open source, GPL/LGPL licensed software.
Let's face it, software patents as ridiculous as they are, are here to stay. This is why to stay in the game an organization like FSF needs a large protective patent portfolio (kinda like the one Microsoft has).
This also creates some money making opportunities for FSF, because they could sue the most vehement opponents of FOSS software pretty much at will for infringement on FSF and its contributors' "intellectual property" and request ridiculous sums of money in damages.
It depends on what the term RAD means to you. If it means using safe language with verifiable intermediate code, garbage collection and a large, managed library of well designed components available to it, then .NET (and Java) is a RAD tool. It cuts down significantly on boilerplate code which no one can deny is a good thing.
.NET languages, for the reasons of security. A language that by design doesn't have buffer overflows, pointer errors or memory leaks (I know you can still have them, but you have to make a conscious effort).
If it means Borland Delphi, then no, I wouldn't advise to use THAT for this system either.
Quite frankly, I'd rather see this system implemented in a managed language, be it Java or one of
Its other benefits pertinent to this task are:
1. Unicode, l10n and i18n awareness "baked in".
2. Future-proof, will run on 64bit hardware once 64 bit URT comes out
3. As efficient as unmanaged code written without "shortcuts". Gets compiled into machine code when executed.
4. Easy to deploy and maintain. IIS6 on Windows 2003 is the most secure among the commonly used web servers according to Secunia.
Check this out:
IIS6: http://secunia.com/product/1438/
Apache 2: http://secunia.com/product/73/
Apache 1.3.x: http://secunia.com/product/72/
Hard to believe, eh?
>> That is the driving force behind many of the
>> police powers that the state has frightened the
>> public into approving.
Nah, nobody has frightened "public" into approving anything. Public simply doesn't give a shit anymore, and even if it did, it would not be able to affect the voting outcomes in the House or Senate. Write to your representative, but please choose soft paper, because the guy is very likely to wipe his ass with whatever you wrote.
What we need to do now is abolish taxation, because there should be no taxation without representation.
Think of all you learn as of power tools. Sure you can go to Home Depot and buy a bunch of tools. Will this make you a good carpenter? No. You don't know how to use the tools and how to produce stuff people may find useful.
Same with science. In order to do research you have to know your tools. Math, physics, chemistry, etc. Four years is not enough to give you these things even on the most basic level. I've spent 6 years getting my M.Sc. degree (not in the US) and I wish I could go back and spend a couple of years more, knowing what I will need in the field.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I now have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay off, so going back to school is not an option financially.
If you're a student right now, absorb the knowledge as efficiently as you can. Go really deep into subjects, understand them on the most fundamental level. Know how to use your tools. You sure won't be able to recall the most intricate details of what you're studying right now three years down the road, but you'll at least know where to look.
They scale well enough if you understand what you're doing. If you just mindlessly sit there and write code without scalability in mind, then you'll have problems with any other language.
.NET when it came out, i.e. 4 years ago. Half a year of experience doesn't lend much weight to your words.
And try to write a large (by large I mean more than 200K lines of code), componentized, interoperable, maintainable system in Perl or Python and see how that scales for you.
You should have started with
.NET is the most advanced RAD environment on the market today. It's a joy to program in, and it's so well designed that in 99.5% of cases you don't even need documentation. Things are just done the way they should be done. .NET is also standardized with open, publicly available specification available to anyone. Whidbey release gets even more things right (generics, partial classes, nullable types, etc.)
.NET only runs on Windows. I know about Mono, but it's not quite there yet, and my guess is it'll always be at least one year behind and not ready for deployment.
The only downside is that
Does she have hairy ass?
You'll never outsmart a human, 'cause you know, you're a human yourself.
This includes spam that users themselves mark as such. Very smart idea if ISPs actually use it.
Someone with a gun would get stopped by metal detector in either of the lines.
Nah. When you don't control the TV you have no PR. Laymen don't read newspapers, especially liberal newspapers. And TV only shows VVP.
If they want to see my hairy ass for five secons, that's fine with me. Just don't ask me to take off my fucking jacket and shoes and go through the metal detector three times.
I don't even perceive this as invasion of privacy. If airlines (or TSA) were smart, they'd run both "old fashioned" and "X-ray" things in parallel. X-ray line would move much faster, so people would be going there even though this means showing someone their hairy asses.
The last Logitech product that was worth its price was TrackMan Marble FX trackball. I have three of them. Two at home and one at work. Whenever anyone says they have wrist pain, I just recommend them to use Marble FX.
Too bad Logitech is no longer making it. The wireless POS they're currently making doesn't even come close.
We're using it quite a lot in our company. I estimate that every time we use it the company saves $5-10K. :0)
http://www.microsoft.com/office/livemeeting/prodin fo/default.mspx
Yup, but he's also one of the wealthiest and most connected men in Russian political elite. He won't be running for president, that's for sure. But he can get someone else elected. Russian people are sheep, they'll vote for whoever does better PR (as demonstrated by Putin).
What's his daughter browsing? Hardcore pr0n and warez sites?
One thing is what he "states", and another is what he really does. There's very little in common between Putin's speeches and the stuff he does after giving speeches.
Consider the "dictature of law" doctrine that he so vehemently supported when he came into office. For some reason, dictature of law applies only to his (or his buddy oligrachs') political opponents. Khodorkovsky was an opponent, Chubais is an opponent, Berezovsky, Gusinsky, you can continue this list yourself. Abramovich, Deripaska, Mamut, etc. however didn't get any attention at all from DOJ even though every Russian knows these fellas can be sentenced to at least 10 years each without trial. Just dig a little bit and you'll find some "tax obligations". Please note, I'm not saying Khodorkovsky is not a thief, because he obviously is. However, of all the billionaire Russian thieves he's probably the most humane one. His only mistake was to take on Putin.
So don't judge Putin by what he says. He says one thing and does another.
There's a Russian politician of Yeltsin era, Anatoly Chubais who is in charge of RAO UES Russia (which is an uber-organization controlling production and distribution of energy in Russia).
While the guy is not as powerful as he was a few years ago, he still poses a significant threat to Putin's third (and fourth, and so on) term presidency, and further concentration of power in Putin's hands.
So within half a few hours of outage, Putin blamed Chubais directly for this, and Russian justice dept opened up a criminal case against him. If you know anything about Russia, you know that Russian DOJ (Prokuratura) doesn't start criminal cases against wealthy and powerfull businessmen and politicians unless instructed to do so by Putin.
So I'd bet dollars against donuts that this outage was caused by folks from Lubyanka (FSB aka KGB) purely to remove Chubais, and if cards play well maybe even give him a lengthy prison term.
Will it include their patented "Click of Death" technology?