I used to carry a 24/7 pager for work, and a cell phone. But just when you needed it, the damn battery would die. Many times I used a payphone to save my ass.
Things are better now with the hardware, but I don't think it will be anytime soon when I would want to be stuck out somewhere and my pager going off without any backup.
Good riddance. I'm sick of the comertials. Who every thought that gold would be more stable than curency (even the US$) is just plain stupid. Just because you can put your hands on a piece of gold, doesn't mean that the price is stable.
>In face of NASA's past this is an afrontation to everyone who remembers the Challenger
I believe that this has everything to do with Challenger. They don't want to make the same mistake twice. I think to NASA, putting civilians in danger represents too much collateral risk, regardless if the sign wavers or whatever. More than anything it has to do with NASA's public relations problem (IMHO). It won't matter to people that this dude signed away his waver (just like it didn't matter that the teacher signed her's or whatever).
Yeah, they are more interesting in terms of features and downright excitement, but not every.0 release is usable. (there is an old IBM joke that you shouldn't use even numbered releases, only odd numbered ones, as IBM would put new features in the even numbers (0,2,4) and then actually fix the bugs created in the odd numberd ones (.1 fixed.0,.3 fixed.2, etc.)
yeah, they are okay for hacker kids wanting to apply all the new patches every day, but when you stability, you need to keep track of the point releases too. 2.4.0 wasn't the end-all-be-all for business you know. There were still some problems.
For programming in X-windows? very cool. now the window that I am looking at always gets the keyboard focus! (in focus-folows-pointer mode) That is something that I have wanted for a long time.
That is so cool, in fact, maybe it will finaly convice M$ to put a focus-follows-pointer mode in windows.
none of it, I assure you. Most sites have 3rd party adserving, so they don't have control over this. It is just part of life on the web, using a slow connection. The first thing that is requested will come back first, usualy the banner at the top. Also, 3rd party adservers have very strict rules (targets?) on how long an ad serve takes, the top serving companies try to garuntee less than 2 seconds (the best do it in sub-second times).
America will never keep Corporations in check while all of our politicians are financed by them. How do you think they stay so powerful?
But Corps are not the only problem, citizens need protection from the government too. (think: big brother). Do I sound crazy? Maybe, but hundreds of novelists and movie makers can't be all wrong!
While that may be true, most c libraries (where most random number routines come from) don't include an input from a geiger counter or something likewise, that can sense a truly random event. Thus, all theory aside, it is very difficult (even said to be impossile) for a standard PC or workstation or even most servers to emit truly random numbers.
I went through the same process about 10 years ago. I chose computer engineering. I feel that it is a better degree. Overall, however, you won't see any difference when finding a job: the degrees are pretty much the same.
Computer engineering has more of EE (electrical e) and more hard-core engineering (like statics and dynamics). Any you have a few less electives than you would with computer science (at least at my university).
Overall, I feel that CEs have a better foundation of how the software meshes with the hardware, which I think is important. That difference alone has helped me differenciate myself from the pack. I think that CE is harder than CS.
Keep in mind that YMMV (your mileage may vary), espacally depending on what school you go to.
Maybe if the price wasn't so high, more people would participate. I am hard-up for a larger pipe, but $70/month is too much. It's hard using 33.6bps after having a cable connection where I used to live. They are the only service in my area, but the price is way too steep.
This is pretty much why communism doesn't work. The state (in this case the sw developer) can't possible foresee every possible combination of user and operation (in communism it is consumer and product). Thus we have systems that support a lot of basic operations (basicly CPU ops) that can be combined into a system. (in communism, the answer is the free market).
This is what gives software its strength: flexibility. The ability to build something beyond the dreams of the developer (did Intel have to imagine windows2000 or linux to make it happen? no, they just made the cpu and other folks built on it).
It is also what makes software so sloppy: sometimes the pieces don't fit together corretly. I wouldn't blame the paradigm here, but the programmer or the methods.
First of all: you're one of my heroes.
Now my question: Do you feel like that ksh really has a future as far as the development of it? I've always thought that zsh is ksh on LSD or something. Do you feel like there is anything "new" to do with it? or has bash and zsh, etc done it all?
There is nothing in the bible that says you can't have sex with 14 year-olds, thus, I don't think you can say that God said not to do that.
Moreover, the US (and most countries) holds its people to a lower standard that absolute morality. It's called freedom in case you haven't heard of it. In fact, God is into it as well. We choose what standard we follow.
I think you miss the point. Not that 64Kbps is high quality, but that removing the watermark should, thereoriticaly (hasn't been proven otherwise yet) destory the original recording, thus making it unusable, thus not worth anything.
Perhaps Katz is correct. I think that the 2 party system has outlived its usefulness here in the USA. At least the current two parties. We seem to have idiots that just vote for whatever party they have chosen long ago (for the most part, I am one of those idiots too) and then you have a few "swing voters," who vote based on one, usually insignificant topic.
Some say that this apathy is only on the net, but I think its everywhere. Some say that it is related to the current choice of candidates, but this has been going on for some time.
It may sound somewhat utopian, but maybe it's real.
My first question is though: what is next? We need some way to run the country; currently it is with politics. Marxists would say that communism/socialism is coming after this. But I just don't know.
Another question is: that is real nice for the rich to say "the internet is making representative government obsolete," but what about the folks that can't/don't afford/understand this ephemeral community we call the "'net"? You could say that current politics are only of interest to the elite, so what's the difference? I say that we need something better, not just some "net savvy" version of the status quo.
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I used to carry a 24/7 pager for work, and a cell phone. But just when you needed it, the damn battery would die. Many times I used a payphone to save my ass.
Things are better now with the hardware, but I don't think it will be anytime soon when I would want to be stuck out somewhere and my pager going off without any backup.
why would you throttle power consuption on a desktop? Seems like it would make more sense just to disipate the heat better.
Just doesn't make sense.
someday.
>that are next big _similar_ project used Domino and Sametime.
ouch, I'm very sorry about that. I guess that's one way to punish employees for messing up the MS licenses.
Good riddance. I'm sick of the comertials. Who every thought that gold would be more stable than curency (even the US$) is just plain stupid. Just because you can put your hands on a piece of gold, doesn't mean that the price is stable.
bah!
>In face of NASA's past this is an afrontation to everyone who remembers the Challenger
I believe that this has everything to do with Challenger. They don't want to make the same mistake twice. I think to NASA, putting civilians in danger represents too much collateral risk, regardless if the sign wavers or whatever. More than anything it has to do with NASA's public relations problem (IMHO). It won't matter to people that this dude signed away his waver (just like it didn't matter that the teacher signed her's or whatever).
Yeah, they are more interesting in terms of features and downright excitement, but not every .0 release is usable. (there is an old IBM joke that you shouldn't use even numbered releases, only odd numbered ones, as IBM would put new features in the even numbers (0,2,4) and then actually fix the bugs created in the odd numberd ones (.1 fixed .0, .3 fixed .2, etc.)
yeah, they are okay for hacker kids wanting to apply all the new patches every day, but when you stability, you need to keep track of the point releases too. 2.4.0 wasn't the end-all-be-all for business you know. There were still some problems.
for games, yes, I would get whiplash very soon.
For programming in X-windows? very cool. now the window that I am looking at always gets the keyboard focus! (in focus-folows-pointer mode) That is something that I have wanted for a long time.
That is so cool, in fact, maybe it will finaly convice M$ to put a focus-follows-pointer mode in windows.
none of it, I assure you. Most sites have 3rd party adserving, so they don't have control over this. It is just part of life on the web, using a slow connection. The first thing that is requested will come back first, usualy the banner at the top. Also, 3rd party adservers have very strict rules (targets?) on how long an ad serve takes, the top serving companies try to garuntee less than 2 seconds (the best do it in sub-second times).
America will never keep Corporations in check while all of our politicians are financed by them. How do you think they stay so powerful?
But Corps are not the only problem, citizens need protection from the government too. (think: big brother). Do I sound crazy? Maybe, but hundreds of novelists and movie makers can't be all wrong!
While that may be true, most c libraries (where most random number routines come from) don't include an input from a geiger counter or something likewise, that can sense a truly random event. Thus, all theory aside, it is very difficult (even said to be impossile) for a standard PC or workstation or even most servers to emit truly random numbers.
I went through the same process about 10 years ago. I chose computer engineering. I feel that it is a better degree. Overall, however, you won't see any difference when finding a job: the degrees are pretty much the same.
Computer engineering has more of EE (electrical e) and more hard-core engineering (like statics and dynamics). Any you have a few less electives than you would with computer science (at least at my university).
Overall, I feel that CEs have a better foundation of how the software meshes with the hardware, which I think is important. That difference alone has helped me differenciate myself from the pack. I think that CE is harder than CS.
Keep in mind that YMMV (your mileage may vary), espacally depending on what school you go to.
HTH
Maybe if the price wasn't so high, more people would participate. I am hard-up for a larger pipe, but $70/month is too much. It's hard using 33.6bps after having a cable connection where I used to live. They are the only service in my area, but the price is way too steep.
This is pretty much why communism doesn't work. The state (in this case the sw developer) can't possible foresee every possible combination of user and operation (in communism it is consumer and product). Thus we have systems that support a lot of basic operations (basicly CPU ops) that can be combined into a system. (in communism, the answer is the free market). This is what gives software its strength: flexibility. The ability to build something beyond the dreams of the developer (did Intel have to imagine windows2000 or linux to make it happen? no, they just made the cpu and other folks built on it). It is also what makes software so sloppy: sometimes the pieces don't fit together corretly. I wouldn't blame the paradigm here, but the programmer or the methods.
Dude, "big iron" mean mainframe. Sun doesn't make a mainframe.
First of all: you're one of my heroes. Now my question: Do you feel like that ksh really has a future as far as the development of it? I've always thought that zsh is ksh on LSD or something. Do you feel like there is anything "new" to do with it? or has bash and zsh, etc done it all?
There is nothing in the bible that says you can't have sex with 14 year-olds, thus, I don't think you can say that God said not to do that. Moreover, the US (and most countries) holds its people to a lower standard that absolute morality. It's called freedom in case you haven't heard of it. In fact, God is into it as well. We choose what standard we follow.
Some say that this apathy is only on the net, but I think its everywhere. Some say that it is related to the current choice of candidates, but this has been going on for some time.
It may sound somewhat utopian, but maybe it's real.
My first question is though: what is next? We need some way to run the country; currently it is with politics. Marxists would say that communism/socialism is coming after this. But I just don't know.
Another question is: that is real nice for the rich to say "the internet is making representative government obsolete," but what about the folks that can't/don't afford/understand this ephemeral community we call the "'net"? You could say that current politics are only of interest to the elite, so what's the difference? I say that we need something better, not just some "net savvy" version of the status quo.