Java has NO! parametrised types This means that generic programming is impossible. One specific consequence of that is, that collections cannot be type-safe, and you loose a lot of the help that type-errors can buy you.
Java doesn't have "const" (and friends) which means that when you give someone an object reference you have no control over what they do with that. When returning read-only object, the only solution is to clone() them. Very expensive!
Could you be a little more specific when you say that collections can't be type-safe? Are you referring to putting several different instances of different objects into a collection and then being able to weed out the different instances by object type? I've done that in Java. It's really easy if they all implement the same interface. Once can iterate through the collection and call the same method for totally different objects. Also according to this page, one can create constants in Java. Or are you referring to defining parameters to methods as const so that the compiler won't let you modify them? I will admit that having to have wrapper classes for the primitive types is a pain.
Microsoft has been able to use multiple mice to drive one pointer since Win 3.1. I don't know when they first implemented this, but it was a feature of the MS EasyBall. It plugged into one serial port and an conventional mouse plugged into the other. When the normal mouse was used, the mouse pointer was like..er.. well..normal. When the EasyBall was used, the pointer would change shape. This was so a parent and a child could interact with the computer. I doubt very many geeks would use it: it had only one button, and the trackball was yellow and about the size of a softball. Given that the base of white, it looked like a mutant fried egg.
ANSI standard tapes haven't gone away. I worked on some ANSI tape utilities a few years ago. They were used on 9track, 8mm, DAT, IBM 3480(?), etc. Sure, it might not be as widespread as tar, cpio or some other formats, but many places still use them.
Buying and then giving away Microsoft products & services is not my idea of charity. Sounds more like yet another scheme to make sure the company can meet quarterly sales goals to me.
It's not a limit on how much you can work, it's a limit before the company has to pay overtime. The law in CA is such that any time worked over 8 hours a day is considered overtime. NV has a similiar law, but it is a 12 hour limit before overtime kicks in. (IMHO, CA employment laws are among the most screwed up in the nation) I also believe in most states being salaried being salaried implies that overtime isn't an option. When I worked for a Federal contractor, I could put in as many hours as I wanted. However, only the first 40 counted. I didn't care. I was having fun writing code on high powered workstations.
Yes they can. It can use any dialup PPP provider, even a free one if they still exist in your area (check out http://nzlist.org/user/freeisp
). Worldshare even has instructions on how to do it at http://www.worldshare.com/new/config_webtv.htm. It's probably the same routine for most ISPs. Unfortunately, most of the free ISPs require Windows.
It was the sister/tobacco comination that I was referring to, not the Peace Corps. Gore has always sucked up to the tobacco industry and still does even after his sister's death. He should have gotten an Oscar for his 1996 speech. I used to work for the Federal Govt and it was stressed that it was against the law to use any Govt equipment or facilities for political purposes. There would be a difference if it was a cell phone bought with personal funds and not the taxpayer furnished. Check out
this WND story about Gore's TN pollution. But I suppose since it goes against your views about Gore, you won't put much weight in them either.
When Johnson ended a draft deferment program, anyone who flunked out of undergraduate school was automatically eligilble for the draft. As a result many professors that were opposed to the war inflated grades to make sure people wouldn't flunk out (ie. if you just showed up you would get a C or better). It was probably similar to what's currently being done to keep athletes in college. It was explained in in the second link (which you probably didn't notice because Slashdot screwed up the first one, which worked just fine in preview mode).
No, if you look at the bottom of the chart, the total population for the counties that Bush won is greater than the population of the counties that Gore won and that population base is growing faster. It is significant in that it shows that Gore's support is primarily in metro areas or areas dominated by unions & minorities.
And how many people do you know that use proper English in normal conversations? Bush is also apparently fluent in Spanish. The citizens of Texas apparently like the job he did as governor for that state. He won healthy percentages of every demographic segment of the population. There were even Democrats from the TX state legislature campaigning for Bush in other states because they thought he did a great job in that state and could do the same for the country. I don't recall any Republicans campaigning for Gore.
The FL Supreme Court set the deadline of 17:00 11/26/2K or if the office wasn't open 09:00 the next morning. IMHO, Gore only offered the hand recount for every county only because he wanted to continue the trolling for votes in the large counties that he won by quite large margins. Bush is forcing the counties to count the overseas absentee ballots that were excluded using the formula that the FL Attorney General (a Demo) initially sent out to each election commission. He later recanted these instructions because of the flack he received for excluding a significant number of military absentee ballots. The lawsuit is to make sure the counties abide by the revised rules. Also, if the US Senate decides which elector slate is valid, it is the current one, which isn't 50-50.
It needs to get wrapped up pretty quickly at least so the president-elect can assemble a cabinet, WH staff, etc. All these people have to go through FBI background checks and get started with the process of transition. Gore could have an easier time doing this by just keeping the bulk of Clinton's staff.
I also wonder how many people in the Western states didn't vote because the networks called Florida prematurely and started predicting that Gore had it wrapped up. I've heard of several reports that when people at the polls in Western Florida heard that FL had been called for Gore, they just turned around and left. You also have to wonder how many Gore votes are due to the fiasco in St. Louis.
By the time this thing is out, m100plus will be something like 59.99. And Tiger Electronic will be selling purple Barbie Palm.
Vtech had a PDA for the kid/young teen market called Phusion for around $100. It had a built in digital camera and could sync up with a PC. The product page for it at VTech seems to have been dropped into the bit bucket, so it may have been discontinued.
The highways are subsidized from the gasoline/diesel fuel taxes, so they do actually pay for themselves. In fact, there are several states that are griping that the gas taxes generate more revenue than what is paid out for construction and maintenance.
The interstate highway system killed the passenger train service. Not only was it subsidized (although there are a few toll roads), it offered something that the trains couldn't: freedom. A traveller could decide when and where they wanted to go w/o having to consult some schedule or worry about strikes, annoying/threatening people on the train, etc. The same reasons apply for local commute traffic also.
Where it's been built, fast light rail in the US has been a success. Park & ride lots in the suburbs with fast train routes to downtown business/manufacturing centers make a lot of sense. The Feds should also include all light trucks (SUVs, pickups, vans) in the CAFE standards that the auto makers are supposed to comply with. The popularity of SUVs not only contributes to a lot of extra oil usage, but shows that many Americans have more money than brains (a SUV typically costs $2-5K _extra_ a year to operate). It still amazes me to see one person commuting in huge SUV. Good grief! If you have the cash to afford one of those beasts, they have the cash to have a cheap used econobox for commuting.
They have the complete 7.5.3 available at ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Softw are_Updates/English-North_American/ Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7 .5.3/ and have the update to 7.5.5 at ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Softw are_Updates/English-North_American/ Macintosh/System/System_7.5.5_Update/ (/. forced line breaks are a pain) updates for other versions of MacOS are available too. I have upgraded my SE/30 and my emulated mac on x86 linux (using Basilisk II) to 7.5.3 and then 7.5.5 [the SE/30 also runs Debian 2.2 w/ X]
No, they just sell well below the local guys' outrageous markup for the same products. Unless it was for something needed immediately or just a handfull of items, my parents rarely shopped the stores in the small town near our farm. It was cheaper to buy the merchandise at the malls & big supermarkets in the cities 40 to 100 miles away than it was to drive 3 miles into town and buy it there. In the cases where Wal-Mart moves into a town that may be a little too small for one of their stores, the only local merchants that will survive are the ones that are the ones that adapt and offer products & services that Wal-Mart doesn't. In the larger areas, Wal-Mart will usually make the other chain stores get their act together and start having decent prices & service.
We gave out halloween styled pencils. All the kids really liked them. Although, I did give out linux CDs when I was on vacation. Any B&B owner that had a computer was given a linux CD with the URLs of several common sites, plus the web page for a LUG in their area. I wouldn't give out CDs to little kids for halloween, but if any teenagers wanted them, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
Macrovision ONLY screws with the automatic gain control in the RECORDING circuity of the VCR! It has NO effect while you're NOT recording... unless of course you've got one wacky VHS VCR.:)
Then a lot of the available VCRs are screwed up. I bought a few from BestBuy and promptly returned them because they all had this feature when just used in a passthru mode. Some were worse than others, but the video always faded in and out. No tapes were even in the VCRs! Betamax may be immune to macrovision, but I haven't seen betamax tapes in the stores for years and haven't even seen one in the local pawn shops either. Besides, who wants to try to find space for yet another big box in the entertainment center just so they can watch a freaking DVD? I don't
I had to do this too. Our old stereo VCR got fried when I was hooking it back up after moving it. It was only 2-3 years old and I was able to run the DVD output into the VCR inputs. This worked great because the VCR output then went to a home theater system. With the new VCR, the DVD video would just fade between the correct video brightness and blank out the TV. I initially thought I had a bad VCR (cheap BestBuy symphonic), but then I remembered Macrovision. The documentation said that this would happen if I tried to record Macrovision protected video, but nothing about just passing it through the player. So in order to get the DVD player to work, I have to pass it's output into the home theater system's camcorder inputs, from the HT into the radio shack box that switches between it and the VCR coax output. A royal pain and yet another device that needs a 120V connection. All so the MPAA can make sure that I don't copy a DVD to VHS. I wish they'd get a clue and realize that the real pirates already have the means to flawlessly copy their products and all these 'protection' methods just piss off the average consumer.
Are there any current DVD/VCR players that can be set to ignore Macrovision? If there are any, I'd like to buy one just to reduce the rat's nest of cables in my entertainment center.
They had both. The consultant's machine was an Apple, but the other consoles in the room were SGIs. The machine in the background was supposed to be a Connection Machine. I was at a SGI conference at the time that Jurassic Park came out. Some of the ILM people who worked on the film were there and talked about what they did for the on-the-set computers. For each console that an actor was sitting in front of, there was a duplicate one behind the scenes being controlled by a geek. They didn't want the actors to have to really type or do any mouse navigation...just pretend to do it.
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Could you be a little more specific when you say that collections can't be type-safe? Are you referring to putting several different instances of different objects into a collection and then being able to weed out the different instances by object type? I've done that in Java. It's really easy if they all implement the same interface. Once can iterate through the collection and call the same method for totally different objects. Also according to this page, one can create constants in Java. Or are you referring to defining parameters to methods as const so that the compiler won't let you modify them? I will admit that having to have wrapper classes for the primitive types is a pain.
no...save yourself the angst...wait until your married.
Microsoft has been able to use multiple mice to drive one pointer since Win 3.1. I don't know when they first implemented this, but it was a feature of the MS EasyBall. It plugged into one serial port and an conventional mouse plugged into the other. When the normal mouse was used, the mouse pointer was like ..er.. well..normal. When the EasyBall was used, the pointer would change shape. This was so a parent and a child could interact with the computer. I doubt very many geeks would use it: it had only one button, and the trackball was yellow and about the size of a softball. Given that the base of white, it looked like a mutant fried egg.
ANSI standard tapes haven't gone away. I worked on some ANSI tape utilities a few years ago. They were used on 9track, 8mm, DAT, IBM 3480(?), etc. Sure, it might not be as widespread as tar, cpio or some other formats, but many places still use them.
Buying and then giving away Microsoft products & services is not my idea of charity. Sounds more like yet another scheme to make sure the company can meet quarterly sales goals to me.
It's not a limit on how much you can work, it's a limit before the company has to pay overtime. The law in CA is such that any time worked over 8 hours a day is considered overtime. NV has a similiar law, but it is a 12 hour limit before overtime kicks in. (IMHO, CA employment laws are among the most screwed up in the nation) I also believe in most states being salaried being salaried implies that overtime isn't an option. When I worked for a Federal contractor, I could put in as many hours as I wanted. However, only the first 40 counted. I didn't care. I was having fun writing code on high powered workstations.
I found this after my first post. Here is the page from WebTV on how to use another ISP: http://www.webtv.com/company/isps/ispsfaqs.html
Yes they can. It can use any dialup PPP provider, even a free one if they still exist in your area (check out http://nzlist.org/user/freeisp ). Worldshare even has instructions on how to do it at http://www.worldshare.com/new/config_webtv.htm. It's probably the same routine for most ISPs. Unfortunately, most of the free ISPs require Windows.
It was the sister/tobacco comination that I was referring to, not the Peace Corps. Gore has always sucked up to the tobacco industry and still does even after his sister's death. He should have gotten an Oscar for his 1996 speech. I used to work for the Federal Govt and it was stressed that it was against the law to use any Govt equipment or facilities for political purposes. There would be a difference if it was a cell phone bought with personal funds and not the taxpayer furnished. Check out this WND story about Gore's TN pollution. But I suppose since it goes against your views about Gore, you won't put much weight in them either.
When Johnson ended a draft deferment program, anyone who flunked out of undergraduate school was automatically eligilble for the draft. As a result many professors that were opposed to the war inflated grades to make sure people wouldn't flunk out (ie. if you just showed up you would get a C or better). It was probably similar to what's currently being done to keep athletes in college. It was explained in in the second link (which you probably didn't notice because Slashdot screwed up the first one, which worked just fine in preview mode).
No, if you look at the bottom of the chart, the total population for the counties that Bush won is greater than the population of the counties that Gore won and that population base is growing faster. It is significant in that it shows that Gore's support is primarily in metro areas or areas dominated by unions & minorities.
And how many people do you know that use proper English in normal conversations? Bush is also apparently fluent in Spanish. The citizens of Texas apparently like the job he did as governor for that state. He won healthy percentages of every demographic segment of the population. There were even Democrats from the TX state legislature campaigning for Bush in other states because they thought he did a great job in that state and could do the same for the country. I don't recall any Republicans campaigning for Gore.
Also check out this Washington Post story& lt;/a> . Although Gore's SAT scores were better than Bush's (1355 vs 1206), he did worse in college. He got a D in Earth Science (poor in Science overall) and a C- in economics. Most of his improvements in his junior & senior years have been attributed to grade inflation by anti Vietnam war professors. Bush also got an MBA from Harvard while Gore got five Fs before dropping out of Vanderbilt Divinity School. Also given his big lies about his sister, tobacco, Love Canal, campagin fund raising, the polution generated by his properties in TN, etc., I'd hardly consider Gore a model of character and integrity.
The FL Supreme Court set the deadline of 17:00 11/26/2K or if the office wasn't open 09:00 the next morning. IMHO, Gore only offered the hand recount for every county only because he wanted to continue the trolling for votes in the large counties that he won by quite large margins. Bush is forcing the counties to count the overseas absentee ballots that were excluded using the formula that the FL Attorney General (a Demo) initially sent out to each election commission. He later recanted these instructions because of the flack he received for excluding a significant number of military absentee ballots. The lawsuit is to make sure the counties abide by the revised rules. Also, if the US Senate decides which elector slate is valid, it is the current one, which isn't 50-50.
It needs to get wrapped up pretty quickly at least so the president-elect can assemble a cabinet, WH staff, etc. All these people have to go through FBI background checks and get started with the process of transition. Gore could have an easier time doing this by just keeping the bulk of Clinton's staff.
A good map of the US by who won the electorial college votes by state is at http://www.usatoday.com/news/ vot e2000/electfront.htm. An even better map is the one that shows who won each county. This map is at http://www.usatoday.com/news/vot e20 00/cbc/map.htm There are several states where Gore only won a handful of counties and three where he didn't win any.
I also wonder how many people in the Western states didn't vote because the networks called Florida prematurely and started predicting that Gore had it wrapped up. I've heard of several reports that when people at the polls in Western Florida heard that FL had been called for Gore, they just turned around and left. You also have to wonder how many Gore votes are due to the fiasco in St. Louis.
By the time this thing is out, m100plus will be something like 59.99. And Tiger Electronic will be selling purple Barbie Palm.
Vtech had a PDA for the kid/young teen market called Phusion for around $100. It had a built in digital camera and could sync up with a PC. The product page for it at VTech seems to have been dropped into the bit bucket, so it may have been discontinued.
3- I'd like me a beowulf cluster of these...
I believe this is daughter #3, so it looks like Linus & Tove are working on that. =)
The highways are subsidized from the gasoline/diesel fuel taxes, so they do actually pay for themselves. In fact, there are several states that are griping that the gas taxes generate more revenue than what is paid out for construction and maintenance.
The interstate highway system killed the passenger train service. Not only was it subsidized (although there are a few toll roads), it offered something that the trains couldn't: freedom. A traveller could decide when and where they wanted to go w/o having to consult some schedule or worry about strikes, annoying/threatening people on the train, etc. The same reasons apply for local commute traffic also.
Where it's been built, fast light rail in the US has been a success. Park & ride lots in the suburbs with fast train routes to downtown business/manufacturing centers make a lot of sense. The Feds should also include all light trucks (SUVs, pickups, vans) in the CAFE standards that the auto makers are supposed to comply with. The popularity of SUVs not only contributes to a lot of extra oil usage, but shows that many Americans have more money than brains (a SUV typically costs $2-5K _extra_ a year to operate). It still amazes me to see one person commuting in huge SUV. Good grief! If you have the cash to afford one of those beasts, they have the cash to have a cheap used econobox for commuting.
In addition to ftp, there is ssh/scp support with the tramp package at ftp://ls6-ftp.cs.uni-d ort mund.de/pub/src/emacs/tramp.tar.gz.
The following links may be useful for writing php code in emacs:
They have the complete 7.5.3 available at ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Softw are_Updates/English-North_American/ Macintosh/System/Older_System/System_7.5_Version_7 .5.3/ and have the update to 7.5.5 at ftp://ftp.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Softw are_Updates/English-North_American/ Macintosh/System/System_7.5.5_Update/ (/. forced line breaks are a pain) updates for other versions of MacOS are available too. I have upgraded my SE/30 and my emulated mac on x86 linux (using Basilisk II) to 7.5.3 and then 7.5.5 [the SE/30 also runs Debian 2.2 w/ X]
No, they just sell well below the local guys' outrageous markup for the same products. Unless it was for something needed immediately or just a handfull of items, my parents rarely shopped the stores in the small town near our farm. It was cheaper to buy the merchandise at the malls & big supermarkets in the cities 40 to 100 miles away than it was to drive 3 miles into town and buy it there. In the cases where Wal-Mart moves into a town that may be a little too small for one of their stores, the only local merchants that will survive are the ones that are the ones that adapt and offer products & services that Wal-Mart doesn't. In the larger areas, Wal-Mart will usually make the other chain stores get their act together and start having decent prices & service.
We gave out halloween styled pencils. All the kids really liked them. Although, I did give out linux CDs when I was on vacation. Any B&B owner that had a computer was given a linux CD with the URLs of several common sites, plus the web page for a LUG in their area. I wouldn't give out CDs to little kids for halloween, but if any teenagers wanted them, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
Macrovision ONLY screws with the automatic gain control in the RECORDING circuity of the VCR! It has NO effect while you're NOT recording... unless of course you've got one wacky VHS VCR. :)
Then a lot of the available VCRs are screwed up. I bought a few from BestBuy and promptly returned them because they all had this feature when just used in a passthru mode. Some were worse than others, but the video always faded in and out. No tapes were even in the VCRs! Betamax may be immune to macrovision, but I haven't seen betamax tapes in the stores for years and haven't even seen one in the local pawn shops either. Besides, who wants to try to find space for yet another big box in the entertainment center just so they can watch a freaking DVD? I don't
I had to do this too. Our old stereo VCR got fried when I was hooking it back up after moving it. It was only 2-3 years old and I was able to run the DVD output into the VCR inputs. This worked great because the VCR output then went to a home theater system. With the new VCR, the DVD video would just fade between the correct video brightness and blank out the TV. I initially thought I had a bad VCR (cheap BestBuy symphonic), but then I remembered Macrovision. The documentation said that this would happen if I tried to record Macrovision protected video, but nothing about just passing it through the player. So in order to get the DVD player to work, I have to pass it's output into the home theater system's camcorder inputs, from the HT into the radio shack box that switches between it and the VCR coax output. A royal pain and yet another device that needs a 120V connection. All so the MPAA can make sure that I don't copy a DVD to VHS. I wish they'd get a clue and realize that the real pirates already have the means to flawlessly copy their products and all these 'protection' methods just piss off the average consumer.
Are there any current DVD/VCR players that can be set to ignore Macrovision? If there are any, I'd like to buy one just to reduce the rat's nest of cables in my entertainment center.
They had both. The consultant's machine was an Apple, but the other consoles in the room were SGIs. The machine in the background was supposed to be a Connection Machine. I was at a SGI conference at the time that Jurassic Park came out. Some of the ILM people who worked on the film were there and talked about what they did for the on-the-set computers. For each console that an actor was sitting in front of, there was a duplicate one behind the scenes being controlled by a geek. They didn't want the actors to have to really type or do any mouse navigation...just pretend to do it.