I'm more interested in the bonding issue. If heat can effect the bonding (because steel and diamond have very different thermal expansion coefficients), then how useful would this really be for, say, cutting tools?
well, they did mention that the initial use of chromium nitride was discarded specifically for that problem. they go on to mention that a surface treatment of boron causes the expansion coefficient to be much more similar to that of diamond, and that the effect fades as you get deeper down into the steel.
Actually, he said it was out of the question because the department is exceedingly pro-microsoft. Maybe if he told them it was AT&T who wrote VNC?
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Heh, you'd prefer fluff pieces? One of the things I really like about Salon in general, and that series in particular, is the fact that they let their writers do a series of stories about a specific topic. It lets you get a much more thorough look at something than you usually get from the major media outlets. They seem to have decided that we the public doesn't care about anything that can't be summed up in a single page.
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Check out the extensive coverage they've gotten over at Salon for the past year or so. There's about a dozen articles about various aspects of their business practices.
Okay, so I have to qualify my skills now? I'm born and raised in Boston. I spent the past year implementing all the network logic (ie. http, rtsp, and rtp/rtcp handlers) for a streaming application server. Before that I made in-house modifications to Samba for another streaming server we did. On the side I was also the ClearCase admin, the build engineer, and I did some prototyping in Java. The job I had before that was writing display systems for air traffic control. Before that, I did a bunch of web back-end stuff in perl. Oh, and I've got a few modules up on CPAN.
Convinced yet?
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Really, have you been out looking for work lately? Because I've got 2+ years of c/c++ development under my belt, and I've only managed to get one interview in the three months since I got laid off. There just aren't many jobs out there.
Yup, over here. Got laid off from the startup I was working at in downtown Boston less than a month after 9/11. They basically just said that the market was so bad since the attacks that they had to cut as many people as they could to stop losing money.
I spent about a year and a half there writing the network logic in their streaming application server, and spent 9 months before that at Raytheon's air traffic control division.
I've been firing off about 3-5 resume's a week since then, and I've had one interview.
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Snagged from the front page of vim.org:
Vim-6 is out! rah rah rah!:-)
And here is what Bram said in his announcement:
From: Bram Moolenaar
To: vim-dev@vim.org
Subject: Vim version 6.0 available!
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:22:57 +0200
Message-Id:
Well, there it is. More than a year after Vim 6.0a Alpha.
It's about time we get a full release!
There are a few bug fixes since 6.0ax, I don't expect them to
cause new trouble. The XIM problems have not really been solved,
but I didn't want to postpone the 6.0 release any further.
Hopefully the hack I included will make it work for most people.
I'll announce it to a larger audience
when the mirror sites have catched up.
Thanks to all the people who helped making Vim 6.0 what it is now.
Either by sending me patches and Vim scripts or just reporting tiny
problems. Vim wouldn't be the same without your contribution!!!
What next?
Next week I'm going to visit the project in Uganda. In November I have
another holiday planned. In between I'll try to fix the most important
bugs that are reported. Anything else will have to wait for a while.
Don't expect great new features in a next version. Vim has grown into a
complex program with so many features and options that there is nobody who
uses them all. Stability and easy of use are the main goals for the future.
Not because it made the judicial system look bad, because it made this particular trial look suspect. They're saying that even though they didn't find any obvious evidence of bias in the trial itself, the judge made statements outside the courtroom which indicate that he was biased against Microsoft. So they are having another judge review his judgements of law. As has been mentioned ad nauseam here, the findings of fact will stand.
I'd rather have the second judge review the ruling than leave this kind of possible taint on the ruling when Microsoft ends up submitting a full appeal.
Second, don't kid yourself into thinking you'll pick up the language. I speak almost fluent German, but even I had a hard time. My German hardly improved the time I was there. It's one thing to be able to hold conversations with people when you're a tourist, but you know nothing about what it's like to actually live in the country.
I would suggest that if you really had serious problems with the language, then fluent isn't a word to describe your level of language competency. Conversant is a better choice of words. I spent my junior year of high school as an exchange student in Hamburg, and by the time I left, I was truly fluent. I've since slid back into the "barely conversant" category from lack of use, but I don't try to pass myself off as being fluent.
You will pick up the language, provided you have some knowledge of the grammar and a patient friend over there, but only if you work at it.
Too many people pass the buck and say "Well, parents should do this on their own. We don't need the government to do it for us." Excuse me, but can we expect every parent to do the job we hope they will do?
You're joking, right? Passing the buck is what happens when the parents refuse to do their most important job, which is raise their child. Government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from bodily harm, and to provide basic services for those that need them, and that's it. It has no business telling parents what kind of movies their kids should be watching.
Remember when Kids came out? It was originally going to be rated NC-17, until the producers decided to simply release it unrated. As a result, all the local theaters decided you had to be 18+ to see it. Sine I was 17 at the time, that meant I couldn't see a movie simply because it hadn't been rated, when I could have seen it if it had been, regardless of what the rating would have been.
I'd have to go with Rurouni Kenshin, Sorceror Hunters, Mobile Battleship Nadesico, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Hyperpolice, Those Who Hunt Elves, and, of course, Hyper Dolls.
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Uhh, T-Bird and Spitfire aren't due out until June, late May at the absolute earliest.
Come on, Burton hasn't done a "dark" film in a while. All he does now are quirky Tim Burton flicks. Granted, he's still amazing when it comes to visuals, but he seems to have completely lost any respect for the stories he's supposed to be telling. (Sleepy Hollow, anyone?)
So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?
Gee, I dunno, maybe because it stomps all over the First Amendment?
Why should my child be denied access to perfectly valid content simply because you are afraid that your child might see some pictures of people having sex? Why should a librarian have to become a censor simply because you aren't capable of teaching your child not to look at things you feel are inappropriate for him to look at?
The point is, it's not a library's job to decide which materials are OK for children to view, it's the parents' job, even if the parents are overprotective and paranoid. If a library has separate terminals for children and adults, and requires that children have their parents' permission to use the adult terminals, they're not censoring anyone.
Actually, they are censoring the children, plain and simple. No two ways around it. But this is a form of censorship I think most people would be willing to accept. A happy compromise, if you will.
Please note, however, that this kind of setup isn't what the original article was discussing. It was discussing blanket filtering across all internet terminals. Which is a Bad Thing (tm).
What I can't seem to understand is when we all made the assumption that there were lots of things on the net that children need to be shielded from. Exactly what is it you think is out that that's so objectionable that you don't think your children should be able to view it?
To badly quote a line from Lenny Bruce, "I'd rather take my kids to a porno than to a war movie."
Do you let your kids watch the news unattended? There are far more objectionable things to be found on CNN than a naked body or two
Oh, lord, no, please don't let me lose those karma points
Seriously, though, who cares about karma? I was just pointing out that this story, even though it's got a new link in it, is just duplicating a story that ran just a few days ago. And as such, I don't really think it was necessary to post it.
Other way around, actually. A while after STW was published, somebody published a paper showing how to prove FLT given that someone had proven STW. (forget exactly who did it, since it's been a while since I've read Fermat's Enigma)
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PuTTY does not, in fact insist that you use XWindows style cut and paste. I refer you to section 4.11.2 of the manual.
well, they did mention that the initial use of chromium nitride was discarded specifically for that problem. they go on to mention that a surface treatment of boron causes the expansion coefficient to be much more similar to that of diamond, and that the effect fades as you get deeper down into the steel.
Actually, he said it was out of the question because the department is exceedingly pro-microsoft. Maybe if he told them it was AT&T who wrote VNC?
Heh, you'd prefer fluff pieces? One of the things I really like about Salon in general, and that series in particular, is the fact that they let their writers do a series of stories about a specific topic. It lets you get a much more thorough look at something than you usually get from the major media outlets. They seem to have decided that we the public doesn't care about anything that can't be summed up in a single page.
Check out the extensive coverage they've gotten over at Salon for the past year or so. There's about a dozen articles about various aspects of their business practices.
http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/My evil minions will be dispatched immediately.
Okay, so I have to qualify my skills now? I'm born and raised in Boston. I spent the past year implementing all the network logic (ie. http, rtsp, and rtp/rtcp handlers) for a streaming application server. Before that I made in-house modifications to Samba for another streaming server we did. On the side I was also the ClearCase admin, the build engineer, and I did some prototyping in Java. The job I had before that was writing display systems for air traffic control. Before that, I did a bunch of web back-end stuff in perl. Oh, and I've got a few modules up on CPAN.
Convinced yet?
Really, have you been out looking for work lately? Because I've got 2+ years of c/c++ development under my belt, and I've only managed to get one interview in the three months since I got laid off. There just aren't many jobs out there.
Yup, over here. Got laid off from the startup I was working at in downtown Boston less than a month after 9/11. They basically just said that the market was so bad since the attacks that they had to cut as many people as they could to stop losing money.
I spent about a year and a half there writing the network logic in their streaming application server, and spent 9 months before that at Raytheon's air traffic control division.
I've been firing off about 3-5 resume's a week since then, and I've had one interview.
Snagged from the front page of vim.org:
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Vim-6 is out! rah rah rah!
And here is what Bram said in his announcement:
From: Bram Moolenaar
To: vim-dev@vim.org
Subject: Vim version 6.0 available!
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:22:57 +0200
Message-Id:
Well, there it is. More than a year after Vim 6.0a Alpha.
It's about time we get a full release!
There are a few bug fixes since 6.0ax, I don't expect them to
cause new trouble. The XIM problems have not really been solved,
but I didn't want to postpone the 6.0 release any further.
Hopefully the hack I included will make it work for most people.
I'll announce it to a larger audience
when the mirror sites have catched up.
Thanks to all the people who helped making Vim 6.0 what it is now.
Either by sending me patches and Vim scripts or just reporting tiny
problems. Vim wouldn't be the same without your contribution!!!
What next?
Next week I'm going to visit the project in Uganda. In November I have
another holiday planned. In between I'll try to fix the most important
bugs that are reported. Anything else will have to wait for a while.
Don't expect great new features in a next version. Vim has grown into a
complex program with so many features and options that there is nobody who
uses them all. Stability and easy of use are the main goals for the future.
Not because it made the judicial system look bad, because it made this particular trial look suspect. They're saying that even though they didn't find any obvious evidence of bias in the trial itself, the judge made statements outside the courtroom which indicate that he was biased against Microsoft. So they are having another judge review his judgements of law. As has been mentioned ad nauseam here, the findings of fact will stand.
I'd rather have the second judge review the ruling than leave this kind of possible taint on the ruling when Microsoft ends up submitting a full appeal.
There's even a response to michael's whiny, petulant updated message.
THIS_IS_NOT_A_BETA_EITHER.TXT
Second, don't kid yourself into thinking you'll pick up the language. I speak almost fluent German, but even I had a hard time. My German hardly improved the time I was there. It's one thing to be able to hold conversations with people when you're a tourist, but you know nothing about what it's like to actually live in the country.
I would suggest that if you really had serious problems with the language, then fluent isn't a word to describe your level of language competency. Conversant is a better choice of words. I spent my junior year of high school as an exchange student in Hamburg, and by the time I left, I was truly fluent. I've since slid back into the "barely conversant" category from lack of use, but I don't try to pass myself off as being fluent.
You will pick up the language, provided you have some knowledge of the grammar and a patient friend over there, but only if you work at it.
Not much else in the article, just a mention that the SAP DB is used in their SAP R3 product. Dunno much about sap, but according to some of the (also in german), R3 apparently runs about 90% on Oracle, anyway.
Too many people pass the buck and say "Well, parents should do this on their own. We don't need the government to do it for us." Excuse me, but can we expect every parent to do the job we hope they will do?
You're joking, right? Passing the buck is what happens when the parents refuse to do their most important job, which is raise their child. Government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from bodily harm, and to provide basic services for those that need them, and that's it. It has no business telling parents what kind of movies their kids should be watching.
Remember when Kids came out? It was originally going to be rated NC-17, until the producers decided to simply release it unrated. As a result, all the local theaters decided you had to be 18+ to see it. Sine I was 17 at the time, that meant I couldn't see a movie simply because it hadn't been rated, when I could have seen it if it had been, regardless of what the rating would have been.
I'd have to go with Rurouni Kenshin, Sorceror Hunters, Mobile Battleship Nadesico, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Hyperpolice, Those Who Hunt Elves, and, of course, Hyper Dolls.
Uhh, T-Bird and Spitfire aren't due out until June, late May at the absolute earliest.
Come on, Burton hasn't done a "dark" film in a while. All he does now are quirky Tim Burton flicks. Granted, he's still amazing when it comes to visuals, but he seems to have completely lost any respect for the stories he's supposed to be telling. (Sleepy Hollow, anyone?)
Since you asked for it, ML also treats tuples as first order data structures.
So for the 150th time, if the majority of people want it that way, what's the big deal?
Gee, I dunno, maybe because it stomps all over the First Amendment?
Why should my child be denied access to perfectly valid content simply because you are afraid that your child might see some pictures of people having sex? Why should a librarian have to become a censor simply because you aren't capable of teaching your child not to look at things you feel are inappropriate for him to look at?
The point is, it's not a library's job to decide which materials are OK for children to view, it's the parents' job, even if the parents are overprotective and paranoid. If a library has separate terminals for children and adults, and requires that children have their parents' permission to use the adult terminals, they're not censoring anyone.
Actually, they are censoring the children, plain and simple. No two ways around it. But this is a form of censorship I think most people would be willing to accept. A happy compromise, if you will.
Please note, however, that this kind of setup isn't what the original article was discussing. It was discussing blanket filtering across all internet terminals. Which is a Bad Thing (tm).
What I can't seem to understand is when we all made the assumption that there were lots of things on the net that children need to be shielded from. Exactly what is it you think is out that that's so objectionable that you don't think your children should be able to view it?
To badly quote a line from Lenny Bruce, "I'd rather take my kids to a porno than to a war movie."
Do you let your kids watch the news unattended? There are far more objectionable things to be found on CNN than a naked body or two
Oh, lord, no, please don't let me lose those karma points
Seriously, though, who cares about karma? I was just pointing out that this story, even though it's got a new link in it, is just duplicating a story that ran just a few days ago. And as such, I don't really think it was necessary to post it.
Do a search on LithTech, comes up with a story from the 20th, and from last November.
Other way around, actually. A while after STW was published, somebody published a paper showing how to prove FLT given that someone had proven STW. (forget exactly who did it, since it's been a while since I've read Fermat's Enigma)