It should read, "Biden reveals location of Vice President's House". I lived in DC for a long time, and I'm pretty sure every one there knows where the Vice President lives.
This is the worst article I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Not only is the content nonsensical, most of the submission is copied directly from the foxnews "article", but it doesn't have quotes around the copied text.
Don't use virtual hosts at all. If you can't get another machine, then at least run another copy of the web server on a different port. Then your production address would be something like http://server/whatever and the development would be http://serverport/whatever.
You are going to have to restart your web server in development more often than you would like to in production. You don't want to bounce production every time you change a module, right?
Except then you can check off one guy, whoops!, try to erase, and check of the other guy. Now which one did you vote for? That kind of method is fine when ordering sushi, but not for serious business.
I believe the best solution is through an electronic touch screen system, as long as it prints out a verifiable ballot that is then dropped in a ballot box. We have the technology, and its really a simple problem to solve. The fact that we haven't solved it is what leads me to suspect corruption. (well that, and the fact that all the leaders of this country are a bunch of corrupt liars.)
I don't know why this comment was marked as a troll, because its a valid point. He didn't read above where we were saying that the printout would go into a box, and not out the door, of course, but that doesn't really make it a troll.
Anyway, I'm not really sure that people selling votes is really that bad of an idea. The politicians are all bought and paid for, so why not the voters? Instead of wasting money on ad buys, they could just give me the cash. I'm the one getting screwed; I should at least get paid.
Its kinda like college athletics, where the schools make money hand over fist, the coaches have million dollar contracts, TV networks rake in the money, but the players can't even get jobs in the summer.
Its better to have the computer print out a ballot because then you remove more problems with voter intent. The printout won't have hanging chads, two choices for the same office, or anything like that.
I can't understand why people don't want a paper trail. I am very suspicious of Diebold, of course, but how can anyone in their right mind be against a hard copy receipt of a vote? The electronic system we have now is so incredibly bad, I can't imagine someone approving it unless they were corrupt and directly making money/gaining power from it.
Why wouldn't they shut down with no warning? That's what happens when companies go out of business. And if what the parent says is true, then installing Steam took a five+ year old copy of Half-Life and made it unusable without Steam or the internet. Installing Steam can invalidate my non-Steam games? Nope, nothing evil there at all...
which is in some ways more flexible than Ruby - you can redefine existing control structures like if and while, or create new ones of your own (such as do... while, which is not part of the core language).
Its interesting that you think flexibility is a selling point. Did you read the article? One of the main conclusions is that Ruby on Rails is successful precisely because it is not flexible. It sacrifices flexibility for conventions, which simplifies a lot of code (AFAIK -- I have never used Ruby, but I did RTFA).
I really hate it when languages let you do things like redefine 'if' statements. We had a lengthy debugging process when we found out a previous developer redefined $[ to 1 (meaning that array subscripts start at 1 instead of 0) in some perl script. do you really want to write a bunch of code that says:
$x[$[ + 3];
instead of just
$x[3]
? flexibility is usually bad. (And perl basically took this away in 5.something, I think)
Its almost always better for everyone to do things the same way. Its why Java beat out C++, its why XML beat out SGML, and according to the article, its why Ruby on Rails is so popular.
That's not true at all. I used to get a fax calling my voice line in my old apartment. It would call for hours every night. I had to leave the phone off the hook.
The phone company wouldn't do anything about it. It was always the same number, and they wouldn't even block it. Eventually I had to just get a new number.
This is a no brainer: if you are using Oracle, and want to use Linux, then you have to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is the only thing that is supported.
Of course you could switch to MySQL or Postgres, but now you have convince the IT guys to swich operating systems and databases at the same time. That just doesn't happen.
Unless Kerry stops talking about government health care and starts talking about improving the existing system, I am going to assume that nothing will happen (the Republican Congress will block government health care; Kerry doesn't seem interested in doing anything else).
You are probably right that Congress will block anything big that either of these guys try to do. But I would like to point out that Kerry's plan is noteworthy because it specifically does improve the existing system, rather than make wholesale changes. I tried to google for an article about this, but there are just too many to choose from.
Personally, I wish he went a lot farther. But since you seem to like the current system (I'm guessing you don't have aging parents, but who knows -- hey, you could even be an aging parent!), and you will probably vote tomorrow, I thought you should know Kerry's actual position.
I voted for Gore in 2000. I personally feel that a large segment of the left has jumped off the deep end. Bush may have moved right (as did I) but much of the left moved even farther.
Is that supposed to say "to the right" at the end? Because the current democrats are pretty conservative. Kerry's health plan is the to right of Nixon's.
And so, you wish for these extreme changes to be made with a democrat controlled congress (it could happen next election in 2006), executive, and judicial?
Is this a trick question? Of course that's what we want. When Clinton had to nominate judges, he enlisted the help of people like Orrin Hatch and put some moderates on the bench. Bush has gone the other way, of course -- he submits extreme conservatives and doesn't even try to reconcile differences. He even slipped a few on the bench when congress was out of town. Now is that someone that follows the constitution (the spirit, anyway)? Bush's idea of a perfect justice is Scalia.
And if Kerry wins, with a record of voting against military programs and funding and voting for cuts in intelligence funding, that will be a better alternative?
This is dumb, this does about as much good as the pages before porn sites telling people to not enter if they are not 18.
Those pages are actually good for something. If you hit one and don't want to see the porn, you can go somewhere else. This is a good thing for people who aren't actually looking for porn.
Yesterday, when I was at work, I was trying to do some quick research about a grill I wanted to buy. I went to google and accidentally searched for 'girlls', which led to some interesting hits. I didn't visit any of those sites, and did a search for 'grills' instead. A few minutes later, I hit 'back' one time to many, and through some unknown sequence of keys, I either submitted a "I'm feeling lucky" or selected that first hit, and my monitor was filled with pictures of black-teens-ebony-sex. Luckily no one can see my monitor in my office, but still.
Doesn't zero-day mean that the bug came out the same time as IE? Didn't IE come out several years ago? And if one of these is already fixed in SP 2, that doesn't sound exactly zero-day either.
MyTerm is a class name by convention only. You could define a class called myTerm, and create instances of it called MyTerm. The only thing that case sensitivity buys you here is the ability to have all three at the same time: myTime, MyTime, and MYTIME. There is no rule saying that MYTIME has to be a constant/static member.
If it was case sensitive, you would have to declare a class called MyTerm (or myterm, or whatever), and an instance called myTermInstance, and call the static variable MYTERM_STATIC or something like that.
I would expect the downloading stats for December to be down, since college students go home for 1/3 of the month. Dorm based students must account for a healthy percentage of downloaders.
I think you are missing the point. You seem to realize that you are never going to get rock solid requirements, which I think most people would agree with. But then you use that as an excuse to throw away XP?
Test Driven Development is a great way to deal with changing requirements. For a phone number validator, you would write up tests for all of the initial requirements:
testLocalNumber()
testLongDistanceNumber()
testTenDigitLocalNumber()
testAlphaNumericNumber()
Then when you deliver the application and find out that you need to deal with international numbers, you write:
testInternationalNumber()
You get a red bar, beacuse you can't handle i18n numbers yet. So get that working, and when you are on a green bar, then you know that it still works for all those US numbers and it works for the new foreign numbers.
Then you extend as you get new requirements:
testEnglishNumber()
testFrenchNumber()
testItalianNumber()
What is the alternative to this? You are still lacking requirements, even if you aren't doing TDD. But you wouldn't have any tests, and you wouldn't know exactly what your class can do for you.
Test Driven Development is not all about leaving test artifacts. The tests are constantly changing during development as your requirements change. The main idea behind TDD is to program from the client side of things first. This is similar to the idea of writing documentation first, with the added benefit that as you finish the tests, you prove that the class does what you want it to do.
You definately have something to lose: a recommendation. What happens when you get fired and need to get a new job?
Interviewer: "You have been working at XXX for the last 3 years? Can I call someone there for a recommendtaion?"
A: "No, my manager was an asshole and I burned all my bridges back there."
Interviewer: "We'll be in touch."
It might be really fun to go out in a blaze of glory, but most of the time it is not worth it. Now if you work at a smaller place, or have a lot of equity and actually care about the company, then it might make sense to go over your manager's head and try to get him fired. But most of the time it is easier to just find a new company, says I.
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It should read, "Biden reveals location of Vice President's House". I lived in DC for a long time, and I'm pretty sure every one there knows where the Vice President lives.
This is the worst article I've seen on slashdot in a long time. Not only is the content nonsensical, most of the submission is copied directly from the foxnews "article", but it doesn't have quotes around the copied text.
Don't use virtual hosts at all. If you can't get another machine, then at least run another copy of the web server on a different port. Then your production address would be something like http://server/whatever and the development would be http://serverport/whatever.
You are going to have to restart your web server in development more often than you would like to in production. You don't want to bounce production every time you change a module, right?
Except then you can check off one guy, whoops!, try to erase, and check of the other guy. Now which one did you vote for? That kind of method is fine when ordering sushi, but not for serious business.
I believe the best solution is through an electronic touch screen system, as long as it prints out a verifiable ballot that is then dropped in a ballot box. We have the technology, and its really a simple problem to solve. The fact that we haven't solved it is what leads me to suspect corruption. (well that, and the fact that all the leaders of this country are a bunch of corrupt liars.)
I don't know why this comment was marked as a troll, because its a valid point. He didn't read above where we were saying that the printout would go into a box, and not out the door, of course, but that doesn't really make it a troll.
Anyway, I'm not really sure that people selling votes is really that bad of an idea. The politicians are all bought and paid for, so why not the voters? Instead of wasting money on ad buys, they could just give me the cash. I'm the one getting screwed; I should at least get paid.
Its kinda like college athletics, where the schools make money hand over fist, the coaches have million dollar contracts, TV networks rake in the money, but the players can't even get jobs in the summer.
Its better to have the computer print out a ballot because then you remove more problems with voter intent. The printout won't have hanging chads, two choices for the same office, or anything like that.
I can't understand why people don't want a paper trail. I am very suspicious of Diebold, of course, but how can anyone in their right mind be against a hard copy receipt of a vote? The electronic system we have now is so incredibly bad, I can't imagine someone approving it unless they were corrupt and directly making money/gaining power from it.
Why wouldn't they shut down with no warning? That's what happens when companies go out of business. And if what the parent says is true, then installing Steam took a five+ year old copy of Half-Life and made it unusable without Steam or the internet. Installing Steam can invalidate my non-Steam games? Nope, nothing evil there at all...
This is getting close, but its still too difficult to deal with a modchip. Someone stick "007 Agent Under Fire" in there and get a softmod working.
That's not true at all. I used to get a fax calling my voice line in my old apartment. It would call for hours every night. I had to leave the phone off the hook.
The phone company wouldn't do anything about it. It was always the same number, and they wouldn't even block it. Eventually I had to just get a new number.
This is a no brainer: if you are using Oracle, and want to use Linux, then you have to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is the only thing that is supported.
Of course you could switch to MySQL or Postgres, but now you have convince the IT guys to swich operating systems and databases at the same time. That just doesn't happen.
That didn't work for me. I got a file that 'file' thinks is a torrent, but the bt* commands all say it is corrupted.
Personally, I wish he went a lot farther. But since you seem to like the current system (I'm guessing you don't have aging parents, but who knows -- hey, you could even be an aging parent!), and you will probably vote tomorrow, I thought you should know Kerry's actual position.
I didn't realize that the Civil War was the last time we had a draft. If that is true, then what were Bush and Cheney dodging?
Mr President, you are confusing Sweden with Switzerland again. Sweden does have a military, and they are even helping out in Afghanistan.
To be fair to Bush, once someone told him that Sweden does have an army, he did admit it. But why didn't someone tell him he was wrong right away?
There is something that everyone should realize: Bush is lying to you. And even when someone points out the lies, he keeps on lying.
Of course Bush will repeat his mistakes if he is re-elected, because he doesn't even think he made any in his first term.
Yesterday, when I was at work, I was trying to do some quick research about a grill I wanted to buy. I went to google and accidentally searched for 'girlls', which led to some interesting hits. I didn't visit any of those sites, and did a search for 'grills' instead. A few minutes later, I hit 'back' one time to many, and through some unknown sequence of keys, I either submitted a "I'm feeling lucky" or selected that first hit, and my monitor was filled with pictures of black-teens-ebony-sex. Luckily no one can see my monitor in my office, but still.
Doesn't zero-day mean that the bug came out the same time as IE? Didn't IE come out several years ago? And if one of these is already fixed in SP 2, that doesn't sound exactly zero-day either.
MyTerm is a class name by convention only. You could define a class called myTerm, and create instances of it called MyTerm. The only thing that case sensitivity buys you here is the ability to have all three at the same time: myTime, MyTime, and MYTIME. There is no rule saying that MYTIME has to be a constant/static member.
If it was case sensitive, you would have to declare a class called MyTerm (or myterm, or whatever), and an instance called myTermInstance, and call the static variable MYTERM_STATIC or something like that.
I would expect the downloading stats for December to be down, since college students go home for 1/3 of the month. Dorm based students must account for a healthy percentage of downloaders.
You can play both of those games on the game cube as well. And the game cube was the only system to offer BMX XXX uncensored, AFAIK.
-Mike
Test Driven Development is a great way to deal with changing requirements. For a phone number validator, you would write up tests for all of the initial requirements:
testLocalNumber()
testLongDistanceNumber()
testTenDigitLocalNumber()
testAlphaNumericNumber()
Then when you deliver the application and find out that you need to deal with international numbers, you write:
testInternationalNumber()
You get a red bar, beacuse you can't handle i18n numbers yet. So get that working, and when you are on a green bar, then you know that it still works for all those US numbers and it works for the new foreign numbers.
Then you extend as you get new requirements:
testEnglishNumber()
testFrenchNumber()
testItalianNumber()
What is the alternative to this? You are still lacking requirements, even if you aren't doing TDD. But you wouldn't have any tests, and you wouldn't know exactly what your class can do for you.
Test Driven Development is not all about leaving test artifacts. The tests are constantly changing during development as your requirements change. The main idea behind TDD is to program from the client side of things first. This is similar to the idea of writing documentation first, with the added benefit that as you finish the tests, you prove that the class does what you want it to do.
-Mike
Except IBM, and the people writing the standards, apparently.
-Mike
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-MikeYou definately have something to lose: a recommendation. What happens when you get fired and need to get a new job?
Interviewer: "You have been working at XXX for the last 3 years? Can I call someone there for a recommendtaion?"
A: "No, my manager was an asshole and I burned all my bridges back there."
Interviewer: "We'll be in touch."
It might be really fun to go out in a blaze of glory, but most of the time it is not worth it. Now if you work at a smaller place, or have a lot of equity and actually care about the company, then it might make sense to go over your manager's head and try to get him fired. But most of the time it is easier to just find a new company, says I.
-Mike