The US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) programme, introduced by the Department of Homeland Security, had originally required the citizens of all "visa waiver countries" to have biometric information contained on their passports by October 2004. (Visa waiver countries are those whose citizens do not need a visa to enter the US for a period of up to 90 days; they include the EU member states.) The deadline was recentlyl extended to October 2005.
The source for the above also reports that "Since January 2004, all visitors to the US from outside the visa waiver nations have had biometric data recorded by US officials. From September this year, US immigration officials will begin gathering biometric data in the form of photographs and fingerprints from visitors from the 27 visa waiver nations."
Sadly, it's Mrs. Suess (or rather Mrs Geisel) that has put her stamp of approval on the actrocities that have been committed in his name since his death.
Fortunately the movies will be forgotten and the books (and art) will live on.
No, no, no. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) was killed in the crash. The senator who voted against the Patriot Act was Russ Feingold (D-WI), who is also the co-sponor of the campaign finance reform bill known as McCain-Feingold.
While voting for it was pretty much indefensible, only 1 (Feingold) out of 100 senators voted against it and it was passed only a month and a half after 9/11. Feingold may have been the only one who actually read the thing.
The big push to seriously expand NASA occured during the Kennedy administration, where JFK was litterally reading some science fiction books, and got a sort of stary-eyed vision about where NASA could go.
Sorry, I don't buy it. While JFK was responsible for the big push to the moon, it was hardly a new idea. Werner von Braun was promoting a vision of the space program that included space stations and moon landings back in the 50s.
I understood your point, but I do feel that there is enought complexity in the assembler world to justify their inclusion. As far as abstraction goes, if the assembler generates different opcodes for MOV R1,R2 versus MOV R1,MEM it's abstracting as well.
The C language isn't that far beyond assembler, or wasn't at least, in it's original incarnation. The ++ and -- operators aren't standard mathematical abstractions, they were added to C because they reflected the hardware capabilities of the PDP series of hardware C was originally implemented on.
In general assembly languages *are* more than tools that assign mnemonics (note spelling) to binary patterns, and hence do deserve to be included.
There are macro assemblers which do preprocessing, which ranges from simple to sophisticated, and some which generate different opcodes for the same mnemonic based on what operands are present. Most assemblers also support the evaluation of expressions.
In some cases, the very same assembler language can produce binary for different machines, so there is not necessarily a one to one mapping between assembler and processor.
One of the interesting items in a previous Cassini press release is that Hubble's cameras and optics are so good that Cassini had to get a billion-with-a-b miles closer to Saturn before its photographs could compare.
Of course, it will get even closer and do much more that take picture, but I thought that said a lot for the Hubble.
I'll grant you, Rushdie probably sold a lot of books because of the fatwah. On the other hand, he was forced to live in seclusion, couldn't go anywhere without body-guards, watched his marriage break up, etc. He's often stated that if it was merely to sell books, it "wasn't worth it."
Personally, I heard about "The Satanic Verses" before the fatwah, and had it on my reading list (though I didn't buy a copy 'til it was in paperback). I loved it and think it's great. Yes, some of it is "improbable," there is a whole genre called magic realism that deals in the improbable.
Moreover, his creditials were established well before "Verses." His novel "Midnight's Children" won Britian's premiere literary award, The Booker Prize, in 1981, seven years before "Verses" was published.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. -- Abraham Lincoln
If this law is really so draconian as the discription implies (this is/. after all), then I'd go looking for an intelligent, like-minded DA (or whatever the Italian equivalent is) and have him start arresting people left and right for the slightest violation, as long as it meets the letter of the law.
I guarantee we'd here the angry screams all the way to N. America and it would be dropped pretty darn fast, I'll bet.
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There's an interview with the director (Garth Jennings) and producer (Nick Goldsmith) that makes it sound like they have their hearts in the right place, but we'll have to see the flick to know for sure.
You have to deal with 404s, robots.txt, politeness (don't bring down someone's site by crawling too fast), redirects, content you can't handle (Flash, Javascript).
No, she doesn't assume. She has statistics to back it up.
The point is not that shouldn't be entertainment. The point is that a large portion of the population (exculding you, of course), has not been equipped to tell the difference between fact and entertainment, given their (lack of) science education.
Yeah, but I think the point the previous poster was referring to, is that they "cheat" by getting the suspense out of the assumption those rules exist.
If Neo was so powerful he could mess with the "rules" of the Matrix, why not just have Trinity pause in mid-air, or turn her into a butterfly or whatever.
My favorite quote was this one:...noncommercial software such as Linux and OpenOffice is seen as an interesting, 'good enough' or 'free' alternative.
Ironic, because it has always been Microsoft's strategy to get a piece of software on the market early, that is, when it's just "good enough," and worry about bug fixes, features, and ease of use two or three releases down the line.
This entire article misses the point and allows the MPAA to easily have their way. OK, here's a licensed Linux player, now you should be happy.
The argument that is made in favor of the DMCA etc is that it prevents piracy. But it doesn't. You can make a bit for bit copy of and DVD and sell it for $0.50 in Hong Kong. That's piracy and the whole encryption argument is mooted.
A previous poster noted that most GC algorithms are distinctly unfriendly to virtual memory systems.
Actually generational collectors are fairly friendly w/r/t virtual memory.
GC takes over memory management, but leaves the other scarce resources -- file descriptors, sockets, mutexes, database connections -- to be managed manually.
Bogus argument. That's like saying steel-belted tires are more puncture resistant but they don't solve the problem of oil leakage so they're worthless.
Management is encapsulated the same way for all [resources in C==].
You must have a newer version.
Anybody who thinks languages like Haskell or ML are fundamentally more powerful than C++...
The word powerful is not typically a useful term in comparing programming languages. Any language that is Turing-complete can be exchanged with any other Turing-complete language. There are great differences, however, in expressivity, resource needs, readability, and appropriateness to a specific task between languages. Consider SQL, Perl, APL, and assembler. C++ may be your favorite hammer, but sometimes you need a drill press.
It has different collectors, which you can select according to the needs of your application. Currently there are two, the default collector (generational) and an incremental collector which is slower but less likely to pause.
Also, the default collector is a 3-generation one, not 2, at least as of Java 1.4.1. More details here.
That's one of the reasons that generational collectors were created. The "young" generation is where most of the activity takes place and it tends to be in your working set anyway.
Uh. Wait. How is that possible? Robots will be programmed. How can they develop problems similar to humans? If they are programmed properly, they shouldn't have any problems....
I don't think this is as far out as you seem to think. The potential arises when you create programs that learn. If you could anticipate all possible issues that the robot would have to deal with and pre-program it, you'd have the condition you want.
However, nature didn't do it that way, and I suspect future programmers will have the same inclination. They can't anticipate everything, and so they make the try and give some "intelligence" and freedom to the robot.
All fine and good. Now, what happens when your toaster "learns" that bread is great, but bagels tend to clog it and cause smoke. It decides bagels are evil and joins with the fridge to declare jihad against bagels.
Programming, in the world of sentient beings is not so deterministic.
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Because we (the U.S.) said so.
The US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) programme, introduced by the Department of Homeland Security, had originally required the citizens of all "visa waiver countries" to have biometric information contained on their passports by October 2004. (Visa waiver countries are those whose citizens do not need a visa to enter the US for a period of up to 90 days; they include the EU member states.) The deadline was recentlyl extended to October 2005.
The source for the above also reports that "Since January 2004, all visitors to the US from outside the visa waiver nations have had biometric data recorded by US officials. From September this year, US immigration officials will begin gathering biometric data in the form of photographs and fingerprints from visitors from the 27 visa waiver nations."
Sadly, it's Mrs. Suess (or rather Mrs Geisel) that has put her stamp of approval on the actrocities that have been committed in his name since his death.
Fortunately the movies will be forgotten and the books (and art) will live on.
No, no, no. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) was killed in the crash. The senator who voted against the Patriot Act was Russ Feingold (D-WI), who is also the co-sponor of the campaign finance reform bill known as McCain-Feingold.
Well, at least he wants to scale it back, rather than the current administration's intent to add more to it.
While voting for it was pretty much indefensible, only 1 (Feingold) out of 100 senators voted against it and it was passed only a month and a half after 9/11. Feingold may have been the only one who actually read the thing.
The big push to seriously expand NASA occured during the Kennedy administration, where JFK was litterally reading some science fiction books, and got a sort of stary-eyed vision about where NASA could go.
Sorry, I don't buy it. While JFK was responsible for the big push to the moon, it was hardly a new idea. Werner von Braun was promoting a vision of the space program that included space stations and moon landings back in the 50s.
He even did a TV series (scroll to Tomorrowland) with Disney that was so realistic the Eisenhower administration gave it to the military as background info.
I understood your point, but I do feel that there is enought complexity in the assembler world to justify their inclusion. As far as abstraction goes, if the assembler generates different opcodes for MOV R1,R2 versus MOV R1,MEM it's abstracting as well.
The C language isn't that far beyond assembler, or wasn't at least, in it's original incarnation. The ++ and -- operators aren't standard mathematical abstractions, they were added to C because they reflected the hardware capabilities of the PDP series of hardware C was originally implemented on.
In general assembly languages *are* more than tools that assign mnemonics (note spelling) to binary patterns, and hence do deserve to be included.
There are macro assemblers which do preprocessing, which ranges from simple to sophisticated, and some which generate different opcodes for the same mnemonic based on what operands are present. Most assemblers also support the evaluation of expressions.
In some cases, the very same assembler language can produce binary for different machines, so there is not necessarily a one to one mapping between assembler and processor.
The MS millionaires are making Seattle an interesting-looking place. In addition to the Gehry-designed rock museum, they just opened a very cool new public library.
Ummm. This isn't about Apple, it's about the semiconductor industry. As a matter of fact, Intel started saying the same thing a few months ago, and AMD has been making similar claims for years.
Slashdot covered this story already. Note that the Aussies are a few months behind in following the USPTO.
One of the interesting items in a previous Cassini press release is that Hubble's cameras and optics are so good that Cassini had to get a billion-with-a-b miles closer to Saturn before its photographs could compare.
Of course, it will get even closer and do much more that take picture, but I thought that said a lot for the Hubble.
Ok, this is a bit off-topic.
I'll grant you, Rushdie probably sold a lot of books because of the fatwah. On the other hand, he was forced to live in seclusion, couldn't go anywhere without body-guards, watched his marriage break up, etc. He's often stated that if it was merely to sell books, it "wasn't worth it."
Personally, I heard about "The Satanic Verses" before the fatwah, and had it on my reading list (though I didn't buy a copy 'til it was in paperback). I loved it and think it's great. Yes, some of it is "improbable," there is a whole genre called magic realism that deals in the improbable.
Moreover, his creditials were established well before "Verses." His novel "Midnight's Children" won Britian's premiere literary award, The Booker Prize, in 1981, seven years before "Verses" was published.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. -- Abraham Lincoln
/. after all), then I'd go looking for an intelligent, like-minded DA (or whatever the Italian equivalent is) and have him start arresting people left and right for the slightest violation, as long as it meets the letter of the law.
If this law is really so draconian as the discription implies (this is
I guarantee we'd here the angry screams all the way to N. America and it would be dropped pretty darn fast, I'll bet.
RTFA The page is reduced so that there is no horizontal scrollbar, allowing the content to be scrolled in one direction.
There's an interview with the director (Garth Jennings) and producer (Nick Goldsmith) that makes it sound like they have their hearts in the right place, but we'll have to see the flick to know for sure.
One bad sign, this is the design for Marvin. Ick.
Considering that Modern Humorist has been dead for nearly a year, I'm surprised they even got a nomination.
...harder than she implies.
You have to deal with 404s, robots.txt, politeness (don't bring down someone's site by crawling too fast), redirects, content you can't handle (Flash, Javascript).
The list goes on.
No, she doesn't assume. She has statistics to back it up.
The point is not that shouldn't be entertainment. The point is that a large portion of the population (exculding you, of course), has not been equipped to tell the difference between fact and entertainment, given their (lack of) science education.
Yeah, but I think the point the previous poster was referring to, is that they "cheat" by getting the suspense out of the assumption those rules exist.
If Neo was so powerful he could mess with the "rules" of the Matrix, why not just have Trinity pause in mid-air, or turn her into a butterfly or whatever.
My favorite quote was this one: ...noncommercial software such as Linux and OpenOffice is seen as an interesting, 'good enough' or 'free' alternative.
Ironic, because it has always been Microsoft's strategy to get a piece of software on the market early, that is, when it's just "good enough," and worry about bug fixes, features, and ease of use two or three releases down the line.
Hoist by their own petard?
This entire article misses the point and allows the MPAA to easily have their way. OK, here's a licensed Linux player, now you should be happy.
The argument that is made in favor of the DMCA etc is that it prevents piracy. But it doesn't. You can make a bit for bit copy of and DVD and sell it for $0.50 in Hong Kong. That's piracy and the whole encryption argument is mooted.
Encryption prevents fair use, not piracy.
A previous poster noted that most GC algorithms are distinctly unfriendly to virtual memory systems.
Actually generational collectors are fairly friendly w/r/t virtual memory.
GC takes over memory management, but leaves the other scarce resources -- file descriptors, sockets, mutexes, database connections -- to be managed manually.
Bogus argument. That's like saying steel-belted tires are more puncture resistant but they don't solve the problem of oil leakage so they're worthless.
Management is encapsulated the same way for all [resources in C==].
You must have a newer version.
Anybody who thinks languages like Haskell or ML are fundamentally more powerful than C++...
The word powerful is not typically a useful term in comparing programming languages. Any language that is Turing-complete can be exchanged with any other Turing-complete language. There are great differences, however, in expressivity, resource needs, readability, and appropriateness to a specific task between languages. Consider SQL, Perl, APL, and assembler. C++ may be your favorite hammer, but sometimes you need a drill press.
It has different collectors, which you can select according to the needs of your application. Currently there are two, the default collector (generational) and an incremental collector which is slower but less likely to pause.
Also, the default collector is a 3-generation one, not 2, at least as of Java 1.4.1. More details here.
That's one of the reasons that generational collectors were created. The "young" generation is where most of the activity takes place and it tends to be in your working set anyway.
Uh. Wait. How is that possible? Robots will be programmed. How can they develop problems similar to humans? If they are programmed properly, they shouldn't have any problems....
I don't think this is as far out as you seem to think. The potential arises when you create programs that learn. If you could anticipate all possible issues that the robot would have to deal with and pre-program it, you'd have the condition you want.
However, nature didn't do it that way, and I suspect future programmers will have the same inclination. They can't anticipate everything, and so they make the try and give some "intelligence" and freedom to the robot.
All fine and good. Now, what happens when your toaster "learns" that bread is great, but bagels tend to clog it and cause smoke. It decides bagels are evil and joins with the fridge to declare jihad against bagels.
Programming, in the world of sentient beings is not so deterministic.