You know prom, that big end-of-the-school-year party that you probably went to by yourself and hung out in the corner with your nerdy friends trying not to feel terrible that all the popular kids in school were not only having a genuinely great time but also probably getting laid. Yeah, that prom. I knew you'd remember.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I was driving my sleigh out to the city to pick up some groceries last year in May and was at a stop light when the longest, ugliest SUV passed in front of me full of tuxedoed high school kids. It was obvious that they were either going to or coming from their senior prom. Needless to say, the 4 kids in the entire stretch Tahoe were quite a bit less cargo than the actual capacity of the behemoth.
So to is it with the Shuttle. Too much machine for too limited a role. And the fact that one blows up every 10 years or so doesn't help matters much at all. NASA could save a bundle and do like the Russians and just build one-time use pods and plop them back to Earth when done.
"Reusable" is for greenies, and no NASA engineer I've ever met was very environmentally conscious.
It's a train. It's not like these things can wander all over the place.
Maybe if they were able to get them to run on time like they do in Japan and Fascist Italy, they could tell where the trains were by just looking at the clock.
Something like a little Mindstorm 6-legged crawler would work well. And the camera movement would be more like Doom with bouncing rather than a flat, linear camera movement with the tank.
The mini-Maglite was a stroke of genius.
I like the idea of unplanned housing
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Essentially, you build as you need. So if you need a shelf in a certain spot, then you build it there. You can't know everything about how you will use all the space in your house, so the key is to wait until it becomes obvious that something will always be done in a certain way and build to that "spec".
I believe that they did this in UC Berkeley. Instead of building sidewalks, they put some sod on the quad and let the students "create" the trails across the grass. Once the paths were established by thousands of students walking on the grass every day, the school built sidewalks on top of the paths and that is how the sidewalks on the quad at Berkeley were built. No one uses those sidewalks anymore, though, because the grass is so much nicer to walk on than concrete.
So the key is to build as you need, but not to build to the point where you start to avoid the thing you were building it for in the first place.
Sounds more like someone was baiting him in the chat log.
Q: When did you stop beating your wife? A: Well, I... I've never beat my wife. Q: We know you are lying. Liar. A: I can only defend my record as far as I have one. I am not a wife beater. Q: Liar liar pants on fire!
Why do these people even come to these online chats?
They always tell you, when you are jumping into the job search fray, to Network, Network, Network. For the flip among us, it is taken to mean that one needs to get greasy and slimy and be generally fake with a bunch of people. These are typically network engineers, which is pretty ironic.
But the same holds true here. You need to be able to get onto networks that are private and trustworthy. The last thing anyone needs is to join a torrent network and have the RIAA or MPAA come in and seize personal hardware. You want to find the torrents that use GUIDs for URIs. You want to find the torrents that are so underground that only the people who are on it know of it. The way to do that is to Network Network Network.
Posting at Slashdot is one good way of Networking. Getting to know people, learning the habits of some posters, and generally being attentive and friendly and discrete is the way to become trustworthy yourself. Once you are seen as someone who can be trusted, you can then approach people about joining their underground torrents.
It's way underpowered for anything resembling a primary CPU. It can't hold a candle to the x86 or the PPC chips in the desktop market. But what it can do is provide backup horsepower as a math co-processor.
But don't let that kind of blindingly obvious observation get in the way of Sony and IBM's marketing machine.
If I remember my American History correctly, before the U.S. Constitution was attacked in Boston harbor, John Paul Jones played guitar for Led Zep and uttered the unforgettable words, "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!" Thus ended the first American Revolution.
After they won independence from Britain (go figure, JPJ was a Brit himself), the Americans set forth their first draft of the Constitution and called it The Articles Of Confederation. They had a bunch of cool General Lee flags to go along with it, but eventually these became associated with racism and were finally taken out of the final submitted draft.
The Articles of Confederation set forth a government that loosely tied together each state. Each state was essentially its own sovereign nation and would only be overseen by a few interstate commerce and extradition requirements set forth in the Articles. This is kind of like the EU today.
However, the final draft as written by Alexander Hamilton, dubbed The American Constitution of The United States of America, set forth a much more powerful central government.
Unfortunately, today's vote sees the culmination of 2 centuries of slowly educating the concept of sovereignty out of Americans. Good luck, you guys!
Without actual content that is generated solely at the site, whether it be your personal opinions or the opinions of users, it is doubtful that you will generate significant traffic through banner ads. If someone is smart enough to find your site about asbestos, they are most likely able to find their way to the sites with real, original content from which you skimmed your information from.
By offering users nothing, you stand to make very little in the way of ad traffic revenue.
Roland Piquepaille does that now with Slashdot. Aggregate content and redigest it and offer it up for viewers with advertisement banners readily available.
Not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just a little antithetical, if you know what I mean.
If you consider that any song that is ripped from original media instead of being downloaded from the iTunes store is a potential loss of revenue for Apple, then you can see how Steve would be against the idea.
With Apple at the forefront of online music stores, it makes sense that we support them by buying our portable music at iTunes rather than listening to radio (whether free or otherwise). Not only can we, the listeners, decide what we want to hear at any given time, it benefits Apple in a way that mere words cannot.
Steve Jobs has again seen the correct path. While it may hurt Sirius XM in the short term, in the long term I think it will be a boon to everyone to have a strong Apple Computer company.
I like to make little digs at my Windows-loving friends about the instability of their beloved OS, but they really got me good with their critique of X-Windows.
If you look at what X-Windows does, beyond the standard windowing stuff, it is a lot of shading and anti-aliasing and subpixel shading and so on. These functions are actually implemented in hardware, for the most part, and the X system calls the exposed driver routines to make them work. So if your card doesn't support some feature, you aren't going to get it: it's not really supported in software.
But, they asked, who drives the video card manufacturers? It's a rhetorical question, of course, because with Intel and Microsoft basically defining what it is to be a PC (with initiatives like PC98 and other PC definitions), it is they who are telling the video card makers which direction to go and what features to build into their cards.
So X-windows will always lag behind Windows because Windows is the driving force behind graphics improvements. I wish I had an answer to this, but unfortunately it seems to be the case.
They don't believe in Free Speech (can't sell anti-French WWII memorabilia), they don't believe in shaving for women (Mila Jovovich), and they don't believe in using perfectly good words (the requiring that all computer terms be translated into appropriate French words).
Who gives a damn what those cheese-eating surrender monkeys "order"?
Maybe one day they can join the rest of the civilized world in the post-Dark Ages for a change.
What is the big deal with flying into space? Space tourism is about as interesting as sitting in your cubicle with added nausea to keep you on your toes.
The goal ought to be a real destination, the Moon, Mars, some asteroid, but without government money, that isn't going to happen.
So the next best thing is to make a space "plane" that can transport passengers from New York to Sydney in less than an hour. NASA had plans for something like that (someone can provide a link, I'm sure), but scrapped it in favor of Bush's latest drive to get to Mars (or the moon, I forget).
Who wants to sit on a thousand pounds of explosives and not go anywhere? Space flight ought to be seen as a means to an end, not the end itself.
I use AVG on all my company systems and can say that in addition to being free, AVG provides the best anti-virus protection around. After F-Prot started losing ground to Windows-based scanners, AVG has done a remarkable job in stepping up to the plate.
AVG, free and worry free. (This was not a paid endorsement)
Well, I wish Judge Jackson the best of health, of course. But this judge is making the same mistake that Jackson did in the Microsoft trial.
Do not blast the litigants until the trial is over.
This one instance of him opening his big mouth will forever haunt him if he is ever in the position to assume a higher judicial office (which he won't be in now).
Actually, since the death of the CD longbox, albums have generally become something relegated to the past. It's no longer something that you buy to add to your collection, rather it is something that you consume and toss out when the latest fad washes away the fading memories of it.
The fact that most artists suck these days (Rush? Tool? These are good??) doesn't help the situation much, but it is more a symptom of the real problem which is that album covers and cases have become cheap plastic "jewel boxes" rather than the more permanent cardboard with intricate artwork on it.
When there are perfectly fine 2-dimensional barcodes called QR codes available, I hate to see scientists trying to get by with simple one-dimensional barcodes. Even the post office has started using QR codes, and all Japanese phones are equipped with readers.
Seems a little bit simple, but I guess it might be harder to put 2 dimensional barcodes on thin creatures like worms and snakes.
What more do you want your government to do to you, Americans? When someone is screwing you over, you throw them out. You don't keep them around just because "it's better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't." Kerry didn't even seem too devilish.
My IQ is right in the 143-145 ballpark and I typically score in the 99th percentile on any standardized test. I excel in all areas that pertain to mental ability, and especially so in those tests with time constraints.
I graduated at the top of my high school and college classes, and I scored perfectly in my Masters program and successfully defended my thesis for my PhD. I currently run the single largest distribution organization in the world employing millions upon millions of people who almost simultaneously perform their work with very little oversight necessary from management.
This article is an excuse to defend people who think they are smart but are actually barely above-average. Like most Slashbots, actually.:-)
And when you've glanced at it, you've doomed yourself and your Open Source company from ever using you as a developer ever again. Take the glibc stance and just avoid MS code if at all possible.
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You know prom, that big end-of-the-school-year party that you probably went to by yourself and hung out in the corner with your nerdy friends trying not to feel terrible that all the popular kids in school were not only having a genuinely great time but also probably getting laid. Yeah, that prom. I knew you'd remember.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, I was driving my sleigh out to the city to pick up some groceries last year in May and was at a stop light when the longest, ugliest SUV passed in front of me full of tuxedoed high school kids. It was obvious that they were either going to or coming from their senior prom. Needless to say, the 4 kids in the entire stretch Tahoe were quite a bit less cargo than the actual capacity of the behemoth.
So to is it with the Shuttle. Too much machine for too limited a role. And the fact that one blows up every 10 years or so doesn't help matters much at all. NASA could save a bundle and do like the Russians and just build one-time use pods and plop them back to Earth when done.
"Reusable" is for greenies, and no NASA engineer I've ever met was very environmentally conscious.
It's a train. It's not like these things can wander all over the place.
Maybe if they were able to get them to run on time like they do in Japan and Fascist Italy, they could tell where the trains were by just looking at the clock.
Something like a little Mindstorm 6-legged crawler would work well. And the camera movement would be more like Doom with bouncing rather than a flat, linear camera movement with the tank.
The mini-Maglite was a stroke of genius.
Essentially, you build as you need. So if you need a shelf in a certain spot, then you build it there. You can't know everything about how you will use all the space in your house, so the key is to wait until it becomes obvious that something will always be done in a certain way and build to that "spec".
I believe that they did this in UC Berkeley. Instead of building sidewalks, they put some sod on the quad and let the students "create" the trails across the grass. Once the paths were established by thousands of students walking on the grass every day, the school built sidewalks on top of the paths and that is how the sidewalks on the quad at Berkeley were built. No one uses those sidewalks anymore, though, because the grass is so much nicer to walk on than concrete.
So the key is to build as you need, but not to build to the point where you start to avoid the thing you were building it for in the first place.
But I'm more inclined to think that these guys probably have a lot more interesting robotics applications than octopusii do.
Unless they think that making robots taste delicious is the secret to robot movement. Mmm... octopod
Sounds more like someone was baiting him in the chat log.
... I've never beat my wife.
Q: When did you stop beating your wife?
A: Well, I
Q: We know you are lying. Liar.
A: I can only defend my record as far as I have one. I am not a wife beater.
Q: Liar liar pants on fire!
Why do these people even come to these online chats?
They always tell you, when you are jumping into the job search fray, to Network, Network, Network. For the flip among us, it is taken to mean that one needs to get greasy and slimy and be generally fake with a bunch of people. These are typically network engineers, which is pretty ironic.
But the same holds true here. You need to be able to get onto networks that are private and trustworthy. The last thing anyone needs is to join a torrent network and have the RIAA or MPAA come in and seize personal hardware. You want to find the torrents that use GUIDs for URIs. You want to find the torrents that are so underground that only the people who are on it know of it. The way to do that is to Network Network Network.
Posting at Slashdot is one good way of Networking. Getting to know people, learning the habits of some posters, and generally being attentive and friendly and discrete is the way to become trustworthy yourself. Once you are seen as someone who can be trusted, you can then approach people about joining their underground torrents.
It's way underpowered for anything resembling a primary CPU. It can't hold a candle to the x86 or the PPC chips in the desktop market. But what it can do is provide backup horsepower as a math co-processor.
But don't let that kind of blindingly obvious observation get in the way of Sony and IBM's marketing machine.
If I remember my American History correctly, before the U.S. Constitution was attacked in Boston harbor, John Paul Jones played guitar for Led Zep and uttered the unforgettable words, "Surrender? I have not yet begun to fight!" Thus ended the first American Revolution.
After they won independence from Britain (go figure, JPJ was a Brit himself), the Americans set forth their first draft of the Constitution and called it The Articles Of Confederation. They had a bunch of cool General Lee flags to go along with it, but eventually these became associated with racism and were finally taken out of the final submitted draft.
The Articles of Confederation set forth a government that loosely tied together each state. Each state was essentially its own sovereign nation and would only be overseen by a few interstate commerce and extradition requirements set forth in the Articles. This is kind of like the EU today.
However, the final draft as written by Alexander Hamilton, dubbed The American Constitution of The United States of America, set forth a much more powerful central government.
Unfortunately, today's vote sees the culmination of 2 centuries of slowly educating the concept of sovereignty out of Americans. Good luck, you guys!
Without actual content that is generated solely at the site, whether it be your personal opinions or the opinions of users, it is doubtful that you will generate significant traffic through banner ads. If someone is smart enough to find your site about asbestos, they are most likely able to find their way to the sites with real, original content from which you skimmed your information from.
By offering users nothing, you stand to make very little in the way of ad traffic revenue.
Roland Piquepaille does that now with Slashdot. Aggregate content and redigest it and offer it up for viewers with advertisement banners readily available.
Not saying there's anything wrong with it, it's just a little antithetical, if you know what I mean.
If you consider that any song that is ripped from original media instead of being downloaded from the iTunes store is a potential loss of revenue for Apple, then you can see how Steve would be against the idea.
With Apple at the forefront of online music stores, it makes sense that we support them by buying our portable music at iTunes rather than listening to radio (whether free or otherwise). Not only can we, the listeners, decide what we want to hear at any given time, it benefits Apple in a way that mere words cannot.
Steve Jobs has again seen the correct path. While it may hurt Sirius XM in the short term, in the long term I think it will be a boon to everyone to have a strong Apple Computer company.
I like to make little digs at my Windows-loving friends about the instability of their beloved OS, but they really got me good with their critique of X-Windows.
If you look at what X-Windows does, beyond the standard windowing stuff, it is a lot of shading and anti-aliasing and subpixel shading and so on. These functions are actually implemented in hardware, for the most part, and the X system calls the exposed driver routines to make them work. So if your card doesn't support some feature, you aren't going to get it: it's not really supported in software.
But, they asked, who drives the video card manufacturers? It's a rhetorical question, of course, because with Intel and Microsoft basically defining what it is to be a PC (with initiatives like PC98 and other PC definitions), it is they who are telling the video card makers which direction to go and what features to build into their cards.
So X-windows will always lag behind Windows because Windows is the driving force behind graphics improvements. I wish I had an answer to this, but unfortunately it seems to be the case.
Used in porn.
Go figure.
They don't believe in Free Speech (can't sell anti-French WWII memorabilia), they don't believe in shaving for women (Mila Jovovich), and they don't believe in using perfectly good words (the requiring that all computer terms be translated into appropriate French words).
Who gives a damn what those cheese-eating surrender monkeys "order"?
Maybe one day they can join the rest of the civilized world in the post-Dark Ages for a change.
What is the big deal with flying into space? Space tourism is about as interesting as sitting in your cubicle with added nausea to keep you on your toes.
The goal ought to be a real destination, the Moon, Mars, some asteroid, but without government money, that isn't going to happen.
So the next best thing is to make a space "plane" that can transport passengers from New York to Sydney in less than an hour. NASA had plans for something like that (someone can provide a link, I'm sure), but scrapped it in favor of Bush's latest drive to get to Mars (or the moon, I forget).
Who wants to sit on a thousand pounds of explosives and not go anywhere? Space flight ought to be seen as a means to an end, not the end itself.
I use AVG on all my company systems and can say that in addition to being free, AVG provides the best anti-virus protection around. After F-Prot started losing ground to Windows-based scanners, AVG has done a remarkable job in stepping up to the plate.
AVG, free and worry free. (This was not a paid endorsement)
Well, I wish Judge Jackson the best of health, of course. But this judge is making the same mistake that Jackson did in the Microsoft trial.
Do not blast the litigants until the trial is over.
This one instance of him opening his big mouth will forever haunt him if he is ever in the position to assume a higher judicial office (which he won't be in now).
Actually, since the death of the CD longbox, albums have generally become something relegated to the past. It's no longer something that you buy to add to your collection, rather it is something that you consume and toss out when the latest fad washes away the fading memories of it.
The fact that most artists suck these days (Rush? Tool? These are good??) doesn't help the situation much, but it is more a symptom of the real problem which is that album covers and cases have become cheap plastic "jewel boxes" rather than the more permanent cardboard with intricate artwork on it.
When there are perfectly fine 2-dimensional barcodes called QR codes available, I hate to see scientists trying to get by with simple one-dimensional barcodes. Even the post office has started using QR codes, and all Japanese phones are equipped with readers.
Seems a little bit simple, but I guess it might be harder to put 2 dimensional barcodes on thin creatures like worms and snakes.
Looks like they just threw that sucker out.
What more do you want your government to do to you, Americans? When someone is screwing you over, you throw them out. You don't keep them around just because "it's better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't." Kerry didn't even seem too devilish.
Or Braunshweiger, as Oscar Mayer calls it?
Here's the real question (ready?):
Should universities be designed for vocational training?
Discuss.
Food prepared in England or dying of cancer.
Both are horrible ways to go.
My IQ is right in the 143-145 ballpark and I typically score in the 99th percentile on any standardized test. I excel in all areas that pertain to mental ability, and especially so in those tests with time constraints.
:-)
I graduated at the top of my high school and college classes, and I scored perfectly in my Masters program and successfully defended my thesis for my PhD. I currently run the single largest distribution organization in the world employing millions upon millions of people who almost simultaneously perform their work with very little oversight necessary from management.
This article is an excuse to defend people who think they are smart but are actually barely above-average. Like most Slashbots, actually.
And when you've glanced at it, you've doomed yourself and your Open Source company from ever using you as a developer ever again. Take the glibc stance and just avoid MS code if at all possible.