The Soviet Union was a major sponsor of international terrorism. It was mostly leftist/socialist groups in Europe and the Americas. Al Qaida grew out of some of the many terrorist groups that we supported, including the Muhaddijen (sp?), who you-know-who fought with and funded.
I'd try WebGUI, by PlainBlack Software. They release it under open source, and sell services around it. Seems to be pretty good, I'm going to be playing with it soon.
During my job hunt (winding up, knock on wood...) I came across 2 positions that sound great, until I found out what it was. One was a telemarketing company, and another was a "direct marketing" company. I dropped them both. The spammer, I think, is still advertising the job on Monster.
one pound of steak arrives on your plate courtesy of some fifty pounds of plants (and ten to a hundred times its calorific value in energy consumed to produce it, depending upon the production method, but that's another matter).
Of course, 99% of that vegetable matter gets crapped right back onto the ground, and used for fertilizer in situ, or in someone's garden. Your tomatos exist because of the lives of cattle that were slaughtered for thier beef. It all works together.
I can't beleive no one's mentioning these...
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Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. A future where all books are banned, TV is king, religion is "Jesus and Friends," houses are fireproof, and firemen set fire to houses with books in them.
Island, by Aldous Huxley. A lesser-known novel, about a Buddhist utopia that is disrupted when oil reserve are found on it. The king is western-educated, and thinks this is a great chance to get his people up to speed with the real world. Not strictly dystopian, but shows how fragile a real utopia would be.
Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. Be sure to get the 50's edition, as the "update" is terrible. Alien overlords come to Earth and end war, injustice, and poverty through sheer power (nuclear weapons fall like duds). For years, they don't show themselves. Why?
Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury. When you read it in middle school, you probably missed the dystopian connotations, but they're there. Specifically refer to "The House of Usher" chapter.
Sign him up as an employer on a popular Job Site (Monter or CareerBuilder or something) and do a search for resumes with Linux in them. I think that you'll find plenty.
It seems like he went through some of the most boring, flattest parts of the US on his trip. Even through Colorado and Utah, everything was flat. What's up with that? I know the US is more interesting than that. Hell, Pennsylvania is more interesting than that. He should have started in Maine.:-)
Is it theft if a person wouldn't have bothered to buy it, or would never buy it? An example for me is Styx. I think that Roboto, Sailing Away, and Lady are funny songs to listen to, but I think Styx sucks in general, and I wouldn't ever actually pay for that stuff.
Also, there's such a thing as pricing yourself out of a market. At $15 a pop, it's usually not worth it to try out new bands. I'm taking a decent-sized risk by buying that instead of something I know I like. Gnutella et al allow me to try out new stuff without laying out large bucks doing so.
Blastocysts do not have differentiated tissue types. It's hard to differentiate when there's only 8 cells or so. Later in the blastocystic stage there is some differentiation, but that's just the placenta forming (it's more a locational differentiation at this stage than an anatomical or physitiological one though).
I developed NetOwl Summarizer 1.5 (way at the bottom), and there's a lot that needs to be done. You need to score enough documents, and need to have a good entity extraction mechanism (which NetOwl Extractor does) and you need a good on-line learning system. It's a lot of work, and even still, we don't get very good results, only good results. Microsoft's text summarizer does far worse, actually, but neither of us is perfect.
I refer you to this excellent paper talking about that very problem:
Practical Lessons in Supporting Large-Scale Computational Science (in pdf). The gist of it is the tradeoffs between RDBMS's and custom flat files. It seems that (and I've dealt with this myself, competing in KDD Cup 2001) while a naive set of code does far worse than a database+olap, a indexed and paged data format (memory mapped) does far better, with less overhead. Of course, it's harder to apply your favorite Machine Learning or AI algorithm to stuff that's in a database. I've found that, even when I put it into a database, I pull it back out to perform real computation on it.
What happened to the good ol' days when programmers--real programmers--wrote very clever, small and fast programs? When it had to be written correctly or it didn't work?
We got to the point where people cost more than computers. This happened years ago, and I, for one, don't want to go back. Computers are our tools. They should obey our will, and we shouldn't be bending to them.
Our department in our company has about 30 Solaris machines with about 15 Linux (Mandrake and Red Hat) machines set up with NIS, NFS, and auto-fs (on linux) and automount on Solaris. We have had this set up for longer than I've been there (~3 years). I know of no problems with this system. Using this system allows us to have centralized home directories by default and allow some users (myself included) to have local home directories, because some of us are developing very IO-intensive applications. We are all able to log into any other machine with no trouble, and am-utils has been essential to our linux setup and has only given us one problem: one fellow, who has a very unconventional home directory setup, has managed to make autofs 4.0.0 barf consistently on it. The 3.x series has no trouble.
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>> QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
>So?
So QT is also well-written C++, which means it's much easier to write for. C++ wrappers over C libs almost always end up having to deal with Cisms that aren't an issue when using C++.
>> QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
>Why?
Because if you want any company that is developing internal applications to use QT instead of VB, it had better have direct access to SQL databases, because about 90% of "enterprise" apps are souped-up database forms strung together in a meaningful manner.
>> QT comes with a very good interface builder.
>Use vim.
And painters should write down specific instructions for a machine to render their paintings. I'm sorry, but being a UI designer, I'd say that most of us, when designing UIs, think visually, not textually. This isn't better or worse, just different. I use emacs and the command line whenever I'm developing backend code, but any time I need to develop a UI, I need to see it, and I'll be damned if I'm going to wait even 3 seconds for a program to compile and run if all I'm doing is checking if I got the constraints on some widget set right. It just interrupts the flow of work.
>> QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
> Opinionated
Yes, but valid. The response time of a UI is crucial to user acceptance. Anything that takes longer than 1/10th of a second is not instant.
>> With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
> Use Vim.
See above. Kdevelop also makes it easy to set up automake/autoconf build methods, even for people who aren't familiar with them.
>> Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
>Maybe, maybe not.. and if so, who cares? Maybe some people like to have a lot of options/power at their disposal.
I care. My time is valuable, and it takes me the same amount of time to write 100 lines of QT code as it does 100 lines of GTK code. If I can get more done with 100 lines of QT code, guess which I'm going to use? The best situation is where the library gives you access to powerful abstractions (like QT does), but then also gives you access to lower level details if you need it. There's nothing to slow you down like dealing with details that don't even matter.
Re:SMB (Samba) kioslave in Konqueror yet?
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Yeah, someone will call this flamebait. I don't care. The problem is C. There is no bounds checking, or anything else remotely dealing with error handling (does it even have exceptions?) C++, Java, Perl, Python and many other programming languages do, but for some reason, the GNU coding standard says C, and most people want to use that instead. Personally, I think that they're just making work for themselves. It would be much more secure (and easier, I might add) to use std::string and std:iostream, or java.lang.String and java.io.* than to use char* and *print*()and *get*() in C, which both make it very easy to to the wrong things. And don't tell me that C++ isn't portable enough. gcc and g++ are certainly portable, which means that you have that on almost all Unices, and everything else has excellent native support of C++ (and if you don't like VC++, then you can use g++, again). That's portable enough, for me, at least.
One word: embedding. Modern Word Processors allow you to embed other data in the document, meaning that to email someone, you don't need to send multiple files, you don't need to send a tarball or zip that the user has to deal with, or anything else. It's all there, and is easy to deal with.
Linux isn't going anywhere on the desktop for many reasons. One reason that hasn't been talked to death is usability testing. As programmers, we don't know what a user is going to find intuitive.
It's not like Microsoft and Apple just design their interfaces and that's it. They test them. They do task analysis, and fix the bottlenecks that occur. Granted, they can focus more on the advanced user, but like any other component, you have to to logic testing as well as runtime testing. The user is the most complex part of the system, and 99% of the time, its the part that can't be changed. So you adapt the rest of the system to the user. Don't force a user to keep a huge mental map, make it apparent in the interface.
If there's one difference between Microsoft and Open Source, it's that they test their interfaces, we don't.
I haven't had any trouble with using DOM in the xerces-c library. It's pretty simple, actually, once you set up the parser. We wrote a wrapper to handle all that stuff, and other IO things. My only gripe is that they actually use static variables, and thus need ugly initializers for stuff like their transcoder. If they wanted to write C, they should have. Initializers are what constructors are for.
Rational Rose will do this. It is used for planning a system at the class level (and then generating the class files) or reverse-engineering existing classes into a UML diagram.
Try to process those sensors and drive the motors using a neural net. Now try doing that on the platform you suggested. That's enough to make a software guy crazy!
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The Soviet Union was a major sponsor of international terrorism. It was mostly leftist/socialist groups in Europe and the Americas. Al Qaida grew out of some of the many terrorist groups that we supported, including the Muhaddijen (sp?), who you-know-who fought with and funded.
I'd try WebGUI, by PlainBlack Software. They release it under open source, and sell services around it. Seems to be pretty good, I'm going to be playing with it soon.
In fact, I use LDAP lookup every day through Mozilla for email adresses and the address book. It's pretty simple.
During my job hunt (winding up, knock on wood...) I came across 2 positions that sound great, until I found out what it was. One was a telemarketing company, and another was a "direct marketing" company. I dropped them both. The spammer, I think, is still advertising the job on Monster.
Island, by Aldous Huxley. A lesser-known novel, about a Buddhist utopia that is disrupted when oil reserve are found on it. The king is western-educated, and thinks this is a great chance to get his people up to speed with the real world. Not strictly dystopian, but shows how fragile a real utopia would be.
Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke. Be sure to get the 50's edition, as the "update" is terrible. Alien overlords come to Earth and end war, injustice, and poverty through sheer power (nuclear weapons fall like duds). For years, they don't show themselves. Why?
Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury. When you read it in middle school, you probably missed the dystopian connotations, but they're there. Specifically refer to "The House of Usher" chapter.
Sign him up as an employer on a popular Job Site (Monter or CareerBuilder or something) and do a search for resumes with Linux in them. I think that you'll find plenty.
Only because he ripped it off from Clerks.
My wife is a Yankee grammar nazi. "You" works just fine for everything. (Isn't context great?)
It seems like he went through some of the most boring, flattest parts of the US on his trip. Even through Colorado and Utah, everything was flat. What's up with that? I know the US is more interesting than that. Hell, Pennsylvania is more interesting than that. He should have started in Maine. :-)
Is it theft if a person wouldn't have bothered to buy it, or would never buy it? An example for me is Styx. I think that Roboto, Sailing Away, and Lady are funny songs to listen to, but I think Styx sucks in general, and I wouldn't ever actually pay for that stuff.
Also, there's such a thing as pricing yourself out of a market. At $15 a pop, it's usually not worth it to try out new bands. I'm taking a decent-sized risk by buying that instead of something I know I like. Gnutella et al allow me to try out new stuff without laying out large bucks doing so.
Blastocysts do not have differentiated tissue types. It's hard to differentiate when there's only 8 cells or so. Later in the blastocystic stage there is some differentiation, but that's just the placenta forming (it's more a locational differentiation at this stage than an anatomical or physitiological one though).
I developed NetOwl Summarizer 1.5 (way at the bottom), and there's a lot that needs to be done. You need to score enough documents, and need to have a good entity extraction mechanism (which NetOwl Extractor does) and you need a good on-line learning system. It's a lot of work, and even still, we don't get very good results, only good results. Microsoft's text summarizer does far worse, actually, but neither of us is perfect.
I pay $49 per month for 1.5Mbps down, 384Kbps up, with few AUP restrictions through Earthlink.
I refer you to this excellent paper talking about that very problem: Practical Lessons in Supporting Large-Scale Computational Science (in pdf). The gist of it is the tradeoffs between RDBMS's and custom flat files. It seems that (and I've dealt with this myself, competing in KDD Cup 2001) while a naive set of code does far worse than a database+olap, a indexed and paged data format (memory mapped) does far better, with less overhead. Of course, it's harder to apply your favorite Machine Learning or AI algorithm to stuff that's in a database. I've found that, even when I put it into a database, I pull it back out to perform real computation on it.
Our department in our company has about 30 Solaris machines with about 15 Linux (Mandrake and Red Hat) machines set up with NIS, NFS, and auto-fs (on linux) and automount on Solaris. We have had this set up for longer than I've been there (~3 years). I know of no problems with this system. Using this system allows us to have centralized home directories by default and allow some users (myself included) to have local home directories, because some of us are developing very IO-intensive applications. We are all able to log into any other machine with no trouble, and am-utils has been essential to our linux setup and has only given us one problem: one fellow, who has a very unconventional home directory setup, has managed to make autofs 4.0.0 barf consistently on it. The 3.x series has no trouble.
>> QT is C++ from the ground up, GTK-- is wrapping GTK++.
>So?
So QT is also well-written C++, which means it's much easier to write for. C++ wrappers over C libs almost always end up having to deal with Cisms that aren't an issue when using C++.
>> QT 3 gives you access to SQL-databases from its widgets.
>Why?
Because if you want any company that is developing internal applications to use QT instead of VB, it had better have direct access to SQL databases, because about 90% of "enterprise" apps are souped-up database forms strung together in a meaningful manner.
>> QT comes with a very good interface builder.
>Use vim.
And painters should write down specific instructions for a machine to render their paintings. I'm sorry, but being a UI designer, I'd say that most of us, when designing UIs, think visually, not textually. This isn't better or worse, just different. I use emacs and the command line whenever I'm developing backend code, but any time I need to develop a UI, I need to see it, and I'll be damned if I'm going to wait even 3 seconds for a program to compile and run if all I'm doing is checking if I got the constraints on some widget set right. It just interrupts the flow of work.
>> QT based programes feel snappier than GTK based ones.
> Opinionated
Yes, but valid. The response time of a UI is crucial to user acceptance. Anything that takes longer than 1/10th of a second is not instant.
>> With Kdevelop you have access to a very good IDE.
> Use Vim.
See above. Kdevelop also makes it easy to set up automake/autoconf build methods, even for people who aren't familiar with them.
>> Furthermore with GTK you definitely write more code to accomplish the same.
>Maybe, maybe not.. and if so, who cares? Maybe some people like to have a lot of options/power at their disposal.
I care. My time is valuable, and it takes me the same amount of time to write 100 lines of QT code as it does 100 lines of GTK code. If I can get more done with 100 lines of QT code, guess which I'm going to use? The best situation is where the library gives you access to powerful abstractions (like QT does), but then also gives you access to lower level details if you need it. There's nothing to slow you down like dealing with details that don't even matter.
smb:// is all you need.
Yeah, someone will call this flamebait. I don't care. The problem is C. There is no bounds checking, or anything else remotely dealing with error handling (does it even have exceptions?) C++, Java, Perl, Python and many other programming languages do, but for some reason, the GNU coding standard says C, and most people want to use that instead. Personally, I think that they're just making work for themselves. It would be much more secure (and easier, I might add) to use std::string and std:iostream, or java.lang.String and java.io.* than to use char* and *print*()and *get*() in C, which both make it very easy to to the wrong things. And don't tell me that C++ isn't portable enough. gcc and g++ are certainly portable, which means that you have that on almost all Unices, and everything else has excellent native support of C++ (and if you don't like VC++, then you can use g++, again). That's portable enough, for me, at least.
One word: embedding. Modern Word Processors allow you to embed other data in the document, meaning that to email someone, you don't need to send multiple files, you don't need to send a tarball or zip that the user has to deal with, or anything else. It's all there, and is easy to deal with.
It's not like Microsoft and Apple just design their interfaces and that's it. They test them. They do task analysis, and fix the bottlenecks that occur. Granted, they can focus more on the advanced user, but like any other component, you have to to logic testing as well as runtime testing. The user is the most complex part of the system, and 99% of the time, its the part that can't be changed. So you adapt the rest of the system to the user. Don't force a user to keep a huge mental map, make it apparent in the interface.
If there's one difference between Microsoft and Open Source, it's that they test their interfaces, we don't.
I haven't had any trouble with using DOM in the xerces-c library. It's pretty simple, actually, once you set up the parser. We wrote a wrapper to handle all that stuff, and other IO things. My only gripe is that they actually use static variables, and thus need ugly initializers for stuff like their transcoder. If they wanted to write C, they should have. Initializers are what constructors are for.
Rational Rose will do this. It is used for planning a system at the class level (and then generating the class files) or reverse-engineering existing classes into a UML diagram.
Try to process those sensors and drive the motors using a neural net. Now try doing that on the platform you suggested. That's enough to make a software guy crazy!