This is precisely why I routinely ignore that "# This is a generated file! Do not edit." at the top of the cookies.txt file. Once every several weeks I go in and clean house.
Cleaning out this file does a couple of things for my peace of mind. 1) It screws with the statistics of all those places that use cookies for tracking me. 2) It clears out potentially percievably incriminating data if my employer were to decide to hire web-Nazi's to see what people are doing on company computers even in their off hours. If I ever want somebody to know what I've seen on the net I'll tell them myself.
Yet, You still run into those other pesky problems from related system timings you forgot to adjust.
Sure, it's fun to get a little more speed from your core but, after accounting for your time and effort at what you should be making as a techie who can do things like this isn't it still more cost effective to just buy the faster chip to start with?
This is good for Sun, and hopefully for us too. Among other benefits to Sun:
Brings just a little more control of Java (invented and developed by Sun) back to Sun. Especially good for Sun after that mess with MicroSoft in which they essentially lost some of their control over the language. (More to follow when the case makes it's way through the courts. )
Brings some Java development tool expertise inside of Sun. Let's face it, Sun has the major nuts when it comes to advancing the Java language but their development tools are less than perfect. NetBeans produces some good tools and is not so big that Sun would have to take over another major player.
As with all acquisitions, wait and see what the real outcome will be.
Just like the serialization of Sherlock Holmes in a pulp paper of the time was highly correlated...
Actually, serialization in The Strand magazine is how the Holmes stories were published originally. They weren't published in hardbound editions until after they became popular among Strand readers.
As for ghostwriters, it depends on who your ghost is whether you end up with trash or not. I have Kurt Vonnegut ghosting my personal memoirs right now.
OK, Here it is folks and I'm only going to say this once. I hereby claim sole right and authority to the site names listed herein and all of their foreign language equivilants:
wudzup.com
sup.com
whatchadointhere.com
whats-shakin.com
howsithangindude.com
quepasta.com
quepasa.com
gottagetmesomeofthat.com
yournamehereforpresident.com
dontletyourmothercatchyoudoingthat.com
anglestrokeperiod.org
and all other multi-llanguage translatable names not mentioned.
Persons or organizations found to be in violation of this claim of supreme sovereignty over all internet domain names will be punished by me calling them "not a team player."
Imagine your system board working at 200MHz and your video working at 166MHz. You get skips and jumps in the video due to the difference. Give the system more to do with those extra cycles and everything settles down for a nice user experience.
It's all in the balance of neurotransmitters. Being profoundly ADHD and having mastered my condition has lead to a lot of insight into what I can do to keep myself from driving everyone around me bonkers. Caffeine and other stimulants trigger the release of neurotransmitter regulators. These regulators have mainly to do with the reuptake of serotonin and dopamine (among other compounds). Exercise, diet, and meditation can play a very large part in the "normalization" of the ADD/ADHD person.
For the ADD/ADHD person the non-standard (not sub-standard) levels of these are seen through inability to focus and/or inappropriate behavior. Generally 4 approaches are used to "normalize" the person's existence. (1) medication (perferably short term) to provide the chemical support while other coping skills are acquired, (2, 3) adjustments to exercise and dietary routines, and (3) basic meditation skills. (Read up on things like trancendentalism and shamanism. These will not attempt to replace your preferred religeous system but will make your experience of it more meaningful to you.)
Still, nothing beats going off your meds for a weekend of rock concerts and video games!
I'm not at all surprised by this. Well, maybe I am afterall.
The scientific community all over the world works primarily in metric units. Why that isn't the standard as a matter of policy is a mystery to me. As it is now, if you're talking gallons you have to specify U.S. gallons vs. Imperial gallons. Sure, the inch is defined by an act of Congress to be exactly 2.54cm. That doesn't take away the fact that the U.S. in general has clung to it's use of statute miles, and other odd measurement systems for all the wrong reasons.
The historic reasons for use of these systems no longer serves it's purpose. Reasoning that Americans will have difficulty converting is an additional load of "hooey."
After a 2 to 5 year transition period passes the use of metric measurements by the general populace will be second nature. Conversion of food and other material measurements will be a cost savings for goods producers as well. There are real costs related to labelling in multiple scales.
The computing industry has shown time and again... Standards Are Good! Use them and be happy.
Not open-source, but free. That is, if you discount the $20 to cover materials & shipping.
I have a copy of Solaris 7 for x86 at home just begging to be installed. I just haven't had time to get to it. Meanwhile, I'm happily plugging away at both Linux and Windows.
Meanwhile, I don't see that free Solaris has had a measurable impact on Linux or any of the BSD's.
It looks like they took a clue from Digital (a.k.a . DEC, now part of Compaq) with the FX86! package they sent me for running x86 compiled Win32 apps on my Alphastation.
They're taking data/code from one processor/platform and shipping it to another for work, then (presumeably) shipping the results back. This will be tremendously useful in loadsharing situations where you don't have all the same hardware.
Picture a multiplatform Beowulf cluster built of a mixture of G3's, G4's, Pentium II's, Alpha's, SGI's, and a couple of Amiga's just to make it fun.
I guess you'd have to call this a Beomutt cluster.;-)
This would be completely feasible. (at least in terms of being able to trigger a tsunami) Detonation of a high yield device near the sea floor could cause enough disruption to trigger such a wave. The unfortunate side considerations include such things as
How do you trigger a directed wave?
How do I stop a wave that is going where I don't want one?
and a whole host of others.
You see the problem: some bozo general/admiral/whatever triggers a tsunami to wipe out the Japanese and doesn't consider the fact that that same detonation has put the Hawaiian islands in direct danger. Wipes out his target, then two days later his own family gets it too.
While the downloaded installation does prompt for registration (once) I have been able to install from a Zip disk of the installation package to several machines. Each has asked for registration but none have required it.
Our users are very happy using StarOffice on their Win32 systems. It would really kick ass if KOffice is also released in a Win32 version for those cyber-lightweights not yet ready to change operating systems.
I have a whole department full of "marginal" computer users who don't have either time or incliniation to learn an OS. Just want to sit down and type a report. Another office suite that is not built around Word or WordPerfect but reads and writes compatible files would be welcome by them.
This is embarassing. What do you mean "almost"?!! I was talking about such an event in theory with a colleague just before reading this. Not only did we both fall off our chairs (literally), I actually did pee myself! It's a good thing our washrooms are equipped with electric hand driers.
p.s.: In all my postings to Slashdot (10 currently listed on my user information page), this is my first ever as "Anonymous Coward." I'm sure you'll understand.;-)
Sun has a clue that Microsoft hasn't. If you're good at developing a language you should do that. If you're good at developing tools you should do that instead. Go with your strength and not what you dream of your strength being. (Unfortunately, it looks like Microsoft's strength is in bullying the competition in all arenas.)
Just as Microsoft got it's true start by developing BASIC (read your history kiddies, that's where Billion-dollar Bill got started), Sun developed Java from the ground up and should stick with the language development aspects of Java. Sun is wise to contract out or otherwise semi-divest themselves of the development of tools for Java.
Additionally, while some would argue that only the people who truly know Java from the inside out, from the ground up, would know how to build the best tools... I don't see the masses beating down doors for the Microsoft development tools. In fact, a fresh set of eyes that is NOT completely steeped in the language development hurdles works without the encumberance of that knowledge. They work on the language in it's existing state of development.
As I heard Fats Waller (Jazz/Blues LEGEND) say in an interview once: "Be what you is."
The article raises a lot of very good questions. Personally, I can see Sun going too far with badmouthing Linux because, in the long run, it will hurt Sun to be seen as the bad guy. Support for Linux serves Sun for the present and that's good for Linux now. Let's see what the future holds.
As for their plans to move applications to the net... That could never again be the main mode of operations in the computing world. That's exactly what we had before the Altair, Apple, IBM-PC... came along and confirmed the market for desktop computing. There are certain situations for which hosted software is a very good idea. Computers in public librarys and such come to mind. I don't want to go to the library to use a public terminal that some cyberpunk has rendered unuseable by filling the HD with their favorite games. I want to go to the library to use the research tools that were intended to be there.
Ultimately, Sun can go ahead with their plans to serve apps across the net. There is a relatively untapped market for that service. However, as I paraphrase an old NRA bumper sticker, I'll give up my locally installed apps when they pry my cold dead fingers from my keyboard.
Interesting, NCR and Netscape (in a story linked from the current C|net reference) are partnering to offer certain financial services. Add this to the current debacle that MS is experiencing in federal court vs the DOJ, and the other litigation brought by Sun Microsystems and it makes me wonder if NCR was put up to this.
"I know you got me on this silly monopoly thing, and that other Java thing but we'll get you yet you.. you.. you mean person!" --Microsoft to Netscape re: NCR patent infringement suit.
Attempts to test post ads to their NT box are severely restricted. It's all of 7:00am and I get the following:
You are entering a submission from IP address - 10.0.0.1.
We are currently accepting a maximum of 5 submissions per 24 hour period for each unique IP address.
If you wish to provide further feedback on this site, please visit again tomorrow.
My first observance is that my actual IP in no way resembles 10.0.0.1 in the deepest reaches of my imagination. (Somebody didn't check their scripts from anywhere but localhost.)
By my estimates, this means you have to access by 5:00am to test this route for hacking in. The Linux server was correctly configured to allow more posting access and to time-out ads based on user-selected options.
To get employed professionally as an "engineer" you need two things, 1) an engineering education, and 2) the good luck to get hired. Now, as for certification... necessary?... only in certain situations.
Once you've been around enough degreed engineers you see that what I'm about to say is as true for engineers as it is for any other profession. Any engineer (let's call him/her Carroll because I know both male and female "Carroll's" with that spelling) who has been comfortable with the same company for 10 years and had not a lot of reason to explore outside their own little world is probably a little rusty in some areas, even in their own area of expertise. For the most part, the "certified" engineers tend to be the sort of person to whom that does not happen. These are folks who get a woody just thinking about heat transfer coefficients and standards of deviation. There's a tendency toward a higher grade of engineer. There's also a tendency toward a higher pay for these geeks.
For your normal engineer jobs there's no need for this level of specialization or money to pay for it. However, some positions (frequently municipal or other governmental) require it because there's an interest in the public well being. By requiring certification the county (or whomever) has the ability to say they had a specifically qualified person in the position in the rare event when something remarkably bad happens.
The short of it is this, if you're not looking to be the county engineer or some such thing you'll be just fine without it.
Yes, but on your 32bit system it's using twice the clicks to do it relative to the 64 bit system. This is because it has to address two values, perform the operation, then recombine. With a 64bit system you would cut your number of addresses in half for those 64bit ops that are currently being split and multichannelled.
Granted, it's not a 2 to (1 + 1) performance ratio in the truest sense but the concept is valid if not the accuracy of my description.
On top of that, the previous post said nothing about running on 32bit. Alpha and several other currently available systems are running 64bit today (and for the past several years). True, x86 is not 64bit. IA-64 is not really an x86 processor but the next generation from Intel. IA-64 will bring Intel more in line with what other chip manufacturers have been doing for extreme high end systems for years and will bring it to prominence on the desktop.
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Cleaning out this file does a couple of things for my peace of mind. 1) It screws with the statistics of all those places that use cookies for tracking me. 2) It clears out potentially percievably incriminating data if my employer were to decide to hire web-Nazi's to see what people are doing on company computers even in their off hours. If I ever want somebody to know what I've seen on the net I'll tell them myself.
--
Sure, it's fun to get a little more speed from your core but, after accounting for your time and effort at what you should be making as a techie who can do things like this isn't it still more cost effective to just buy the faster chip to start with?
--
On deck: Sabre-toothed cats.
In the hole: Stegosaurs, Brontosaurs, and Pterosaurs.
--
- Brings just a little more control of Java (invented and developed by Sun) back to Sun. Especially good for Sun after that mess with MicroSoft in which they essentially lost some of their control over the language. (More to follow when the case makes it's way through the courts. )
- Brings some Java development tool expertise inside of Sun. Let's face it, Sun has the major nuts when it comes to advancing the Java language but their development tools are less than perfect. NetBeans produces some good tools and is not so big that Sun would have to take over another major player.
As with all acquisitions, wait and see what the real outcome will be.--
Actually, serialization in The Strand magazine is how the Holmes stories were published originally. They weren't published in hardbound editions until after they became popular among Strand readers.
As for ghostwriters, it depends on who your ghost is whether you end up with trash or not. I have Kurt Vonnegut ghosting my personal memoirs right now.
--
Diolch yn fawr!
Dyma gobeithio mi fyd eich troed yn ffres bob amser,
eich bobgail yn rhydd o lint,
ac fydd y gwallt eich trwyn byth yn tufu'n hir!
-------------------- ...
English:
Thanks very much!
May your feet be always fresh,
your navel be free of lint,
and the hair in your nose never grow long!
--
I Beg your pardon, that's bitemyleftnut.org! or, is that .aargh!?
--
- wudzup.com
- sup.com
- whatchadointhere.com
- whats-shakin.com
- howsithangindude.com
- quepasta.com
- quepasa.com
- gottagetmesomeofthat.com
- yournamehereforpresident.com
- dontletyourmothercatchyoudoingthat.com
- anglestrokeperiod.org
and all other multi-llanguage translatable names not mentioned.Persons or organizations found to be in violation of this claim of supreme sovereignty over all internet domain names will be punished by me calling them "not a team player."
--
Beware the Jabberwock, and nevermind the womraths. (The womraths outgrabe.)
--
Imagine your system board working at 200MHz and your video working at 166MHz. You get skips and jumps in the video due to the difference. Give the system more to do with those extra cycles and everything settles down for a nice user experience.
--
For the ADD/ADHD person the non-standard (not sub-standard) levels of these are seen through inability to focus and/or inappropriate behavior. Generally 4 approaches are used to "normalize" the person's existence. (1) medication (perferably short term) to provide the chemical support while other coping skills are acquired, (2, 3) adjustments to exercise and dietary routines, and (3) basic meditation skills. (Read up on things like trancendentalism and shamanism. These will not attempt to replace your preferred religeous system but will make your experience of it more meaningful to you.)
Still, nothing beats going off your meds for a weekend of rock concerts and video games!
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- Cost Reduction Needed: I can't see anybody paying the really big bucks en masse for toys like this. Neat stuff, too costly.
- The Look: Yeah, like I'm going to volunteer to walk around a corporate complex looking like The Borg.
- Useability: Yes, there are apps for these things now but it still looks like every hardware version runs it's own versions of everything.
- OS?: Will it run my favorite OS or am I going to be stuck with some proprietary hack job? Can I write and/or load my own apps later?
- Availability:I see these things in the press all the time. I have yet to see them in retail to any degree worth mentioning.
Resolve these issues and you have something that can survive the marketplace."If you build it they will come."
--
The scientific community all over the world works primarily in metric units. Why that isn't the standard as a matter of policy is a mystery to me. As it is now, if you're talking gallons you have to specify U.S. gallons vs. Imperial gallons. Sure, the inch is defined by an act of Congress to be exactly 2.54cm. That doesn't take away the fact that the U.S. in general has clung to it's use of statute miles, and other odd measurement systems for all the wrong reasons.
The historic reasons for use of these systems no longer serves it's purpose. Reasoning that Americans will have difficulty converting is an additional load of "hooey."
After a 2 to 5 year transition period passes the use of metric measurements by the general populace will be second nature. Conversion of food and other material measurements will be a cost savings for goods producers as well. There are real costs related to labelling in multiple scales.
The computing industry has shown time and again... Standards Are Good! Use them and be happy.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
I have a copy of Solaris 7 for x86 at home just begging to be installed. I just haven't had time to get to it. Meanwhile, I'm happily plugging away at both Linux and Windows.
Meanwhile, I don't see that free Solaris has had a measurable impact on Linux or any of the BSD's.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
They're taking data/code from one processor/platform and shipping it to another for work, then (presumeably) shipping the results back. This will be tremendously useful in loadsharing situations where you don't have all the same hardware.
Picture a multiplatform Beowulf cluster built of a mixture of G3's, G4's, Pentium II's, Alpha's, SGI's, and a couple of Amiga's just to make it fun.
I guess you'd have to call this a Beomutt cluster. ;-)
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
- How do you trigger a directed wave?
- How do I stop a wave that is going where I don't want one?
and a whole host of others.You see the problem: some bozo general/admiral/whatever triggers a tsunami to wipe out the Japanese and doesn't consider the fact that that same detonation has put the Hawaiian islands in direct danger. Wipes out his target, then two days later his own family gets it too.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
Our users are very happy using StarOffice on their Win32 systems. It would really kick ass if KOffice is also released in a Win32 version for those cyber-lightweights not yet ready to change operating systems.
I have a whole department full of "marginal" computer users who don't have either time or incliniation to learn an OS. Just want to sit down and type a report. Another office suite that is not built around Word or WordPerfect but reads and writes compatible files would be welcome by them.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
Um, Rob, something didn't work there...
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
This is embarassing. What do you mean "almost"?!! I was talking about such an event in theory with a colleague just before reading this. Not only did we both fall off our chairs (literally), I actually did pee myself! It's a good thing our washrooms are equipped with electric hand driers.
p.s.: In all my postings to Slashdot (10 currently listed on my user information page), this is my first ever as "Anonymous Coward." I'm sure you'll understand. ;-)
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
Just as Microsoft got it's true start by developing BASIC (read your history kiddies, that's where Billion-dollar Bill got started), Sun developed Java from the ground up and should stick with the language development aspects of Java. Sun is wise to contract out or otherwise semi-divest themselves of the development of tools for Java.
Additionally, while some would argue that only the people who truly know Java from the inside out, from the ground up, would know how to build the best tools... I don't see the masses beating down doors for the Microsoft development tools. In fact, a fresh set of eyes that is NOT completely steeped in the language development hurdles works without the encumberance of that knowledge. They work on the language in it's existing state of development.
As I heard Fats Waller (Jazz/Blues LEGEND) say in an interview once: "Be what you is."
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
As for their plans to move applications to the net... That could never again be the main mode of operations in the computing world. That's exactly what we had before the Altair, Apple, IBM-PC... came along and confirmed the market for desktop computing. There are certain situations for which hosted software is a very good idea. Computers in public librarys and such come to mind. I don't want to go to the library to use a public terminal that some cyberpunk has rendered unuseable by filling the HD with their favorite games. I want to go to the library to use the research tools that were intended to be there.
Ultimately, Sun can go ahead with their plans to serve apps across the net. There is a relatively untapped market for that service. However, as I paraphrase an old NRA bumper sticker, I'll give up my locally installed apps when they pry my cold dead fingers from my keyboard.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
"I know you got me on this silly monopoly thing, and that other Java thing but we'll get you yet you.. you.. you mean person!"
--Microsoft to Netscape re: NCR patent infringement suit.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
By my estimates, this means you have to access by 5:00am to test this route for hacking in. The Linux server was correctly configured to allow more posting access and to time-out ads based on user-selected options.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
Once you've been around enough degreed engineers you see that what I'm about to say is as true for engineers as it is for any other profession. Any engineer (let's call him/her Carroll because I know both male and female "Carroll's" with that spelling) who has been comfortable with the same company for 10 years and had not a lot of reason to explore outside their own little world is probably a little rusty in some areas, even in their own area of expertise. For the most part, the "certified" engineers tend to be the sort of person to whom that does not happen. These are folks who get a woody just thinking about heat transfer coefficients and standards of deviation. There's a tendency toward a higher grade of engineer. There's also a tendency toward a higher pay for these geeks.
For your normal engineer jobs there's no need for this level of specialization or money to pay for it. However, some positions (frequently municipal or other governmental) require it because there's an interest in the public well being. By requiring certification the county (or whomever) has the ability to say they had a specifically qualified person in the position in the rare event when something remarkably bad happens.
The short of it is this, if you're not looking to be the county engineer or some such thing you'll be just fine without it.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library
Granted, it's not a 2 to (1 + 1) performance ratio in the truest sense but the concept is valid if not the accuracy of my description.
On top of that, the previous post said nothing about running on 32bit. Alpha and several other currently available systems are running 64bit today (and for the past several years). True, x86 is not 64bit. IA-64 is not really an x86 processor but the next generation from Intel. IA-64 will bring Intel more in line with what other chip manufacturers have been doing for extreme high end systems for years and will bring it to prominence on the desktop.
D. Keith Higgs
CWRU. Kelvin Smith Library