It's OK to do integration the way MS envisions it, but you have to make sure you have the horse out in front.
Granted, IE is little more than a glorified file system browser. That being the case, their approach should have been to integrate a first class file system browser with a pluggable API. Then, ship the Internet browser components as a plug-in component.
Using this scenario, your favorite MS-Office app just became a pluggable component for the file systembrowser. MediaPlayer==plugin, PaintBrush==plugin, photoEditor==plugin... Publish the API and then you get PhotoShop==plugin, Netscape==plugin, Kazaa==plugin.
Sure, they found them but, did they catalog them in any way..53/KLOC errors translates to approx. 1 error every 1886 LOC on average. On top of that, on further investigation, which of these are actual errors and which only look like errors?
I'm just glad I'm not the poor go-coder who has to go through the code to find and fix these few "errors."
I was diagnosed at the ripe old age of ten (10) years old. At that time the condition (I say condition because that's really what it is. The general populace says "disorder" because "ADDers" are wired differently from most of society.) was called Marginal Brain Dysfunction. I started on desoxin (a marginally buffered form of dexadrine). Within a couple of years that stopped working and they switched me to Ritalin, which I stayed on until puberty hit. (There are some concerns about taking Ritalin after puberty. Check with your doctor if you are taking this now.)
After several years of being unmedicated I took a job (15 yrs ago) that required much more attention to detail. I had myself completely re-diagnosed with "Undifferentiated ADHD" at the age of 27 and have been taking 300mg of Wellbutrin since. Good stuff this Wellbutrin. It's one of many medications that work well for adults. Check with your doctor because each person responds differently to a lot of these medications.
Tricks of the trade:
One of the big keys to living a successful life with ADD/ADHD is to know as much as possible about how you feel, act, react, yadda-yadda-yadda on a day in - day out basis. Knowing how you feel when you're "out there" is a tremendous help in being able to regulate yourself. Equally valuable is knowing how you feel when you're really on your game.
Step two: Learn to use this knowledge to manipulate your own state-of-mind. I know that when I'm off my game there are any number of things I can do to get myself back on, assuming I am self aware enough to realize that I'm off. Most of these things have nothing to do with medicatation.
Sure, caffeine comes in handy. I've said many times that "caffeine is the lens through which the whole world comes into focus." However, there are a number of meditative methods you can use as well. Some people require the assistance of a professional counsellor to develop these methods but many can acquire them on their own by reading the right books and just taking the time to try things out. I found that doing a bit of reading in areas of meditation (transcendental and otherwise), creative visualization, and shamanism were extremely helpful.
For those of you who are a little put off by the word "shamanism" for any reason:
It's not a religion.
It's not "devil worship"
It doesn't require any special tools, training, places, props, etc.
Shamanism is simply a way of looking at the world around you in physical, psychological, and spiritual terms through techniques involving meditation and personal mental focus. It blends in very well with ALL of the worlds major religions. In fact, significant parts of all of the worlds most prominent faiths are pure and simple shamanic practices. Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity (in pretty much all of its various flavors) incorporate these methods.
That said, simple prayer to whatever higher being you follow is the most basic shamanic methods of all, and one of the most effective.
inaeldi spake from the ether:
'It does say that there were "4 angels standing in the 4 corners of the Earth" or something along those lines.'
Of course, that all depends upon what translation you're reading. The only way to really understand the intent and meaning of any passage is to read it in its original language in light of the contexts of everything around it and knowledge of what was happening in the world at the time when it was written.
Any quote from a third or fourth generation translation runs the risk of losing all of its original meaning. Reading New Testament scripture in Latin is a couple of steps better than reading the New Revised Standard Version but, in most cases is still a step or two away from the original meaning.
Arent there something like 50 different words for "snow" in the Innuit language? If you ssy "there's snow outside," which of those 50 kinds of snow do you mean?
The consumer-packaged RedHat Linux (7,8,9... anything other than AS 2.x) will NOT support Oracle.
How wrong you are. According to the offical Oracle Corporation "Certify - Certification Matrix : Oracle Server - Standard Edition on Linux x86" available on Oracle Metalink (registration required) Oracle9i Server - Standard Edition is certified on UnitedLinux 1.0 SP1 (with an installation issue noted), and without issues on SuSE SLES7, SuSE 7.2, SuSE 7.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 2.1, and Red Hat 7.1. Certification has been withdrawn for Red Hat 7.0.
The one reason I can think of for going with RH Enterprise.
Plain and simple. Oracle was certified for RH7.1, NOT 7.2. (On some systems the Oracle Universal Installer won't even run on anything but 7.1)
The next version of Red Hat to be granted Oracle certification is Red Hat Linux 2.1 Enterprise. There are no plans to certify anything in the 8.x, 9.x,..., N.x series at Oracle so if this matters to you and your organization has the bucks and the inclination to standardize on Oracle (as opposed to Postgres, MySQL, etc.) you want to go with R.H. Enterprise for those boxen running Oracle. All other boxen are stable/secure enough on the 8.x, 9.x, etc. series.
Bummeroskies, Dude. The folks at slashdot have eliminated my ability to use a style="" in my <div>.
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I can see a serious plethora of other applications for nanotube fiber.
Yeah, sure it's an expensive option but, woven into fabric it should be fairly resilient. "Nano-weave: it's the new Kevlar."
Stretch it over a form and impregnate it with some sort of semi-rigid polymer to form ultra light body panels and other parts for everything from golf carts and SUVs to aircraft and orbital workstations.
Geeze, some people just don't recognize sarcasm when they see it.
The point here is, in many instances the PATRIOT act is written so broadly that it may be construed that the mere mention of anything security related is deemed an unpatriotic, seditionist, revolutionary plot.
I'm just waiting for the time when they make one of these changes and it makes it impossible to play your legally obtained, native XBox games completely inoperable.
I wonder if some libraries keep this information in order to know when to withdraw books and sell them at book sales.
Actually, information about how many times or how often any book circulates is normally associated with the item record for the book, not with the patron record.
Being that librarians are trained to organize data in meaningful ways, those who have the technical bent tend to be remarkably good DBAs and library databases tend to be completely normalized.
As a university library employee I can tell you this.
Most libraries today use an online catalog (read: "database") for just about everything regarding their collections. This means that very few libraries have those old hard copy circulation records any more.
Libraries in general have no interest in tracking what you, I, or anybody else reads. They are interested in what people (in general) are reading, who currently has their books but, not what books each person has read in the past. Therefore, they typically have knowledge of who has the book right now, and possibly who had it last (in case Johnny cuts out all the pretty pictures and nobody notices until the next reader opens the book).
Given those two points, I and my fellow library employees have been told the following:
All inquiries regarding patron records are to be referred to library administration.
No information will be provided without appropriate warrants and/or court orders.
Before any search for information begins the library has the right to have an attorney examine any/all warrants and/or court orders to determine their validity, jurisdiction, and all other aspects of legal standing.
The library, through its attorney has the right to additional judicial ruling on potentially suspect or questionable documentation before any search begins. (Right of appeal)
The library has the right to have its attorney present at all times when any search activities are carried out.
All of this applies even for the most classified requests under the most extreme reading of the PATRIOT act.
Thus, if you want to know what Sally has checked out right now, and your request makes it through all of these requirements there might be a chance that you'll find out without having to ask Sally directly.
If you want to know what Sally read last week (or possibly even this morning if the materials have already circulated) there's a good chance you're going to have to find Sally to ask her yourself.
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Every project has its own raison d'etre. I wouldn't expect Perl to be any different. Could you tell us a little about what problems you were trying to solve when you began work on Perl? Also, what were some of the big hurdles you had to clear along the way?
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I think it is ultimately important that we all archive our currently functional CD/DVD RW wares against the day when it becomes a federal crime punishable by death to distribute such things.
BTW:
'Anyone below average scares the crap out of me and, by definition, that's 50% of everyone.'
Dude, you're far more secure than I am.
While the lower 50% scare me, as they do you, I'm also a bit nervous around anybody who tests out anywhere beneath me on the scales. Pretty frightening considering I and everybody in my family test somewhere upwards of the 94th percentile on any test we've ever taken.
My one complaint about Mozilla, and Netscape 6, the absolute dirth of useable plugins for popular things like Shockwave, Flash, and Quicktime. Additionally, there does not appear to be any effort being put forth to rectify this situation. This gives me little hope of ever seeing extensions for things like DjVu, a supremely excellent format for distributing scanned documents across the web. (Ya gotta appreciate a format that gives better reproduction than PDF at 20% to 30% of the file size.)
Personally, I think that the broad use of Shockwave, Flash, and Quicktime warrant the ability of the browser to handle those formats natively. Don't write them into the browser kernel but, DO provide separate, replaceable, upgradeable extensions that ship with the browser distribution.
Give Mozilla the ability to handle the most commonly used file formats and I'll be able to convert everybody I know over to it.
"The more functional an OS, the more desktops it has."
Yeah, right. That paraphases exactly why we've used VHS for 20+ years instead of Beta. NOT! It is arguable that the Apple was a superior computing platform to the IBM PC of its day. The IBM-PC had the full corporate power and marketing strength of, well, IBM behind it while the Apple had the comparatively limited resources of two guys named Steve.
For the uninformed... Back in the days when the VCR was just being released on the world there were two competing formats, JVC's VHS format (which we all know) and Sony's Beta (a.k.a BetaMax). The latter was far superior but, alas, was first out marketed (a bit of history), then out litigated (Read case story). To date the majority of video production houses still use Beta because of it's superior image and audio quality.
While you're at it, ask if there's any chance of them throwing in an additional week of vacation time. Especially if the original offer included at least as much time off.
Many employers are discovering that additional paid time off has lots of hidden benefits.
1) A rested worker is more productive and does better quality work.
2) Employees remember the "generosity" and tend to be happier - more productive.
3) It may be cheaper to offer additional time off than it to increase payroll (within certain limits).
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It's OK to do integration the way MS envisions it, but you have to make sure you have the horse out in front.
Granted, IE is little more than a glorified file system browser. That being the case, their approach should have been to integrate a first class file system browser with a pluggable API. Then, ship the Internet browser components as a plug-in component.
Using this scenario, your favorite MS-Office app just became a pluggable component for the file systembrowser. MediaPlayer==plugin, PaintBrush==plugin, photoEditor==plugin... Publish the API and then you get PhotoShop==plugin, Netscape==plugin, Kazaa==plugin.
I really dread the time when this creature reaches puberty.
I can see the headlines now:
Long eared, carrot loving chearleader breeds like rabbits.
- MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials
- Apple: Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store
and, just a little further down the page I seeSure, they found them but, did they catalog them in any way. .53/KLOC errors translates to approx. 1 error every 1886 LOC on average. On top of that, on further investigation, which of these are actual errors and which only look like errors?
I'm just glad I'm not the poor go-coder who has to go through the code to find and fix these few "errors."
I guess we're going to have to wait a few hours on this.
BTW, The e-mail address is so they can verify. You MUST respond to their e-mail within 72 hours or the registration is cancelled.
Next step, a national Do Not Email registry.
After several years of being unmedicated I took a job (15 yrs ago) that required much more attention to detail. I had myself completely re-diagnosed with "Undifferentiated ADHD" at the age of 27 and have been taking 300mg of Wellbutrin since. Good stuff this Wellbutrin. It's one of many medications that work well for adults. Check with your doctor because each person responds differently to a lot of these medications.
Tricks of the trade:
One of the big keys to living a successful life with ADD/ADHD is to know as much as possible about how you feel, act, react, yadda-yadda-yadda on a day in - day out basis. Knowing how you feel when you're "out there" is a tremendous help in being able to regulate yourself. Equally valuable is knowing how you feel when you're really on your game.
Step two: Learn to use this knowledge to manipulate your own state-of-mind. I know that when I'm off my game there are any number of things I can do to get myself back on, assuming I am self aware enough to realize that I'm off. Most of these things have nothing to do with medicatation.
Sure, caffeine comes in handy. I've said many times that "caffeine is the lens through which the whole world comes into focus." However, there are a number of meditative methods you can use as well. Some people require the assistance of a professional counsellor to develop these methods but many can acquire them on their own by reading the right books and just taking the time to try things out. I found that doing a bit of reading in areas of meditation (transcendental and otherwise), creative visualization, and shamanism were extremely helpful.
For those of you who are a little put off by the word "shamanism" for any reason:
- It's not a religion.
- It's not "devil worship"
- It doesn't require any special tools, training, places, props, etc.
Shamanism is simply a way of looking at the world around you in physical, psychological, and spiritual terms through techniques involving meditation and personal mental focus. It blends in very well with ALL of the worlds major religions. In fact, significant parts of all of the worlds most prominent faiths are pure and simple shamanic practices. Islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, and Christianity (in pretty much all of its various flavors) incorporate these methods.That said, simple prayer to whatever higher being you follow is the most basic shamanic methods of all, and one of the most effective.
Of course, that all depends upon what translation you're reading. The only way to really understand the intent and meaning of any passage is to read it in its original language in light of the contexts of everything around it and knowledge of what was happening in the world at the time when it was written.
Any quote from a third or fourth generation translation runs the risk of losing all of its original meaning. Reading New Testament scripture in Latin is a couple of steps better than reading the New Revised Standard Version but, in most cases is still a step or two away from the original meaning.
Arent there something like 50 different words for "snow" in the Innuit language? If you ssy "there's snow outside," which of those 50 kinds of snow do you mean?
The one reason I can think of for going with RH Enterprise.
..., N.x series at Oracle so if this matters to you and your organization has the bucks and the inclination to standardize on Oracle (as opposed to Postgres, MySQL, etc.) you want to go with R.H. Enterprise for those boxen running Oracle. All other boxen are stable/secure enough on the 8.x, 9.x, etc. series.
Plain and simple. Oracle was certified for RH7.1, NOT 7.2. (On some systems the Oracle Universal Installer won't even run on anything but 7.1)
The next version of Red Hat to be granted Oracle certification is Red Hat Linux 2.1 Enterprise. There are no plans to certify anything in the 8.x, 9.x,
I'm amazed that as of this writing nobody has posted a flood of resumes to this thread.
If you've ever used a program called InterLeaf you will understand that this is what publishing is all about.
You create a content object and add it to your content library. Then, wherever you need that object, you point at it in the content library.
For the HTTPd minded - it's the same idea as SSI.
I can see the promo now...
Mozilla Phallus It's one F#(%ing fast browser!
Bummeroskies, Dude. The folks at slashdot have eliminated my ability to use a style="" in my <div>.
I can see a serious plethora of other applications for nanotube fiber.
Yeah, sure it's an expensive option but, woven into fabric it should be fairly resilient. "Nano-weave: it's the new Kevlar."
Stretch it over a form and impregnate it with some sort of semi-rigid polymer to form ultra light body panels and other parts for everything from golf carts and SUVs to aircraft and orbital workstations.
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Geeze, some people just don't recognize sarcasm when they see it.
The point here is, in many instances the PATRIOT act is written so broadly that it may be construed that the mere mention of anything security related is deemed an unpatriotic, seditionist, revolutionary plot.
I'm just waiting for the time when they make one of these changes and it makes it impossible to play your legally obtained, native XBox games completely inoperable.
Actually, information about how many times or how often any book circulates is normally associated with the item record for the book, not with the patron record.
Being that librarians are trained to organize data in meaningful ways, those who have the technical bent tend to be remarkably good DBAs and library databases tend to be completely normalized.
Given those two points, I and my fellow library employees have been told the following:
All of this applies even for the most classified requests under the most extreme reading of the PATRIOT act.
Thus, if you want to know what Sally has checked out right now, and your request makes it through all of these requirements there might be a chance that you'll find out without having to ask Sally directly.
If you want to know what Sally read last week (or possibly even this morning if the materials have already circulated) there's a good chance you're going to have to find Sally to ask her yourself.
Every project has its own raison d'etre. I wouldn't expect Perl to be any different. Could you tell us a little about what problems you were trying to solve when you began work on Perl? Also, what were some of the big hurdles you had to clear along the way?
BTW:
Dude, you're far more secure than I am.
While the lower 50% scare me, as they do you, I'm also a bit nervous around anybody who tests out anywhere beneath me on the scales. Pretty frightening considering I and everybody in my family test somewhere upwards of the 94th percentile on any test we've ever taken.
My one complaint about Mozilla, and Netscape 6, the absolute dirth of useable plugins for popular things like Shockwave, Flash, and Quicktime. Additionally, there does not appear to be any effort being put forth to rectify this situation. This gives me little hope of ever seeing extensions for things like DjVu, a supremely excellent format for distributing scanned documents across the web. (Ya gotta appreciate a format that gives better reproduction than PDF at 20% to 30% of the file size.)
Personally, I think that the broad use of Shockwave, Flash, and Quicktime warrant the ability of the browser to handle those formats natively. Don't write them into the browser kernel but, DO provide separate, replaceable, upgradeable extensions that ship with the browser distribution.
Give Mozilla the ability to handle the most commonly used file formats and I'll be able to convert everybody I know over to it.
Yeah, right. That paraphases exactly why we've used VHS for 20+ years instead of Beta. NOT! It is arguable that the Apple was a superior computing platform to the IBM PC of its day. The IBM-PC had the full corporate power and marketing strength of, well, IBM behind it while the Apple had the comparatively limited resources of two guys named Steve.
For the uninformed... Back in the days when the VCR was just being released on the world there were two competing formats, JVC's VHS format (which we all know) and Sony's Beta (a.k.a BetaMax). The latter was far superior but, alas, was first out marketed (a bit of history), then out litigated (Read case story). To date the majority of video production houses still use Beta because of it's superior image and audio quality.
Nice fantasy you've got going there.
As anybody should be able to guess, network bandwidth has absolutely nothing to do with how fast an individual SETI@Home work unit can be processed.
Now, if they were to start investing heavily in quad processor systems with gigs of ram you would have an argument.
While you're at it, ask if there's any chance of them throwing in an additional week of vacation time. Especially if the original offer included at least as much time off.
Many employers are discovering that additional paid time off has lots of hidden benefits.
1) A rested worker is more productive and does better quality work.
2) Employees remember the "generosity" and tend to be happier - more productive.
3) It may be cheaper to offer additional time off than it to increase payroll (within certain limits).