I highly recommend this book if you are doing threads or any sort of concurrent programming in Java. It's written by the guys who designed Java's concurrency features.
I'm thinking MSN Messenger and Google Talk should add this to their VoIP features. Right now talking with VoIP unencrypted over the 'net makes me a bit uneasy.
However, though encrypting your VoIP communications might make them more secure, they're also much more likely to be flagged by systems like ECHELON, which automatically tag traffic that is encrypted as suspicious.
Probably one of the wrost articles I've read in a while. I think ol' Kern needs to understand that university isn't high school. Thankfully the system worked, and he got weeded out.
>One thing that Enteprise was effected was the ship >looked fricken great. LCD's all over the damn place >and very sharp looking....NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD >LOOK LIKE IT CAME BEFORE KIRK!
Oh right, so it would be more believable to have a starship that looked like an 80's carrier? Even though it supposed to be more advanced than what we have now? That's supposed to be more believable?
I think they did the right thing with Enterprise. They made the ship look like it would relative to our present, not relative to the future depicted in TOS.
Great story, right up until the pointless bigotry. Apparently you're so unsure with your sexuality that you find it necessary to needlessly insult homosexuals?
Actually, you're quite uninformed. Fluoride is allegedly only good for you if taken outside the body (i.e. just on your teeth.) There is no evidence that swallowing fluoride is good for you in any dose. In fact, it can cause fluorosis which causes teeth to become discolored and eroded.
One of the biggest misconceptions the public has is that fluoride is "good" for you when in fact it's just one way for Alcoa and other companies that produce large quantities of fluoride as byproduct of their processes to dump in somewhere and make money of it. Before fluoride became "good" for you, it was classified as toxic waste and had to be treated as such.
Furthermore, shouldn't people have the choice as to whether or not they want the "enhancement" of fluoride in their water supply?
When I saw the name I thought it was pronounced X-OO-VERT where X was for "X Windows" and Ouvert was French for "Open"... but I realized I was wrong after reading the website:)
The main problem is that the stuff that comes pre-installed with Windows and/or Windows Components (Media Player, Internet Exploder) is the stuff that everyone uses, whether it's better or not.
It's not Microsoft's fault that people are too lazy or not techically inclined enough to install third party add-ons. If consumers don't agree with the fact that Microsoft includes their OWN SOFTWARE with their OWN SOFTWARE then DON'T USE IT. This is very simple, I don't know why people have such a problem with it. Isn't that supposed to be the beauty of free choice?
And don't give me the "Well if I use Linux or [insert alternative OS here] then I can't use Word or [insert critical application here]..." It's called business. They made an indispensable application that you like to use. People weren't forced to use. People chose to use it. Sure, now you almost have no choice, but back in the day WordPerfect was in the same position but MS unseated them. If it happened once, it can happen again.
What I don't understand is why people for some reason thing Microsoft should be forced to bundle COMPETITORS products with their own product just because they happened to do better than these competitors. Please note that Microsoft may have been ruthless in their business tactics but no one had to say "yes." The used their position to gain market dominance, but it wasn't given to them on a silver platter.. I don't understand why America punishes their successful businesses.
If it ships with Internet Exploder pre-installed, it must ship with other browsers pre-installed too.
That's just absolutely ridiculous. It makes no business sense. Please state why you think they "must" ship other browsers pre-installed too?
Remember how Windows 95 shipped with a bunch of shortcuts for other ISP's such as AOL?
Actually, they didn't ship AOL icons with Win95 because of anti-trust, they did it because of some clever manoeuvring by AOL. AOL had a massive market share in ISP business and essentially said to MS that if they didn't ship with their icons they'd stop using IE as their default browser.
BTW, kudos for referring to it as Internet Exploder... because it "explodes" the Internet right? So very clever.
I've just started Endymion (about 70 pages in) but I'm liking it.
But I'd have to agree with the other poster somewhere on this thread who said that the world-building (one of the cooler aspects of Hyperion) is toned down quite a bit.
The Hyperion series ("Hyperion" and "Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons) is one of the best, if not the best, works of Sci-Fi I've ever read. Better than Dune, IMHO.
It's something fresh and original and it'll change the way you think:)
Read the post, moron, he said he would like to have *OPTIONAL* IE emulation for TESTING PURPOSES. He didn't say he wanted to make it the default rendering mode for Mozilla or would like Mozilla to be IE.
What are you talking about? There still a TON of information about the X-33/VentureStar on the net, including at NASA. In fact, the NASA page is very complete containg the entire history of the X-33, a timeline from 1996-2001 of important events, and so on.
All this "disappearing" information was as hard to find as clicking search on Google. Try it sometime.
What I really could do without is all the carcinogens, which are still present in the amish smokes...
From the article: Using palladium to treat tobacco, they produced a cigarette that caused 70 percent fewer tumors in mice. Trumpeting the research, LeBow launched a $25 million advertising campaign in 2001 and released what was dubbed the Omni.
It was a huge failure. The brand has managed less than $6 million in sales to date - that's about what Marlboro does in four hours - and, though it's still available, the Omni is not being advertised.
If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year....
If only NASA could stay within their proposed budgets...
Seriously though, Congress wouldn't be so iffy about giving NASA money if they actually stayed within their budget. Now no matter how little they say a project will cost, everyone will always roll their eyes and assume it'll cost like 10 times that.
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I highly recommend this book if you are doing threads or any sort of concurrent programming in Java. It's written by the guys who designed Java's concurrency features.
Give me a fucking break.
Furthermore, who cares if he saw another man's penis. OMG! OMG! A penis!!! And it's not his!!! How horrifying!
What's so bad about seeing another man's penis if you're heterosexual?
I'm thinking MSN Messenger and Google Talk should add this to their VoIP features. Right now talking with VoIP unencrypted over the 'net makes me a bit uneasy.
However, though encrypting your VoIP communications might make them more secure, they're also much more likely to be flagged by systems like ECHELON, which automatically tag traffic that is encrypted as suspicious.
Probably one of the wrost articles I've read in a while. I think ol' Kern needs to understand that university isn't high school. Thankfully the system worked, and he got weeded out.
>One thing that Enteprise was effected was the ship
>looked fricken great. LCD's all over the damn place
>and very sharp looking....NOT SOMETHING THAT WOULD
>LOOK LIKE IT CAME BEFORE KIRK!
Oh right, so it would be more believable to have a starship that looked like an 80's carrier? Even though it supposed to be more advanced than what we have now? That's supposed to be more believable?
I think they did the right thing with Enterprise. They made the ship look like it would relative to our present, not relative to the future depicted in TOS.
I went to high school in Toronto and for my grade 11 computer course we used frickin' Turing. TURING!
But, in hindsight, it was actually pretty good at teaching basic programming concepts and pretty fun to use.
Actually the delta function isn't even a function. It's a distribution.
Great story, right up until the pointless bigotry. Apparently you're so unsure with your sexuality that you find it necessary to needlessly insult homosexuals?
Ah, ignorance is bliss isn't it? The government always knows best, right Toby?
Actually, you're quite uninformed. Fluoride is allegedly only good for you if taken outside the body (i.e. just on your teeth.) There is no evidence that swallowing fluoride is good for you in any dose. In fact, it can cause fluorosis which causes teeth to become discolored and eroded.
One of the biggest misconceptions the public has is that fluoride is "good" for you when in fact it's just one way for Alcoa and other companies that produce large quantities of fluoride as byproduct of their processes to dump in somewhere and make money of it. Before fluoride became "good" for you, it was classified as toxic waste and had to be treated as such.
Furthermore, shouldn't people have the choice as to whether or not they want the "enhancement" of fluoride in their water supply?
When I saw the name I thought it was pronounced X-OO-VERT where X was for "X Windows" and Ouvert was French for "Open" ... but I realized I was wrong after reading the website :)
The main problem is that the stuff that comes pre-installed with Windows and/or Windows Components (Media Player, Internet Exploder) is the stuff that everyone uses, whether it's better or not.
It's not Microsoft's fault that people are too lazy or not techically inclined enough to install third party add-ons. If consumers don't agree with the fact that Microsoft includes their OWN SOFTWARE with their OWN SOFTWARE then DON'T USE IT. This is very simple, I don't know why people have such a problem with it. Isn't that supposed to be the beauty of free choice?
And don't give me the "Well if I use Linux or [insert alternative OS here] then I can't use Word or [insert critical application here]..." It's called business. They made an indispensable application that you like to use. People weren't forced to use. People chose to use it. Sure, now you almost have no choice, but back in the day WordPerfect was in the same position but MS unseated them. If it happened once, it can happen again.
What I don't understand is why people for some reason thing Microsoft should be forced to bundle COMPETITORS products with their own product just because they happened to do better than these competitors. Please note that Microsoft may have been ruthless in their business tactics but no one had to say "yes." The used their position to gain market dominance, but it wasn't given to them on a silver platter.. I don't understand why America punishes their successful businesses.
If it ships with Internet Exploder pre-installed, it must ship with other browsers pre-installed too.
That's just absolutely ridiculous. It makes no business sense. Please state why you think they "must" ship other browsers pre-installed too?
Remember how Windows 95 shipped with a bunch of shortcuts for other ISP's such as AOL?
Actually, they didn't ship AOL icons with Win95 because of anti-trust, they did it because of some clever manoeuvring by AOL. AOL had a massive market share in ISP business and essentially said to MS that if they didn't ship with their icons they'd stop using IE as their default browser.
BTW, kudos for referring to it as Internet Exploder... because it "explodes" the Internet right? So very clever.
There's a second book you know. It's called "Fall of Hyperion" and, yeah, it concludes what he started in the first book.
I've just started Endymion (about 70 pages in) but I'm liking it.
But I'd have to agree with the other poster somewhere on this thread who said that the world-building (one of the cooler aspects of Hyperion) is toned down quite a bit.
The Hyperion series ("Hyperion" and "Fall of Hyperion" by Dan Simmons) is one of the best, if not the best, works of Sci-Fi I've ever read. Better than Dune, IMHO.
:)
It's something fresh and original and it'll change the way you think
Read the post, moron, he said he would like to have *OPTIONAL* IE emulation for TESTING PURPOSES. He didn't say he wanted to make it the default rendering mode for Mozilla or would like Mozilla to be IE.
What are you talking about? There still a TON of information about the X-33/VentureStar on the net, including at NASA. In fact, the NASA page is very complete containg the entire history of the X-33, a timeline from 1996-2001 of important events, and so on.
All this "disappearing" information was as hard to find as clicking search on Google. Try it sometime.
What I really could do without is all the carcinogens, which are still present in the amish smokes...
:)
From the article:
Using palladium to treat tobacco, they produced a cigarette that caused 70 percent fewer tumors in mice. Trumpeting the research, LeBow launched a $25 million advertising campaign in 2001 and released what was dubbed the Omni.
It was a huge failure. The brand has managed less than $6 million in sales to date - that's about what Marlboro does in four hours - and, though it's still available, the Omni is not being advertised.
Your prayers have been answered!
Fast is not a property of the shoe itself. A shoe can increase the frictional force, lower the impact and THUS make the runner faster.
This is an obvious example of how well marketing works
Shit, I was hoping for some Opteron benchmarks.
HAW HAW HAW!!! Another joke about Clippy!!! Wow, that's one gets me every time!
If only NEXT's budget was more than $4 million a year....
If only NASA could stay within their proposed budgets...
Seriously though, Congress wouldn't be so iffy about giving NASA money if they actually stayed within their budget. Now no matter how little they say a project will cost, everyone will always roll their eyes and assume it'll cost like 10 times that.
If you don't want to back up 320GB, then DON'T BUY THE FUCKING DRIVE.
Thank you.