When my second son was born, I borrowed a digital camera from work to take pictures of Mom and the kid. (He's three now, BTW.) I took all sorts of pictures of Mom, of Eric, and how happy they were. I returned the camera, waiting for person who controlled it to pull the images for me. It was taken out and dropped. I have no pictures from my 2nd child's birth.
I dropped my Visor a few months ago. The screen broke. I took it home, sync'd it, and sent it in to get fixed. It worked to be sync'd.
I disagree with the need for PDA hard drives. Strongly.
I just thought I'd correct some of your misconceptions about Java. Are you absolutely sure none of the pages use java? Most java usage now is on the server side using Beans or JSPs. The JSP pages generate the HTML code your browser reads. While there might not be any applets on any sites you visit, java might be generating the content that you are reading.
Out of curiosity, what can you do with Beans or JSPs that you can't do in, for example, Perl?
Java is not a 'buzzword' any more than linux is. I work at a large web company, and I only code in java...under linux. The java API (with a few exceptions) is truly excellent.
Behind the buzzword is a reality. If that reality is merely vapor (VR, I'm looking at you), people go on. Linux is a buzzword that routes my packets at home and provides me a very nice desktop machine. Java was a buzzword that got everyone excited, and when people no longer get excited with it, you still code in it. There hasn't been anything I want to do with it. The "Write Once, Run Everywhere" philosophy behind it doesn't hit me much, but to the point it does, Perl does it. The "don't write command-line stuff" of the 100% Pure Java people rubs me the wrong way, as I mostly want to run in command-line, slocal- or Apache-called settings and the like.
And I hate Java's syntax, but then again, I like Perl's syntax, so some would call me insane. But the reason I don't use Java is because the jobs I tend to program work very well with Perl and the syntax gives me a pain. There are other issues, but the philosophical issues fall far behind the practical issues in this case.
Consider FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley, a wellspring of science fiction as a genre. In a cyberpunk analysis, FRANKENSTEIN is "Humanist" SF. FRANKENSTEIN promotes the romantic dictum that there are Some Things Man Was Not Meant to Know. There are no mere physical mechanisms
for this higher moral law -- its workings transcend mortal understanding, it is something akin to divine will. Hubris must meet nemesis; this is simply the nature of our universe. Dr. Frankenstein commits a spine-chilling transgression, an affront against the human soul, and with memorable poetic justice, he is direly punished by his own creation, the Monster.
Now imagine a cyberpunk version of FRANKENSTEIN. In this imaginary work, the Monster would likely be the well-funded R&D team-project of some global corporation. The Monster might well wreak bloody havoc, most likely on random passers-by. But having done so, he would never have been allowed to wander to the North Pole, uttering
Byronic profundities. The Monsters of cyberpunk never vanish so conveniently. They are already loose on the streets. They are next to us. Quite likely *WE* are them. The Monster would have been copyrighted through the new
genetics laws, and manufactured worldwide in many
thousands. Soon the Monsters would all have lousy night jobs mopping up at fast-food restaurants.
In the moral universe of cyberpunk, we *already*
know Things We Were Not Meant To Know. Our
*grandparents* knew these things; Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos became the Destroyer of Worlds long before we arrived on the scene. In cyberpunk, the idea that there are
sacred limits to human action is simply a delusion. There are no sacred boundaries to protect us from ourselves.
Or, to go musical, Bruce Cockburn:
Let's hear a laugh for the man of the world
Who thinks he can make things work
Tried to build the New Jerusalem
And ended up with New York
Ha Ha Ha...
This is exactly what Nicolas Negreponte said would happen in his column in the back of Wired. Seriously, I like nice screens, but my problem with TV isn't the brightness, it is the intelligence, and HDTV does nothing to fix that.
And if you were going to have big huge barrels of bandwidth available, would you waste it on a high-quality video feed of Jeopardy?
Static if you can...If there is a page on your site that doesn't change very often (ie. it chagnes less than half the amount of times that it is accessed per day) generate it with a server daemon, and then let users access it has a regular html file. This saves CPU time and decreases latency of accesses.
It isn't always possible, but it is good. One thing I do is crontab up the active part, then have them write to files that are SSI'd in. #include file is faster than #exec cmd, especially when the cmd has to deal with net hits itself.
Well, I respect ESR's move towards opening up the computer industry, etc., but I must say that I lost nearly all my respect for him after his fascist little slur that Kevin Mitnick deserved to be in prison.
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Mitnick didn't deserve to spend five years in jail without trial. He deserved a trial, and from what I've seen, he should've been given time. I don't think how it worked out is how it did work out, but I've seen no reasoning to show that thinking Mitnick committed actions deserving jail time is fascist, or even wrong.
Thomas Jefferson's writings make it explicitly clear that the intention was to erect a wall of seperation. Just becase the constitution doesn't explicitly state it doesn't mean it's not the way it is.
Yes, but the wall was meant to keep the government from meddling in the affairs of the church. It was never meant to keep religious people from political action.
And could you show me where, in the Constitution, the principle of separation of Church and State is? I have a copy on my desk, as well as the URL of the one on the Library of Congress website.
Also, you had to hit the switch on the escape hatch hard, and you ended up with a bruised hand. Gus didn't have that. This means hardware failure to me.
n the publicity photos I've seen, he looks like the young Steve, especially in the bowtie get-up like the one Steve wore to the original Mac presentation. I'm wondering, however, if Wiley will be able to duplicate that 'I am the baddest motherfucker alive' expession Steve had on his face that day. If you haven't ever seen that, see if you can dig up a movie of it somewhere on the net.
I was one of those lucky enough to catch it when they played it to make the Emmy deadline. He pretty much had that. That and he came off as a collossal asshole. The guy who did Woz could've been thicker (Woz is fat, ok?) but otherwise was good. The guy who did Ballmer was dead-on.
The actual line is I hacked the net. And in a way, he did, I guess. Social engineering and the slashdot effect and all that.
I'm not the happiest about him. I tend not to read him. I think he's taking "geek" as the next big buzzword, like "pomo" or "grunge", and I think that is wrong. But if you don't wanna read him, you must exercise your own self control.
The Simpsons is the only comic strip (well, ok, it wasn't really a comic strip--but I do remember seeing the buttermilk commercials before the cartoon came out) that made after going from daily comic strip to regular cartoon.
Well, Life in Hell was and is a weekly. Not daily.
Anyway, since (in Merka, anyway) you can now patent algos, my concern for my fellow hacker tells me that she should patent this, but I do think that it'd be way cool if she opened the idea.
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I disagree.
When my second son was born, I borrowed a digital camera from work to take pictures of Mom and the kid. (He's three now, BTW.) I took all sorts of pictures of Mom, of Eric, and how happy they were. I returned the camera, waiting for person who controlled it to pull the images for me. It was taken out and dropped. I have no pictures from my 2nd child's birth.
I dropped my Visor a few months ago. The screen broke. I took it home, sync'd it, and sent it in to get fixed. It worked to be sync'd.
I disagree with the need for PDA hard drives. Strongly.
I just thought I'd correct some of your misconceptions about Java. Are you absolutely sure none of the pages use java? Most java usage now is on the server side using Beans or JSPs. The JSP pages generate the HTML code your browser reads. While there might not be any applets on any sites you visit, java might be generating the content that you are reading.
Out of curiosity, what can you do with Beans or JSPs that you can't do in, for example, Perl?
Java is not a 'buzzword' any more than linux is. I work at a large web company, and I only code in java...under linux. The java API (with a few exceptions) is truly excellent.
Behind the buzzword is a reality. If that reality is merely vapor (VR, I'm looking at you), people go on. Linux is a buzzword that routes my packets at home and provides me a very nice desktop machine. Java was a buzzword that got everyone excited, and when people no longer get excited with it, you still code in it. There hasn't been anything I want to do with it. The "Write Once, Run Everywhere" philosophy behind it doesn't hit me much, but to the point it does, Perl does it. The "don't write command-line stuff" of the 100% Pure Java people rubs me the wrong way, as I mostly want to run in command-line, slocal- or Apache-called settings and the like.
And I hate Java's syntax, but then again, I like Perl's syntax, so some would call me insane. But the reason I don't use Java is because the jobs I tend to program work very well with Perl and the syntax gives me a pain. There are other issues, but the philosophical issues fall far behind the practical issues in this case.
My wife already knows what a loser I am.
Wife: Did you do foo?
Me: I left that for you, since you handle the money
Wife: Do you know what you'd do without me?
Me: Probably starve
Wife: You got that right.
I work, she takes care of the money, and I get to play guitar and buy occasional CDs and computer hardware. I'm not complaining.
"Cyberpunk in the 90s" by Bruce Sterling
Or, to go musical, Bruce Cockburn:
This is exactly what Nicolas Negreponte said would happen in his column in the back of Wired. Seriously, I like nice screens, but my problem with TV isn't the brightness, it is the intelligence, and HDTV does nothing to fix that.
And if you were going to have big huge barrels of bandwidth available, would you waste it on a high-quality video feed of Jeopardy?
Static if you can...If there is a page on your site that doesn't change very often (ie. it chagnes less than half the amount of times that it is accessed per day) generate it with a server daemon, and then let users access it has a regular html file. This saves CPU time and decreases latency of accesses.
It isn't always possible, but it is good. One thing I do is crontab up the active part, then have them write to files that are SSI'd in. #include file is faster than #exec cmd, especially when the cmd has to deal with net hits itself.
Yes, it is expected behavior. It says so on the preferences page.
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Mitnick didn't deserve to spend five years in jail without trial. He deserved a trial, and from what I've seen, he should've been given time. I don't think how it worked out is how it did work out, but I've seen no reasoning to show that thinking Mitnick committed actions deserving jail time is fascist, or even wrong.
Yes, but the wall was meant to keep the government from meddling in the affairs of the church. It was never meant to keep religious people from political action.
And could you show me where, in the Constitution,
the principle of separation of Church and State
is? I have a copy on my desk, as well as the URL
of the one on the Library of Congress website.
Also, you had to hit the switch on the escape hatch hard, and you ended up with a bruised hand. Gus didn't have that. This means hardware failure to me.
I was one of those lucky enough to catch it when they played it to make the Emmy deadline. He pretty much had that. That and he came off as a collossal asshole. The guy who did Woz could've been thicker (Woz is fat, ok?) but otherwise was good. The guy who did Ballmer was dead-on.
I'm not the happiest about him. I tend not to read him. I think he's taking "geek" as the next big buzzword, like "pomo" or "grunge", and I think that is wrong. But if you don't wanna read him, you must exercise your own self control.
I'd take the replies a whole not more seriously if people I know who are gay didn't say it first.
Well, Life in Hell was and is a weekly. Not daily.
Anyway, since (in Merka, anyway) you can now patent algos, my concern for my fellow hacker tells me that she should patent this, but I do think that it'd be way cool if she opened the
idea.