If you read TFA, you'll see that Probst, the inventor of the cubicle, died in 2000. It was actually before then that he realized that cubicles were a mistake...
The bill, as written, is meaningless. As a user of a public forum, all I have to do is enter
Name: George W. Bush Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC
and I can use the forum and the operator is safe. After all, that is theoretically a legal name and address. Of course, it's not my legal name and address....
It is also another breakthrough application of nanotechnology, the emerging science of harnessing sub-microscopic organisms (emphasis added) for everyday uses
Someone's been watching a little too much Star Trek...
Now if they could come up with a nanopaint that would cause the cell phone's backlight to not turn on...
(From someone who's been to too many movies lately where some lus3r decided they wanted to check their text messages or play brickout or whatever during the movie.)
Interestingly, google is much more self-critical with 5 610 000 hits for 'google sucks'. Which is still less than what yahoo! finds for 'google sucks' (5,940,000).
Note: google results in america might differ slightly from the results from google russia, but not by much.
I had to try it out: you'd be surprised at the difference:
Searching google.com for "google sucks" yielded 13,700,000 hits. Searching google.com for "yahoo sucks" yielded 11,000,000 hits.
Spend a day at a supermarket. Pick 500 random people throughout the day. How many of them will be able to install OSx86 even when it's more refined? 30?
And how many of the same 500 will be able to install the latest verison of Windows? Probably not many more; most people get it preinstalled on their computer and never deal with the installation process.
This is beyond frightening. When the head of law enforcement in a community wants the ability to wantonly violate the constitutional rights of random (and, more likely, not-so-random) citizens of that community as guaranteed by the 4th amendment, then that head of law enforcement should be immediately fired. If s/he is not fired, then the leaders of that community's government should be replaced in the next election, and, in fact, a recall process should be initiated to replace them as soon as possible.
I sincerely hope that the local press keeps on top of this until the situation is resolved. I also hope the people of Houston express their outrage loudly and continuously until the police chief is replaced and/or the local community government (mayor, city council, whatever) is also replaced.
And if the people don't express outrage, but just succumb meekly to this? Well, someone once said that people get whatever form of government they're willing to tolerate. I just hope the people of Houston realize what they're setting themselves up for if they don't fight this.
I loved Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. It would make an awesome movie. It would attract every geek in the world, and most pre-teens. It's got something for everyone: teenager saves the world, cute but subtly powerful alien (the Mother Thing), dramatic action (march across the surface of the Moon; escaping from the bad aliens on Pluto).
Someone please make this movie. And make sure you do a good job at it:-).
The first computer I used was some GE timesharing system back in 1972.
The first computer I owned was an IMSAI 8080 that I built from the kit in 1976. And I bought an 8K RAM board (that I also had to build) for only $200!:-)
I didn't forget relativity. 458 days is from the travelers' reference frame.
I belong to the school of thought that doesn't care about how long it takes for those on Earth - I still consider it worthwhile.
On the other hand, you can do a quick worst-case calculation: at 0.8c, the Lorentz factor is 1/sqrt(1-(0.8c)^2/c^2) or 1.66667. So 458 days traveling time at worst(*) is only about 763 days Earth time, or just over 2 years.
(*) 763 days assumes that the entire 458 days is spent at 0.8c, which is obviously not true. Actual Earth time would be much less.
It would take a very large amount of time to accelerate (or brake) up something like 0.8c -- not to mention that it could be very, very painful.
At 1 g it would take approximately 458 days to accelerate to 0.8c. I do not consider that "a very large amount of time", and I certainly do not consider 1 g an acceleration that would be "very, very painful."
On the other hand, generating the energy required to accelerate *any* non-trivial mass at 1 g for 458 days could result in an environment that was "very, very painful":-).
Frankly, if you just follow the guidelines established in Stephen McConnell's Code Complete, most if not all of your concerns will be addressed. The guidelines pretty much apply independent of language, operating system, etc.
1) Age of Empires. The original, not II, III, or any of the expansion packs. There is something about that game that just keeps me playing it.
2) Quake. Again, the original, not II, III, IV, or any of the derivatives. Occasionally I like to kill all the lights and at about one in the afternoon, fire up Quake and just start playing. I can usually get through the entire game by midnight or 1 AM. I find it - refreshing;-).
Actually, I don't know./vmlinuz and/dev/hd?? are specified in grub configuration files. I suppose/dev/tty could be specified in the grub configuration file instead. I'm not insane enough to try it though:-).
But we're getting seriously offtopic now...
Unless C++0x adds a feature that allows booting from/dev/tty...
I agree 100% - C++ is too feature-heavy as it is. Bjarne should stop while he's only a little behind;-).
As far as the preprocessor goes, one of the things I don't like about Java is the lack of a preprocessor. Sun ended up having to build assert() into the language because of it. Yes, the preprocessor can be abused, and perhaps it needs to be redesigned, but having no preprocessor is too restrictive.
I know there is this grass-roots "D" language floating around, but I'd like to see a C+=2 (or perhaps E?) that started back with the current ISO C standard, then added object-oriented features in a more organized, well-thought-out fashion.
(And no, I don't consider C# to be the answer. C# was just Microsoft's way of cloning Java. Now Sun and Microsoft are in a pissing match with Sun playing catch-up this round, trying to force features into Mustang to catch up to C# 3.0.)
"Donald Trump and "penis patch" were the most popular subject lines used by spammers this year, as the fraudsters grew more sophisticated in trying to trick consumers, America Online said Wednesday in its third annual Top 10 Spam List.
How is a subject line of "penis patch" being more sophisticated? If consumers are being defrauded by unsolicited messages with a subject line of "penis patch", I think it's a case of consumers becoming more stupid, not fraudsters becoming more sophisticated...
Windows assumes you're an idiot, and Linux doesn't.
Don't equate "being an idiot" with "not being tech-savvy". There are plenty of Windows users who aren't idiots, but aren't necessarily tech-savvy. That shouldn't prevent them from migrating away from Windows.
Some people just don't put a priority on memorizing non-intuitive names for software applications...
wouldn't the OS have to store them somewhere else in the filesystem, outside the file, since it can't know how to stuff them inside a file of an arbitrary format?
Yes and no. WinFS could support a concept similar to the resource fork concept in MFS/HFS/HFS+/etc. on the Macintosh. The "content" of the file could be one fork, the metadata could be stored in a second fork, and the forks combine to comprise the file object. I think NTFS might already support such a concept (I vaguely recall reading something about it, but it was a long time ago and I try to stay away from the internals of Windows if at all possible).
In many cases, I think you want the metadata copied along with the file. Simple example: I have an.mp3 (legally downloaded, blah blah, whatever;-) that has its ID3 tags as metadata. If I copy that file to another computer, I certainly want the ID3 tags to come along with it.
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If, on the other hand, you use Google to search for 1u, the very first link gives a nice, detailed explanation on exactly what 1U means.
If you read The Daily WTF with any regularity, you would doubt that tech worker competence is as high as 3%, never mind 30%...
If you read TFA, you'll see that Probst, the inventor of the cubicle, died in 2000. It was actually before then that he realized that cubicles were a mistake...
The bill, as written, is meaningless. As a user of a public forum, all I have to do is enter
Name: George W. Bush
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC
and I can use the forum and the operator is safe. After all, that is theoretically a legal name and address. Of course, it's not my legal name and address....
Someone's been watching a little too much Star Trek...
Now if they could come up with a nanopaint that would cause the cell phone's backlight to not turn on...
(From someone who's been to too many movies lately where some lus3r decided they wanted to check their text messages or play brickout or whatever during the movie.)
I had to try it out: you'd be surprised at the difference:
Searching google.com for "google sucks" yielded 13,700,000 hits.
Searching google.com for "yahoo sucks" yielded 11,000,000 hits.
And how many of the same 500 will be able to install the latest verison of Windows? Probably not many more; most people get it preinstalled on their computer and never deal with the installation process.
By "we", I mean Americans.
This is beyond frightening. When the head of law enforcement in a community wants the ability to wantonly violate the constitutional rights of random (and, more likely, not-so-random) citizens of that community as guaranteed by the 4th amendment, then that head of law enforcement should be immediately fired. If s/he is not fired, then the leaders of that community's government should be replaced in the next election, and, in fact, a recall process should be initiated to replace them as soon as possible.
I sincerely hope that the local press keeps on top of this until the situation is resolved. I also hope the people of Houston express their outrage loudly and continuously until the police chief is replaced and/or the local community government (mayor, city council, whatever) is also replaced.
And if the people don't express outrage, but just succumb meekly to this? Well, someone once said that people get whatever form of government they're willing to tolerate. I just hope the people of Houston realize what they're setting themselves up for if they don't fight this.
I read this far and realized it was pure sh!t spewing on my display...
YES!
:-).
I loved Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. It would make an awesome movie. It would attract every geek in the world, and most pre-teens. It's got something for everyone: teenager saves the world, cute but subtly powerful alien (the Mother Thing), dramatic action (march across the surface of the Moon; escaping from the bad aliens on Pluto).
Someone please make this movie. And make sure you do a good job at it
My first computer was an IMSAI 8080 as well. Taught me a lot about computers, taught me even more about soldering :-).
That sounds like an old KIM-1. I think they ran a Motorola 6502 processor, but I don't remember now.
;-)
(I was exposed to them in college - am I dating myself?
The first computer I used was some GE timesharing system back in 1972.
:-)
The first computer I owned was an IMSAI 8080 that I built from the kit in 1976. And I bought an 8K RAM board (that I also had to build) for only $200!
I didn't forget relativity. 458 days is from the travelers' reference frame.
I belong to the school of thought that doesn't care about how long it takes for those on Earth - I still consider it worthwhile.
On the other hand, you can do a quick worst-case calculation: at 0.8c, the Lorentz factor is 1/sqrt(1-(0.8c)^2/c^2) or 1.66667. So 458 days traveling time at worst(*) is only about 763 days Earth time, or just over 2 years.
(*) 763 days assumes that the entire 458 days is spent at 0.8c, which is obviously not true. Actual Earth time would be much less.
At 1 g it would take approximately 458 days to accelerate to 0.8c. I do not consider that "a very large amount of time", and I certainly do not consider 1 g an acceleration that would be "very, very painful."
On the other hand, generating the energy required to accelerate *any* non-trivial mass at 1 g for 458 days could result in an environment that was "very, very painful"
Frankly, if you just follow the guidelines established in Stephen McConnell's Code Complete, most if not all of your concerns will be addressed. The guidelines pretty much apply independent of language, operating system, etc.
Yeah, Rogue was one of my all-time favorites (though I never did get the Amulet of Yendor - damn Purple Worms and Dragons were too much for me :-().
Adventure was fun too, but it was too limited to play over and over again.
I just started to get into Empire on the VAX when I changed jobs and didn't have access any more.
Ah....memories....
1) Age of Empires. The original, not II, III, or any of the expansion packs. There is something about that game that just keeps me playing it.
;-).
2) Quake. Again, the original, not II, III, IV, or any of the derivatives. Occasionally I like to kill all the lights and at about one in the afternoon, fire up Quake and just start playing. I can usually get through the entire game by midnight or 1 AM. I find it - refreshing
Actually, I don't know. /vmlinuz and /dev/hd?? are specified in grub configuration files. I suppose /dev/tty could be specified in the grub configuration file instead. I'm not insane enough to try it though :-).
/dev/tty...
But we're getting seriously offtopic now...
Unless C++0x adds a feature that allows booting from
You really need to do this:
/vmunix /dev/tty
:-).
ln -s
Then you have to type in your OS on each reboot - kind of like having a 1.5 million character password
I agree 100% - C++ is too feature-heavy as it is. Bjarne should stop while he's only a little behind ;-).
As far as the preprocessor goes, one of the things I don't like about Java is the lack of a preprocessor. Sun ended up having to build assert() into the language because of it. Yes, the preprocessor can be abused, and perhaps it needs to be redesigned, but having no preprocessor is too restrictive.
I know there is this grass-roots "D" language floating around, but I'd like to see a C+=2 (or perhaps E?) that started back with the current ISO C standard, then added object-oriented features in a more organized, well-thought-out fashion.
(And no, I don't consider C# to be the answer. C# was just Microsoft's way of cloning Java. Now Sun and Microsoft are in a pissing match with Sun playing catch-up this round, trying to force features into Mustang to catch up to C# 3.0.)
How is a subject line of "penis patch" being more sophisticated? If consumers are being defrauded by unsolicited messages with a subject line of "penis patch", I think it's a case of consumers becoming more stupid, not fraudsters becoming more sophisticated...
Don't equate "being an idiot" with "not being tech-savvy". There are plenty of Windows users who aren't idiots, but aren't necessarily tech-savvy. That shouldn't prevent them from migrating away from Windows.
Some people just don't put a priority on memorizing non-intuitive names for software applications...
Yes and no. WinFS could support a concept similar to the resource fork concept in MFS/HFS/HFS+/etc. on the Macintosh. The "content" of the file could be one fork, the metadata could be stored in a second fork, and the forks combine to comprise the file object. I think NTFS might already support such a concept (I vaguely recall reading something about it, but it was a long time ago and I try to stay away from the internals of Windows if at all possible).
In many cases, I think you want the metadata copied along with the file. Simple example: I have an
I think you can think of the file name as just another piece of metadata.
Folder structure can also be thought of as another piece of metadata (e.g., tag this file/folder with the "owning folder" tag).