"Now, should an aggregator be polling every 30 minutes? The convention early on was no more than once an hour. But newer aggregators either never heard of the convention or chose to ignore it. Some aggregators let the users scan whenever they want. Please don't do that. Once an hour is enough. Otherwise bandwidth bills won't scale."
Hm. That's interesting. The RubyForge RSS feeds get polled every half hour by a couple folks, i.e.:
[...] the pigeons were 99 per cent reliable, Mr Andreef said. "They also work for peanuts."
Heh.
From the "thought-controlled computers" article...
on
Technology Quarterly
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
Furthermore, it takes an expert about 45 minutes to attach a 128-electrode EEG to someone's head. Worse, it also requires the use of conductive gel, which hardly makes for a consumer-friendly product.
Yikes. But towards a possible solution:
"So we need EEGs where you don't need the gel," says Dr Muller. "You put some electrodes in a baseball cap and you have a wireless downlink. But there is still a hardware problem. Brain signals measured non-invasively, and without gel, have very small voltages. So you need a powerful low-noise amplifier."
> tangents with some very complex lexx > and yacc code
Yeah, it certainly covers a lot of different areas - witness the chapter on "portable Bash programming", for example. It's got 4 authors; maybe that's why.
> absolutely as detailed as it needs to > get, which is very.
Yup, after reading it, I felt like I understood a lot of stuff better - and even more, I felt like I understood why it worked the way it did. I enjoyed some of the historical digressions, too; seems like they add some personality to the book.
Now./configure isn't such a black art anymore. Although it's still pretty funky.:-)
...you might also want to get GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool. It gives a pretty good overview of the standard GNU C/C++ source building tools.
It also has a couple of handy little chapters in there on doing some basic stuff, like how to build and load a shared object library. Not rocket science, but it's nice to have it explained clearly.
A list of some other ridiculous patents...
on
When Good Patents Go Bad
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· Score: 4, Interesting
...can be found on Pieter Spronck's aptly named ridiculous patents page. "Scoring based upon goals achieved and subjective elements" - very nice.
He makes it clear that SCO is attacking everyone, but he opposes DOS'ing them saying that "the open source community must use the truth, not criminal methods, as its weapons." Nicely done
> nothing will be an "Outlook Killer" until > it runs everywhere that Outlook runs > (ie: Windows).
Good point, you're right. I guess I meant that in the context of things that prevent moving from Win32 to Linux. Maybe "excuses not to migrate-killer" would be a better term.
A while back there was an opening in the CIA for an assassin. These highly classified positions are extremely difficult to fill, requiring an extensive background check, training, and testing before candidates are even considered for the position. After reviewing several applicants and completing all the checks and training, the field was narrowed to the three most promising candidates. The day came for the final test, which would determine which of equally qualified candidates, would get the job.
The final candidates consisted of two men and one woman. The men administering the test took the first candidate, a man, down a corridor to a closed door and handed him a gun saying, "We must be completely assured that you will complete your assignments and follow instructions regardless of the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your wife, seated in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The man, looking completely shocked said, "You can't be serious! I could never kill my wife." The CIA man said, "Well, then, you're obviously not the man for the job. Take your wife and go home."
They brought the next candidate in, the other man, and repeated the instructions. This man took the gun, walked into the room and closed the door. However, after five minutes of silence, the door opened and the man handed the CIA tester the gun, saying, "I just couldn't do it. I couldn't kill my wife. I tried to pull the trigger but I just couldn't do it." The CIA man said, "Well, then, you're obviously not the man for the job. Take your wife and go home."
Then they brought the woman down the corridor to the closed door, handed her a gun, and said, "We must be completely assured that you will complete your assignments and follow instructions regardless of the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your husband, seated in a chair. Take this gun and kill him." The woman took the gun, walked into the room, and before the door closed all the way, the CIA men heard the gun start firing. One shot after another, for thirteen shots, the noise continued. Then all hell broke loose. For the next several minutes, the men heard screaming, cursing, furniture crashing and banging on the walls; then suddenly, silence. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman.
She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didn't tell me the gun was loaded with blanks! I had to beat him to death with the chair!"
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> WTF is RobyForge???
It's a free hosting site for open source Ruby projects.
Hm. That's interesting. The RubyForge RSS feeds get polled every
half hour by a couple folks, i.e.:Hasn't caused problems yet, but maybe that's because RubyForge only gets about
30K-40K hits per day, and the feeds get just a fraction of that.
...he even provides a sample CD cover insert (on the next-to-last page of the PDF file).
Major props to him for taking the time to write up his experiences - both the successful moves and not-so-successful ones as well.
...are listed here. Indrema, nice.
...with their attempts to get J2EE certified. SchlumbergerSema, that is. Cool.
Yikes. But towards a possible solution:
...can be downloaded right here in a zipped PDF. There's an XML Schema on the last page of the "Core Specification 1.0".
> tangents with some very complex lexx
./configure isn't such a black art anymore. Although it's still pretty funky. :-)
> and yacc code
Yeah, it certainly covers a lot of different areas - witness the chapter on "portable Bash programming", for example. It's got 4 authors; maybe that's why.
> absolutely as detailed as it needs to
> get, which is very.
Yup, after reading it, I felt like I understood a lot of stuff better - and even more, I felt like I understood why it worked the way it did. I enjoyed some of the historical digressions, too; seems like they add some personality to the book.
Now
...you might also want to get GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool. It gives a pretty good overview of the standard GNU C/C++ source building tools.
It also has a couple of handy little chapters in there on doing some basic stuff, like how to build and load a shared object library. Not rocket science, but it's nice to have it explained clearly.
...can be found on Pieter Spronck's aptly named ridiculous patents page. "Scoring based upon goals achieved and subjective elements" - very nice.
> what can you do eh?
Yup, I feel your pain. I usually find such things creeping in fairly early on in my projects... despite my best efforts... such is life.
Evolution is a wonderful email client, thanks very much for your efforts!
...by Eric S. Raymond.
He makes it clear that SCO is attacking everyone, but he opposes DOS'ing them saying that "the open source community must use the truth, not criminal methods, as its weapons." Nicely done
> part of a 10,000 piece license to cendant.
Jeepers! I bet the sale guy got a bonus when he landed that one.
...are on his forums.
He has some ideas for civilian uses of the technology, i.e., "the use of small squadrons of UAVs to assist off-shore search and rescue operations."
> nothing will be an "Outlook Killer" until
> it runs everywhere that Outlook runs
> (ie: Windows).
Good point, you're right. I guess I meant that in the context of things that prevent moving from Win32 to Linux. Maybe "excuses not to migrate-killer" would be a better term.
Also, here's a duplicate code report, thanks to CPD. I like the comment on the first duplicate code chunk:Heh.
...is in John Mitchell's blog.
As he says, 'Did you notice how little actual Java there is in the "Java Desktop System"?'
Gack.
http://washingtonpost.com.
Now enjoy!
> Where is the US liberal media
> I read so much about?
Here ya go:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Enjoy!
...including nice charts and graphs can be found here on FraudFactor.
From the examples given in the FraudFactor article, both sides seem guilty of gerrymandering whenever possible.
If this sticker is blue, you're going too fast.
Here's an article on Freshmeat expressing similar sentiments.
A while back there was an opening in the CIA for an assassin. These highly classified positions are extremely difficult to fill, requiring an extensive background check, training, and testing before candidates are even considered for the position. After reviewing several applicants and completing all the checks and training, the field was narrowed to the three most promising candidates. The day came for the final test, which would determine which of equally qualified candidates, would get the job.
The final candidates consisted of two men and one woman. The men administering the test took the first candidate, a man, down a corridor to a closed door and handed him a gun saying, "We must be completely assured that you will complete your assignments and follow instructions regardless of the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your wife, seated in a chair. Take this gun and kill her." The man, looking completely shocked said, "You can't be serious! I could never kill my wife." The CIA man said, "Well, then, you're obviously not the man for the job. Take your wife and go home."
They brought the next candidate in, the other man, and repeated the instructions. This man took the gun, walked into the room and closed the door. However, after five minutes of silence, the door opened and the man handed the CIA tester the gun, saying, "I just couldn't do it. I couldn't kill my wife. I tried to pull the trigger but I just couldn't do it." The CIA man said, "Well, then, you're obviously not the man for the job. Take your wife and go home."
Then they brought the woman down the corridor to the closed door, handed her a gun, and said, "We must be completely assured that you will complete your assignments and follow instructions regardless of the circumstances. Inside this room you will find your husband, seated in a chair. Take this gun and kill him." The woman took the gun, walked into the room, and before the door closed all the way, the CIA men heard the gun start firing. One shot after another, for thirteen shots, the noise continued. Then all hell broke loose. For the next several minutes, the men heard screaming, cursing, furniture crashing and banging on the walls; then suddenly, silence. The door opened slowly and there stood the woman.
She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didn't tell me the gun was loaded with blanks! I had to beat him to death with the chair!"