Back when the recycling craze began, it was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". In that order.
Around the same time that Coke stopped taking back old deposit bottles, and instead started shipping plastic bottles, the slogan got re-advertised as "Recycle, Reduce, Reuse"
Something anticapitalist about the government discouraging consumption.
... although I have no idea what's worse for the environment... recycling plastic coke bottles, or cleaning and reusing the glass ones.
PHP lets you do useful stuff without the slop. It also has documentation which is better suited for a person who doesn't know the language.
Perl has a lot of history behind it... which if you don't know the history, you're SOL. I mean stuff like if you're trying to use a library, you'll have to know an awful lot about what the author did. Toss an object to a person who's never heard of objects, or show some cryptic bit twiddling or make them troubleshoot some random Perl guy's overzealous use of regular expressions. Ouch. Yeah it applies in all languages, but in Perl, there's more of them.
The only good thing about Perl for learning might be that it is forgiving, you can be creative in how you manipulate data.
And hey, while HTML isn't a language, and should never be considered such, would you really want to teach Perl to somebody who couldn't grasp HTML?
Progressing to PHP from HTML might not be such a bad idea. People can figure out the difference between the browser and the server, then learn about simple things like variables, functions, loops, arrays, etc, while dealing with some hard guidelines they need to conform to in their output.
With that little skill, they can do some cool stuff with a web site. They can do stuff they find useful, show off, or solve problems. With Perl alone, they're locked in an ugly box on their Windows machine, trying to figure out CGI, or waiting for their skills to develop to the point that they can interface with various toolkits.
Teaching them Perl alone is giving them access to a suite of tools which they'll probably never figure out why they need it... but...
... once they know the basics of functions, loops, interation and so forth... then a language like Perl might be o.k., if they're a sysadmin, crunching text and/or have a need for CPAN...
...but then... you might wind up with the problem I see all the time... people writing shell scripts in Perl. Ugh. Very unnecessary.
It's a little risky because if you charge by the distance driven, do you legally dis-insure a person who's odometer ticked over a certain threshold?
My insurance company, as with most I'm sure, do infact ask for estimates on how much you drive. E.g. do you commute? How far? How often? etc. Those numbers are written right into my policy.
Yep, nothing has lasted for 10,000 years, certainly no civilization has lasted 10,000 years.
Part of the problem is that if the waste is accessible using today's technology, then, in the event of social collapse, or extreme corruption, it is accessible using today's technology.
If you argue that in a couple hundred years, a better solution for disposing of waste is devised... one might also argue that a better solution for recovering and re-storing any problems in Yucca mountain can also be devised.
But if there is complete social collapse, future generations may not have the ability to store the waste....
So what do we do? Assume that we can effectively protect and store the waste for a couple hundred years, or assume that we can't and stuff it in a mountain?
Is it possible to stuff it in a mountain in a recoverable fashion, and seal it in the event of funding cuts which would prohibit its continued monitoring?
Before LCDs were popular, paperwhite monitors were pretty good. The phosphors were higher-persistance and there was no shadow mask. You could really tell the difference. The image didn't look like a floating textureless field of color, it had a real texture which your eye would be able to focus on sharply and easily... even if the painted image itself had a slight fuzziness.
I disagree about the immaturity and stupidity part. People forget what it was like to be a teenager. Teenagers do more living between 15 and 16 than most people do between 30 and 40... and I mean that.
The biggest difference between teenagers and adults is that kids have nothing to live for. Yes, nothing. They have some vauge "future" people talk about, but they've always had that, they didn't have to earn it, and it's many times their current adult lifetimes away.
Imagine if you had no money, no house, no reputation, no education, no kids, no spouse... nothing in your life which you've had to earn, nothing in your life which you'd be afraid to lose. Now multiply out your horomones, shrink your freedom to nearly zero... what little shelter, food and money you haev is entirely dependant upon the whims of your parents.
Hiding from unreasonable parents becomes suddenly very important. Suddenly getting a condom or taking a pill becomes very dangerous to your immediate well being... well, for your forseeable future anyways (it's unreasonable to see past 5-10 times your adult life out to age 25 or so)
Giving your kids a place to hang out is great, I think it is a HUGE help. Make sure that if you have multiple kids, you aren't going to create conflict if they don't like hanging out around one another, and as tough as it might be, you've got to accept that they will have sex down there... else they'll just go into the back seat of their friend's car, or to the drunken party down the street. Not supplying condoms down there is using the fear of pregnancy or disease to keep them absinent. That doesn't work.
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I once encountered an interesting glitch with DOS fdisk. I know nobody will believe me, but FDISK deleted the wrong partition... I'm quite certain because the correct one had no volume name, whereas the one which was deleted did.
Anyways, I sat around thinking about how to recover my data. DOS in those days had a utility called "unformat", but it would only work on formatted drives...
So I ran fdisk and set the parameters back the way they should be, rebooted and ran unformat again... no luck.
I was finally able to recover the data by formatting the drive then running unformat.
Note, it was more than free, it was shipped with your computer and embedded as a default. It was tough to disable, and eventually was even integrated (poorly) into your desktop. To kick it all off, systems integrators were forbidden from installing, then forbidden from including Netscape.
Why download a 7-15MB download on a dinky modem when you've already got a browser?
Microsoft could still pull this off, by say, giving partners a sweet deal for some video codec and forbidding Tivo from using it.
So the bizzare subsidized online media format becomes Microsoft's selling point for cheap downloadable movies and T.V. which the Tivo can't access.
Don't forget that at the time, it was not a fordrawn conclusion that the most technically inferior GUI environment would reign supreme. Wordperfect tried OS/2 and I think Desqview/X. I also don't think it would have been wise for Wordperfect to target the OS of a competitor's wordprocessor...
... to which they slew both Wordperfect and Lotus by mucking up LIMS and bundling the second-best of both products together... leaving 123 and WP as buggy memory-limited apps which can't work together.
Note that WPA is just like WEP but with quickly rotating keys and more secure key exchange. Yeah, you can't crack it in real-time to get on the network... but if you listen to the vendors carefully, they'll even say it... "Authentication, Authorization.... " But never will they formally say "Secure encryption of data"
You can decode everything but the key exchange off-line.
VPN software is the only way to go. The wireless vendors are liars.
Does anyone want to comment on WPA2? Does it require new hardware?
Aside from the BS bible-thumping, what if your roommate from college says you were his gay lover and thus common-law spouse?
There are lots of dumb little things in the law which need to be reviewed. IMHO it will be well worth it. The traditional marriage is an anacronism. You can offer the protections and rights of marriage outside of a religious context, and you can express special protections, rights and declarations for even such things as polyamourous relationships.
Families are complex and nobody is "evil" for not fitting the mold of the fertile virgin heterosexual couple who'd rather die mizerably together than cause a scandal.
What really bugs me about the "religious right" is why the f*ck does one person's moral behaviour have to be legislated as manditory? Banning gay marriages? Nobody's f*ing business. Banning Abortion? None of their f*ing business. Keep out of people's bedrooms and people's wombs and the world will be better for it.
People should have the right to make their own damn moral decisions. Protest, gripe, complain, educate, whatever, but don't legislate morality!
I have to agree mostly... the pod-race though was a cool idea. The movies always seemed to have that kind of thing. The Death star, the land walkers, land speeders on Endor, the Millennium Falcon in the asteroid belt, scenes like that where there's some cool sci-fi setting for some incredible battle or chase or something. I think all of the examples I gave were turned into games at some point or another.
The pod-race was a little bit lacking in execution... or maybe it was all the crud around the pod-race which detracted from it, but it was one of the few things IMHO, which had some of the spirit of the original films.
I thoroughly agree that the Yoda stuff was stupid, but plenty of people disagree with me on that, so it must have had some audience... just not me.
I caught the second film on DVD and couldn't stop laughing at it. I don't think I've watched it end to end. The third one I'll probably miss altogether unless it gets good reviews.
"...has NEVER ONCE himself tied Saddam or Iraq to 9/11..."
Exactly in the same vein as Michael Moore can defend every fact in his "documentary". He's done everything but actually put the words together in the same sentence.
It's a shame Bush can't just say "hey, Saddam was a threat, he had nothing to do with 9/11, but for the past decade, he's ill-cooperated with the international weapons inspectors, and we were concerned about his history of using non-conventional weapons against his people and his opponents. The worst-case scenario has come to pass, we were wrong, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Our invasion has only served to topple a brutal dictator and temporarily throw Iraq into disorder. Pulling out now would be irresponsible and make matters worse. The WMD mission is over, now the mission is to ensure the Iraqi people can control their own future."
But Bush has said nothing of the sort and continues to happily ignore the fact that the American people believe Saddam has something to do with Al-Queida or Sept 11. People have died in the service of this deception.
You can present all the good reasons to invade Iraq, but you nobody can attribute them to Bush because he's still clinging to his gutless deception. I can only assume it is to manipulate public opinion.
Bush, knowing the truth, should have pushed the international community harder. This bizzare decision for the U.S. to proceed jeopardized the legitimate objectives for the war, and put U.S. troops into somebody else's back yard.
You're right that given the info we have, the war is not insane. But clearly given the info we have, Bush is.
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Back when the recycling craze began, it was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle". In that order.
Around the same time that Coke stopped taking back old deposit bottles, and instead started shipping plastic bottles, the slogan got re-advertised as "Recycle, Reduce, Reuse"
Something anticapitalist about the government discouraging consumption.
... although I have no idea what's worse for the environment... recycling plastic coke bottles, or cleaning and reusing the glass ones.
PHP lets you do useful stuff without the slop. It also has documentation which is better suited for a person who doesn't know the language.
Perl has a lot of history behind it... which if you don't know the history, you're SOL. I mean stuff like if you're trying to use a library, you'll have to know an awful lot about what the author did. Toss an object to a person who's never heard of objects, or show some cryptic bit twiddling or make them troubleshoot some random Perl guy's overzealous use of regular expressions. Ouch. Yeah it applies in all languages, but in Perl, there's more of them.
The only good thing about Perl for learning might be that it is forgiving, you can be creative in how you manipulate data.
And hey, while HTML isn't a language, and should never be considered such, would you really want to teach Perl to somebody who couldn't grasp HTML?
Progressing to PHP from HTML might not be such a bad idea. People can figure out the difference between the browser and the server, then learn about simple things like variables, functions, loops, arrays, etc, while dealing with some hard guidelines they need to conform to in their output.
With that little skill, they can do some cool stuff with a web site. They can do stuff they find useful, show off, or solve problems. With Perl alone, they're locked in an ugly box on their Windows machine, trying to figure out CGI, or waiting for their skills to develop to the point that they can interface with various toolkits.
Teaching them Perl alone is giving them access to a suite of tools which they'll probably never figure out why they need it... but...
... once they know the basics of functions, loops, interation and so forth... then a language like Perl might be o.k., if they're a sysadmin, crunching text and/or have a need for CPAN...
...but then... you might wind up with the problem I see all the time... people writing shell scripts in Perl. Ugh. Very unnecessary.
It's a little risky because if you charge by the distance driven, do you legally dis-insure a person who's odometer ticked over a certain threshold?
My insurance company, as with most I'm sure, do infact ask for estimates on how much you drive. E.g. do you commute? How far? How often? etc. Those numbers are written right into my policy.
The only question now is if it occured and went undetected in enough places...
Naw, every single case is a federal crime, should be investigated thoroughly, and should be treated as a serious criminal offense.
Yep, nothing has lasted for 10,000 years, certainly no civilization has lasted 10,000 years.
Part of the problem is that if the waste is accessible using today's technology, then, in the event of social collapse, or extreme corruption, it is accessible using today's technology.
If you argue that in a couple hundred years, a better solution for disposing of waste is devised... one might also argue that a better solution for recovering and re-storing any problems in Yucca mountain can also be devised.
But if there is complete social collapse, future generations may not have the ability to store the waste....
So what do we do? Assume that we can effectively protect and store the waste for a couple hundred years, or assume that we can't and stuff it in a mountain?
Is it possible to stuff it in a mountain in a recoverable fashion, and seal it in the event of funding cuts which would prohibit its continued monitoring?
If you have no data, there's nothing to enhance...
Recent work is enhancing still shots by processing differences in video frames... so you can get stills higher than 320x200 from a 320x200 video clip.
I can't watch the show, if it screws up the stuff I know, it will just fill my head with crap over the stuff I don't.
If I were a professor in a forensics class, I'd be sure to put some CSI-plots in with the multiple-choice questions.
Before LCDs were popular, paperwhite monitors were pretty good. The phosphors were higher-persistance and there was no shadow mask. You could really tell the difference. The image didn't look like a floating textureless field of color, it had a real texture which your eye would be able to focus on sharply and easily... even if the painted image itself had a slight fuzziness.
I disagree about the immaturity and stupidity part. People forget what it was like to be a teenager. Teenagers do more living between 15 and 16 than most people do between 30 and 40... and I mean that.
The biggest difference between teenagers and adults is that kids have nothing to live for. Yes, nothing. They have some vauge "future" people talk about, but they've always had that, they didn't have to earn it, and it's many times their current adult lifetimes away.
Imagine if you had no money, no house, no reputation, no education, no kids, no spouse... nothing in your life which you've had to earn, nothing in your life which you'd be afraid to lose. Now multiply out your horomones, shrink your freedom to nearly zero... what little shelter, food and money you haev is entirely dependant upon the whims of your parents.
Hiding from unreasonable parents becomes suddenly very important. Suddenly getting a condom or taking a pill becomes very dangerous to your immediate well being... well, for your forseeable future anyways (it's unreasonable to see past 5-10 times your adult life out to age 25 or so)
Giving your kids a place to hang out is great, I think it is a HUGE help. Make sure that if you have multiple kids, you aren't going to create conflict if they don't like hanging out around one another, and as tough as it might be, you've got to accept that they will have sex down there... else they'll just go into the back seat of their friend's car, or to the drunken party down the street. Not supplying condoms down there is using the fear of pregnancy or disease to keep them absinent. That doesn't work.
I once encountered an interesting glitch with DOS fdisk. I know nobody will believe me, but FDISK deleted the wrong partition... I'm quite certain because the correct one had no volume name, whereas the one which was deleted did.
Anyways, I sat around thinking about how to recover my data. DOS in those days had a utility called "unformat", but it would only work on formatted drives...
So I ran fdisk and set the parameters back the way they should be, rebooted and ran unformat again... no luck.
I was finally able to recover the data by formatting the drive then running unformat.
Exactly the same as saying "I'm you're employee boss, you're responsible for my actions"
How do you dispose of the old oil?
I think Microsoft just violated section 13 of their EULA by Idemnifying customers:
http://proprietary.clendons.co.nz/licenses/eula/wi ndowsxpprofessional-eula.htm
"...IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR..."
Who's up for a class action lawsuit to sue Microsoft for breaching their contract?
Note, it was more than free, it was shipped with your computer and embedded as a default. It was tough to disable, and eventually was even integrated (poorly) into your desktop. To kick it all off, systems integrators were forbidden from installing, then forbidden from including Netscape.
Why download a 7-15MB download on a dinky modem when you've already got a browser?
Microsoft could still pull this off, by say, giving partners a sweet deal for some video codec and forbidding Tivo from using it.
So the bizzare subsidized online media format becomes Microsoft's selling point for cheap downloadable movies and T.V. which the Tivo can't access.
Don't forget that at the time, it was not a fordrawn conclusion that the most technically inferior GUI environment would reign supreme. Wordperfect tried OS/2 and I think Desqview/X. I also don't think it would have been wise for Wordperfect to target the OS of a competitor's wordprocessor...
... to which they slew both Wordperfect and Lotus by mucking up LIMS and bundling the second-best of both products together... leaving 123 and WP as buggy memory-limited apps which can't work together.
Note that WPA is just like WEP but with quickly rotating keys and more secure key exchange. Yeah, you can't crack it in real-time to get on the network... but if you listen to the vendors carefully, they'll even say it... "Authentication, Authorization.... " But never will they formally say "Secure encryption of data"
You can decode everything but the key exchange off-line.
VPN software is the only way to go. The wireless vendors are liars.
Does anyone want to comment on WPA2? Does it require new hardware?
But what are people so afraid of?
Aside from the BS bible-thumping, what if your roommate from college says you were his gay lover and thus common-law spouse?
There are lots of dumb little things in the law which need to be reviewed. IMHO it will be well worth it. The traditional marriage is an anacronism. You can offer the protections and rights of marriage outside of a religious context, and you can express special protections, rights and declarations for even such things as polyamourous relationships.
Families are complex and nobody is "evil" for not fitting the mold of the fertile virgin heterosexual couple who'd rather die mizerably together than cause a scandal.
What really bugs me about the "religious right" is why the f*ck does one person's moral behaviour have to be legislated as manditory? Banning gay marriages? Nobody's f*ing business. Banning Abortion? None of their f*ing business. Keep out of people's bedrooms and people's wombs and the world will be better for it.
People should have the right to make their own damn moral decisions. Protest, gripe, complain, educate, whatever, but don't legislate morality!
I have to agree mostly... the pod-race though was a cool idea. The movies always seemed to have that kind of thing. The Death star, the land walkers, land speeders on Endor, the Millennium Falcon in the asteroid belt, scenes like that where there's some cool sci-fi setting for some incredible battle or chase or something. I think all of the examples I gave were turned into games at some point or another.
The pod-race was a little bit lacking in execution... or maybe it was all the crud around the pod-race which detracted from it, but it was one of the few things IMHO, which had some of the spirit of the original films.
I thoroughly agree that the Yoda stuff was stupid, but plenty of people disagree with me on that, so it must have had some audience... just not me.
I caught the second film on DVD and couldn't stop laughing at it. I don't think I've watched it end to end. The third one I'll probably miss altogether unless it gets good reviews.
You just gave me a funny image of a gardening show saying "just dump the roundup in your vegetable garden, no more weeds! it's perfectly safe!"
I think you mean, "...you can safely use it to kill weeds in your roundup-ready[TM] vegetable garden."
Now I can say that I learned something work-related from Slashdot!
I once had to fix a system with a broken /dev/null. I was rather perplexed as to how somebody broke it.
The very idea of somebody trying to use mv to unlink a file never occurred to me.
If you search for "Sept 11" Iraq and Confusion, you'll get plenty of hits.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=%22Sept+11%22+ Iraq+Confusion&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
AFAIK, that's just a technicality. "Soliciting" for prostitution is illegal, kind of like how smoking marijuana is legal, but posessing it is not.
You can pay a woman to have sex with you, but you can't offer her money for sex, nor can she ask you for it... same rules as dating.
"...has NEVER ONCE himself tied Saddam or Iraq to 9/11..."
Exactly in the same vein as Michael Moore can defend every fact in his "documentary". He's done everything but actually put the words together in the same sentence.
First hit on Google:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0314/p02s01-woiq.htm l
Unless you're hiding under a rock, you know exactly what I'm talking about here.
It's a shame Bush can't just say "hey, Saddam was a threat, he had nothing to do with 9/11, but for the past decade, he's ill-cooperated with the international weapons inspectors, and we were concerned about his history of using non-conventional weapons against his people and his opponents. The worst-case scenario has come to pass, we were wrong, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Our invasion has only served to topple a brutal dictator and temporarily throw Iraq into disorder. Pulling out now would be irresponsible and make matters worse. The WMD mission is over, now the mission is to ensure the Iraqi people can control their own future."
But Bush has said nothing of the sort and continues to happily ignore the fact that the American people believe Saddam has something to do with Al-Queida or Sept 11. People have died in the service of this deception.
You can present all the good reasons to invade Iraq, but you nobody can attribute them to Bush because he's still clinging to his gutless deception. I can only assume it is to manipulate public opinion.
Bush, knowing the truth, should have pushed the international community harder. This bizzare decision for the U.S. to proceed jeopardized the legitimate objectives for the war, and put U.S. troops into somebody else's back yard.
You're right that given the info we have, the war is not insane. But clearly given the info we have, Bush is.
I've seen worse... like bad grammar.