A gulf between the young & the old isn't exactly new. In the 50's and 60's the great moral threat was Rock & Roll. In the 20's & 30's it was Jazz.
In 15 years time it will be mainstream, because the teenagers & twenties of today will be the old farts of 2015, and their children will be finding something new and exciting to do and shock their parents with.
I think the solution is what jwz suggests, and what hopefully one day gcj will provide. Compilation of the Java language to native code.
Write once run anywhere is not working yet. I've had all sorts of problems with things which are not portable like threading, sockets etc. I have to test & debug against a particular instance of a JVM on a particular OS.
JVMs are good in some instances, but they're not going to replace all native code, and shouldn't be considered the only solution.
Swear words are offensive because they break taboos. In those who have descended from the American Puritians and the British Victorians traditions, the taboos are about discussing sex & bodily functions. Other language groups have other swearwords, for example French swearwords are all to do with religion.
I find it particuarly interesting what has happened when broadcasters have tried to avoid swear words. Red Dwarf used 'smeg' as a replacement for 'fuck', and it is begining to enter the language, being used even where there isn't a Red Dwarf connection.
Books have 2400, 4800 or even 9600 lpi. Even the cheapest laser printer does 300lpi. Screens typically have 72. There is a LONG way to go before any screen can get the resolution we're used to on paper.
Non overlapping hours can be an advantage, if you're trying to support stuff. I can expect there to be someone in our office from 6:30 to 18:00. We used to have someone who would work from 12:00 to 20:00 or 21:00. Our on call people only had to deal with the the time there was no-one in the office, reducing stress on them and giving better service.
The Prime Minister can disolve parliment at any time, and has to disolve parliment if the government looses a no-confidence vote, or if 5 years has elapsed since the last general election. As soon as parliment is disolved, there is a short (usually about 6 weeks) campagin, and then the election. After the election, the party with the majority, either alone or in colaberation with other parties (see Lib-Lab Pact) chooses the new Prime Minister, almost certainly the leader of that Party.
The major difference between the parlimentary system as compared to the US system is that it's impossible for the leader to not have a supporting majority in the lower house.
The great story I like is the $500K Fisher space pen that NASA commissioned so that
astros could writ during an EVA. The Astros showed it to the Russians on Soyuz who whipped out a pencil!
I've not yet seen an image of an actual ballot, I've only seen artist's mockups. I'm wondering how close the key was between the hole punches & the arrows. If it was only a few percent off, then the arrows wouldn't neccessarily be pointing directly at the holes.
How are you going to ensure that people only purchase using credit cards?
As long as you can walk into a HMV and buy a CD off the shelf, using cash, then it's going to be untracable who bought the 'original' copy of the media.
Wihle I agree with you that it was a bad idea, it worth noting that the mail/news/browser/all-in-one is pretty much a requirement for
AOL and for embedded markets.
No it isn't. The browser should have the ability to call these programs when it's required, so that when you click on a mailto: or news: link on a webbrowser, it calls the relevent program. This gives the user the chance to replace the mail/news program with their choice, and divorces the development of these tools from the browser.
Overall, this school district ( Jerry Davis and others ) do not so much hate individuals but rather hate individuals who do not agree
with their social program.
You can be an individual as long as you conform and do exactly what we say.
It's not very telling though. There are 3 components to the speed of calculation. The raw machine speed, improved algorythms, and alogrythms which converge in a non-linear fashion, eg if you give it twice as much CPU time, you get 4 times as many digits. Without seperating these components, you can't tell why it's getting faster.
I don't think that the Apple II lost any battle, it just went to the end of it's natural life. The IBM PC clone has only lasted as long as it has because the 286 and 386 were used as speeded up 808x's, and when the restrictions of real mode started hurting, we could escape from it. If intel had made 16Mhz & 33Mhz 8086's, then probably the PC platform would have died and something new would have replaced it.
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Actually it's more complex than that. The issue of winning & the issue of costs are two seperate things which have to be decided. If I was to sue McBigCorp cause they don't serve donuts in their shops, then I'd loose, and McDonalds would be awarded costs, because this is obviously frivulous. On the other hand, if I was to sue McBigCorp cause they served me a mouse in my burger, and the evidence showed that they took all reasonable precautions, I might loose but McDonalds would not be awarded costs, so we'd both have to pay our lawyer fees.
There have been instances where the winner has had costs been awarded against them. The Judge is basically saying, yeah you were in the right, but you were wrong to bring it to court.
The more important thing is the variation in standards around the world.
In Europe, TV adverts for shampoo might show a naked woman. Not in the coy 'it's ok to show the side of a breast but not a nipple' way that you see in the US, but a straigh front view of a woman shampooing her hair in the shower. In the UK tabloid newspapers have a topless woman on page 3. Both of these would be considered pr0n in the US, but are just part of normal society in Europe.
The fact that the USPO doesn't pay the market rate, or close to it, for professionals is the USPO's problem, not ours. If this means that they have a 25 year backlog on patents that expire 17 years after the start of the process, then I'm sure that the companies asking for patents will get congress to provide the USPO with enough money to hire qualified inspectors. Unfortunatly, the USPO has decided that they will instead approve all patents, as rapidly as possible.
Around about 20 years ago, most computers used in the home had 8k or 16k running on a chip with a 16 bit address bus, which could address 64k maximum. By the mid 80's, up to around 256k was common, but bank switching techniques were required to access it. At the same time, the PC clone started becoming common for home use.
At the present time, for home use, we've got home systems usually with 128Mb or 256Mb, and the 4Gb address space.
Many people are having problems hitting the 4Gb limit on servers and other high memory usage systems, I predict that bank switching solutions will again come in vogue for these applications, and within 5 to 7 years, the home user will have the same problems.
In 1996, the
general set a goal of having 80
percent of young people -- based on
the perception of 12th-graders -- consider drugs
harmful. But despite his ad blitz, the percent of
12th-graders who look unfavorably on drugs actually
dropped for three straight years, falling to 57.4
percent by 1999 -- a far cry from the promised 80
percent.
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A gulf between the young & the old isn't exactly new. In the 50's and 60's the great moral threat was Rock & Roll. In the 20's & 30's it was Jazz. In 15 years time it will be mainstream, because the teenagers & twenties of today will be the old farts of 2015, and their children will be finding something new and exciting to do and shock their parents with.
So is Peter Neumann, who has run the ACM Risks Digest for oodles of years.
Write once run anywhere is not working yet. I've had all sorts of problems with things which are not portable like threading, sockets etc. I have to test & debug against a particular instance of a JVM on a particular OS.
JVMs are good in some instances, but they're not going to replace all native code, and shouldn't be considered the only solution.
Beg borrow or steal a telecom tone generator. This clips onto one end of a pair of wires, and you can use the probe to trace where these wires go.
I find it particuarly interesting what has happened when broadcasters have tried to avoid swear words. Red Dwarf used 'smeg' as a replacement for 'fuck', and it is begining to enter the language, being used even where there isn't a Red Dwarf connection.
Books have 2400, 4800 or even 9600 lpi. Even the cheapest laser printer does 300lpi. Screens typically have 72. There is a LONG way to go before any screen can get the resolution we're used to on paper.
Non overlapping hours can be an advantage, if you're trying to support stuff. I can expect there to be someone in our office from 6:30 to 18:00. We used to have someone who would work from 12:00 to 20:00 or 21:00. Our on call people only had to deal with the the time there was no-one in the office, reducing stress on them and giving better service.
The major difference between the parlimentary system as compared to the US system is that it's impossible for the leader to not have a supporting majority in the lower house.
Can you say Urban Legend boys & girls?
I've not yet seen an image of an actual ballot, I've only seen artist's mockups. I'm wondering how close the key was between the hole punches & the arrows. If it was only a few percent off, then the arrows wouldn't neccessarily be pointing directly at the holes.
As long as you can walk into a HMV and buy a CD off the shelf, using cash, then it's going to be untracable who bought the 'original' copy of the media.
No it isn't. The browser should have the ability to call these programs when it's required, so that when you click on a mailto: or news: link on a webbrowser, it calls the relevent program. This gives the user the chance to replace the mail/news program with their choice, and divorces the development of these tools from the browser.
Actually, this is an advantage. Studies have shown that kids who go to daycare and get sick there, get less sick when they go to school.
You can be an individual as long as you conform and do exactly what we say.
It's not very telling though. There are 3 components to the speed of calculation. The raw machine speed, improved algorythms, and alogrythms which converge in a non-linear fashion, eg if you give it twice as much CPU time, you get 4 times as many digits. Without seperating these components, you can't tell why it's getting faster.
I don't think that the Apple II lost any battle, it just went to the end of it's natural life. The IBM PC clone has only lasted as long as it has because the 286 and 386 were used as speeded up 808x's, and when the restrictions of real mode started hurting, we could escape from it. If intel had made 16Mhz & 33Mhz 8086's, then probably the PC platform would have died and something new would have replaced it.
There have been instances where the winner has had costs been awarded against them. The Judge is basically saying, yeah you were in the right, but you were wrong to bring it to court.
In Europe, TV adverts for shampoo might show a naked woman. Not in the coy 'it's ok to show the side of a breast but not a nipple' way that you see in the US, but a straigh front view of a woman shampooing her hair in the shower. In the UK tabloid newspapers have a topless woman on page 3. Both of these would be considered pr0n in the US, but are just part of normal society in Europe.
While it is possible to do that, that means stiffing your previous investors. If you do that, then it's going to be hard to find new investors.
The fact that the USPO doesn't pay the market rate, or close to it, for professionals is the USPO's problem, not ours. If this means that they have a 25 year backlog on patents that expire 17 years after the start of the process, then I'm sure that the companies asking for patents will get congress to provide the USPO with enough money to hire qualified inspectors. Unfortunatly, the USPO has decided that they will instead approve all patents, as rapidly as possible.
There was the KFKI TPA-11/580 VAX clone.
At the present time, for home use, we've got home systems usually with 128Mb or 256Mb, and the 4Gb address space.
Many people are having problems hitting the 4Gb limit on servers and other high memory usage systems, I predict that bank switching solutions will again come in vogue for these applications, and within 5 to 7 years, the home user will have the same problems.
Well he should know it's not working. From Salon
In 1996, the general set a goal of having 80 percent of young people -- based on the perception of 12th-graders -- consider drugs harmful. But despite his ad blitz, the percent of 12th-graders who look unfavorably on drugs actually dropped for three straight years, falling to 57.4 percent by 1999 -- a far cry from the promised 80 percent.
Australia exports to most of Asia.I dunno if this is the case here, but it wouldn't suprise me if it was.
And this is why we didn't have steam powered airplanes, and had to wait on the IC engine before we could create them.