Thinking that OO is hard is just plain wrong. The main problem with the way OOP is taught is that the commonly used languages mix both OOP and non-OOP procedural elements. Constantly switching between the 2 doesn't allow the student to "get" the OOP part very easily.
The answer is to use something like Smalltalk, where everything is OO. In early testing, the Smalltalk developers found that it was *easier* to teach Smalltalk to beginners than procedural languages, because people are already familiar with doing things to objects in the real world. Whereas it takes a certain way of thinking to come up with step-by-step manipulations of abstract data structures.
Seems like if they're going to make it backwards incompatible, they should change a lot more. For example, are nested tables really the best way to lay out a page? Can't we come up with something better than that? (Without hard-coding coordinates -- I'd like something like the GTK or Swing layout methods.) How about the script and noscript tags? Any chance we can stop having to put comments around the script code? How about separating the 2 distinct uses of anchor tags?
It is the DoD's policy not to take active measures against anybody because of the lack of certainty of getting the right person.
Great. I guess we might as well get rid of the Department of Defense, if they're not going to bother to take any active measures. I guess that whole Afghanistan thing with the "unavoidable civilian casualties" was just a figment of our imagination.
I'm wondering where they got their list of computer manufacturers. They included Commodore, who has been out of business for a decade! Other companies they list that no longer exist or no longer make (laptop) PCs are CompuAdd, Escom, Hunday, TI, AST, Digital, Quantex, and Zenith. I'm sure there are more in the list. This is just pitiful -- one of the most useless pieces of mis-information I've seen on the Web.
The JPEG standard wasn't published until 1994. But the JPEG committee was formed in 1985, and it was made up of combined committees from the CCITT and ISO working groups. So it is very possible that they had already come up with this by the time the patent was filed. The technology used in JPEG was generally based on previously published algorithms. I think there's a good chance that there is prior art to invalidate the patent.
Traditional tests to detect deficiency in color vision are difficult to evaluate or calibrate
Complete BS. There are books of standard tests that look for not only the common red-green color blindness, but also several other less common forms. Here's a cool online version.
How is this different than publishing in a magazine or something? I don't see this as being any more restrictive for Internet pictures than any other medium.
Internet Protocol Intellectual Property Information Protection (the name of the security group where I work) Implementation Plan (saw this one abbreviated today at work -- it confused the manager)
Well, if Congress says it's true, it *must* be true, eh?
In my city, a developer signed a contract to renovate a building. After spending a couple million dollars, they gave up. Conveniently, the city passed a resolution determining that the renovation project was "complete". Of course, the building is still sitting there unused.
I hate it when the government makes things "true" by legislative fiat.
The problem isn't really the G-forces (acceleration) involved. The more important factor is the "jerk", or change in acceleration. Acceleration is what causes you to move in the opposite direction of the movement. Jerk is what causes you to change the rate or direction of that movement. The jerk is what is harmful to your body, in particular your neck.
When I write code (even code that nobody else will see) I write it as psuedo-code in comments first. That lets me get it straight in my head before I write the code. It seems to help -- it makes my coding go quicker.
My comments don't go as far as your examples. Instead of "loop through the employee records" and "print the record" I'd write "print all the records".
Bravo. Very well said. We often like to forget the attrocities of our own society. Probably the biggest difference regarding the Nazis is that they got caught -- the US never got "caught" and punished for what we did.
It's probably due to Gartner's recommendation to drop IIS due to all the security holes IIS has had recently. Or more to the point, the holes themselves have caused people to lose faith in IIS and move to Apache.
That Matrox has all sorts of nice pictures to show off their 10-bit technology? But when you view it with your own video card, the most you'll get is 8-bit color. So what's the point of all the pretty pictures? Talk about the marketing folks not getting the point!
AGP 8x: It'll work in an AGP 4x motherboard. Motherboards with 8X AGP should be out soon.
Monitors: Analog monitors (eg. the one you have today) can display an infinite number of colors. The DAC (digital-to-analog converter) on the graphics card creates the appropriate analog signal. The real question is whether digital DVI monitors will support more than 24 bits of color.
Where: Matrox has a list, including their own online store. CDW seems to carry most Matrox products.
When: June.
Price: $450 for the top-end, low-end was not specified anywhere I could see.
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$ man accton
$ man acctprc
$ man acctcms
$ man -s 4 acct
I have LPI and Sair certifications. The other widely-recognized certifications are Linux+ (which I'll be getting soon) and Red Hat RHCE (which is expensive). In order of importance (i.e. worthy of respect), I'd rank them RHCE, LPI, Linux+, and Sair. The RHCE includes nearly a full day of hands-on installation and troubleshooting, making it quite difficult, much like Cisco's CCIE.
You should go get an MCSE certification yourself, then. In the same way that an MCSE cannot talk about the GPL in a well-informed manner, you are not seen as qualified to speak on things Microsoft. I have certifications in both Microsoft and Linux (among others), so when I advocate the use of Open Source over Microsoft products, people are apt to believe that I know the pros and cons of both, and have made a well-informed analysis.
Piracy is already illegal. How does adding a new law improve anything? If Congress really wants to look like they're doing something useful, they need to take a look at all the existing laws that are 1) stupid, 2) caused more harm than good, and 3) pork, and repeal them.
With each new law passed being hundreds or thousands of pages long, the complexity of law has gone to outrageous proportions. The last thing we need is more complexity. It would be best if we could simplify the law so that we can enforce the important ones.
Wow, lawyers actually came out and had an opinion on something without being paid to have that opinion? I've never heard of a lawyer saying something was legal or not -- they prefer to deal in the gray areas, so they can help you get away with anything.
It sounds like your PCMCIA port is delivering poor power quality to the card (too much power, or maybe not enough), causing it to fail very quickly. Have you used any other cards in that system?
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Thinking that OO is hard is just plain wrong. The main problem with the way OOP is taught is that the commonly used languages mix both OOP and non-OOP procedural elements. Constantly switching between the 2 doesn't allow the student to "get" the OOP part very easily.
The answer is to use something like Smalltalk, where everything is OO. In early testing, the Smalltalk developers found that it was *easier* to teach Smalltalk to beginners than procedural languages, because people are already familiar with doing things to objects in the real world. Whereas it takes a certain way of thinking to come up with step-by-step manipulations of abstract data structures.
Seems like if they're going to make it backwards incompatible, they should change a lot more. For example, are nested tables really the best way to lay out a page? Can't we come up with something better than that? (Without hard-coding coordinates -- I'd like something like the GTK or Swing layout methods.) How about the script and noscript tags? Any chance we can stop having to put comments around the script code? How about separating the 2 distinct uses of anchor tags?
God forbid that someone on Slashdot might want to have a social life!
It is the DoD's policy not to take active measures against anybody because of the lack of certainty of getting the right person.
Great. I guess we might as well get rid of the Department of Defense, if they're not going to bother to take any active measures. I guess that whole Afghanistan thing with the "unavoidable civilian casualties" was just a figment of our imagination.
I'm wondering where they got their list of computer manufacturers. They included Commodore, who has been out of business for a decade! Other companies they list that no longer exist or no longer make (laptop) PCs are CompuAdd, Escom, Hunday, TI, AST, Digital, Quantex, and Zenith. I'm sure there are more in the list. This is just pitiful -- one of the most useless pieces of mis-information I've seen on the Web.
The JPEG standard wasn't published until 1994. But the JPEG committee was formed in 1985, and it was made up of combined committees from the CCITT and ISO working groups. So it is very possible that they had already come up with this by the time the patent was filed. The technology used in JPEG was generally based on previously published algorithms. I think there's a good chance that there is prior art to invalidate the patent.
Complete BS. There are books of standard tests that look for not only the common red-green color blindness, but also several other less common forms. Here's a cool online version.
How is this different than publishing in a magazine or something? I don't see this as being any more restrictive for Internet pictures than any other medium.
Internet Protocol
Intellectual Property
Information Protection (the name of the security group where I work)
Implementation Plan (saw this one abbreviated today at work -- it confused the manager)
Well, if Congress says it's true, it *must* be true, eh?
In my city, a developer signed a contract to renovate a building. After spending a couple million dollars, they gave up. Conveniently, the city passed a resolution determining that the renovation project was "complete". Of course, the building is still sitting there unused.
I hate it when the government makes things "true" by legislative fiat.
The problem isn't really the G-forces (acceleration) involved. The more important factor is the "jerk", or change in acceleration. Acceleration is what causes you to move in the opposite direction of the movement. Jerk is what causes you to change the rate or direction of that movement. The jerk is what is harmful to your body, in particular your neck.
When I write code (even code that nobody else will see) I write it as psuedo-code in comments first. That lets me get it straight in my head before I write the code. It seems to help -- it makes my coding go quicker.
My comments don't go as far as your examples. Instead of "loop through the employee records" and "print the record" I'd write "print all the records".
Bravo. Very well said. We often like to forget the attrocities of our own society. Probably the biggest difference regarding the Nazis is that they got caught -- the US never got "caught" and punished for what we did.
Hey, no need to use such foul language! Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word in the Galaxy.
It's probably due to Gartner's recommendation to drop IIS due to all the security holes IIS has had recently. Or more to the point, the holes themselves have caused people to lose faith in IIS and move to Apache.
That Matrox has all sorts of nice pictures to show off their 10-bit technology? But when you view it with your own video card, the most you'll get is 8-bit color. So what's the point of all the pretty pictures? Talk about the marketing folks not getting the point!
Monitors: Analog monitors (eg. the one you have today) can display an infinite number of colors. The DAC (digital-to-analog converter) on the graphics card creates the appropriate analog signal. The real question is whether digital DVI monitors will support more than 24 bits of color.
Where: Matrox has a list, including their own online store. CDW seems to carry most Matrox products.
When: June.
Price: $450 for the top-end, low-end was not specified anywhere I could see.
$ man accton
$ man acctprc
$ man acctcms
$ man -s 4 acct
I have LPI and Sair certifications. The other widely-recognized certifications are Linux+ (which I'll be getting soon) and Red Hat RHCE (which is expensive). In order of importance (i.e. worthy of respect), I'd rank them RHCE, LPI, Linux+, and Sair. The RHCE includes nearly a full day of hands-on installation and troubleshooting, making it quite difficult, much like Cisco's CCIE.
You should go get an MCSE certification yourself, then. In the same way that an MCSE cannot talk about the GPL in a well-informed manner, you are not seen as qualified to speak on things Microsoft. I have certifications in both Microsoft and Linux (among others), so when I advocate the use of Open Source over Microsoft products, people are apt to believe that I know the pros and cons of both, and have made a well-informed analysis.
Piracy is already illegal. How does adding a new law improve anything? If Congress really wants to look like they're doing something useful, they need to take a look at all the existing laws that are 1) stupid, 2) caused more harm than good, and 3) pork, and repeal them.
With each new law passed being hundreds or thousands of pages long, the complexity of law has gone to outrageous proportions. The last thing we need is more complexity. It would be best if we could simplify the law so that we can enforce the important ones.
It doesn't matter if it is copyright or not -- if you are only going to read and use the information. Copyright is about copying stuff.
Wow, lawyers actually came out and had an opinion on something without being paid to have that opinion? I've never heard of a lawyer saying something was legal or not -- they prefer to deal in the gray areas, so they can help you get away with anything.
I think the quality of your sex life depends more on the interfaces you choose to use than the language you choose to use.
It sounds like your PCMCIA port is delivering poor power quality to the card (too much power, or maybe not enough), causing it to fail very quickly. Have you used any other cards in that system?