The stories are listed but not posted. They probably will not get posted until the date listed. The page updater most likely just got a little rambuncious or pressed for time. Regardless this is not a Y2K issue. You will have to do better then this!
I use to have trials, now I have challenges. I use to have a stressfull life, now I have an exciting one. The change happened when I installed Jesus into my heart. Problems are now something that keeps me from getting bored. Y2K issues- bring them on!
P.S. Jesus is not about religion, He is about relationship. Don't confuse the Christianity of the regligious nuts that the media likes to emphasis with the Christianity that is based on getting to knowing Jesus. The media confuses this issue like they do the cracker-hacker one for the same reason. unfortunatly the media is so influential that Christians buy into their definitions just like coders do.
All the posting kiddies talking about FORTRAN77 as if its an ancient language, and I think of it as that new version, that I have'nt got around to trying yet. I hope to get a chance to use this new f95. Maybe next year.
P.S. I Original learned FORTRAN IV in 1974, when I was 14. Had to use a keypunch and submit cards! And some say change isn't good. Object oriented FORTRAN -too cool.
This is how it works: If my fence is broken and the neighbors mutt gets into my yard. When I sue him, I can recover the cost of fixing my fence, plus some overhead, and lets see - oh my labour is worth $50/hour. Isn't it obviouse, that the damned neighbors dog caused the expense, never mind that I built the fence out of rotted scrapwood. I hope I am wrong in the assesment of the logic being used in these cases, but I don't think I am.
If you are saying that no one cares about the diff of hacker-cracker, you are out of it.
Last month when I told my son that I had to "hack" some code, he got *very upset*. I had to explain to him the difference. There is one and the diff does matter.
Your opinion is evil. That individual acheivment is not important, reeks of feudalism. You are probably a Democrate, promoting ideoligies that are designed to insure that no one can climb high enough to threaten the old order.
Wallstreet has been trying to remove creativity and individuality from the workplace for decades. This is contrary to the image that is promoted with the fawning over a few "pet celebrity" inventors. Creativity and individuality are too difficault to predict. And a person with no identity is easier to control.
And since when does identity and team membership become mutualy exclusive. I think you just want to insure that all programers become disposable interchangable components, living to please there sharholders. Secure in the knowledge that there meager insignifigant efforts, though lost in a sea of ananimity, still adds to the glory of the Corporation whos true splender is beyond the understanding of a simple programer.
... gota go... All code compiled succesfully... hurrah....
P.S. I read to much Ayn Rand as a kid. Does it show?
Anal retentive morons. People with no ability to reason should not be posting to/. You guys are the types who equate bringing asprin to school with dealing heroin. When I was learning history, I had trouble seeing how a Christian nation like Germany could succumb to Nazism. Later I learned that there are people like you, then it all became clear.
To be effective, a TEMPEST free room should be shielded with both a ferric and non-ferrit cage. (Ferrits should not be kept in cages). This is to stop all EM propigation. Also you will need power and phone line filtering, blacked out widows (Ferrits like some light), and sound proofing.
There are several other things to concider, but I can't get into that right now, because my sons ferrit is tring to crawl up my pant leg!
Well at least Hemos knows how to use the term TEMPEST. TEMPEST is equivilant to "compromising emminations". Ads that talk about TEMPEST Monitors make no sence, other then maybe, Monitors that emit alot of sh**. The same goes for "TEMPEST Compliant". On the other hand "I built a TEMPEST Free comm center", is a sentence that does make sence.
Visual processing is done in the retina and optic nerve. Manipulating the processed data is done in the brain. By the time the signal arrives at the brain it has already been processed into data for representing all the objects and characters being viewed. All this experiment shows (besides limits in the eyes field of view) is that the brain evaluates objects serially, at least under some conditions. I does not identify object serially.
The Motorola PowerPC 7400, which apple calls a "G4" and claims credit for, is a powerful chip to be sure. But it isn't as much faster than a Pentium as the carefully chosen benchmarks would suggest. Apple didn't invent it and had nothing significant to do with the development. All they are doing is riding on the coattails of a good product and claiming credit for it, all the while pushing an overpriced and underperforming system.
Do you know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions? How about some data.
What benchmarks have been left out? How is the G4 underperforming? Who were the big players in the development of the PPC family?
The Motorola PowerPC 7400, which apple calls a "G4" and claims credit for, is a powerful chip to be sure. But it isn't as much faster than a Pentium as the carefully chosen benchmarks would suggest. Apple didn't invent it and had nothing significant to do with the development. All they are doing is riding on the coattails of a good product and claiming credit for it, all the while pushing an overpriced and underperforming system.
Do you even know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions?
The Motorola PowerPC 7400, which apple calls a "G4" and claims credit for, is a powerful chip to be sure. But it isn't as much faster than a Pentium as the carefully chosen benchmarks would suggest. Apple didn't invent it and had nothing significant to do with the development. All they are doing is riding on the coattails of a good product and claiming credit for it, all the while pushing an overpriced and underperforming system. Do you even know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions?
In Phoenix AZ., the enviromaniacs tried many many times to infiltrate the power plant there, in an attempt to *cause* an accident! They even tried to bring down a power line tower!
I write and maintain test software for a large product line. Our enviroment has been defined as ANSI C. With the number of developers on two continents working in the code, that we have, standards are critical. Resently we have been running into difficulties. To solve them we have been implimenting some OOP concept in regulare old ANSI C. Monday I will be submiting even more changes in that direction to my team for review.
For some tasks OOP is the only way to go. We will eventualy be migrating to C++. Having the path to OOP that C++ provides will make my job much easier.
Saying that C++ is trash is silly, and demonstrates a very myoptic view of programing. As with all languages, there are "features" that should be avoided. But data hiding and single inheretance are incredably valuble. Especially in instrument control.
I apologize to Rudy. I should have edited that first line out. Sorry Rudy. My fault for responding while getting ready for work (at "Agilent Technologies", eegads!). I hope that I sounded more constructive in the rest of my comment.
Either you can't read or you don't. There are many great writers in the SF genre. The problem is that most is trash. This can be said of any genre or any artform. Most writers have to put out a certain amount of hack work. If you don't believe me read all of Jack London or Rudyard Kipling ( I happen to be studing these two at the moment).
William Gibson is a very skilled writer. I am partial to short stories, and he has written some awsome ones. E.g. "Red Star, Winter Orbit" or "Fragments of a Holographic Rose". Both of these can be found in the anthoogy "Burning Chrome".
If you are really interested in finding *good* authors of SF try some of the following: Roger Zelazny ( many great shorts and novellas) Rebeca Orr "Becoming Alien" (good for a laugh) Lee Kilough (especialy "The Doppelganger Gambit") Orson Scott Card ( almost everything) Joe Haldeman ( latter stuff beter the first!) Crawford Killian "Brother Johnathan" Spider Robinson ( even his hack is fun to read)
Of course a "great book" is one that will still have an impact 30 years from now. Some of what I listed might qualify, most wont. But this can be said of all literature ( contrast "Literature").
One thing to remember is that the task of the SF writer is complicated by explaining things that don't need explaination in other lit form. That is why some of the best Hard Science Fiction is weak with regard to the "Human Condition". I would not concider this a fault. The author can only do so much. ( Has anyone read the description of the medvel banquet in "The Sword in the Stone")?
Gibson detractors need to remember that these works date back to the 80's, befor Linux, befor most of the stuff we take for granted.
With the death of SDI (starwars) came the death of reaserch into carbon semiconductors. What company is willing to play with diamond waffers when benifits might be a decade away? Stock holders would not tolerate it.
All you can do is bitch about spelling? I happen to work very hard to improve my spelling ablity. It has never come easy. And very late at night after a 10 hour work day, and several hours being a single parent to a cocky teenager, I get a little tired, and my concentration waivers. The grammer was also weak and the thought progression stank. SORRY!
I have worked with people whos spelling was perfect. They couldn't program worth shit.
It is wonderfull to see the amount of science that is getting done with these small missions. NASA has always had people that can work smarter and cheaper. The real change is in managment. I have had the opprotunity to work with NASA engineers. I am not too easily intimidated intellectualy. These guys intimidated me with there intellegence.
BTW, The "big waste" projects aren't. While the small missions are getting real science done, they are not usually breaking new technological ground. The massive projects teach us how to do things. The benifits are harder to see. The whole computer age is a great example, and so is digital comms.
Much of the technology we use today was pioneered by either the military or NASA. Personally I would rather spend the money on NASA.
Big projects are not "bad" as long as they do not tie up all the resources, and prevent projects that actualy get something done. NASA seams to have a good mix right now. I hope it lasts.
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Of course I might be wrong :-)
The stories are listed but not posted. They
probably will not get posted until the date listed.
The page updater most likely just got a little
rambuncious or pressed for time.
Regardless this is not a Y2K issue. You will have
to do better then this!
Dating uses ordinal numbers not cardinal thus it
is not 0 (an index) AD but, the First Year of the
Lord or 1st AD.
I use to have trials, now I have challenges.
I use to have a stressfull life, now I have an
exciting one. The change happened when I installed
Jesus into my heart. Problems are now something
that keeps me from getting bored. Y2K issues-
bring them on!
P.S. Jesus is not about religion, He is about
relationship. Don't confuse the Christianity
of the regligious nuts that the media likes
to emphasis with the Christianity that is
based on getting to knowing Jesus. The media
confuses this issue like they do the
cracker-hacker one for the same reason.
unfortunatly the media is so influential that
Christians buy into their definitions just
like coders do.
All the posting kiddies talking about FORTRAN77 as
if its an ancient language, and I think of it as
that new version, that I have'nt got around to
trying yet. I hope to get a chance to use this
new f95. Maybe next year.
P.S. I Original learned FORTRAN IV in 1974, when I
was 14. Had to use a keypunch and submit cards!
And some say change isn't good. Object oriented
FORTRAN -too cool.
This is how it works:
If my fence is broken and the neighbors mutt gets
into my yard. When I sue him, I can recover the
cost of fixing my fence, plus some overhead, and
lets see - oh my labour is worth $50/hour. Isn't
it obviouse, that the damned neighbors dog caused
the expense, never mind that I built the fence out
of rotted scrapwood.
I hope I am wrong in the assesment of the logic
being used in these cases, but I don't think I am.
If you are saying that no one cares about the diff
of hacker-cracker, you are out of it.
Last month when I told my son that I had to "hack"
some code, he got *very upset*. I had to explain to
him the difference. There is one and the diff does
matter.
Ad Majorum Corporation Glorium.
...
Your opinion is evil. That individual acheivment
is not important, reeks of feudalism. You are
probably a Democrate, promoting ideoligies that
are designed to insure that no one can climb high
enough to threaten the old order.
Wallstreet has been trying to remove creativity
and individuality from the workplace for decades.
This is contrary to the image that is promoted
with the fawning over a few "pet celebrity"
inventors. Creativity and individuality are too
difficault to predict. And a person with no identity is easier to control.
And since when does identity and team membership
become mutualy exclusive. I think you just want
to insure that all programers become disposable
interchangable components, living to please there
sharholders. Secure in the knowledge that there
meager insignifigant efforts, though lost in a sea
of ananimity, still adds to the glory of the
Corporation whos true splender is beyond the
understanding of a simple programer.
... gota go... All code compiled succesfully
hurrah....
P.S. I read to much Ayn Rand as a kid. Does it
show?
Anal retentive morons. People with no ability to /.
reason should not be posting to
You guys are the types who equate bringing
asprin to school with dealing heroin. When I was
learning history, I had trouble seeing how a
Christian nation like Germany could succumb to
Nazism. Later I learned that there are people like
you, then it all became clear.
To be effective, a TEMPEST free room should be
shielded with both a ferric and non-ferrit cage.
(Ferrits should not be kept in cages). This is
to stop all EM propigation. Also you will need
power and phone line filtering, blacked out widows
(Ferrits like some light), and sound proofing.
There are several other things to concider, but I
can't get into that right now, because my sons
ferrit is tring to crawl up my pant leg!
Well at least Hemos knows how to use the term
TEMPEST. TEMPEST is equivilant to "compromising
emminations". Ads that talk about TEMPEST Monitors
make no sence, other then maybe, Monitors that
emit alot of sh**. The same goes for "TEMPEST
Compliant". On the other hand "I built a TEMPEST
Free comm center", is a sentence that does make
sence.
Visual processing is done in the retina and optic
nerve. Manipulating the processed data is done in
the brain. By the time the signal arrives at the
brain it has already been processed into data for
representing all the objects and characters being
viewed. All this experiment shows (besides limits
in the eyes field of view) is that the brain
evaluates objects serially, at least under some
conditions. I does not identify object serially.
The Motorola PowerPC 7400, which apple calls a "G4" and claims
credit for, is a powerful chip to be sure. But it isn't as much faster than
a Pentium as the carefully chosen benchmarks would suggest. Apple
didn't invent it and had nothing significant to do with the development.
All they are doing is riding on the coattails of a good product and
claiming credit for it, all the while pushing an overpriced and
underperforming system.
Do you know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions? How about some data.
What benchmarks have been left out?
How is the G4 underperforming?
Who were the big players in the development of the
PPC family?
Do you even know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions?
The Motorola PowerPC 7400, which apple calls a "G4" and claims credit for, is a powerful chip to be sure. But it isn't as much faster than a Pentium as the carefully chosen benchmarks would suggest. Apple didn't invent it and had nothing significant to do with the development. All they are doing is riding on the coattails of a good product and claiming credit for it, all the while pushing an overpriced and underperforming system. Do you even know what you are talking about, or are you just gassing stinky opinions?
In Phoenix AZ., the enviromaniacs tried many
many times to infiltrate the power plant there,
in an attempt to *cause* an accident! They even
tried to bring down a power line tower!
OOps boss is around corner gatta go!
My girlfriend likes my fckn at least two times
slower on the desktop. It is to rough if I do it
the same speed as on the bed, hard sufface and all.
P.S. Has your mom gotten your back to school cloths
yet?
I didn't find that out either untill it apeared
in the "Hints" window one day. I now *always*
read the hints.
I write and maintain test software for a large
product line. Our enviroment has been defined
as ANSI C. With the number of developers on two
continents working in the code, that we have,
standards are critical. Resently we have been
running into difficulties. To solve them we have
been implimenting some OOP concept in regulare
old ANSI C. Monday I will be submiting even more
changes in that direction to my team for review.
For some tasks OOP is the only way to go. We will
eventualy be migrating to C++. Having the path to
OOP that C++ provides will make my job much easier.
Saying that C++ is trash is silly, and demonstrates
a very myoptic view of programing. As with all
languages, there are "features" that should be
avoided. But data hiding and single inheretance
are incredably valuble. Especially in instrument
control.
I apologize to Rudy. I should have edited that first line out. Sorry Rudy.
My fault for responding while getting ready for work (at "Agilent Technologies", eegads!).
I hope that I sounded more constructive in the rest of my comment.
Either you can't read or you don't. There are
many great writers in the SF genre. The problem
is that most is trash. This can be said of any
genre or any artform. Most writers have to put
out a certain amount of hack work. If you don't
believe me read all of Jack London or Rudyard
Kipling ( I happen to be studing these two at the
moment).
William Gibson is a very skilled writer. I am
partial to short stories, and he has written some
awsome ones. E.g. "Red Star, Winter Orbit" or
"Fragments of a Holographic Rose". Both of these
can be found in the anthoogy "Burning Chrome".
If you are really interested in finding *good*
authors of SF try some of the following:
Roger Zelazny ( many great shorts and novellas)
Rebeca Orr "Becoming Alien" (good for a laugh)
Lee Kilough (especialy "The Doppelganger Gambit")
Orson Scott Card ( almost everything)
Joe Haldeman ( latter stuff beter the first!)
Crawford Killian "Brother Johnathan"
Spider Robinson ( even his hack is fun to read)
Of course a "great book" is one that will still
have an impact 30 years from now. Some of what I
listed might qualify, most wont. But this can be
said of all literature ( contrast "Literature").
One thing to remember is that the task of the SF
writer is complicated by explaining things that
don't need explaination in other lit form. That
is why some of the best Hard Science Fiction is
weak with regard to the "Human Condition". I would
not concider this a fault. The author can only
do so much. ( Has anyone read the description of
the medvel banquet in "The Sword in the Stone")?
Gibson detractors need to remember that these
works date back to the 80's, befor Linux, befor
most of the stuff we take for granted.
"the world is always going to need and want choice." So so NO to MS.
The primary design feture of all MS softwar is
incompatibility. So if one product is MS ALL
products must be MS. What choise is that?
Are you stupid, ignorant, or a MS FUD Sucker.
With the death of SDI (starwars) came the death of
reaserch into carbon semiconductors. What company
is willing to play with diamond waffers when
benifits might be a decade away? Stock holders
would not tolerate it.
All you can do is bitch about spelling? I happen
to work very hard to improve my spelling ablity.
It has never come easy. And very late at night
after a 10 hour work day, and several hours being
a single parent to a cocky teenager, I get a
little tired, and my concentration waivers. The grammer was also weak and the thought progression
stank. SORRY!
I have worked with people whos spelling was
perfect. They couldn't program worth shit.
It is wonderfull to see the amount of science that
is getting done with these small missions. NASA
has always had people that can work smarter and
cheaper. The real change is in managment. I have
had the opprotunity to work with NASA engineers. I
am not too easily intimidated intellectualy. These
guys intimidated me with there intellegence.
BTW, The "big waste" projects aren't. While the
small missions are getting real science done, they
are not usually breaking new technological ground.
The massive projects teach us how to do things.
The benifits are harder to see. The whole computer
age is a great example, and so is digital comms.
Much of the technology we use today was pioneered
by either the military or NASA. Personally I would
rather spend the money on NASA.
Big projects are not "bad" as long as they do not
tie up all the resources, and prevent projects
that actualy get something done. NASA seams to
have a good mix right now. I hope it lasts.