I had wanted to get this for my kids. But I just got a brand new high-end computer and don't want to throw some malware on it. The game seemed like it would have been cool though. Pricey but cool.
Solr is the defacto search server implementation of the Lucene library. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ There is also a Ruby client system that Erik Hatcher (who co-authored "Lucene In Action") has made called, "Solr Flare".
After reading the responses it seems like Kerry did in fact answer the questions himself. Almost as if he did it on a plane or bus or something w/o much sleep.
But Bush's responses don't sound like him at all. They don't even sound like his main-line speech writers. I get the impression this was handed-off to the second or third string folks.
I had crap cable. It was crazy-expensive. We got less than 60 channels. Some stations came in fuzzy. And when it stormed, we often lost all signal. I had a cable modem. I also had a tuner card in my computer.
Finally I was able to get DSL in my area. I got DSL, and Directv with Tivo. It's a beautiful thing. Even if I get all the pay channels, it's cheaper than my old shit cable company. It's more reliable. It works during blizzards. And the limited space of the tivo I selected isn't a bother, it's a help. If I want to preserve something, I run it to tape.
The Project Orion guys believed they could make the explosions clean and as small as they wanted. This scared the shit out of them. They puposefully did not pursue that line of development for fear of weapons applications.
HP printers are gold. Who doesn't have one? Dell's printers would have been low-end cheap hassles and Dell would have had no motivation to keep them around without investing heavily into them.
Now HP is forcing to make Dell into a real printer competitor. Like HP needs more competition. Sheesh. Dell will now invest time and money into building a business to burn HP. That effort won't cripple Dell's core business which is stomping HP.
3Mbps is puny and **could** not cost a thing network-wise in the right place given the right schedule. Most bandwidth is priced on the 95th percentile of usage, and is based on the highest of the inbound and outbound traffic. Here are a few things to note:
a) a large company or website with localtime 9-5 employee or website traffic greater than 10Mbps peak could do almost anything any time between 5-9. Limit the upload and download client activity to this timeframe and you have it solved for 2/3rds the day. Not a 100% effective, but not too significant if the workload pieces are multi-day. If you're concerned, you could somehow chain two of these companies around the globe and you have free bandwidth 24hrs a day.
b) a mainly outbound company (e.g.- large website) could receive data at any time of the day.
c) a mainly in-bound (corporate) company could send data at any time of the day.
Uh, those are old and there have been many improvements since then (mostly optimizing away mallocs). This report was used to press that issue and get everyone behind a faster httpd.
It is true it isn't a huge performance win, but it is better than 1.3.
Come on, what's the criteria for a planet? Oh, you don't have anything scientific? Oh, you just want publicity because you just opened for business?
All previous definitions went out the window a couple weeks ago when they found that planet which was so large, it was previously thought impossible to attain.
Sure the Oort cloud has plenty of moon-sized comets. Sure other things orbit the sun along the same plane and in nicely padded mostly non-overlapping elliptical orbits.
I'm not one to grand-father in a scientific fact, but jeeze, leave Pluto alone until you've got a reasonable and accepted definition.
The idea that unions give you power in an environment like this is nuts. My wife belongs to a union at a mental health hospital. The union got them a 2% raise spread over five years in exchange for dropping holidays down to 8 a year.
If you are a good performer, you don't want to be in a union.
Unions take away your power and give it to the people you wish could get fired. (Of course they can't since they're in a union!)
it's a bit strange he didn't reveal a little more tech on how he got some of the info. but, he did do all many of the same steps i'd use. directory lookups (whois, whitepages, 411, etc) and sniffing on a major mail server with a pager feed.. seems real enough. but the way it is written is strange.
It seems clear to me that they're trying to lay down the groundwork so they can incorporate a tremendously huge network of cheap backyard dishes with cheap controllers. This is great. They've had it on their plate for a long while now.
The problem here is that one plan I really liked was once to incorporate dishes from all over the place (but all in the same sky) and really use individual contributors. But they will not have a demo of the small and tight system before 2005. But given all the small dishes out there, by 2005, the number of large backyard dishes will be greatly diminished. Now adays you can pick one up as junk for a couple hundred bucks.
Yo. Use xmodmap if you're using your MS natural keyboard with a Sun.
You can start with this:
! ! Bindings for Microsoft Ergo keyboard for ! Sun X/Openwin use. ! not the grooviest, but may save someone time.
! put control key where it should & throw ! away CAPS_LOCK remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Control = Control_L
! left alt key acts as the Sun left ! meta (diamond) key keycode 26 = Meta_L
! left control key to sun Front key keycode 83 = F15
If you're using it with WinDoze, there are some control apps that can swap the keys.
Okay, so I didn't have the typical carpal tunnel thing, but I did have a fractured wrist from rollerhockey.
Ever since my injury, when I use a flat keyboard for more than 6 hours, I feel pain. When I use the split Microsloth keyboard I'm fine and can go for months. Note: this is *not* the one which tilts toward you. That one is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I use the one which tilts away from you both at home and at work.
But I actually have four things going for me:
1) The Microsoft keyboard (tilt-away model). 2) A mousepad with wristpad. 3) A chair, desk, monitor at the right height. 4) An electronic A/B port so I only have one keyboard and one mouse for my two computers (Sun and Dell).
They want to be challenged with reasons why they aren't reliable. Then they can use these as scripted talking points. Don't give them hints like, "Our Sun server farm has an average uptime of 320 days, our NT farm is at 14 hours."
On the second page of the Salon article, it mentions that Lucid Emacs was a fork of the original Emacs written by Stallman. This is only partially true.
Lucid Emacs was a fork of GNU Emacs. But GNU Emacs was not the original Emacs. Stallman did however, obtain large amounts of code from the original Emacs. But this was done illegally.
The original author of Emacs was James Gosling. Yeah, Oak/Java, etc. He turned the code over to a software publisher called Unipress Software way back in the UUCP-only era (circa 1985). They sold distributions and full source distributions to tons of companies, gov orgs, and universities. They made flenty of feature enhancements, re-writes, etc. They paid Gosling a nice royalty for every sale.
At some point Stallman picked up one of the source distributions and made some modifications. They were good modifications, IMHO. Some of them were lame (e.g.- simply removing the Copyright tags). And then he started giving it away for free. This is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. I believe at some point he did in-fact completely re-write the code. But this was far more recent than you'd expect.
PS: What do you think GNU (as in GNU Emacs) stands for? GNU's Not Unix? Or GNU's Not Unipress?
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I had wanted to get this for my kids. But I just got a brand new high-end computer and don't want to throw some malware on it. The game seemed like it would have been cool though. Pricey but cool.
Solr is the defacto search server implementation of the Lucene library. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ There is also a Ruby client system that Erik Hatcher (who co-authored "Lucene In Action") has made called, "Solr Flare".
After reading the responses it seems like Kerry did in fact answer the questions himself. Almost as if he did it on a plane or bus or something w/o much sleep.
But Bush's responses don't sound like him at all. They don't even sound like his main-line speech writers. I get the impression this was handed-off to the second or third string folks.
Hmm. Am I 26 miles west of them...?
;-)
I wonder how precise their reentry plan is. We don't want N.Korea thinking anything is up. Actually, we don't want SAC thinking anything is up...
I had crap cable. It was crazy-expensive. We got
less than 60 channels. Some stations came in
fuzzy. And when it stormed, we often lost all
signal. I had a cable modem. I also had a tuner
card in my computer.
Finally I was able to get DSL in my area. I got
DSL, and Directv with Tivo. It's a beautiful
thing. Even if I get all the pay channels, it's
cheaper than my old shit cable company. It's more
reliable. It works during blizzards. And the
limited space of the tivo I selected isn't a
bother, it's a help. If I want to preserve
something, I run it to tape.
The Project Orion guys believed they could make
the explosions clean and as small as they wanted.
This scared the shit out of them. They
puposefully did not pursue that line of
development for fear of weapons applications.
We pay fairly good, provide useful training, and give all the benefits normal staff get (stock purchase plan, dental, vision, health plan, etc).
HP printers are gold. Who doesn't have one? Dell's printers would have been low-end cheap hassles and Dell would have had no motivation to keep them around without investing heavily into them.
Now HP is forcing to make Dell into a real printer competitor. Like HP needs more competition. Sheesh. Dell will now invest time and money into building a business to burn HP. That effort won't cripple Dell's core business which is stomping HP.
3Mbps is puny and **could** not cost a thing network-wise in the right place given the right schedule. Most bandwidth is priced on the 95th percentile of usage, and is based on the highest of the inbound and outbound traffic. Here are a few things to note:
a) a large company or website with localtime 9-5 employee or website traffic greater than 10Mbps peak could do almost anything any time between 5-9. Limit the upload and download client activity to this timeframe and you have it solved for 2/3rds the day. Not a 100% effective, but not too significant if the workload pieces are multi-day. If you're concerned, you could somehow chain two of these companies around the globe and you have free bandwidth 24hrs a day.
b) a mainly outbound company (e.g.- large website) could receive data at any time of the day.
c) a mainly in-bound (corporate) company could send data at any time of the day.
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/stories/previews/0,10 869,2854500,00.html
Uh, those are old and there have been many improvements since then (mostly optimizing away mallocs). This report was used to press that issue and get everyone behind a faster httpd.
It is true it isn't a huge performance win, but it is better than 1.3.
Hey if it's terrorism, Microsoft can then ask to be bailed out. They're an entire industry, right?
Come on, what's the criteria for a planet? Oh, you don't have anything scientific? Oh, you just want publicity because you just opened for business?
All previous definitions went out the window a couple weeks ago when they found that planet which was so large, it was previously thought impossible to attain.
Sure the Oort cloud has plenty of moon-sized comets. Sure other things orbit the sun along the same plane and in nicely padded mostly non-overlapping elliptical orbits.
I'm not one to grand-father in a scientific fact, but jeeze, leave Pluto alone until you've got a reasonable and accepted definition.
The idea that unions give you power in an environment like this is nuts. My wife belongs to a union at a mental health hospital. The union got them a 2% raise spread over five years in exchange for dropping holidays down to 8 a year.
If you are a good performer, you don't want to be in a union.
Unions take away your power and give it to the people you wish could get fired. (Of course they can't since they're in a union!)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/all-s tores-ballot.html/002-0994733-42 592 00
This is an excellent question.
Examples of this can be found in fairly old WWII stuff only now coming out. Both in algorithms and
hardware.
i've made up my mind. this is got to be 95% true. the icq logs would be beyond insane to make-up.
anyway, here's a bit of extra fact:
"Pump & Dump" Claim
Mark Rice Insider Info
So he does exist, and he did want to trade 50,000 shares. Of course the problem with good lies is they are often half-true.
It seems clear to me that they're trying to lay down the groundwork so they can incorporate a tremendously huge network of cheap backyard dishes with cheap controllers. This is great. They've had it on their plate for a long while now.
The problem here is that one plan I really liked was once to incorporate dishes from all over the place (but all in the same sky) and really use individual contributors. But they will not have a demo of the small and tight system before 2005. But given all the small dishes out there, by 2005, the number of large backyard dishes will be greatly diminished. Now adays you can pick one up as junk for a couple hundred bucks.
Check out Wednesday's Doctor Fun. It's about ergonomics. He must be a /. reader.
Yo. Use xmodmap if you're using your MS natural keyboard with a Sun.
You can start with this:
!
! Bindings for Microsoft Ergo keyboard for
! Sun X/Openwin use.
! not the grooviest, but may save someone time.
! put control key where it should & throw
! away CAPS_LOCK
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Control = Control_L
! left alt key acts as the Sun left
! meta (diamond) key
keycode 26 = Meta_L
! left control key to sun Front key
keycode 83 = F15
If you're using it with WinDoze, there are some control apps that can swap the keys.
Okay, so I didn't have the typical carpal tunnel thing, but I did have a fractured wrist from rollerhockey.
Ever since my injury, when I use a flat keyboard for more than 6 hours, I feel pain. When I use the split Microsloth keyboard I'm fine and can go for months. Note: this is *not* the one which tilts toward you. That one is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I use the one which tilts away from you both at home and at work.
But I actually have four things going for me:
1) The Microsoft keyboard (tilt-away model).
2) A mousepad with wristpad.
3) A chair, desk, monitor at the right height.
4) An electronic A/B port so I only have one keyboard and one mouse for my two computers (Sun and Dell).
They want to be challenged with reasons why they aren't reliable. Then they can use these as scripted talking points. Don't give them hints like, "Our Sun server farm has an average uptime of 320 days, our NT farm is at 14 hours."
http://www.unipress.com/cat/emacs.html
On the second page of the Salon article, it mentions that Lucid Emacs was a fork of the original Emacs written by Stallman. This is only partially true.
Lucid Emacs was a fork of GNU Emacs. But GNU Emacs was not the original Emacs. Stallman did however, obtain large amounts of code from the original Emacs. But this was done illegally.
The original author of Emacs was James Gosling. Yeah, Oak/Java, etc. He turned the code over to a software publisher called Unipress Software way back in the UUCP-only era (circa 1985). They sold distributions and full source distributions to tons of companies, gov orgs, and universities. They made flenty of feature enhancements, re-writes, etc. They paid Gosling a nice royalty for every sale.
At some point Stallman picked up one of the source distributions and made some modifications. They were good modifications, IMHO. Some of them were lame (e.g.- simply removing the Copyright tags). And then he started giving it away for free. This is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. I believe at some point he did in-fact completely re-write the code. But this was far more recent than you'd expect.
PS: What do you think GNU (as in GNU Emacs) stands for? GNU's Not Unix? Or GNU's Not Unipress?