Its funny but I happen to think that Wicket is one of the better web frameworks available in the Java world today. Having used GWT I was really put off by the Javascript as 'bytecode' approach. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
Haha! You owe me a keyboard and a cup of coffee sir!
Both funny and insightful I think. Ask a guy in the street if a bus travelling at 70MPH can jump a 50-foot gap and you might get a, "yeah, probably". Now put the same guy in a bus that has been limited to 70MPH and ask him to actually jump the 50-foot gap, probably fewer takers for that one!
absolutely! And I want mention the under representation of men among mothers. Why is there this prejudice against men having babies? I would love to give birth, but I can't.
I think they should include a 3D representation of what they inside of the shuttle looks like after a few drinks. Sort of a 'before and after' kind of thing.
Ahhh that is interesting, as not only does it explain Linus but also Kimi Räikkönen of Formula 1 fame. When ever this guy is interviewed after a race he seems to be a mster of one word answers, much to the frustration of the interviewer. From an English perspective. Its actually quite amusing!...Im going to get modded 'offtopic' aren't I?
A few years ago I attended one of those little village meetings that happen often in little English rural villages, which was called to protest the plans to build a mobile phone mast in the village. It was an interesting experience.
They had handouts that they have printed from websites that were expressing the dangers of living near the masts although, clearly, these were taken from a highly bias source. The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
The highlight of the evening though, was a little old man they dragged out to talk about the science. Apparently he had worked on some of the early nuclear power stations in the UK and had also spent time as a science teacher, although long since retired. He gave us a speech about the effects of radiation (not really going into detail about the difference between a phone mast and a nuclear power station in terms of radiation intensity), he talked about the electric systems in the body etc. It was all pretty interesting in a 'high-school physics' kind of way.
Then, completely out of the blue, this guy starts going into a really passionate tirade about how the government are using mobile phone masts to plant instructions directly into our brains. The look of horror on the organisers face was a picture! I think he saw this old guy as his trump card until this very moment. The guy was ushered off staging mid-sentance. Containing my laughter was quite difficult. I had never actually seen a members of the tin-foil hat brigade in the flesh before!
The mast got built.
Now I come to think about it, my voting habits changed around the same kind of time too.... hmmmm
In an October 2003 poll, for example, 7 months after the invasion, 33% of Fox viewers said that the U.S. had actually physically found WMDs in the course of the invasion.
Ever see the ST:TNG episode where Picard is captured by the Cardassians and tortured?
Microsoft Will Support ODF If It Doesn't 'Restrict Choice Among Formats'
It is very noble of Microsoft to complain about all these restrictive document format that seem to be so pervasive in the IT world. I applaud them for looking out for my interests and freedom to choose. I have to say though, I am a little worried about them. All this goodwill stuff is well and good, but I can't help feel that until they start to get a little bit more militant about protecting their own IPR and file format, their business will never get off of the ground!:(
Great! Another reason to distrust cats! As if having 9 lives, yet the possibility of existing in some kind of half dead/half alive quantum state and to also be gifted with the pure lack of modestry required to sit in a public place and lick your own nuts wasn't enough! Now I know that you can mangle up their legs, severing contact between brain and muscle and the fucking things can still do 40 minutes of cardio!
How many times have we seen informercials on TV and the web promising extraordinary "male enhancement"?
I would not recommend these products at all!
As someone who has battled with literacy problems my entire life I thought this was exactly what I was looking for! However, I bought a tonne of these pills and I still cannot read my male... plus, for some strange reason, I now have difficulty putting my trousers on in the morning!
Lets just call them plain thieves as the term 'identity theft' is just something invented by the banks to blame us for when their money get stolen.
Actually, a comedy programme I listen to on UK radio had a great little skit on this. A guy being called by his bank who told him his was a victim of 'identity theft' and lost his money. He responded by telling the bank manager that he was sorry to hear that they had been robbed... "No no, you don't understand, this is identity theft!". When it was put like this, it was not only pretty funny, but held a mirror up to how absurd this 'identity theft' thing really is.
It ended with the customer overhearing a bank robbery happening at the bank with the robber shouting... "Put all the money in the bag" and the manager responding... "I think you mean all the *identities*":oD
The CV2 code is known only to the cardholder and the issuing bank. To validate a code the the details must be sent to the issuing back for validation. Issuers will block the card after a certain number of failed transactions on the card, so it is not quite as easy as just trying it over and over until you get it right.
It is just not worth worrying about anymore. Democracy was 'cracked' a long time ago, about the time when the power hungry suddenly realized that while they were commited to giving the electorate a choice, it was *them* who could dictate the range of that choice. The fact is that most established democracies do not offer a choice between 'chalk' or 'cheese', but more like 'coke' or 'pepsi'. You, me or anyone here could run for office in our respective countries, but how far would we get without the support of a big name political party (read: cartel). The politicians focus their effors on showing themselves to be 'republican' or 'democrat' (or 'conservative' or 'labour' in my country) so now everyone has an identity, politics becomes like sports (who do you support? The redsox? Manchester Utd? The democrats?), but how many supports show up to watch 'liltown USA' play softball? The same number that would cast a vote for you or me if we stood for office. Political parties are a way of convincing you to vote for someone you know nothing about, and unless you can get on the ticket with one of the parties, you are dead in the water.
Running for president introduces a new barrier, money. It is an endevour that literally costs *millions*. So now not only do you need to be sanctioned by the cartels, you need to have access to lots of millionare friends.
These are all mechanism to keep you and me out of office, and they are very effective. Now the real power wielders can allow the electorate the 'choice' of choosing between two of their friends who pretend to be different just enough so it is not blatently obvious (and as people have become dumber, notice how they are not trying as hard as they used to here). The electorate gets their 'democracy' and the sponsers of the process get to weild immense power, often for decades, without needing to gain a single vote. You have to give it to them though, its fucking clever, and there is nothing I am ever going to do about it, so, like you, I just let them get on with it.
One of the thoughts is that viruses actually benefit the race in the long term, as we will eventually form a symbiotic relationship with the majority of them. (uses e-coli in our gut as an example)
Hmmm, they use e-coli as an example when discussing the benificial properties of viruses? I would say that they take a credibility hit for that one!
You know, sometimes it is easy to get wrapped up in the details of these rover missions, but I am always pretty humbled when I think of this remote controlled do-dad, once pieced together by earth-bound scientists, sitting on some planet 50 (or so) million miles away and still responding to our every command. Just to think that thing is out there, on mars, right now.
Reading story after story about the various space exploration projects and we can get a little desensitized to the pure 'awesomeness' of the kinds of things our space exploration agencies are doing. So a moment to just consider this achievement is warrented I think.
How great would it be to have a go at driving that thing?:)
Personally, I dont know what the hell they are talking about... of course I eat!! I have level 225 in cooking! What they think I am just going to *wait* for my HP to regen??
I understand this frustration. I used to work for a company that provided payment services and spent at least some of that time doing customer/technical support.
Our system had a similiar mechanism to google. If a particular card was rejected by the bank, our software would refuse to resubmit the card to the bank for a period of 24 hours. This sounds like an irritating policy I know (and I had to discuss the issue with many people in the same situation as yourself), however what I can tell you is that your case is 1% of the story. The remaining 99% are fraudsters who get hold of a card number and spank that card number against as many merchants as possible hoping it will go through. Often these numbers are posted online so instead of one frauster you get a couple of hundred. The lines that the banks use for CC auths are shockingly obsolete and very low bandwidth so were a finite resource for us, there was thousands of lines of defensive code to limit access to this bandwidth. I did suggest that maybe would should only block after x amount of failures, but the CTO didn't want to know!
What we would generally do is advise any cardholders to contact the merchant they were purchasing from, who had the facility to unblock a card manually.
Its a PITA, I know, and I do think there are ways for processors to make this less of a problem, but just so you understand why...
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Its funny but I happen to think that Wicket is one of the better web frameworks available in the Java world today. Having used GWT I was really put off by the Javascript as 'bytecode' approach. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I worked at one Fortune 500 company where everybody in the dept had Double E's.
Excellent. Tell me, how is Mr Hefner?
...or google images is to perverts.
Haha! You owe me a keyboard and a cup of coffee sir!
Both funny and insightful I think. Ask a guy in the street if a bus travelling at 70MPH can jump a 50-foot gap and you might get a, "yeah, probably". Now put the same guy in a bus that has been limited to 70MPH and ask him to actually jump the 50-foot gap, probably fewer takers for that one!
But what about 'Go'? 'Go' is much harder for computers to play. Let's all talk about 'Go'.
absolutely! And I want mention the under representation of men among mothers. Why is there this prejudice against men having babies? I would love to give birth, but I can't.
Where's the Fetus going to gestate? In a box?
I think they should include a 3D representation of what they inside of the shuttle looks like after a few drinks. Sort of a 'before and after' kind of thing.
Ahhh that is interesting, as not only does it explain Linus but also Kimi Räikkönen of Formula 1 fame. When ever this guy is interviewed after a race he seems to be a mster of one word answers, much to the frustration of the interviewer. From an English perspective. Its actually quite amusing! ...Im going to get modded 'offtopic' aren't I?
A few years ago I attended one of those little village meetings that happen often in little English rural villages, which was called to protest the plans to build a mobile phone mast in the village. It was an interesting experience.
They had handouts that they have printed from websites that were expressing the dangers of living near the masts although, clearly, these were taken from a highly bias source. The guy who called the meetings was not shy about admitting that this biggest concern was the potential drop in value of his grade 2 listed cottage which was positioned quite close to the mast.
The highlight of the evening though, was a little old man they dragged out to talk about the science. Apparently he had worked on some of the early nuclear power stations in the UK and had also spent time as a science teacher, although long since retired. He gave us a speech about the effects of radiation (not really going into detail about the difference between a phone mast and a nuclear power station in terms of radiation intensity), he talked about the electric systems in the body etc. It was all pretty interesting in a 'high-school physics' kind of way.
Then, completely out of the blue, this guy starts going into a really passionate tirade about how the government are using mobile phone masts to plant instructions directly into our brains. The look of horror on the organisers face was a picture! I think he saw this old guy as his trump card until this very moment. The guy was ushered off staging mid-sentance. Containing my laughter was quite difficult. I had never actually seen a members of the tin-foil hat brigade in the flesh before!
The mast got built.
Now I come to think about it, my voting habits changed around the same kind of time too.... hmmmm
wt u wrng bbe?
In an October 2003 poll, for example, 7 months after the invasion, 33% of Fox viewers said that the U.S. had actually physically found WMDs in the course of the invasion.
Ever see the ST:TNG episode where Picard is captured by the Cardassians and tortured?
"There are FOUR lights!"
Microsoft Will Support ODF If It Doesn't 'Restrict Choice Among Formats'
:(
It is very noble of Microsoft to complain about all these restrictive document format that seem to be so pervasive in the IT world. I applaud them for looking out for my interests and freedom to choose. I have to say though, I am a little worried about them. All this goodwill stuff is well and good, but I can't help feel that until they start to get a little bit more militant about protecting their own IPR and file format, their business will never get off of the ground!
Genitalia is traded in real life all the time. The only thing novel about this trading in second life is that you are purchasing your own.
Great! Another reason to distrust cats! As if having 9 lives, yet the possibility of existing in some kind of half dead/half alive quantum state and to also be gifted with the pure lack of modestry required to sit in a public place and lick your own nuts wasn't enough! Now I know that you can mangle up their legs, severing contact between brain and muscle and the fucking things can still do 40 minutes of cardio!
How many times have we seen informercials on TV and the web promising extraordinary "male enhancement"?
I would not recommend these products at all!
As someone who has battled with literacy problems my entire life I thought this was exactly what I was looking for! However, I bought a tonne of these pills and I still cannot read my male... plus, for some strange reason, I now have difficulty putting my trousers on in the morning!
heroin for the crushing sadness in your heart
?
It would surely be more acurate to talk about the positive effects of 'heroin' in terms of pain relief. We are talking about diamorphine here!
They are identity thieves or just plain thieves.
:oD
Lets just call them plain thieves as the term 'identity theft' is just something invented by the banks to blame us for when their money get stolen.
Actually, a comedy programme I listen to on UK radio had a great little skit on this. A guy being called by his bank who told him his was a victim of 'identity theft' and lost his money. He responded by telling the bank manager that he was sorry to hear that they had been robbed... "No no, you don't understand, this is identity theft!". When it was put like this, it was not only pretty funny, but held a mirror up to how absurd this 'identity theft' thing really is.
It ended with the customer overhearing a bank robbery happening at the bank with the robber shouting... "Put all the money in the bag" and the manager responding... "I think you mean all the *identities*"
The CV2 code is known only to the cardholder and the issuing bank. To validate a code the the details must be sent to the issuing back for validation. Issuers will block the card after a certain number of failed transactions on the card, so it is not quite as easy as just trying it over and over until you get it right.
Amen my friend.
:)
It is just not worth worrying about anymore. Democracy was 'cracked' a long time ago, about the time when the power hungry suddenly realized that while they were commited to giving the electorate a choice, it was *them* who could dictate the range of that choice. The fact is that most established democracies do not offer a choice between 'chalk' or 'cheese', but more like 'coke' or 'pepsi'. You, me or anyone here could run for office in our respective countries, but how far would we get without the support of a big name political party (read: cartel). The politicians focus their effors on showing themselves to be 'republican' or 'democrat' (or 'conservative' or 'labour' in my country) so now everyone has an identity, politics becomes like sports (who do you support? The redsox? Manchester Utd? The democrats?), but how many supports show up to watch 'liltown USA' play softball? The same number that would cast a vote for you or me if we stood for office. Political parties are a way of convincing you to vote for someone you know nothing about, and unless you can get on the ticket with one of the parties, you are dead in the water.
Running for president introduces a new barrier, money. It is an endevour that literally costs *millions*. So now not only do you need to be sanctioned by the cartels, you need to have access to lots of millionare friends.
These are all mechanism to keep you and me out of office, and they are very effective. Now the real power wielders can allow the electorate the 'choice' of choosing between two of their friends who pretend to be different just enough so it is not blatently obvious (and as people have become dumber, notice how they are not trying as hard as they used to here). The electorate gets their 'democracy' and the sponsers of the process get to weild immense power, often for decades, without needing to gain a single vote. You have to give it to them though, its fucking clever, and there is nothing I am ever going to do about it, so, like you, I just let them get on with it.
Modern day democracy - The illusion of choice
One of the thoughts is that viruses actually benefit the race in the long term, as we will eventually form a symbiotic relationship with the majority of them. (uses e-coli in our gut as an example)
Hmmm, they use e-coli as an example when discussing the benificial properties of viruses? I would say that they take a credibility hit for that one!
You know, sometimes it is easy to get wrapped up in the details of these rover missions, but I am always pretty humbled when I think of this remote controlled do-dad, once pieced together by earth-bound scientists, sitting on some planet 50 (or so) million miles away and still responding to our every command. Just to think that thing is out there, on mars, right now.
:)
Reading story after story about the various space exploration projects and we can get a little desensitized to the pure 'awesomeness' of the kinds of things our space exploration agencies are doing. So a moment to just consider this achievement is warrented I think.
How great would it be to have a go at driving that thing?
Perhaps the American Psychiatric Association should consider opening a shrinks office inside second-life to deal with this problem.
Personally, I dont know what the hell they are talking about... of course I eat!! I have level 225 in cooking! What they think I am just going to *wait* for my HP to regen??
Hmm, my wife has a science PhD and her sister is a mor... um, is more talented in non-academic areas. ....tell me more!
I understand this frustration. I used to work for a company that provided payment services and spent at least some of that time doing customer/technical support.
Our system had a similiar mechanism to google. If a particular card was rejected by the bank, our software would refuse to resubmit the card to the bank for a period of 24 hours. This sounds like an irritating policy I know (and I had to discuss the issue with many people in the same situation as yourself), however what I can tell you is that your case is 1% of the story. The remaining 99% are fraudsters who get hold of a card number and spank that card number against as many merchants as possible hoping it will go through. Often these numbers are posted online so instead of one frauster you get a couple of hundred. The lines that the banks use for CC auths are shockingly obsolete and very low bandwidth so were a finite resource for us, there was thousands of lines of defensive code to limit access to this bandwidth. I did suggest that maybe would should only block after x amount of failures, but the CTO didn't want to know!
What we would generally do is advise any cardholders to contact the merchant they were purchasing from, who had the facility to unblock a card manually.
Its a PITA, I know, and I do think there are ways for processors to make this less of a problem, but just so you understand why...