That interesting, and surely helped the woman. But I wonder what else can be found at this pre-screening stage.
Not only the diseases, but when (and if) we can pre-screen for intelligence, strenght, certain characteristics, won't we be creating a 'super human-race'?
There's no such thing as the best design or the best website. It's your audience that will tell you what to put.
You should not use Flash if your primary targeted audience are Linux Administrators. Not to pick on any LA, but that's not what they mainly are interested in.
Neither you should use Javascript code that works only in Internet Explorer, even if your log files say that 80% if the web is using it. As once someone said, someone in that 20% might be the one that wanted to spend 10 thousand dollars in your e-commerce website.
Use standards, but not all of them. There is a huge and useful part of the CSS and CSS2 specs that no browser has implemented, not to mention DOM, XML, etc...
The proper balance is achieved with the audience input and by looking at the logs. If you see that Opera users don't click on any link from your main navigation tool, might be because they simple don't work for them.
And forget what other people did. I was used to visit www.coolhomepages.com a lot. From time to time, a trend appears. Once were futuristic looks like www.2advanced.com, recentely have been 'micro-fonts'. There's no point to follow these trends, as they are only this, trends. And you would not like people recognizing that you stole design ideas from others.
Visit www.useit.com. Search for usability on Google. But never forget (other comments have said this), Content Is King. Almost nobody that's deep into art go to museums to look how pretty a picture is. Usually, the artwork is a breakthrough somehow, from techniques to social critiques.
1) Start small. No kernel hacks yet, you can be more productive on smaller projetcs; 2) Abstract coding, that means try to learn/develop/help projects that are root of others. Like engines, classes, libraries. I know this somehow conflicts with number one but you must find the balance; 3) Do it right. Document, comment, test. No half steps please; 4) 'In-loco' development. Try to get a job in any company. Meet the managers to learn how to overcome this difficult part of our lives; 5) Share with other students. Recentely (er... 90 and above) developing an app has become more and more a team activity; 6) Block Slashdot's webpage access; 7) Write useful stuff, for you daily activites. Like a tool to perform any desirable action at the school network, to administer your books, to share knowledge better (Personally I would love somekind of P2P Knowledge-tree sharing system);
The author suggests, clearly "Microsoft has decided which way it prefers, and choice is out.", and not that developers face today a hard choice when looking for programming languages.
It's easy to see the difference here. This article only scratches the "All languages look the same", specially for coders. Maybe for deployers (if you make this separation).
He even let the essential point, for developers, by throwing questions (2) to the air.
Well, let me answer what the article should have touched. It's not the programming language that MS or Sun is controlling, but the tasks to be performed that they are limitating. By making a common programming framework, so widely marketed and, good or bad, soon to be accepted, from Microsoft or not, they are essentially narrowing the solutions that one might come for a problem, since you have to do the 'framework-way'.
Yes, it's good to have a common ground where applications, services and solutions can be distributed. But a lot of problems will arise when you can't (or perhaps should not) use the right tool for the right job.
(StreamCast) could have either created a system that filtered the infringing activity while permitting non-infringing uses to continue," the movie studios and record companies had argued in their opposition to the EFF's motion for the summary judgment.
With prosecution arguments like this, I think EFF is on the right track (no pun intended), arguing that any network related device or software should be banned.
They are counter-attacking using the attacker's argument. In the real world, that's a winner situation. But since IANAL, I wonder what judges might interpret.
HTTP is not obsolete. Microsoft is saying that HTTP doesn't work for what THEY want the net to be, or should I say.NET?
They will go something like this on the near future:
"See, we have Win2k + IIS that can do XYZ. Sadly, your current choices, Linux + Apache, only support HTTP. Buy from us what we say it's good and none is going to get hurt".
If there are so many things wrong with HTTP, why Microsoft itself is using it, and supporting? I thought that when you realize that a technology is bad, you try to replace it. Not from one instant to another, and ironically/timely, at the same time you are about to launch a product that, while in theory works fine with HTTP, works better with a protocol designed by who? Who?
Yep, you guessed, Microsoft. Or do you thing that.NET won't work with HTTP? It might be sub-optimal, but then again, you must have previously made the decision to addopt.NET.
Conversion of technologies, with MS controlling. I heard this talk a long time ago, thanks...
Also, at the bottom of the article, Don Box says, to legitimize MS actions, that W3C or (insert random organization) is also thinking like MS is... Whatever, because like he said "MS to succed alone".
Yep, main point back, it's not for the healthy of the Internet, but for Microsoft.
The problem is not pr0n (carnal relationships, if you mind). The problem you faced is not what you saw, but HOW you saw it.
Me too, I don't want to see a lot of things. Sometimes I am forced to see them. But it is not the 'thing' by itself. Your problem (and mine too) is that these things come to me without I saying that this is ok.
And why only the president? If I write something saying "Hey, I want to hurt Average Joe", will my writing be deleted? I don't think so. I think police will investigate me, and if they find my 'plans' are to become real, that I really want to do this, they should arrest me.
I mean, governament people should not be 'above' anyone else. There are some protections that need to be done, yes, I know that. But when you, in the eye of the law, start to be more important than other people in the same society, that's not much equality we have here, right?
It's just my humble opinion, from someone who sees everyday more police actions when a celebrity is hurt than when my neighbor is.
but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9
Gee.. I don't know. Probaly the same way when we walk on a street and he moves his head to a newstand with porn magazines on it. When we drive and there are 'erotic' theaters around. Better yet, when we among people and someone shouts "Holy sh%t!", or when we are watching TV and the news guy says "30 killed, blood every where, look at their moms crying".
Things that our children are not supposed to see exists in all areas. I guess one of the most important things, is not to 'hide' from them that all this 'evil' exists, but instead, teach them what are the moral paths that a healthy and sane human being should follow to live happier, to not hurt other people.
If at the end of the day, they can divide what is real and what is not, what is wrong and what is good, I said we have done a good job.
That's one of the things parenting is about, right? Inform them what is the best path. I know this might sound harsh to some of you, but take abortion for example. You are denying someone their 'right' to live (personally, I am not against abortion). And so, after they are here, and there, and everywhere, you are denying life itself, by artificially making the world look like it's a better place than it truly is.
But correlating abortion and freedom, I am not taking sides. Just using some points that conservative people usually take. Also, not saying that you are a conservative, that's not a personal reply (since I went to far away from your original point).
I guess somethings can change, but an important question is, should we change it?
I will remove the left side of your brain because you can make evil strategies with, and don't think you will be able to use the right side of it either, because I will remove it so you can not make those annoying flower power musics.
Red Hat can't "sell" Linux using ads, since none can "sell" Linux. So IMHO I don't see Red Hat promoting Linux by itself, but instead, with their own services, perhaps trampling the idea that what you need is NOT Linux, but what you need is Red hat (services).
And the Operating System itself would be promoted by hardware makers.
It's Open-Publishing Software or Open Access that Soros is investing?
And who in good will would think that Soros giving money is more important than the actual news that an open access system will be developed. I mean, so what is Soros? Could be Bill Gates, *the* important news for the Slashdot community is that there are people against paying for information and people who is making something against it, by providing it for free.
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Hmm.. the more that each module has to do, the more "expensive" that module becomes. Would these be more expensive, both in energy and $$, than just having specialized robots?
Maybe. But the cool thing of modular design (such as in OOP) is reuse of components. You could define a 'walk' module, reusing in several different goals. And you would only need to engineer once this 'walk' module, thereby saving a lot on Research/Development, and on the machines that build the modules on factories.
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Yep, imagine module Vaporizer Weapon being detached from competitor A. Then B picks it up and installs it on an open slot. If modular robots could enter BattleBot and do this, imagine the beasts that would compete over the finals. Assembled parts from the fallen enemies, that's very cool..
But I thought...
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... That this was what Lego is for? Build large structures of smaller components.
We normally consider 'predators' to be large animals, which mean a lot of prey, but if you think about it, there are instances where the ratio is reversed.
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That's indeed interesting, but alcohol companies would probaly lobby against since any girl could look like Cindy Crawford, even when you wake up.
If I make a song, isn't "automatically" copyrighted? At least, I think if I design a website, my design is protected.
So, if I decide to sing a tune and record, and manage to transfer the MP3 over these devices, can I sue the company that made it?
Also, interesting questions should arise to companies that make modems and ethernet cards.
Yahoo only uses Google when you type keywords that are not found on Yahoo database.
:-)
Technically, Yahoo is a directory of links, not a search engine. It does allow searchs, but only inside a scope.
But still, this doesn't prevent them to alter Google's results. At least I think, never have seen the contract between them
That interesting, and surely helped the woman. But I wonder what else can be found at this pre-screening stage.
Not only the diseases, but when (and if) we can pre-screen for intelligence, strenght, certain characteristics, won't we be creating a 'super human-race'?
There's no such thing as the best design or the best website. It's your audience that will tell you what to put.
You should not use Flash if your primary targeted audience are Linux Administrators. Not to pick on any LA, but that's not what they mainly are interested in.
Neither you should use Javascript code that works only in Internet Explorer, even if your log files say that 80% if the web is using it. As once someone said, someone in that 20% might be the one that wanted to spend 10 thousand dollars in your e-commerce website.
Use standards, but not all of them. There is a huge and useful part of the CSS and CSS2 specs that no browser has implemented, not to mention DOM, XML, etc...
The proper balance is achieved with the audience input and by looking at the logs. If you see that Opera users don't click on any link from your main navigation tool, might be because they simple don't work for them.
And forget what other people did. I was used to visit www.coolhomepages.com a lot. From time to time, a trend appears. Once were futuristic looks like www.2advanced.com, recentely have been 'micro-fonts'. There's no point to follow these trends, as they are only this, trends. And you would not like people recognizing that you stole design ideas from others.
Visit www.useit.com. Search for usability on Google. But never forget (other comments have said this), Content Is King. Almost nobody that's deep into art go to museums to look how pretty a picture is. Usually, the artwork is a breakthrough somehow, from techniques to social critiques.
1) Start small. No kernel hacks yet, you can be more productive on smaller projetcs;
2) Abstract coding, that means try to learn/develop/help projects that are root of others. Like engines, classes, libraries. I know this somehow conflicts with number one but you must find the balance;
3) Do it right. Document, comment, test. No half steps please;
4) 'In-loco' development. Try to get a job in any company. Meet the managers to learn how to overcome this difficult part of our lives;
5) Share with other students. Recentely (er... 90 and above) developing an app has become more and more a team activity;
6) Block Slashdot's webpage access;
7) Write useful stuff, for you daily activites. Like a tool to perform any desirable action at the school network, to administer your books, to share knowledge better (Personally I would love somekind of P2P Knowledge-tree sharing system);
Well, that's it for now.
The author suggests, clearly "Microsoft has decided which way it prefers, and choice is out.", and not that developers face today a hard choice when looking for programming languages.
It's easy to see the difference here. This article only scratches the "All languages look the same", specially for coders. Maybe for deployers (if you make this separation).
He even let the essential point, for developers, by throwing questions (2) to the air.
Well, let me answer what the article should have touched. It's not the programming language that MS or Sun is controlling, but the tasks to be performed that they are limitating. By making a common programming framework, so widely marketed and, good or bad, soon to be accepted, from Microsoft or not, they are essentially narrowing the solutions that one might come for a problem, since you have to do the 'framework-way'.
Yes, it's good to have a common ground where applications, services and solutions can be distributed. But a lot of problems will arise when you can't (or perhaps should not) use the right tool for the right job.
(StreamCast) could have either created a system that filtered the infringing activity while permitting non-infringing uses to continue," the movie studios and record companies had argued in their opposition to the EFF's motion for the summary judgment.
With prosecution arguments like this, I think EFF is on the right track (no pun intended), arguing that any network related device or software should be banned.
They are counter-attacking using the attacker's argument. In the real world, that's a winner situation. But since IANAL, I wonder what judges might interpret.
HTTP is not obsolete. Microsoft is saying that HTTP doesn't work for what THEY want the net to be, or should I say .NET?
.NET won't work with HTTP? It might be sub-optimal, but then again, you must have previously made the decision to addopt .NET.
They will go something like this on the near future:
"See, we have Win2k + IIS that can do XYZ. Sadly, your current choices, Linux + Apache, only support HTTP. Buy from us what we say it's good and none is going to get hurt".
If there are so many things wrong with HTTP, why Microsoft itself is using it, and supporting? I thought that when you realize that a technology is bad, you try to replace it. Not from one instant to another, and ironically/timely, at the same time you are about to launch a product that, while in theory works fine with HTTP, works better with a protocol designed by who? Who?
Yep, you guessed, Microsoft. Or do you thing that
Conversion of technologies, with MS controlling. I heard this talk a long time ago, thanks...
Also, at the bottom of the article, Don Box says, to legitimize MS actions, that W3C or (insert random organization) is also thinking like MS is... Whatever, because like he said "MS to succed alone".
Yep, main point back, it's not for the healthy of the Internet, but for Microsoft.
Nice wrong way of doing business.
too many voters don't take advantage of their meta-mod capabilities
;-)
They also lack "Mark this box for Gore" capabilities
The problem is not pr0n (carnal relationships, if you mind). The problem you faced is not what you saw, but HOW you saw it.
Me too, I don't want to see a lot of things. Sometimes I am forced to see them. But it is not the 'thing' by itself. Your problem (and mine too) is that these things come to me without I saying that this is ok.
And why only the president? If I write something saying "Hey, I want to hurt Average Joe", will my writing be deleted? I don't think so. I think police will investigate me, and if they find my 'plans' are to become real, that I really want to do this, they should arrest me.
I mean, governament people should not be 'above' anyone else. There are some protections that need to be done, yes, I know that. But when you, in the eye of the law, start to be more important than other people in the same society, that's not much equality we have here, right?
It's just my humble opinion, from someone who sees everyday more police actions when a celebrity is hurt than when my neighbor is.
but think of this: how would you react if your child, aged 9
Gee.. I don't know. Probaly the same way when we walk on a street and he moves his head to a newstand with porn magazines on it. When we drive and there are 'erotic' theaters around. Better yet, when we among people and someone shouts "Holy sh%t!", or when we are watching TV and the news guy says "30 killed, blood every where, look at their moms crying".
Things that our children are not supposed to see exists in all areas. I guess one of the most important things, is not to 'hide' from them that all this 'evil' exists, but instead, teach them what are the moral paths that a healthy and sane human being should follow to live happier, to not hurt other people.
If at the end of the day, they can divide what is real and what is not, what is wrong and what is good, I said we have done a good job.
That's one of the things parenting is about, right? Inform them what is the best path. I know this might sound harsh to some of you, but take abortion for example. You are denying someone their 'right' to live (personally, I am not against abortion). And so, after they are here, and there, and everywhere, you are denying life itself, by artificially making the world look like it's a better place than it truly is.
But correlating abortion and freedom, I am not taking sides. Just using some points that conservative people usually take. Also, not saying that you are a conservative, that's not a personal reply (since I went to far away from your original point).
I guess somethings can change, but an important question is, should we change it?
What's the point of a rock-solid operating system if very few are actually using it
Nothing? The problem is the user, that won't use it.
Is it possible (legally) to port from Solaris to Linux/Windows? If so, it will remain free...
Give me heat so I can sleep more. Sadly, frozen persons got to do something to keep it cool.
At 500 bucks, last thing I will do it is buy it.
Fireplace? Yeah, woods, matches, history. Develop your own individual society folks, that's not what we need.
Okay?
I will remove the left side of your brain because you can make evil strategies with, and don't think you will be able to use the right side of it either, because I will remove it so you can not make those annoying flower power musics.
What's next? Surfing the net for information? Warez the sinergetic fusion of design and e-commerce?
Red Hat can't "sell" Linux using ads, since none can "sell" Linux. So IMHO I don't see Red Hat promoting Linux by itself, but instead, with their own services, perhaps trampling the idea that what you need is NOT Linux, but what you need is Red hat (services).
And the Operating System itself would be promoted by hardware makers.
It's Open-Publishing Software or Open Access that Soros is investing?
And who in good will would think that Soros giving money is more important than the actual news that an open access system will be developed. I mean, so what is Soros? Could be Bill Gates, *the* important news for the Slashdot community is that there are people against paying for information and people who is making something against it, by providing it for free.
Hmm.. the more that each module has to do, the more "expensive" that module becomes. Would these be more expensive, both in energy and $$, than just having specialized robots?
Maybe. But the cool thing of modular design (such as in OOP) is reuse of components. You could define a 'walk' module, reusing in several different goals. And you would only need to engineer once this 'walk' module, thereby saving a lot on Research/Development, and on the machines that build the modules on factories.
Yep, imagine module Vaporizer Weapon being detached from competitor A. Then B picks it up and installs it on an open slot. If modular robots could enter BattleBot and do this, imagine the beasts that would compete over the finals. Assembled parts from the fallen enemies, that's very cool..
... That this was what Lego is for? Build large structures of smaller components.
We normally consider 'predators' to be large animals, which mean a lot of prey, but if you think about it, there are instances where the ratio is reversed.
Sad but true.
Hummm... karma whore time.
Asking Why stop there ?