Note also that the $3000+/year bandwidth savings are based on bandwidth figures from 2000, which I should remind you temporally challenged non-me-entities, are three years old.
Damn it, if spammers can finger us, why can't we go Soviet Russia on their amoral asses and finger them right back? Combine the email-initiated slashdot effect with a shitlist (also known as a blacklist of sites which you *can* visit when you recieve spams), and you can make spammers pay---literally.
Well, that's nice. I'm sure that nuclear power is worse than the smoke-and-nasty-chemicals-(many of them radioactive)-spewing power plants we have today. Even in the most alternative-power using countries today, wind and solar and so an haven't been able to replace the more reliable conventional power plants, so it looks like we'll be stuck with them for a long time to come. After all, if you can't see the waste then you don't have a problem with keeping it in a certain place.
If Von Neumann machines are out of reach, normal robots would probably be nice for setup work before humans get there. It's less ambitious, but still nice.
And if you were John Carmack, you'd still need to get where you're going. Even if Rutan wins the X-Prize (even Carmack says that he's the most likely one to do so), he could still use some competition. Not everything should be muscled into space planes, for example. Armadillo could go in a different but similar direction. They're doing good things.
Some of us have been using our browsers long enough to notice a little bar at either the bottom or the top of the screen which tells you where a link is going if you hover your mouse over it. This handy feature lets us see the URLs before clicking on a link without needing to highlight, copy, and paste. Just as good, with none of the hassle.
God, I hope not. NASA is a bloated, inept bureaucracy that needs to die. Kill them and set up something akin to the FAA to regulate takeoffs and landings.
Not so! They are a bloated, inept bureaucracy that needs to focus more on research and less on getting stuff into space. They need to get out of the launch business (except perhaps by leaning on their contractors to be more open to smaller companies in a non-discriminatory sort of way; notice the way Armadillo Aerospace had to bend over backwards to buy some 50% peroxide propellant from FMC and eventually went to semiconductor-grade propellant from another supplier, which is much better).
NASA performs quite a few interesting functions, like the development of the new ion propulsion system that they're using on more and more probes. The bad thing is that they're not setting themselves up as facilitators for others, they're setting themselves up as the only ones (except, say, Russia and the ESA).
Man, that's horrible. It really hits close to home. At least this seems to be able to run on various good backends, but nothing can prevent ignorance and hubris in the wrong (non Larry Wall) hands. Perhaps it will have good examples in the documentation, with paragraphs exhorting you to do things properly every few pages. That's what I would do, at least.
It reminds me of the first web pages I made with Frontpage. They were horrible, and they're still around. If the choice were up to me, they'd be replaced. I now use XHTML and CSS to compensate, and I no longer use Frontpage.
Things that will be around for a while should not be done by people who have no sense of aesthetics in the problem domain. *shudder*
The big problem I can see here is that there aren't any hard and fast rules on who can be trusted. There are some teens who would happily go to some porn site with sex movies involving lots of disrespectful things, like calling someone "bitch" at the worst times, so much that they could possibly get warped ideas of how to behave. On the other hand, consider the sorts of parents who don't want their children learning about, say, evolution. By the arguments of some people, the parents are always the ones who can be trusted. How can you be sure of that? How do you tell the difference between teens you can trust and those you can't? Is everyone under a certain age presumed mentally incompetent?
Given a choice, I'd go with giving the teens choice. Parents: while you aren't the only influence on your projeny, you are a major factor in their view of the world. If you screw your kids up young, they're going to have a hard time getting unscrewed. If you give them a good start and continue to be good parents, that can make more of a difference than you might think. The internet doesn't automatically corrupt.
Some quickies: "because I say so" isn't an answer unless you're in an argument with a toddler. Don't use web filters; they block harmless sites and they let slashdot through. Respect is a good thing. If you make it known that you don't trust your teen, he/she won't trust you either.
There was a study arguably showing that, if they really want to, gay people can become aroused on the opposite sex instead of the same sex. So, I assume the reverse may be true.
Actually, I was under the impression that metric was supposed to be standard, and Imperial was hanging on because of, for example, the completely feet 'n' inches American construction industry. I am not blameless here, since I use Imperial units exclusively in construction, so I will do penance: for metric people, the notebook is 1 cm thick. The metric to imperial conversion was rounded from 0.393700787 inches. Whoof, I'm exhausted.
Somehow I doubt that these viruses are adapted well enough to survive as our pathogens. Our immune systems would crush them like bugs unless they have quite a bit of evolution outside their controlled clinical environment.
That's what steganography is for. Ten minutes in, have some inconspicuous blips blipping in a certain pattern, or a digitally added bird flying overhead at a unique time. Voila.
Ha! That just goes to show how much "Georges Clemenceau" knows about America! We had a period of civilization on August 14, 1927, between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM.
Plus, the freedesktop.org people are working on XCB and XCL, a replacement for xlib on resource-comstrained environments and an xlib compatibility layer, respectively. It is also useful for some other reasons; see the link for more details.
Are you sure there isn't a way we could make it easier to understand? Such as, "Add the number One to the variable named COBOL giving a result placed in the variable named COBOL"?
I mean, we can't just let them type, "cobol += 1;", now can we?
It's odd---you're the second person I've seen refer to Episode 3 as if you've already seen it. I have come to the conclusion that there's a time-traveling group of movie connoisseurs who frequent slashdot. I have only one thing to say to you: if you give me a time machine, I'll keep quiet about it.
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Note also that the $3000+/year bandwidth savings are based on bandwidth figures from 2000, which I should remind you temporally challenged non-me-entities, are three years old.
Damn it, if spammers can finger us, why can't we go Soviet Russia on their amoral asses and finger them right back? Combine the email-initiated slashdot effect with a shitlist (also known as a blacklist of sites which you *can* visit when you recieve spams), and you can make spammers pay---literally.
Well, that's nice. I'm sure that nuclear power is worse than the smoke-and-nasty-chemicals-(many of them radioactive)-spewing power plants we have today. Even in the most alternative-power using countries today, wind and solar and so an haven't been able to replace the more reliable conventional power plants, so it looks like we'll be stuck with them for a long time to come. After all, if you can't see the waste then you don't have a problem with keeping it in a certain place.
And if you were John Carmack, you'd still need to get where you're going. Even if Rutan wins the X-Prize (even Carmack says that he's the most likely one to do so), he could still use some competition. Not everything should be muscled into space planes, for example. Armadillo could go in a different but similar direction. They're doing good things.
Of course, just getting to LEO would be a challenge, but that's what good old space elevators are for. ;-)
Some of us have been using our browsers long enough to notice a little bar at either the bottom or the top of the screen which tells you where a link is going if you hover your mouse over it. This handy feature lets us see the URLs before clicking on a link without needing to highlight, copy, and paste. Just as good, with none of the hassle.
Not so! They are a bloated, inept bureaucracy that needs to focus more on research and less on getting stuff into space. They need to get out of the launch business (except perhaps by leaning on their contractors to be more open to smaller companies in a non-discriminatory sort of way; notice the way Armadillo Aerospace had to bend over backwards to buy some 50% peroxide propellant from FMC and eventually went to semiconductor-grade propellant from another supplier, which is much better).
NASA performs quite a few interesting functions, like the development of the new ion propulsion system that they're using on more and more probes. The bad thing is that they're not setting themselves up as facilitators for others, they're setting themselves up as the only ones (except, say, Russia and the ESA).
How about this: if you're going to "do something" about this problem, only do it to web sites that don't validate.
They don't make the back end database, so don't worry about Rekall. Worry about MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or whatever they're using.
It reminds me of the first web pages I made with Frontpage. They were horrible, and they're still around. If the choice were up to me, they'd be replaced. I now use XHTML and CSS to compensate, and I no longer use Frontpage.
Things that will be around for a while should not be done by people who have no sense of aesthetics in the problem domain. *shudder*
Given a choice, I'd go with giving the teens choice. Parents: while you aren't the only influence on your projeny, you are a major factor in their view of the world. If you screw your kids up young, they're going to have a hard time getting unscrewed. If you give them a good start and continue to be good parents, that can make more of a difference than you might think. The internet doesn't automatically corrupt.
Some quickies: "because I say so" isn't an answer unless you're in an argument with a toddler. Don't use web filters; they block harmless sites and they let slashdot through. Respect is a good thing. If you make it known that you don't trust your teen, he/she won't trust you either.
There was a study arguably showing that, if they really want to, gay people can become aroused on the opposite sex instead of the same sex. So, I assume the reverse may be true.
This should preferably be done over SSL, so the requests would all be encrypted.
We're just arguing semantics here.
Actually, I was under the impression that metric was supposed to be standard, and Imperial was hanging on because of, for example, the completely feet 'n' inches American construction industry. I am not blameless here, since I use Imperial units exclusively in construction, so I will do penance: for metric people, the notebook is 1 cm thick. The metric to imperial conversion was rounded from 0.393700787 inches. Whoof, I'm exhausted.
Ah, how I love Faraday cages.... :-) *bliss*
Somehow I doubt that these viruses are adapted well enough to survive as our pathogens. Our immune systems would crush them like bugs unless they have quite a bit of evolution outside their controlled clinical environment.
That's what steganography is for. Ten minutes in, have some inconspicuous blips blipping in a certain pattern, or a digitally added bird flying overhead at a unique time. Voila.
Or "FART PA", as in "Public Address system". Oh, the horror....
Ha! That just goes to show how much "Georges Clemenceau" knows about America! We had a period of civilization on August 14, 1927, between 3:00 PM and 4:30 PM.
Plus, the freedesktop.org people are working on XCB and XCL, a replacement for xlib on resource-comstrained environments and an xlib compatibility layer, respectively. It is also useful for some other reasons; see the link for more details.
But if it weren't on ebay, would it still be on slashdot?
Or zero lines of do-all-this-stuff-when-run-on-an-empty-file++ language?
I mean, we can't just let them type, "cobol += 1;", now can we?
It's odd---you're the second person I've seen refer to Episode 3 as if you've already seen it. I have come to the conclusion that there's a time-traveling group of movie connoisseurs who frequent slashdot. I have only one thing to say to you: if you give me a time machine, I'll keep quiet about it.