Are you allowed to speak with other people? Forget brochures: if your anti-OO religion there lets you go outside once in awhile for walks or catching your own food, take the opportunity to speak with the thousands, if not millions, of programmers who have programmed in both OOP and non-OOP ways. Bring a clay tablet and chisel so you can take some notes.
Now you can have the most expensive consumer computing platform and completely do away with those pesky attributes that contribute to whatever affordability it had to begin with!
If they're smart, they'll not just sell the barebones notebook, but let the buyers "add-on" optional features like the display and hard drive. That way, they can customize their notebook however they like! Wheeee!
Of course, such a high degree of customization is gonna cost ya.
That won't actually work...
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...because there's very little financial advantage to space exploration and science. It's mainly a military endeavor with the side-benefit of being able to place satellites in orbit (which is financially useful). But there's nothing else to make money off of. Nothing. If it wasn't for a governmental mandate, and if the resources weren't pooled into Nasa, there would be no space program in the U.S. We'd have the Ariana system, small rockets that do jack squat but place satellites. That's it. In fact, Nasa only is what it is right now because of the race to the moon. There is no competition in that. One company was asked to do it, funded and they went. If you busted up Nasa now, there would be nothing for them to compete for. They'd all be busy eating investor money until one of them decided to compete with Ariana and then they'd buy the other failing companies for whatever puny amount of technology they developed and they'd call the conglomerate "Nasa," and then start soliciting government contracts to develop space programs to keep our military dominance in space above the rest of the world.
Did I mention they'd call it "Nasa?"
The future is the same as always...
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...we throw money at Nasa to maintain our dominance in space, and we'll continue to throw money at them. The only "future" in question here is of the person who's going to end up the scapegoat for Columbia going down. Whoever that ends up being, I feel sorry for the embarrassment they're going to have to endure for the next couple of years while the public is busy being shocked over the assundry revelations that will certainly be revealed about the destructive nature of foam debris, right up until they're forgotten and get an early retirement with full benefits and move on to spending the rest of their days in some mountain town in Wyoming where the few people who even know who they are, are just glad to have a celebrity in town.
More people died from hunger while I wrote this than died trying to get back to earth after a visit to space, something virtually none of us will get to experience. Yeah, I feel sorry for the poor Columbia crew.
...it doesn't remain viable twice as long. The festering wound in your bank account is still throbbing from the last time you bought a mac and it takes twice as long for the pain to subside to where you actually let yourself believe it may be a good idea to buy another one. That and the incident rate of cool, NEW software to appear on the mac is so infrequent that it takes twice as long for something to come along that makes you think you need to upgrade. If it wasn't for this sudden influx of iWhoopdiefrickindoo from Apple, you'd still be on your powermac.
Actually, I think the problem is too much empathy. "What if?" and "Oh those poor people."
Empathy is good at times, but right now it's driving the U.S. into the ground with fears and prevention activities.
Be selfish. Demand your civil liberties and don't feel the pain of others so much over 9/11 that it drives you in a panic to create a giant padded wall of safety within which you have no freedom but to atrophy and die.
...if I had a nickel for every time someone said to me "this is a bug" when it was actually some other component of their system or just them doing something wrong, I'd be a nickelaire.
That's what I was thinking, too...but if the effort can put forth to add appropriate sound effects and make use of other actors, it would be much more entertaining. Doing it "books-on-tape" style is a good idea, but in my opinion, it should only be done if doing something a little more entertaining becomes impractical.
...how is it the general public's problem that when they developed the Segway, they didn't factor in all sorts of realities such as infrastructure to support its use and manufacturing costs?
I'm actually sort of irked that they got all this free press for a product that has virtually no practical use. A skateboard is more practical for most people.
They have gotten enough support...time for them to work a few things out on their own without being propped up by the fan base.
The shuttle worked, and worked very well...so I see no reason why NASA shouldn't simply either improve the existing design or design a "better shuttle" and continue, business as usual. A grand total of two shuttle crashes doesn't undo the world's greatest space program.
Obscurity is all we have. When you obfuscate the truth of something, as long as it is done to a degree that the truth itself cannot be interpolated directly, that's generally good enough. The strength of the obfuscation then lies in how difficult it is to "guess" at the truth, but when you guess correctly, the truth will make itself known.
If I make a password for a system, the password exists to allow me entrance to the system, and if I reveal it to others, they will be able to enter the system. The password must be made of keystrokes, so the possibilities are finite...but the number of them is so large that it is, for all intents and purposes, completely unavailable to most people. The password is merely obscure, but to a highly effective degree of obscurity. The possible combinations seem infinite, but they are not. You could guess at the password and, eventually, gain access to the system.
The mathematics of encryption, public and private, is also merely obfuscation. The number of "guesses" you must make to gain entrance is often extremely high, and that makes it strong...but guess correctly and, voila, the encryption is made null and void. It is still "security through obscurity." In public key encryption you are given a clue, a smoky look at the private key. You may make guesses at what the private key is and, if you guess correctly using your clue, you will be rewarded with the truth of it.
In the physical world, you can augment your methods of obfuscation with physical deterrents, such as placing data within iron safes, or placing armed guards at the entrance to the building housing the data. Most of the world's most secure places are protected physically in this way, with obscurity providing an extra measure of security. But on a place like the internet, you have no such luxury. All security on the internet is a form of obscurity. Therefore, all information for which there is any way to access it from a remote location is subject to compromise to a degree that physical protection would not allow.
I'm sure there were lots of people who...
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...sold their stocks right before the stock market crash of 1929. Lots of people. They were the smart ones. Yep.
From a person who develops in C++, Java, and Object Pascal (Delphi) a lot, it's nice to see a language show up that sort of just glops it all together into one big Frankensyntax. *shrug* Now if Borland would just support it with a Delphi-esque IDE and port that to Linux ala-Kylix and call it Builphix...
I wasn't aware the U.S. Army was in the business of engineering and building combat systems. This was really something the Army itself designed and engineered, all by itself?
That crew must REALLY be a box of loose screws...I wouldn't worry about THIS project ever getting enough funding to actually deploy any of these anywhere except at car shows.
When NYT reports something, can't the poster provide a non-registration-required link? Call me prude, but I don't like having to register, and I don't like faking a registration. Either link to another news source or just don't report the damn news item if you have to register to read the article. Leave NYT alone.
It has it's ups and downs, but it's just a game and it's a heck of a lot of fun. All those gripes...a person is taking something WAY too seriously when they have all those gripes about a game, but then continues to pay monthly for their displeasure.
That sort of rant about Everquest isn't new. Usually they're from people who are having a hard time dealing with real life, and they can't even deal with their fantasy life to their satisfaction. Verant didn't design a faulty game, and Sony provides great customer service considering what you pay. At $13 a month, what do you expect? A personal programmer assigned just to you to fix anything and everything that you could possibly have a problem with? Come on now...you report a problem, then they get you out of their face so they can deal with their workload and when a fix is made, it goes into a patch and your problem is solved. If you expect more, you're living in la-la land.
All-in-all, Everquest is a great game, and all the emotional rantings about it are 100% subjective. Your milage will vary. If you like PC first-person games and the fantasy genre appeals to you, you will probably love Everquest.
You can't hold an ISP liable for the cost of the loss of a contract because of a time constraint on email response. That would be like being offered a job at $65k if you can be there in 30 minutes and then suing the cab company you rode with because they took 45 minutes to get you there and you lost out.
Mistakes and outtages occur. If your email is THAT mission critical, take action to acheive that level of service somewhere. Don't just expect your ISP to provide you with a level of service that you aren't contracted for. They provide email...email is not 100% guaranteed, period. It doesn't matter if it was an accounting error, or an outtage or a configuration error...email is not guaranteed, period.
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Since you took out aspect and just did global edits anyway, why did you bother doing aspect in the first place?
Are you allowed to speak with other people? Forget brochures: if your anti-OO religion there lets you go outside once in awhile for walks or catching your own food, take the opportunity to speak with the thousands, if not millions, of programmers who have programmed in both OOP and non-OOP ways. Bring a clay tablet and chisel so you can take some notes.
How do you know? Does it float?
...can I template it and use it to make posts about other extra-U.S. legal battles? It's highly provocative!
Now you can have the most expensive consumer computing platform and completely do away with those pesky attributes that contribute to whatever affordability it had to begin with!
If they're smart, they'll not just sell the barebones notebook, but let the buyers "add-on" optional features like the display and hard drive. That way, they can customize their notebook however they like! Wheeee!
Of course, such a high degree of customization is gonna cost ya.
...because there's very little financial advantage to space exploration and science. It's mainly a military endeavor with the side-benefit of being able to place satellites in orbit (which is financially useful). But there's nothing else to make money off of. Nothing. If it wasn't for a governmental mandate, and if the resources weren't pooled into Nasa, there would be no space program in the U.S. We'd have the Ariana system, small rockets that do jack squat but place satellites. That's it. In fact, Nasa only is what it is right now because of the race to the moon. There is no competition in that. One company was asked to do it, funded and they went. If you busted up Nasa now, there would be nothing for them to compete for. They'd all be busy eating investor money until one of them decided to compete with Ariana and then they'd buy the other failing companies for whatever puny amount of technology they developed and they'd call the conglomerate "Nasa," and then start soliciting government contracts to develop space programs to keep our military dominance in space above the rest of the world.
Did I mention they'd call it "Nasa?"
...we throw money at Nasa to maintain our dominance in space, and we'll continue to throw money at them. The only "future" in question here is of the person who's going to end up the scapegoat for Columbia going down. Whoever that ends up being, I feel sorry for the embarrassment they're going to have to endure for the next couple of years while the public is busy being shocked over the assundry revelations that will certainly be revealed about the destructive nature of foam debris, right up until they're forgotten and get an early retirement with full benefits and move on to spending the rest of their days in some mountain town in Wyoming where the few people who even know who they are, are just glad to have a celebrity in town.
More people died from hunger while I wrote this than died trying to get back to earth after a visit to space, something virtually none of us will get to experience. Yeah, I feel sorry for the poor Columbia crew.
...it doesn't remain viable twice as long. The festering wound in your bank account is still throbbing from the last time you bought a mac and it takes twice as long for the pain to subside to where you actually let yourself believe it may be a good idea to buy another one. That and the incident rate of cool, NEW software to appear on the mac is so infrequent that it takes twice as long for something to come along that makes you think you need to upgrade. If it wasn't for this sudden influx of iWhoopdiefrickindoo from Apple, you'd still be on your powermac.
Actually, I think the problem is too much empathy. "What if?" and "Oh those poor people."
Empathy is good at times, but right now it's driving the U.S. into the ground with fears and prevention activities.
Be selfish. Demand your civil liberties and don't feel the pain of others so much over 9/11 that it drives you in a panic to create a giant padded wall of safety within which you have no freedom but to atrophy and die.
...if I had a nickel for every time someone said to me "this is a bug" when it was actually some other component of their system or just them doing something wrong, I'd be a nickelaire.
That's what I was thinking, too...but if the effort can put forth to add appropriate sound effects and make use of other actors, it would be much more entertaining. Doing it "books-on-tape" style is a good idea, but in my opinion, it should only be done if doing something a little more entertaining becomes impractical.
...how is it the general public's problem that when they developed the Segway, they didn't factor in all sorts of realities such as infrastructure to support its use and manufacturing costs?
I'm actually sort of irked that they got all this free press for a product that has virtually no practical use. A skateboard is more practical for most people.
They have gotten enough support...time for them to work a few things out on their own without being propped up by the fan base.
That's almost cool enough to make me switch from Phoenix. Almost.
The shuttle worked, and worked very well...so I see no reason why NASA shouldn't simply either improve the existing design or design a "better shuttle" and continue, business as usual. A grand total of two shuttle crashes doesn't undo the world's greatest space program.
...wouldn't it be more practical to use a lesser technology to simply filter the creekwater and let mother nature process the poo water elsewhere?
...we were doing this in Jr. High? In 1978? They're just now gettin' the fever?
Obscurity is all we have. When you obfuscate the truth of something, as long as it is done to a degree that the truth itself cannot be interpolated directly, that's generally good enough. The strength of the obfuscation then lies in how difficult it is to "guess" at the truth, but when you guess correctly, the truth will make itself known.
If I make a password for a system, the password exists to allow me entrance to the system, and if I reveal it to others, they will be able to enter the system. The password must be made of keystrokes, so the possibilities are finite...but the number of them is so large that it is, for all intents and purposes, completely unavailable to most people. The password is merely obscure, but to a highly effective degree of obscurity. The possible combinations seem infinite, but they are not. You could guess at the password and, eventually, gain access to the system.
The mathematics of encryption, public and private, is also merely obfuscation. The number of "guesses" you must make to gain entrance is often extremely high, and that makes it strong...but guess correctly and, voila, the encryption is made null and void. It is still "security through obscurity." In public key encryption you are given a clue, a smoky look at the private key. You may make guesses at what the private key is and, if you guess correctly using your clue, you will be rewarded with the truth of it.
In the physical world, you can augment your methods of obfuscation with physical deterrents, such as placing data within iron safes, or placing armed guards at the entrance to the building housing the data. Most of the world's most secure places are protected physically in this way, with obscurity providing an extra measure of security. But on a place like the internet, you have no such luxury. All security on the internet is a form of obscurity. Therefore, all information for which there is any way to access it from a remote location is subject to compromise to a degree that physical protection would not allow.
...sold their stocks right before the stock market crash of 1929. Lots of people. They were the smart ones. Yep.
From a person who develops in C++, Java, and Object Pascal (Delphi) a lot, it's nice to see a language show up that sort of just glops it all together into one big Frankensyntax. *shrug* Now if Borland would just support it with a Delphi-esque IDE and port that to Linux ala-Kylix and call it Builphix...
I wasn't aware the U.S. Army was in the business of engineering and building combat systems. This was really something the Army itself designed and engineered, all by itself?
That crew must REALLY be a box of loose screws...I wouldn't worry about THIS project ever getting enough funding to actually deploy any of these anywhere except at car shows.
When NYT reports something, can't the poster provide a non-registration-required link? Call me prude, but I don't like having to register, and I don't like faking a registration. Either link to another news source or just don't report the damn news item if you have to register to read the article. Leave NYT alone.
It has it's ups and downs, but it's just a game and it's a heck of a lot of fun. All those gripes...a person is taking something WAY too seriously when they have all those gripes about a game, but then continues to pay monthly for their displeasure.
That sort of rant about Everquest isn't new. Usually they're from people who are having a hard time dealing with real life, and they can't even deal with their fantasy life to their satisfaction. Verant didn't design a faulty game, and Sony provides great customer service considering what you pay. At $13 a month, what do you expect? A personal programmer assigned just to you to fix anything and everything that you could possibly have a problem with? Come on now...you report a problem, then they get you out of their face so they can deal with their workload and when a fix is made, it goes into a patch and your problem is solved. If you expect more, you're living in la-la land.
All-in-all, Everquest is a great game, and all the emotional rantings about it are 100% subjective. Your milage will vary. If you like PC first-person games and the fantasy genre appeals to you, you will probably love Everquest.
You can't hold an ISP liable for the cost of the loss of a contract because of a time constraint on email response. That would be like being offered a job at $65k if you can be there in 30 minutes and then suing the cab company you rode with because they took 45 minutes to get you there and you lost out.
Mistakes and outtages occur. If your email is THAT mission critical, take action to acheive that level of service somewhere. Don't just expect your ISP to provide you with a level of service that you aren't contracted for. They provide email...email is not 100% guaranteed, period. It doesn't matter if it was an accounting error, or an outtage or a configuration error...email is not guaranteed, period.
It always seems great when the userbase is small. Hardly any bugs, great support. Give them a userbase the size of MySQL and see how it looks.
It's not censorship. It's called a period of being sensitive. The songs will be played again, they're just trying to not play inappropriate music.
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Jesus, can we get more paranoid?
How does this garbage get on