Except that the 'purrbox' is different than the voicebox in that it functions equally well when inhaling or exhaling (how they achieve the 'running motor' effect). That's a fact you can take to the bank!
What they don't know exactly, is why do cats have these? What evolutionary purpose do they serve other than indicating that the mood of the cat is generally positive?
Portugese is missing because South America is a different region. Region 1 is North America (Canada,US,Mexico), so the languages are naturally French, English and Spanish...
I was in NY in May, and I saw a number of theatre productions. I saw "The Graduate", and before the show they had the announcement "Since the Graduate takes place in the mid-1960's, long before the advent of cellular phone technology, we remind you to turn the ringer on your cellular phone off for the duration of the performance."
The New York City Ballet has a reminder in their programs. Do we need a law? Nah. Should people be asked to leave if they're going be rude? You bet.
Well, seeing as how comments in HTML *are* HTML, I would assume that those are parsed as well, since HTML comments are sent to the clients. He didn't say "I parse only HTML that is rendered." That would also leave out Hidden inputs, etc. The comments are, in fact, valid parts of the language.
Yeah, it totally freaked me out. When was the last time you heard anyone say "Wow, that trip to Italy was nice, but I was sure glad to get back to my homeland!", or when have your ever heard a member of the military say "I joined the [branch of their choice], in order to defend my homeland!"
I think they were trying to appear all wholesome and homey, and I'm sure that the Heritage Foundation gave them all sorts of suggestions. What I don't like about the whole Homeland Security thing is that there's no provision for un-making a cabinet position.
The choice of Tom Ridge was interesting as well. Obviously G.W.'s way of saying, "Sorry, Tom, that Dick picked himself for VP, here's a brand-new cabinet-level position made just for you!"
I just have to wonder: Is it really necessary? Do we really need another government agency to oversee the other government agencies? I just think it's going to end up adding another layer of red tape to cut through. If the FBI couldn't get off the dime when presented with evidence that something funny was going on, what makes anyone think that adding another tier to the system will improve anything? What is Tom Ridge going to be able to do that the DCI and Director of the FBI can't? (Other than coming up with a worthless color-coding system)
As the article states: I scan the entire text, including headers and embedded html and javascript, of each message in each corpus.
So even if the spammer is using that tactic, this implementation would at least catch that. What effect doing this might have on the statistical analysis, I don't know.
Javascript debugging 5 (7 for the debugger -2 for the anoyances)
Be sure to check out Venkman, the script debugger for Mozilla, it's way better than the IE Script Debugger, mainly because it's got watches, and unlike the IE Script Debugger, which is not being improved (MS wants you to use the ever-so-useless Visual Interdev).
Actually, if you really want to give credit where credit is due, I would say that the Gingrich-led 1994 congressional power shift is to blame. They got in with all this de-regulation and free market stuff, they made all the laws (or un-made them as the case may be), that allowed a lot of these corporate shenanigans to occur. They were the ones that gutted all the oversight. You can fault Clinton for signing these POS bills, (like he had a choice), but the blame, in my estimation, lies squarely with the laissez-faire neo-liberal Republicans like Kemp and Gingrich.
You could always buy a Chinese-made DVD player, which plays any DVD in any regional encoding. Of course, you'd have to get someone to smuggle it out of China, but if you want to do a little non-violent civil disobedience, that would be one way to go.
It certainly has some parallels with Stalinist "Communist" ideas, but I really think that the word you're looking for is 'Fascist'. In Mussolini's Italy, the state was known as the "Estato Corporativo", or "Corporate State", for those of you not slick enough to put that cognate together. I think if we're going to draw any parallels between odious governments of the past, this is the most relevant one.
Just wondering, do you know how much it costs?
Well, I went to find their website to obtain that information, and it turns out that they have been acquired by this company here
If I remember correctly, it cost somewhere between US$500-US$1000 per seat, I could be wrong, but I know that it was definitely not cheap. It had an Informix database backend (where it stored everything - RDMS is definitely the way to go for a sophisticated CM tool like that), which we were running on a Sun E4000, and most of the client machines were NT. We had one guy full-time to administrate the system.
I used Continuus, and the one thing that I liked most about it was that you could configure it to not have exclusive locks on files. This was great because I never had that "Oh man, someone has this checked out!" problem. If two people modified that same file, you had to work with that other person to merge the changes, which encouraged collaboration. It also ran on all the platforms we had, namely Solaris and NT. It's GUI is a little funky, but you get to appreciate it when forced to use something like SourceSafe or WinCVS. All in all, I liked it, but boy, it's expensive as hell.
Well, in case you missed it, there was a debate on the Hill about new fuel-efficiency standards for trucks/minivans/SUVs, but it was defeated on the floor.
There was heavy lobbying by the auto industry and, to my surprise, the UAW. Apparently, the auto industry told the unions that it would cost jobs to implement the new standards, and well, you know what happens when you tell a union that...
Some rather odious speeches were given on the floor of the house/senate regarding these new standards, including a Senator (I think) who's name escapes me (Republican, I think it might have been DeLay, but I could be wrong) held up a picture of one of the TH!NK runabouts and said that we'd all end up having to drive one of these if the new standards were adopted. They totally blew it on this one.
If SUVs got better mileage, my only gripe with them would be the fact that they flip over at speeds >20mph in sharp turns...
In California, there's a movement afoot to demand that trucks/minivans/SUVs get better mileage, but there's a backlash with certain group of vocal SUV owners, who claim that it's simply a matter of personal choice whether they drive ultimate behemoths. Ignorant fucks. Their personal choice ends where sensible mileage standards begin.
After all, it's not like the auto makers can't build an SUV that gets great mileage, they just won't
That makes sense. If you've never flown Southwest, it's totally different than any other airline I've seen. The fligh crews wear regular clothes (it's still a uniform, but it's like polo shirts, and regular pants or shorts), instead of the bizarre outfits other airlines put their flight crews in. The flight attendants are constantly joking, sometimes they play little games with the passengers, and in-flight announcements are sometimes hilarious. My favorite being after a rather bumpy landing, the flight attendant got on the horn to do the usual post-landing shpiel, ad-libbed: "Please remain in your seats and keep your seatbelts fastened until after captain kangaroo bounces us into the gate..."
but there is a very standard way defined in the X11Rx documention
There's a very standard way of doing lots of things in the Linux world, but they don't always work as advertised. I can sympathize with this guy's situation, however. My first distro was SuSE 5.2, and part of the fun (and part of the headache), was learning how to make everything work.
My brother had a similar experience. He tried to get RH 7.2 running on his Dell Inspiron notebook, but did not have a lot of success. The main reason is that he has zero *nix experience, and even with a totally current distro, having no previous experience will hurt you. I explained a few things to him, but ultimately pointed him towards the various HOWTO's and FAQs out there. Unfortunately, his disk had errors, so he's going to try it again with a new disk (on backorder from Dell).
One thing that I noticed while working with it was that Evolution or Gnome or whatever you want to call it has lousy *lousy* graphical front ends to the various network and other hardware. There were at least three different places to enter in a "Hostname". I know what a hostname is, but what I couldn't figure out was Which fscking host name are we talking about? The machine's name? The host name of the domain controller? It never specified *which* host name goes where. There was no help, no descriptions, nothing. I could also never figure out what the difference was, in Evolution, what the difference between 'Apply' and 'Save' was, since I'd click 'Apply', move focus out of the applet, and then get prompted to save the changes. If 'Apply' doesn't do anything, then why have it? Anyway, that's just one example of ways in which it sucks to be a newbie with Linux.
I should also mention that I also switched back to the Windows (NT and then XP), because there are NO GOOD GAMES for Linux. When Loki went under, that was it. I love games. At home, roughly 50% of my computer time is spent with games. I got tired of hearing about all the cool games that I was never going to play. I run Linux now strictly as a ancillary file server and development environment (Linux rules the wasteland for developers).
You can't be a *real* programmer unless you work with address variables and memory management?
Java is not a *real* programming language because it doesn't have pointers and manual garbage cleanup?
The guy who was a java programmer, who probably wouldn't be a good fit for your organization anyway since you guys use C++ (a *real* programming language), is an idiot because he chose to become proficient in a language that doesn't have address variables and manual memory management?
I don't think so. It's mainly because you're a snotty prick who gets off picking on people because of what they don't know. Perhaps that guy, if trained, could code circles around you...
I agree with many of your points, developing a site that makes extensive use of layers, and other dynamic content is tough to do without WYSIWIG editor like HomeSite or Dreamweaver. I stop at layout though with those tools. When it comes to the actual functionality (javascript to handle events and form input, change layers and images around), I find it impossible to use those WYSIWIG editors, because they invariably get it wrong, or have some messed-up naming conventions (function A_899388_FLP_CHANGE_FRAME(), or some other such nonsense, DreamWeaver users know what I'm talking about). If you're using JSP or some other app server scripting, then you almost always have to to that by hand (it's the fun part, by the way).
I noticed a lot of people badmouth javascript around here, as though it's some kind of bogeyman. It's a tool. You can use it for good purposes or bad purposes. You can use it to make annoying pop-up windows, but more often its used to make sure that the web site that you just bought your latest fun gadget from gets your phone number right. Javascript has uses that are mainly under the covers in a lot of sites. If you've got a way to do form validation just using plain old HTML, I'd like to hear it. I know you can do infomation validation at the server side, but why would you? Why do the round trip only to discover that your app server isn't going to write that record to the database because the user used dashes instead of slashes when typing in their birthday?
With respect to standards, Netscape totally dropped the ball regarding javascript. They could have owned the standard for javascript. Instead, they pursued a policy of obscurity regarding javascript, preferring to keep the implementation details secret, forcing MS to develop their own version, and consequently, having much more influence over the ECMA standards. The result is that Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript is much more standards compliant than Netscape's (don't know much about Mozilla's javascript interpreter, but I'm assuming it's based of netscape's). You could argue that MS basically wrote the ECMA standard, but seeing as how Netscape refused to play ball when it came time for standardization of the language, you can hardly fault MS for getting ahead of Netscape on that one. They were the only ones to show up to the meetings.
I work for a company that makes web-based applications, and we support both Netscape (Mozilla) and IE. We have to maintain two versions of many includes and function libraries, one for each. The Netscape versions are stuck in 1998, while the IE versions are much richer functionally, without using any strange or MS-specific extensions. We don't support Opera (and not because my personal opinion is that it's crap), because we have not had any requests from our user base for it.
I'm right there with you, buddy. As an atheist who attended a Catholic high school, I find I know more about Christianity than many so-called christians, and can debate them (especially the fundamentalists) on their own ground.
Athiests are: open minded, generally non-judgmental, friendly, ethical, responsible, red-blooded, taxpaying citizens who love their state and country, and want nothing but the best for themselves and others.
Atheists are not: unhappy, morally ambiguous, narrow-minded, anti-American, mean, corrupt or actively trying to destroy the country.
Hug an atheist today! (With the way things are going in this country, we need them...)
Actually, the constitution was written by deists for people of any faith at all.
Religion of any kind and civil government have must be kept seperate, because they just don't seek to accomplish the same tasks. Religion is for your spiritual well-being, and figuring out what happens after you die. Governments are for much more material things.
I think it debases the nature of our religions to force them into the worldly sphere of governments and law. Shouldn't Christianity be able to stand on its own merits? Why do so many feel that it must be integrated with base, human government?
Don't like Muslims much, do you? Your bigotry is showing.
It's obvious that you also don't really know much about Islam, either. A Fatwah is a decision on an issue, any issue, that a Muslim cleric makes. It's like a judicial ruling. For instance, if I catch you spray-painting anti-Islamic diatribes on my house, I would go to an Imam or Sheikh and present them with the facts. He will then issue a fatwah, or ruling, that says I get knock the teeth out of your ignorant head. Fatwahs are not issued "on us".
When you grow up and finish your education, perhaps then you will learn that the actions of a few fanatics cannot be applied to every member of the world's largest religion.
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What they don't know exactly, is why do cats have these? What evolutionary purpose do they serve other than indicating that the mood of the cat is generally positive?
Portugese is missing because South America is a different region. Region 1 is North America (Canada,US,Mexico), so the languages are naturally French, English and Spanish...
I was in NY in May, and I saw a number of theatre productions. I saw "The Graduate", and before the show they had the announcement "Since the Graduate takes place in the mid-1960's, long before the advent of cellular phone technology, we remind you to turn the ringer on your cellular phone off for the duration of the performance."
The New York City Ballet has a reminder in their programs. Do we need a law? Nah. Should people be asked to leave if they're going be rude? You bet.
Well, seeing as how comments in HTML *are* HTML, I would assume that those are parsed as well, since HTML comments are sent to the clients. He didn't say "I parse only HTML that is rendered." That would also leave out Hidden inputs, etc. The comments are, in fact, valid parts of the language.
Yeah, it totally freaked me out. When was the last time you heard anyone say "Wow, that trip to Italy was nice, but I was sure glad to get back to my homeland!", or when have your ever heard a member of the military say "I joined the [branch of their choice], in order to defend my homeland!"
I think they were trying to appear all wholesome and homey, and I'm sure that the Heritage Foundation gave them all sorts of suggestions. What I don't like about the whole Homeland Security thing is that there's no provision for un-making a cabinet position.
The choice of Tom Ridge was interesting as well. Obviously G.W.'s way of saying, "Sorry, Tom, that Dick picked himself for VP, here's a brand-new cabinet-level position made just for you!"
I just have to wonder: Is it really necessary? Do we really need another government agency to oversee the other government agencies? I just think it's going to end up adding another layer of red tape to cut through. If the FBI couldn't get off the dime when presented with evidence that something funny was going on, what makes anyone think that adding another tier to the system will improve anything? What is Tom Ridge going to be able to do that the DCI and Director of the FBI can't? (Other than coming up with a worthless color-coding system)
As the article states:
I scan the entire text, including headers and embedded html and javascript, of each message in each corpus.
So even if the spammer is using that tactic, this implementation would at least catch that. What effect doing this might have on the statistical analysis, I don't know.
Be sure to check out Venkman, the script debugger for Mozilla, it's way better than the IE Script Debugger, mainly because it's got watches, and unlike the IE Script Debugger, which is not being improved (MS wants you to use the ever-so-useless Visual Interdev).
I swear, where do you people come up with this stuff?
Actually, if you really want to give credit where credit is due, I would say that the Gingrich-led 1994 congressional power shift is to blame. They got in with all this de-regulation and free market stuff, they made all the laws (or un-made them as the case may be), that allowed a lot of these corporate shenanigans to occur. They were the ones that gutted all the oversight. You can fault Clinton for signing these POS bills, (like he had a choice), but the blame, in my estimation, lies squarely with the laissez-faire neo-liberal Republicans like Kemp and Gingrich.
You could always buy a Chinese-made DVD player, which plays any DVD in any regional encoding. Of course, you'd have to get someone to smuggle it out of China, but if you want to do a little non-violent civil disobedience, that would be one way to go.
For amazing amounts of product placement, see Minority Report. Every frame has placement. I mean *every* freaking frame...
It certainly has some parallels with Stalinist "Communist" ideas, but I really think that the word you're looking for is 'Fascist'. In Mussolini's Italy, the state was known as the "Estato Corporativo", or "Corporate State", for those of you not slick enough to put that cognate together. I think if we're going to draw any parallels between odious governments of the past, this is the most relevant one.
Well, I went to find their website to obtain that information, and it turns out that they have been acquired by this company here
If I remember correctly, it cost somewhere between US$500-US$1000 per seat, I could be wrong, but I know that it was definitely not cheap. It had an Informix database backend (where it stored everything - RDMS is definitely the way to go for a sophisticated CM tool like that), which we were running on a Sun E4000, and most of the client machines were NT. We had one guy full-time to administrate the system.
I used Continuus, and the one thing that I liked most about it was that you could configure it to not have exclusive locks on files. This was great because I never had that "Oh man, someone has this checked out!" problem. If two people modified that same file, you had to work with that other person to merge the changes, which encouraged collaboration. It also ran on all the platforms we had, namely Solaris and NT. It's GUI is a little funky, but you get to appreciate it when forced to use something like SourceSafe or WinCVS. All in all, I liked it, but boy, it's expensive as hell.
The solution to that is to make them sound like the little personal spacecraft in 'The Jetsons'.
There was heavy lobbying by the auto industry and, to my surprise, the UAW. Apparently, the auto industry told the unions that it would cost jobs to implement the new standards, and well, you know what happens when you tell a union that...
Some rather odious speeches were given on the floor of the house/senate regarding these new standards, including a Senator (I think) who's name escapes me (Republican, I think it might have been DeLay, but I could be wrong) held up a picture of one of the TH!NK runabouts and said that we'd all end up having to drive one of these if the new standards were adopted. They totally blew it on this one.
If SUVs got better mileage, my only gripe with them would be the fact that they flip over at speeds >20mph in sharp turns...
In California, there's a movement afoot to demand that trucks/minivans/SUVs get better mileage, but there's a backlash with certain group of vocal SUV owners, who claim that it's simply a matter of personal choice whether they drive ultimate behemoths. Ignorant fucks. Their personal choice ends where sensible mileage standards begin.
After all, it's not like the auto makers can't build an SUV that gets great mileage, they just won't
No wonder Southwest is doing so well.
There's a very standard way of doing lots of things in the Linux world, but they don't always work as advertised. I can sympathize with this guy's situation, however. My first distro was SuSE 5.2, and part of the fun (and part of the headache), was learning how to make everything work.
My brother had a similar experience. He tried to get RH 7.2 running on his Dell Inspiron notebook, but did not have a lot of success. The main reason is that he has zero *nix experience, and even with a totally current distro, having no previous experience will hurt you. I explained a few things to him, but ultimately pointed him towards the various HOWTO's and FAQs out there. Unfortunately, his disk had errors, so he's going to try it again with a new disk (on backorder from Dell).
One thing that I noticed while working with it was that Evolution or Gnome or whatever you want to call it has lousy *lousy* graphical front ends to the various network and other hardware. There were at least three different places to enter in a "Hostname". I know what a hostname is, but what I couldn't figure out was Which fscking host name are we talking about? The machine's name? The host name of the domain controller? It never specified *which* host name goes where. There was no help, no descriptions, nothing. I could also never figure out what the difference was, in Evolution, what the difference between 'Apply' and 'Save' was, since I'd click 'Apply', move focus out of the applet, and then get prompted to save the changes. If 'Apply' doesn't do anything, then why have it? Anyway, that's just one example of ways in which it sucks to be a newbie with Linux.
I should also mention that I also switched back to the Windows (NT and then XP), because there are NO GOOD GAMES for Linux. When Loki went under, that was it. I love games. At home, roughly 50% of my computer time is spent with games. I got tired of hearing about all the cool games that I was never going to play. I run Linux now strictly as a ancillary file server and development environment (Linux rules the wasteland for developers).
In 20-30 years or so, when they don't have any more oil, they might be interested...
If anyone wants to to check out the TH!NK cars, you can rent 'em in Las Vegas... They're all over the place down there...
You can't be a *real* programmer unless you work with address variables and memory management?
Java is not a *real* programming language because it doesn't have pointers and manual garbage cleanup?
The guy who was a java programmer, who probably wouldn't be a good fit for your organization anyway since you guys use C++ (a *real* programming language), is an idiot because he chose to become proficient in a language that doesn't have address variables and manual memory management?
I don't think so. It's mainly because you're a snotty prick who gets off picking on people because of what they don't know. Perhaps that guy, if trained, could code circles around you...
BTW, everything you said about VB was true.
I noticed a lot of people badmouth javascript around here, as though it's some kind of bogeyman. It's a tool. You can use it for good purposes or bad purposes. You can use it to make annoying pop-up windows, but more often its used to make sure that the web site that you just bought your latest fun gadget from gets your phone number right. Javascript has uses that are mainly under the covers in a lot of sites. If you've got a way to do form validation just using plain old HTML, I'd like to hear it. I know you can do infomation validation at the server side, but why would you? Why do the round trip only to discover that your app server isn't going to write that record to the database because the user used dashes instead of slashes when typing in their birthday?
With respect to standards, Netscape totally dropped the ball regarding javascript. They could have owned the standard for javascript. Instead, they pursued a policy of obscurity regarding javascript, preferring to keep the implementation details secret, forcing MS to develop their own version, and consequently, having much more influence over the ECMA standards. The result is that Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript is much more standards compliant than Netscape's (don't know much about Mozilla's javascript interpreter, but I'm assuming it's based of netscape's). You could argue that MS basically wrote the ECMA standard, but seeing as how Netscape refused to play ball when it came time for standardization of the language, you can hardly fault MS for getting ahead of Netscape on that one. They were the only ones to show up to the meetings.
I work for a company that makes web-based applications, and we support both Netscape (Mozilla) and IE. We have to maintain two versions of many includes and function libraries, one for each. The Netscape versions are stuck in 1998, while the IE versions are much richer functionally, without using any strange or MS-specific extensions. We don't support Opera (and not because my personal opinion is that it's crap), because we have not had any requests from our user base for it.
Athiests are: open minded, generally non-judgmental, friendly, ethical, responsible, red-blooded, taxpaying citizens who love their state and country, and want nothing but the best for themselves and others.
Atheists are not: unhappy, morally ambiguous, narrow-minded, anti-American, mean, corrupt or actively trying to destroy the country.
Hug an atheist today! (With the way things are going in this country, we need them...)
Religion of any kind and civil government have must be kept seperate, because they just don't seek to accomplish the same tasks. Religion is for your spiritual well-being, and figuring out what happens after you die. Governments are for much more material things.
I think it debases the nature of our religions to force them into the worldly sphere of governments and law. Shouldn't Christianity be able to stand on its own merits? Why do so many feel that it must be integrated with base, human government?
It's obvious that you also don't really know much about Islam, either. A Fatwah is a decision on an issue, any issue, that a Muslim cleric makes. It's like a judicial ruling. For instance, if I catch you spray-painting anti-Islamic diatribes on my house, I would go to an Imam or Sheikh and present them with the facts. He will then issue a fatwah, or ruling, that says I get knock the teeth out of your ignorant head. Fatwahs are not issued "on us".
When you grow up and finish your education, perhaps then you will learn that the actions of a few fanatics cannot be applied to every member of the world's largest religion.